Mafia Wars Moscow Faberge Egg Oddity

On a completely unrelated note, I've noticed something strange going on with collections in Mafia Wars Moscow, and I'm not alone.

Something is wrong with this picture.

Note that I only have 1 Pansy egg, and that was a gift from a friend. You can only hold 5 of each collection piece, and for some reason, I hit the cap on every other item but never can find a single Pansy egg. This isn't new either, this has been plaguing me since Moscow's release.

Sometimes kind souls give me Pansy eggs I send myself Pansy eggs from a second account, at which point I vault the collection and start over, but in the end I am always just waiting on another gift. I've found at least 30 of each of the other types of eggs and have only found at best 3 Pansy eggs. At first I thought I was crazy, and random loot is random, and all that stuff, so I just brushed it off.

I then later noticed the same phenomenon on another one of my accounts, but with a different egg. Same thing though - 5 of everything and none of another. I still thought I was just imagining it and that the RNG was infallible, but then I received this e-mail from Scott, a reader of the blog:

On top of that, they seem to have made one item from each collection far rarer. if I pull up my Moscow Vault Collections page, I note that I have far less (in most cases, zero) of the third item (starting from the left) than anything else. Everything else is capped at 5.

On a whim, I dumped all my Eggs to a different account, and went back into Ep. 6 to get Carbon Blades. All of a sudden, I started getting Eggs again. Except for the Military Egg, which is 3rd from the left.

I don't know how much of this you already knew, or whether any of it's worth posting, but thought I'd pass it along.

Scott, this is definitely worth posting. The people.. they need to know the truth. The only question left is, how many countless others out there have experienced a similar devastating decorated egg drought?

Edit:

Look at this trading post on the forums. This guy has 30 of every egg type for trade except for one egg, which he only has single digits of. Top that!

Mafia Wars Last Score of 2009 Update

Something I missed in the last post but I feel should be highlighted: you can get 10 free godfather points by clicking links on your wall:



Just click on the "score big" link in the bottom right.

By completing the 100% mastery, you get a Corkscrew - a weapon with 33 attack, 22 defense.

While the items associated with this event are pretty weak, personally I'll take access to these jobs with great XP:energy payout and 10 free godfather points any day over a couple minor upgrades!

Mafia Wars The Last Score of 2009 Limited Time Job

The new Mafia Wars limited time job, The Last Score of 2009. As advertised, there will be 3 different jobs you will have to choose between.


Each time you do a job, you get a little bit of job mastery. I am assuming there will be a nice item available once you reach 100% mastery.

After you do a job one time, you will be locked out either 5 minutes, 4 hours, or 8 hours, depending on which job you picked. After that time has passed, you can collect your reward and choose a different job.

Steal a Bottle of Champagne: Cost: 30 energy. Reward 45 + 15 experience points (2 xp: energy ratio) and 10% chance of getting 2 Champagne Bottles (+25 attack).


Crash the Mayor's NYE Part: Cost: 60 energy. Reward: 120 + 30 experience points (2.5 xp:energy ratio) and 50% chance of getting a "special item".

Steal the NYE Manhattan Ball: Cost: 100 energy. Reward: 300 + 50 experience points (3.5 xp:energy ratio) and a 100% chance of getting a rare item.


Strategy

With all those options on the table, doing the "Steal a Bottle of Champagne" job is the fastest way to complete the 100% mastery. If you did that job every 5 minutes as it was available, you would make it to 100% mastery in just over 8 hours. The downside is that the XP:energy for the "Steal a Bottle of Champagne" is the lowest and an attack boost just isn't something that impresses me too much.

As far as the rewards for the other jobs, I am assuming a "special item" is some of those new items we've seen floating around recently. I don't think these will be repeats but rather new items specifically for this event.

For the stealing the NYE ball, the reward I believe will be the NYE ball. The graphic has been floating out there on the internet for quite some time.

I will update with loot pics and stats as people start finding items. Feel free to post anything you find in the comments and I will update accordingly!

Mafia Wars New Year's Job & Gift Safe House Loot Wrap-Up

Just a quick wrap-up on the Gift Safe House and a note on the new limited time New Year's Job.

In case you did not pick it up between previous posts or the comments, you can get 5 unique items from the gift safe house:

Top to bottom, name and stats:

Weapons

GrowPet: 27 attack, 12 defense
Lump of Coal: 22 attack, 14 defense

Armor

Fruitcake: 13 attack, 15 defense
Bobble Head: 13 attack, 23 defense
Economy Pack of Socks: 10 attack, 20 defense


For opening 10 gifts, you get the Gift Wagon (vehicle; 18 attack, 29 defense) as a reward. For opening 20 gifts, you get another Gift Wagon. There is no special reward for opening all 50 gifts.

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New Year's Job

A new limited time job for New Year's will be available starting "December 28th". I'm not sure if that means late tonight or late tomorrow night. According to the developers, this will be a unique limited time job in that players will have to choose between "different missions with different payouts".

I'll have updates as soon as possible either way.

Mafia Wars Bangkok and Robbing News & New Year's Updates

Some time after that, robbing will be added back into the game in a new and improved format. Strangely enough, this was announced as I was working on my own thoughts on the state of player vs. player in Mafia Wars. I encourage everyone to read that post, and check it out. I think these changes would really benefit the rest of the Mafia Wars community. Read it, discuss, and pass it on, and who knows, maybe some good things will happen!

