Feb 18 2009
Mafia Wars - Tips 6
So there have been a few changes—some good, some not so good.
Property Maintenance
This is more of a nuisance than a game improvement. The best way to handle it is to spend enough cash to get you properties a listing of “Protected Property” with the shield. Then it takes a lot longer for the protection to deteriorate. For my money it doesn’t add to game play, it slows it down.
Mastering Jobs
It appears you get one skill point for each job you master which means you have a good reason to go back and do the jobs that have a lower payout in the lower categories. Good move, Zynga. It takes a while to run through them all so I haven’t completed them. I haven’t seen what changing your classification does other than it tips other players off as to what you have or have not been doing about completing this option.
Fight vs Racketeering
At least with fight, you get one opportunity to battle with your opposition while rackateering seems to be the old version of fight with minor adjustments. You still get the opponent dead or weak line much too often.
Level 99
Disappointment. I get there and find that a new weapon is available called Bonus Weapon. I guess they didn’t want to use the exploding cannoli idea. It costs $200,000. Has an attack of 20 and defense of 20 and has upkeep of -$2,500. So I bought 125 of them figuring they would be of some use. At this level you get way too much money. Turns out that all the loot I got in fights is better than this weapon and doesn’t help in fights. It might when you are being attacked if you don’t have enough defensive weapons with a defensive strength of better than 20.
Special Loot
Most of the speacial loot is worthwhile gaining in fights. The AR-15 Assault Rifle and the Humvee are the best ones I have found so far. The other items like the Concealed Camera are used in jobs that call for them and they appear to have a limited number of uses before they must be replaced.
Collections
Looks like there are 3 groups—Cigars, Art & Poker Chips? I don’t have enough yet to complete a group so I can’t comment on this yet. I need one more cigar and art might be a mixed bag of stuff as well as the poker chips could include more casino stuff.We’ll have to see.
I will also let you know what jobs show up in level 100.
ive been looking for the ar-15 and the humvee to complete jobs in the underboss bracket. i can’t find what job they are dropped in. can you help me?
(Both are at the Underboss Job Level 60-99. The little yellow icon tells what loot is rewarded in a job, for those that may not know this information. If you are not there yet, fights will eventually result in you getting these but will take time since the outcome is random)