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Tips and Tricks on Mafia Wars Zynga

Facebook Mafia Wars is an application on some of the most used websites such as Facebook. Facebook Mafia Wars is a game where you are, as you would guess, in the Mafia. You can do jobs and fight other people around the world who also plays Mafia Wars, you can level up by gaining experience (gained by fighting and doing jobs). Sometimes you can find that there is a special collection, you can earn collection stuff by doing jobs and then once you have earned the whole collection you will get a special item.

When you log in for the very first time, there is a little spiel to get you excited, a picture of your first property, Uncle Louie's Deli and a bar with your initial stats.

Cash

Every hour, your properties generate cash and any items you have with maintenance costs will be deducted from your earnings. The Properties tab shows you how much you are earning and your expenses.

Health
It shows the number of times you were attacked when a hit is put out on you and how many fights you can engage in before healing.

Energy

This is the principal source of your earned income and a large chunk of your XP. It will come back 1 point every 5 minutes unless you are a maniac character in which case you get 2 points. Jobs and items should be your initial focus once you get in to the game.

Stamina

It give you 1 point every 5 minutes. Stamina is used to attack other players, rob other players, cash in to another player, sucker punching, and placing hits on other players.

Do Something About It!

The mafia game will walk you through a series of examples. The first job is exactly what you will become by spending on certain amount of energy for certain amount of experience, some amount of money, and with some jobs, a small chance at special loot. And congratulations! You got a loot item and a dummy NPC to invite in to your mob to get to size 1! Next you 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 but it might cost you certain amount of money. "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 Mafia Godfather. The more unique and memorable your name, the easier it is for friends to find you.

As for character type, here is a break down on what the choice entails:

- Mogul

As a Mogul your cash flow comes 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. You can be one of your friends Top Mafia, you have to change to get double money from performing jobs.

-Maniac

As a Maniac, you 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.

-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 costs no energy.

Your initial Skill Points

After you make your decision, you 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. Once you have level up a few times put the points on your Defense. The defense is the most important allocation of points that you can have. So focus on defense more than anything else. Only higher level players should concentrate on spreading points.

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 and wait 60 days then log in again to get a fresh start in Mafia Wars.