By the way, Social Gaming Pulse is my new gaming site project. Expect a lot of new content to be added to that soon - I just wanted to get out my Mafia Wars post while the topic was still fresh and before it got lost in Bangkok mania.

In other news, multi-gifting (i.e. sending more then 1 item at once) functionality will also be added, which is a nice change. There is no ETA though on the re-implementation of robbing and multi-gifting, so it could be awhile before these are added to the game.

Additionally, we will see a new featured New Year's job with different missions and different payouts. It looks like some of the loot has already had the coding put into the game (you just can't get it yet):

5 free Godfather points

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You are welcome and stay tuned ;)

Mafia Wars Gift Safe House

With the recent Mafia Wars holiday update came the addition of the Gift Safe House. At the Gift Safe House, you can give and receive presents to and from your friends. After doing the limited time "Bring the Family Together" job for the first time, you are greeted with this message:


Your Gift Safe House can hold up to 50 gifts from your friends. However, getting gifts is a bit backward this time - you have to send a request to your friends, asking for them. When your friends accept your request, you will get a gift. Since you can only send out 20 gift requests per day, you will not be able to get more than 20 gifts per day.

Make sure you pick who you send requests to carefully; your friends have to accept your gift request in order for you to get your gift, so make sure you pick well!

How it Works

You can ask your mafia for gifts (send in game requests found on the Gift Safe House page). When they respond, your gifts will appear in the Safe House. You can open up 50 gifts total - 25 on the 5th and 5 more each day until the subsequent gifts are open. Alternatively, you can pay 2 godfather points to open up each gift early. There is also a link posted in the comments section of the blog post below this one that will let you open gifts for free, but do that at your own risk.

It really gives no advantage to open up your gifts early - you can't open more gifts if you open them early, you just get them earlier.

When you accept a gift request from your friend (i.e. send them a gift), you will get the option of selecting one of three bonuses:


The XP is variable based on your level. On multiple accounts I have seen 50 energy and 10 stamina though (but others have reported different numbers). What I do know is, is that if you are a high level like me, a 427 XP bonus is really sweet. I can get a few extra levels each day thanks to that! For me, this XP bonus is certainly much better than any free gift I could get.

Bonus Item

If you open up 10 gifts from friends, you can get a gift wagon (vehicle; 18 attack, 29 defense):


Not really worth anything, but it is something to do while we patiently wait for Mafia Wars Bangkok!

Gift Contents

Gift contents are completely random and the loot pool it draws from seems to very large. I would guess it would be close to 50 gifts since you can open up up to 50 gifts. I ended up getting an Impression from my first gift (35 attack 15 defense), which was originally from the Moscow Loot Preview event over the summer!


Here is a list of items people have found so far in boxes from this forum post, let me know if you have anything to add:

Fruitcake
Dragunov
El Tigre
Nunchucks
Garza 12 Shotgun
Pretty Boy Floyd's .45 Cal.
Economy Pack of Socks
Tora Assault Rifle
Liger
Galea
Cooked Goose
Gravity Gun
Lump of Coal
Food Coma
Gladius
Ornamental Tommy Gun
Balloon Boy
Low Rider
Kamas
PPSH 41 Submachine Gun
Samurai Sword
ATV
Lever Action Rifle
GrowPet
Bobble Head
Saturday Night Special
10 Gallon Hat
Impression
Nail Gun 28/12
Sawed off Double Barrel Shotgun 35/15

New Items

There are a few new items that have been found so far:

GrowPet (27 attack, 12 defense)
Fruitcake
Economy Pack of Socks
Lump of Coal (22 attack, 14 defense)

Mafia Wars Holiday Blowout Sale & Haitian Drum

Mafia Wars is now having a Holiday Sale over the next week, similar to the Black Friday sale. The format is the same - consumables now cost 20% less godfather points and you can buy a variety of previously released limited edition items for 20% less godfather points than they were originally offered.

In addition to old limited edition pieces, there are three new pieces available:

Knuckle Trimmer (31 attack, 23 defense)
Red Boa (19 attack, 38 defense)
Trio Mesa (16 attack, 34 defense)

Furthermore, there is a "special Holiday Sale Reward" for buying 10 items during this sale period. The reward is a Cherry Picker, a weapon with 36 attack and 13 defense (I think):


Nothing special IMO - though I suppose some people buy 10 items anyway throughout the course of the week and will just end up getting a free item.

If you aren't up for the holiday sale, you can also grab the Haitian Drum, a new limited edition loot piece available for 25 godfather points.


This is an armor. The developers say that 50% of the sales of this item will go to charity.

Mafia Wars Bring the Family Together Limited Time Job

With last night's Mafia Wars update came the addition of a new limited time job - "Bring the Family Together":


Here is the progression for the job:

Step 1: Bust a Wise Guy Out of Jail. Reward: Tommy Gun Ornament (weapon; 20 attack, 13 defense) and you unlock the Safe House (more details on that in a later post) and 20% job mastery.

Step 2: Sneak an Exile into the Country. Reward: Getaway Car Ornament (vehicle; 6 attack, 23 defense) and 20% job mastery.

