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Property Protection

This is causing a little bit of concern amongst players. The belief is that you should get some kind of immunity for paying money for the protection of your properties. It really should have been called property armor or damage resistance—something more along those lines. The idea that you are safe from attack by paying money isn’t really workable or realsistic but you shouldn’t be attacked by someone significantly stronger than you like a level 69 attacking the property of a level 17. So it needs work.

The MySpace version is trying a single payment for all of the properties to be upgraded which is a good idea. There is safety in numbers so you should load up on any property that you have as a low number. These are easier targets since the percentage drop is quicker. You get higher payouts as the property becomes more valuable so robbing the bigger properties is more worthwhile but you need to check on the total number of each to see where you can do the most damage or just go high if you only want a lot of cash.

Eventually you should see a lot more retaliation via hits but I think most everybody is just confused right now and that would include Zynga. The beta test is still in place as evidenced by the numbers in robbing. How can 18 out of 20 all have the same number of team members. They are obviously using the other ones as the measuring stick for the test.

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Acquiring 7 cigars will get you 2 additional energy points.

Acquiring 7 rings will get you  5 additional defense points.

Acquiring 7 paintings will get you 6 additional energy points.

Personally, I think these rewards are far too low for the effort required to get them so they are not that significant unlike the bonuses now available for top mafia players assuming certain roles like a bagman or wheelman.

Level 110 & Level 115–New Jobs

At 110 you get to do “Make a Deal with the Mexican Cartel” costing me 40 Energy and returning 60 Experience, paying $8,000,000 - $12,500,000. You need 3 Prop Planes, 4 Night Goggles and 10 Automatic Rifles. At least you have a use for the automatic rifles now. You also have a chance to loot a Private Jet which has an attack of 12 but a  very strong defense of 38 (I have one so far)

At 115 you get to do “Blackmail the District Attorney” costing me 38 Energy and returning 73 Experience, paying $12,880,000 - $19,230,000. All the numbers are now adjusted because of the Top Mafia factors that these players contribute. Learn how to assign you best players to the roles provided. The green number will tell you which one should be your bagman or bodyguard, for an example.  You will also need a Blackmail Photo and a .22 Pistol to complete this job. You have a chance to loot a Police Cruiser and I don’t have one yet so I can’t say what it is worth.