Step 3: Help Shake Police Surveillance. Reward: Grenade Ornament (weapon; 19 attack, 10 defense) and 20% job mastery.

Step 4: Settle a Family Dispute. Reward: Nutcracker (weapon; 25 attack and 12 defense) and 20% job mastery.

Step 5: Obtain a Governor's Pardon. Reward: Holiday Star (15 attack, 20 defense) and 20% job mastery.

For finishing the job, the final reward is a Decorated Tree (4 attack, 26 defense).

Thanks to Mayor of Wingville for the picture!

About the "Bring the Family Together" limited time job:

The job is on an 8 hour timer, which you can now spend godfather points on to lower the timer:


If you click on the "Want to do the job faster?" button, a pop-up menu will come up asking you if you would like to spend 1 godfather point to lower the timer by 1 hour, 4 for 4 hours, and 8 for 8 hours (i.e. reset the button).

In other words, for 8 godfather points you can do each step in succession. For 32 godfather points, you can finish the limited time job instantly.

After completing the job, instead of staying at 100% like before, it restarts back at 0%. Not sure if this is intended or unintended! We will find out if it stays like that in a few days.

While the items are not exactly the best ever, you can get some free godfather points out of this deal. With each item you get, you can post a link to your news feed which your friends can click on for 2 free godfather points. The limit is 10 free godfather points.

More info to come soon on the other additions this update!

Mafia Wars Spy Crates

In addition to new gifts, there is a new crate available in Mafia Wars: Spy Crates. Here is the loot list:

Weapons

Radio Controlled Detonator 23A 16D
Explosive Watch 29A 12D
Motion Sensor Explosive 39A 25D
Remote Controlled Sniper 35A 20D

Armor
Bugged Cell Phone 19A 19D
Infrared Scanner 9A 22D

Vehicles
Loose Caboose 17A 30D
Rigged Model Airplane 13A 41D

I will have pictures up for the spy crate items later tonight! Thanks to Ronit for supplying the item list.

Additionally, if you collect 10 gifts from friends, your special reward is the gift wagon:

Mafia Wars Holiday Gift List

There are some new free gifts available in Mafia Wars. As usual, these are vanity items for collection purposes, so don't worry about collecting them in large quantities. Thanks to Marc for the holiday free gift list:

Weapons

Ice Skates: 16 attack, 20 defense
Snowballs: 11 attack, 18 defense
Black Roses: 20 attack, 14 defense
Mistletoe Launcher: 23 attack, 13 defense
Candy Cane: 20 attack, 12 defense


Armor:

Holiday Scarf: 13 attack, 24 defense


Vehicles

Bobsled 15 attack, 24 defense
Surprise Mobile 11 attack, 23 defense
Snowboard 8 attack, 22 defense


I will have some pictures of the holiday gifts up tonight once I get off from work.

Mafia Wars Ugly Sweater

There is a new loot shipment up - the Ugly Sweater:

You can try force starting it with this link:

http://mwfb.zynga.com/mwfb/remote/html_server.php?xw_controller=index&xw_action=initiate_vloot_job&xw_city=3&tmp=41d6109ec33b036d9d400c0d1c0d12d7&cb=17853309231261135917

Also, Mafia Wars will be down tonight for maintenance from 8 PM-11 PM PST. It's reported that it is just for general server problems rather than for Mafia Wars Bangkok.

Mafia Wars Bangkok Loot Preview

Here are some "pictures" of some new loot items from Mafia Wars Bangkok, courtesy of the Mayor of Wingville.


I drew a red line separating the weapons, armors, and vehicles - as you can see it's just text so far, there are no graphics. The pictures you see are just vehicles/armors/weapons from this account - there are no Bangkok pictures yet. However, this was accessed live on Mafia Wars, so they are at least in the process of adding Bangkok to the game very, very soon. I'd bet within the week.

If you can't see the graphic, here is what we have so far:

Weapons

Attack Cobra
Komodo Dragon
Jade Inlaid Pistols
Forest Scorpion
Hung Fa RPG
Cleaver
Tanto
Type-103 Machine Gun
Scalding Hot Tea
TAR-21 (rename? maybe this will change)
Harpoon Cannon
Typhoon Cleavers

Armor:

Muai Thai Bodyguard
Silk Scarf
Monk's Robe
Royal Thai Army Beret
Optical Camo Suit
Ronin Armor
Tiger Sak Yant

Vehicles:

Riding Elephant
Royal Thai Army Jeep
Dirt Bike
Lloyds Spectre
Bosozoku Convertible
MalayMobil Helang
Seua Daao Sub
Kage Jet
Armored War Elephant
Royal Thai Police Tank
Fugama Kame SUV


So there are our prospective names for new loot and items in Mafia Wars Bangkok. I suspect that a lot of these will be items simply available in the store - I'm betting there are still items out there that are not on this list (i.e. from the equivalent of "Episode 6" in Bangkok).

Stay tuned for more updates! Thanks to the Mayor of Wingville for sending over the pics.

Mafia Wars Secret Stash Gets "New" Loot

The Secret Stash in Mafia Wars just got some items added to the loot table. I was just able to get 5 money socks off of one secret stash:


There are also some old limited edition loot pieces available in the stash now, such as the Luxury SUV (it was available previously for 25! godfather points).

While none of the new loot items are great, the 5 money socks provides an interesting possibility. Money Socks (which are normally received from re-vaulting the money laundering collection) give 50% more cash from jobs.

While this would only be a few extra million rubles in Moscow, if you were able to collect quite a few of these and stash them on a second account, you could gift them over to your main account come the release of Mafia Wars Bangkok.

If the trends from Cuba and Moscow continue, you will simply not be able to get enough Baht. However, if you collect enough money socks, you could get a big head start on Baht (Bangkok currency) once Mafia Wars Bangkok is released.

Note that I'm not saying I would recommend doing this, but if you really want that extra edge, it is certainly an option!

Also, from the Mafia Wars app:

Scheduled Maintenance Downtime: Mafia Wars will be unavailable between 8-11PM PST on Tuesday, December 15th. This is a scheduled maintenance period to continue the progress we have already made in performance improvement and resolving known user account issues. Thank you for understanding.

Looks like they are doing some serious maintenance - I can't remember an announced downtime that long during primetime ever happening. Maybe some new servers will be added and hopefully a lot of the bugs will be fixed during this time (and maybe even some new Bangkok stuff!).

Mafia Wars Fighting Change Reverted

Good news: the developers have heard the complaints and decided to revert the change to fighting loot drops. Read about it here - thanks to the poster for this link.

Random loot drops from fighting will be back next week. Hopefully Mafia Wars Moscow items will be included here, considering that Mafia Wars Bangkok is right around the corner.

I'm interested to see if Bangkok will really be out so soon considering that Mafia Wars is running so poorly at the moment. On one hand, they really need to hunker down and try to fix this code (or revert back to the old host). On the other hand, Mafia Wars Bangkok could shift the attention away from all the server and coding problems they are currently having. We'll just have to wait and see!


Other Cool Bugs

Thanks to Dave for this picture showing the Surveillance Camera boost, which will purportedly offer +154 robbing defense:


That isn't the actual item he received - it was just a bug that made it pop up. This item is currently not available in game currently as far as I know. There are two other items, the Hobo Lookout (+55 robbing defense) and the Reinforced Door (+106 robbing defense) that are randomly popping up from time to time.

Mafia Wars Mafia Mikes & Bangkok Info

So, since some of you have been asking about Mafia Mike's:

Yes, the Mafia cap is off of Mafia Mike's (the property in New York - assuming you have property and not rackets).

However, the price has gone up significantly. At around 600 Mafia Mike's, it will take around 100 days to get a return on your investment, so make sure you calculate that before dumping a bunch of money into them:

Cost of Property
___________
Pay per hour * 24

Ex:

Mafia Mike's #600 costs ~$30,000,000. Pays 12,000 per hour. $30,000,000 / ($12,000 per hour * 24 hours per day) = ~104 days.

Mafia Mike's are now worth no more than Valu-Marts (or even less) in terms of the time they will take to pay you back for having them.

Note: They didn't reduce the price output of your Mafia Mike's, but rather significantly increased the cost. So if you had 1,000 Mafia Mike's before, this change does not negatively effect you in any way.


Mafia Wars Bangkok

In other news, looks like a few stealth changes (or maybe I just did not notice the first time around) to Mafia Wars: Bangkok.

Now, when you are in Moscow and you go to fly to Bangkok, the "New" tag is gone (at least on my version of Mafia Wars).

Additionally, as expected, there will be a new type of currency for Bangkok, the Baht, which you can see at the top left of the screen by the "bank" screen. Clicking "bank" just leads back to New York for now.

Mafia Wars Bangkok could really be just a few days away!

Mafia Wars Bangkok Preview

The preview for Mafia Wars Bangkok is now up! Looks like they are intent on getting it ready for the holidays. You can now "fly" to Bangkok (although you can not access any of the jobs yet).

To do jobs in Bangkok once it is released, you will have to collect 4 items first: a Triad Coin, a Yakuza Sake, a Thai Note, and a Thai Passport.


For now, you can get started on the first three items:

Triad Coin: In the soldier tier, the "Museum Break-in" job is now "Asian Museum Break-in. This job drops the Triad Coin.



Yakuza Sake: The Repel the Yakuza job in the Hitman tier drops this item. Thai Note: The 2nd job in the Enforcer tier is now "Smuggle Thai Gems". This job drops the Thai Note.



These items were all very easy for me to get. I got on one the first try, one on the fifth, and one on the second try. Looks like the Thai Passport will simply be given out once Bangkok comes out.

Yakuza vs Triads

Just like with Mafia Wars Moscow, there will be two sides to choose from in Bangkok - the Yakuza or Triads. I am sure it will play out in a similar fashion to the way Moscow is set up.

While there is no official launch date, at this point I would say we're likely to see Bangkok within 2 weeks. It will be at least a week - it definitely won't be launched during the Public Enemies Crime Spree limited time job. Stay tuned for updates.

Mafia Wars Secret Stash

As many of you have already noticed, you no longer get random loot drops from fights in Mafia Wars.

Now when you win a fight, you have a chance to find a "secret stash". However, you can't loot it yourself - one of your friends is randomly selected and you can ask them to help you out with it.

When your friend finds your post on their wall, they can click the link on the link. If you click on a friend's secret stash link, you will go to a screen like this:



And you and the friend will both get a few pieces of rather unspectacular loot. It's really weird that you win items that you can buy from the store for New York cash.

The problem with this new secret stash feature is that the majority of the players don't like it. The issue is not really the loot drop loss but rather the fact that you now have to spam.

Between calls for help for NY, Cuba, Moscow jobs and bosses, laundering money, wishlists, leveling-up boosts, limited edition loot pieces, and now even energy packs, the last thing Mafia Wars needs is another function that requires spam. Even worse, you have to post it on your friend's wall rather than your own. Most people don't want other players Mafia Wars posts taking up their personal wall space.

In theory, I'm sure this looked good on paper, it just did not play out well. I don't simply want to be a critic though, so here's my suggestions:

1. Bring back random loots and make finding the "secret stash" much rarer (like a 1/200+ fights).

2. When you do find a secret stash, you should post it to your own wall/feed rather than on some other person's wall. Anyone should be able to help out - first come, first serve.

3. Due to the rarity of the event, increase the loot drops in both number of items and quality of items.

With these simple changes, Mafia Wars would cut down on the spam due to the rarity of finding the secret stash. Posting on your own wall would reduce spam complaints as well. Additionally, it's something people actually look forward to because the loot is better.

Oh well, at the end of the day, I don't count on fighting for loot drops as it is.

Hopefully I will have some news about Mafia Wars Bangkok soon!

Public Enemies Crime Spree

Here is the complete sequence of the limited time job Public Enemies Crime Spree:

Step 1: Bust Out of the Joint

Reward: 10x Prison Stripe (armor: 15 attack, 24 defense)


Step 2: Hold Up a Bank

Reward: 10x Dillinger's Pistols and Holders (weapon: 36 attack, 18 defense)


Step 3: Escape to the Safe House

Reward: 10x Agent Purvis' Rifle (weapon: 44 attack, 29 defense)


Step 4: Rendezvous with Billie

Reward: Locket of Billie (armor: 10 attack, 36 defense)


At 100%, each time you do the job you can get 10 Dillinger's Sunglasses. This is an armor piece with 23 attack and 34 defense. Pretty anti-climatic if you ask me!

Will have some updates later tonight about the new fighting system.

Mafia Wars Collections

What They Are

Mafia Wars collections are a group of seven items that are looted when completing jobs in a certain job tier. Different job tiers are unlocked as players level up. The higher the tier, the better the rewards and the better the collection.

Each tier has seven special items that can be looted and used to gain stat boosts and other gameplay advantages. The image below shows the seven items necessary to complete the Street Thug job tier collection.
How They Help

Mafia Wars collections are a great way for players to gain special boosts and advantages that are useful when completing jobs or fighting other mafias. The higher the tier collection, the better the boost will be. From additional stamina, to more energy, to a raised defense, all collections are designed to enhance your fighting capacity.
How To Get Collections

Collections can’t be bought. They may only be obtained by completing certain jobs in each job tier. You can view your collections by going to your inventory then clicking the collections tab. Once you have obtained all 7 items for each collection, click the Vault button to claim your boost.

It is also worth noting that collection items can be gifted. This means that if you have a large mafia, simply add an item to your wishlist and hopefully someone will send it to you.
New York Collections

Street Thug Tier

Diamond Flush Collection: +1 energy (Eight of Diamonds, Nine of Diamonds, Ten of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, Queen of Diamonds, King of Diamonds, Ace of Diamonds)

Associate Tier

Heart Flush Collection: +5 health (Eight of Hearts, Nine of Hearts, Ten of Hearts, Jack of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, King of Hearts, Ace of Hearts)

Soldier Tier

Boxing Collection: +3 attack (Hand Tape, Gloves, Headgear, Boxing Trunks, Speed Bag, Heavy Bag, Boxing Ring)

Club Flush Collection: +3 attack (Eight of Clubs, Nine of Clubs, Ten of Clubs, Jack of Clubs, Queen of Clubs, King of Clubs, Ace of Clubs)

Poker Chips Collection: +2 attack (White Poker Chip, Brown Poker Chip, Red Poker Chip, Blue Poker Chip, Green Poker Chip, Purple Poker Chip, Gold Poker Chip)

Sculptures Collection: +3 defense (Sculpture, Sheep Sculpture, Rooster Sculpture, Tiger, Sculpture, Snake Sculpture, Dragon Sculpture)

Enforcer Tier

Cigars Collection: +2 energy (Ebony Cigar, Sky Cigar, Rose Cigar, Ivory Cigar, Turquoise Cigar, Gold Cigar, Royal Cigar)

Spade Flush Collection: +2 stamina (Eight of Spades, Nine of Spades, Ten of Spades, Jack of Spades, Queen of Spades, King of Spades, Ace of Spades)

Billiard Balls Collection: +1 stamina (One Ball, Two Ball, Three Ball, Four Ball, Five Ball, Cue Ball, Eight Ball)

Hitman Tier

Rings Collection: +5 defense (Topaz Ring, Opal Ring, Amethyst Ring, Emerald Ring, Sapphire Ring, Ruby Ring, Diamond Ring)

Ties Collection: +6 defense (Solid Tie, Striped Tie, Checked Tie , Geometric Tie, Dot Tie, Paisley Tie, Knitted Tie)

Capo Tier

Paintings Collection: +6 energy (Warhol Painting, Cezanne Painting, Matisse Painting, Van Gogh Painting, Dali Painting, Monet Painting, Rembrandt Painting)

Cufflinks Collection: +10 health (Silver Cufflinks, Gold Cufflinks, Amber Cufflinks, Jasper Cufflinks, Agate Cufflinks , Onyx Cufflinks, Pearl Cufflinks)

Barber Shop Collection: +4 energy (Barber Pole, Razor, Brush, Seat, Towel, Scissors, Cream)

Consigliere Tier

Great Race Horses Collection: +7 energy (Mill Reef, Sea Bird, Arkle, Golden Miller, St Simon, Ormonde, Eclipse)
Cuba Collections

El Soldado Tier

Rum Drinks Collection: +8 energy (Pina Colada, Hurricane, Bahama Mama, Mojito, Rum, Runner, Long Island Ice Tea, Cuba Libre)

El Capitan Tier

Tropical Fruits Collection: +3 stamina (Banana, Lime , Pineapple, Papaya , Coconut, Passion Fruit, Dragon Fruit)

El Jefe Tier

Entertainers Collection: +10 health (Magician, Fan Dancer, Comedian, Band Leader, Cabaret Singer, Crooner, Burlesque Dancer)

El Patron Tier

Tropical Fish Collection: +5 attack (Pufferfish, Sergeant Major, Yellowtail Snapper, Great Barracuda, Queen Angelfish, Reef Shark, Blue Martin)

El Padriano Tier

Beards Collection: ­+7 defense (Garibaldi, Hulihee, Vandyke, Mutton Chops, Soul Patch, French Fork, Fidel)
Moscow Collections

Baklany Episode

Prison Tattoos Collection: +6 defense (Rose Tattoo, Church Tattoo, Star Tattoo, Spider Tattoo, Tiger Tattoo, Skull Tattoo, Crucifix Tattoo)

Boets Episode

Matryoshka Dolls Collection: +7 energy (Natalya’s Doll, Olga’s Doll, Oksana’s Doll, Svetlana’s Doll, Tatyana’s Doll, Anastasiya’s Doll, Ekaterina’s Doll)

Brigadir Episode

Russian Leaders Collection: +4 attack (Medal of Gorbachev, Medal of Yeltsin, Medal of Brezhnev, Medal of Kruschev, Medal of Putin, Medal of Stalin, Medal of Lenin)

Avtoritet Episode

Vodka Drinks Collection: +4 stamina (Cosmopolitan, Screwdriver, Sex on the Beach, Bloody Mary, Black Russian, White Russian, Soviet)

Vor Episode

Soviet Memorabilia: +10 health (Red Star, Kremlin, Communist Manifesto, Propaganda Poster, Hammer, Sickle, Bust of Lenin)

Pakhan Episode

Fabergé Egg Collection: +8 energy (Diamond Trellis Egg, Jade Egg, Military Egg, Pansy Egg, Rainbow Egg, Winter Egg, Peter the Great Egg)

Mafia Wars Crate Items

Items in Mafia Wars range from weapons, to vehicles, to special tools, all of which aid in completing jobs and fighting other mafias. Below is a complete list of items that can be found in Crates.
Toolbox Crates

Toolbox Crates
Item: Knee Capper
Attack: 16
Defense: 14

Item: Hammer
Attack: 20
Defense: 10

Item: Axe
Attack: 21 Defense: 9
Item: Hedge Clippers
Attack: 24
Defense: 6

Item: Reciprocating Saw
Attack: 26
Defense: 14

Item: Nail Gun
Attack: 28
Defense: 12

Item: Wood Chipper
Attack: 33
Defense: 17

Item: Power Cutter
Attack: 35
Defense: 15
Yakuza Crates

Item: Kamas
Attack: 13
Defense: 17

Item: Kunai
Attack: 18
Defense: 12

Item: Nambu Type 14 Pistol
Attack: 22
Defense: 8

Item: Nun chucks
Attack: 22
Defense: 18

Item: Type 100 SMG
Attack: 30
Defense: 10

Item: Samurai Sword
Attack: 35
Defense: 15

Item: Samurai Helmet
Attack: 12
Defense: 28

Item: Ronin Motorcycle Attack: 36 Defense: 14
Red Hammer Crates

Item: .45 ACP Pistol
Attack: 18
Defense: 12

Item: Grach
Attack: 20
Defense: 10

Item: PPSH 41 Submachinegun
Attack: 22
Defense: 8

Item: IZH-35m
Attack: 25
Defense: 15

Item: VSK-94 Sniper Rifle
Attack: 28
Defense: 12

Item: Dragunov
Attack: 36
Defense: 14

Item: Ushanka
Attack: 10
Defense: 20

Item: Impression
Attack: 15
Defense: 35
Wild West Crates

Item: Spurs
Attack: 20
Defense: 10

Item: Lasso
Attack: 22
Defense: 8

Item: Scalper’s Hatchet
Attack: 25
Defense: 5

Item: Lever Action Rifle
Attack: 31
Defense: 9

Item: Pearl Handle Revolver
Attack: 40
Defense: 10

Item: 10 Gallon Hat
Attack: 13
Defense: 27

Item: Cowboy Boots
Attack: 15
Defense: 25

Item: Wild Mustang
Attack: 16
Defense: 34
Woodsman Crates

Item: Hunting Knife
Attack: 21
Defense: 9

Item: Blowgun
Attack: 22
Defense: 8

Item: Compound Bow
Attack: 27
Defense: 13

Item: Hunting Rifle
Attack: 30
Defense: 10

Item: Sawed-off Double Barrel Shotgun
Attack: 35
Defense: 15

Item: Mesh Trucker Hat
Attack: 10
Defense: 20

Item: Hunter’s Vest
Attack: 14
Defense: 26

Item: ATV
Attack: 18
Defense: 32
Street Crates

Item: Switchblade
Attack: 14
Defense: 16

Item: Knuckle Duster
Attack: 13
Defense: 27

Item: Saturday Night Special
Attack: 18
Defense: 12

Item: Broken Bottle
Attack: 21
Defense: 9

Item: Zip Gun
Attack: 24
Defense: 16

Item: 9mm Auto Pistol
Attack: 40
Defense: 10

Item: Bandana
Attack: 11
Defense: 19

Item: Low Rider
Attack: 12
Defense: 38
Coliseum Crates

Item: Gladius
Attack: 24
Defense: 16

Item: Pilum
Attack: 26
Defense: 14

Item: Roman Mace
Attack: 12
Defense: 28

Item: Puggio
Attack: 17
Defense: 23

Item: Lorica
Attack: 18
Defense: 32

Item: Parma
Attack: 15
Defense: 25

Item: Galea
Attack: 18
Defense: 42

Item: Chariot
Attack: 48
Defense: 12
Cuban Crates

Item: Hoja Doble
Attack: 30
Defense: 11

Item: Ru-357 Pistola
Attack: 26
Defense: 24

Item: Garza 12 Shotgun
Attack: 12
Defense: 29

Item: Cane Cutter
Attack: 35
Defense: 5

Item: Traje de Balas
Attack: 10
Defense: 39

Item: Ghillie Suit
Attack: 16
Defense: 42

Item: Guerilla Truck
Attack: 15
Defense: 31

Item: CM Dragon
Attack: 40
Defense: 18
Tiger Crates

Item: Pro’s 2 Iron
Attack: 24
Defense: 19

Item: Tora Assault Rifle
Attack: 28
Defense: 12

Item: Siberian Tiger
Attack: 36
Defense: 14

Item: Liger
Attack: 45
Defense: 12

Item: Tigerskin Armored Vest
Attack: 12
Defense: 30

Item: Le Tigre
Attack: 26
Defense: 15

Item: Tigershark Submersible
Attack: 37
Defense: 18

Item: Tiger Tank
Attack: 18
Defense: 43
Hard Labor Crates

Item: Pretty Boy Floyds .45
Attack: 22
Defense: 22

Item: Machine Gun Kelly’s Gun
Attack: 25
Defense: 14

Item: Baby Face Nelson’s .351
Attack: 21
Defense: 24

Item: Ma Barker’s Machine Gun
Attack: 30
Defense: 20

Item: Dillinger’s Wooden Gun
Attack: 12
Defense: 45

Item: Ness’s Fedora
Attack: 28
Defense: 22

Item: Capone’s Armored 341A
Attack: 14
Defense: 38

Item: Bonnie & Clyde’s B-400
Attack: 32
Defense: 19
Godfather Crates

Item: Bloody Chainsaw
Attack: 18
Defense: 16

Item: Bloody Horse Head
Attack: 18
Defense: 16

Item: Car Bomb
Attack: 18
Defense: 16

Item: Cattle Prod
Attack: 18
Defense: 16

Item: Chainsaw
Attack: 18
Defense: 12

Item: Gold 9mm Gun
Attack: 15
Defense: 10

Item: Gold-Plated Magun
Attack: 18
Defense: 26

Item: Mac-10
Attack: 7
Defense: 5

Item: Magnum
Attack: 8
Defense: 5

Item: Piano Wire
Attack: 10
Defense: 5

Item: Silenced Pistol
Attack: 18
Defense: 16

Item: AK-47
Attack: 22
Defense: 21

Item: Combat Knife
Attack: 20
Defense: 21

Item: .50 Cal Pistol
Attack: 22
Defense: 21

Item: Flamethrower
Attack: 22
Defense: 21

Item: Light Anti-Tank Weapons
Attack: 22
Defense: 21

Item: Propane Bomb
Attack: 22
Defense: 21

Item: Sniper Rifle
Attack: 22
Defense: 21

Item: Gold Mac-10
Attack: 30
Defense: 30

Item: Gold Machine Pistol
Attack: 30
Defense: 30

Item: Armed Guards
Attack: 8
Defense: 25

Item: Gas Mask
Attack: 8
Defense: 20

Getting Started on Mafia Wars

Welcome to the gang ridden world of Mafia Wars. If you are already playing the game and just looking for specific tips, browse the list of articles in the guide on the left to find the information you are looking for. For the rest of you, you probably have gotten a request to play from one of your friends, followed by e-mails, phone calls, text messages, and a horse head in your bed till you finally agreed to play. Here you should find all the basics you need to get started and get your own personal Family going.
A brief introduction

The game is broken into a few key objectives. There is a level based system that rewards you and your friends for your continued growth in levels. There is an economic engine that rewards you for making smart choices and converting as much of your earned income into passive income as possible. There is also a social networking aspect that rewards you for having more and more friends playing with you, whether it is from signing up the friends you already have or making new friends who are already playing. The game is fun, addictive, and best of all can be played well with a minimum daily investment of time.
Your first time in

When you log in for the very first time, there will be a little spiel to get you excited, a picture of your first property – Uncle Louie’s Deli – and a bar with your initial stats. These stats are what you will spend most of your time tracking.
Cash

Every hour your properties will pay out and any items you have with maintenance costs will deduct from your earnings. On the Properties tab which you will see later you can always see how much you are making and how much it is costing you. See the Property Moguls section of the guide for a better breakdown on earned vs. passive income and how to maximize this. It is also worth noting you have a bank account that you can store money in, but any money in the bank will not be reflected here.
Health

This is a fairly meaningless stat and it is the only naturally replenishing stat that the game will not show you a timer on. It is critical in boss fights which are outlined in great detail in the Doin’ the Job section. Other than that, it just sets the amount of times you get attacked when a hit is put out on you and how many fights you can engage in before healing.
Energy

Energy is the principal source of your earned income and a large chunk of your XP. It will come back 1 point every 5 minutes. Doin’ the Job will give you a thorough breakdown on leveraging your energy as well as discussing the speed leveling technique utilizing energy. Jobs and items will be your initial focus once you get in to the game.
Stamina

This also regenerates at one point every 5 minutes. Stamina is used to try to attack other players, rob other players, cash in on a hit on another player, sucker punching, and placing hits on other players. Fightin’ and Robbin’ will get in to all the specifics of how you can leverage your stamina, win more fights, get robbed less often and all those great details. Outside of jobs, this is the only other way to generate XP.
Do Something About It!

The game will walk you through a simple series of examples of what the game contains once you are completely free to make your own choices. The first job is exactly what most will be about… You spend X energy for Y experience, some amount of money, and with some jobs, a small chance at special loot. Enjoy this first one as you will never get 2 or more experience per energy later in the game. And congratulations! You got a loot item and a dummy NPC to invite in to your mob to get to size 1! We will talk more about Mafia size later and the Fightin’ and Robbin’ section has a lot more to say. Next you will make your first attack and then buy your first property and the first real decision comes in to play.
Choosing your Character type

You can change your name later, but there will be a fairly hefty cost, so think about how you would like your Mafioso name to be. "Don" plus your last name works well and the game supports multiple people with the same name. Default Don is the most common name out there followed by all the characters from the Godfather. The more unique and memorable your name, the more thematic some of the in game text will be for your friends. As for character type, here is a break down on what the choice entails. Currently, there is no way to change it once you make it, so consider carefully.
Mogul

As a Mogul your cash flow will come in every 54 minutes rather than every hour for the other character types. As a Mogul you are also the only character type eligible for being a Bagman. As a Bagman in one of your friend’s Top Mafia, you have the change to get double money from performing jobs. Since we want to be generating passive income rather than earned and there is no real use for money anymore once you get to around level 40, this is the least interesting of the character types unless your friend group happens to need more eligible Bagmen options.
Maniac

As a Maniac, your energy regenerates at a rate of 1 every 3 minutes instead of 5. You also become eligible to be a Button Man which gives you a chance to automatically win any fight you initiate. General consensus on the web before the Top Mafia changes was this was the best type to choose since energy drives a lot of your leveling. The flip side to this is if you are speed leveling, you are counting more on the energy refills from leveling up and Energy Paks than from natural regeneration. The special Top Mafia ability is not very exciting as we will only be initiating fights we expect to win anyway. Basically, it boils down to out of the 5-10% of fight you will lose to Critical hits, you will win about 5% of them instead.
Fearless

As a Fearless character your health regenerates at a faster rate. You also have the ability to be a Top Mafia Wheel Man which has the best special ability. Whenever you perform a job, there is a small chance that job will cost no energy. Since at higher levels jobs can cost as much as 60 energy to run, this is a very non-trivial bonus and will greatly aid the speed at which you level. The health regeneration itself is not a very meaningful bonus since using the hospital to top off at any point in time is a non-issue.
Your initial Skill Points

After you make your decision, you will get your first skill points to spend. It is highly recommended you just upgrade your Energy till at least 30 before touching the other stats. See the speed leveling section under Doin’ the Job for more details on spending your initial skill points.
Starting over or... not

Unfortunately, the game currently does not really support anyway for starting over. If you are unhappy with your initial choices, you have to delete the application, wait 60 days for it to time out, and then log in again to get a clean start in the Mafia world. None of the choices you make outside of character type though can't be fixed, so we recommend you try to work with whatever state you are currently in. If you do wish to delete the app and wait 60 days, in the lower left hand corner of any Facebook page you should see a button labelled Applications. Click on it to open the menu and near the top of the menu you will see Edit. Choose this and then click on the x next to Mafia Wars to remove it as one of your applications.