Mafia War

Be on the lookout for an exciting new item in the Marketplace. Mafia Wars is proud to introduce the Deep 6, a handy new weapon with 87 attack and 56 defense!

When you get the Deep 6, not only will you get its great stats that'll help you in your game, but you'll also be making a contribution to the Fisher House Program. Fisher House is an organization that supports the families of wounded vets and Service members in times of need by providing a "home away from home" for family members to be close to a loved one facing overwhelming medical hardship. We've teamed up with Fisher House to bring you this awesome new item to comemorate Veterans Day, and we'll be donating 100% of the net proceeds from the Deep 6 to support the efforts of Fisher House.

For more info on Fisher House, you can check them out here: http://fisherhouse.org/

As always, thanks to all of our players for supporting our efforts. We hope you love the new item as much as we do! Click here to play Mafia Wars today: http://zyn.ga/1bk

Dress for success as you gather intelligence at the Pentagon. You'll need to look official if you are going to even get in the front door, let alone gain high security clearance.
Send uniforms to your mafia and ask for uniforms from your mafia through Facebook feeds and requests. Each uniform has 3 levels of mastery - bronze, silver, and gold. When you collect enough uniforms to complete mastery, you earn high-powered items to get stronger. See the table below.
Master all the uniforms to Gold Mastery and you'll be able to go deep into the center of the Pentagon to retrieve, Government Secrets (103 ATT, 132 DEF). Get ready and play Mafia Wars now.

	Army Weapon	Navy Animal	Airforce Vehicle
Bronze Mastery (3 Uniforms each)	Ranger Kukri (58 ATT, 40 DEF)	Patrol Dolphin (41 ATT 59 DEF)	Angel's Grace (42 ATT, 61 DEF)
Silver Mastery (6 Uniforms each)	Ranger Kukri (70 ATT, 36 DEF)	Patrol Dolphin (35 ATT, 69 DEF)	Angel's Grace (35 ATT, 71 DEF)
Gold Mastery (12 Uniforms each)	Ranger Kukri (75 ATT, 39 DEF)	Patrol Dolphin (44 ATT, 77 DEF)	Angel's Grace (43 ATT, 78 DEF)

If you've been playing Mafia Wars for a while (and that can be anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 years) you probably have collected a ton of different weapons, armor, vehicles and animals. We understand that trying to keep track of everything you have can be a chore when your inventory looks like this image:

It is hard to know what you have, what you are using to outfit your 501 and what you need to get. That's what we hope to improve by doing an Inventory Revamp. Currently we are in our labs working on a solution to better organize your inventory... AND WE WANT YOUR INPUT!
Visit the forum thread for a glimpse of the mock-up screen shots and let us know what you think. What improvements would you add?
Let us know!

Forum Thread: Inventory Revamp

You try to get out, you want to go straight, but just when you thought you were done… you get pulled right back in!

“The dream don't come no closer by itself. We gotta run after it now.” ~ Carlito Brigante, Carlito’s Way

Well, to help you stay on top of your game, we’re offering limited edition “Carlito’s Way” items. Arm yourself and your mafia before time runs out and these items are gone for good.

A life of crime is a hard life to give up, “It's who I am… it's what I am. Right or wrong, I can't change that.” ~ Carlito Brigante

Get the Carlito’s Way Limited Edition items now!

by Jennifer Patterson, contributing writer

Crash the Mayor's Halloween Party!
Mafia Wars is bringing the Halloween Party to Social Missions. Starting this weekend, a new and exciting mission will be available. Perform these special limited time missions like you do the others but be warned, and try not to be scared these missions are haunted! Work with your mafia and you may end up with some exclusive Halloween themed loot like a Exploding Pumpkin or Supercharged Hearse.  This is a great time to earn your Mission Achievements and pick up as many of the treats as you can. The more Haunted Halloween Missions you participate in, the more Halloween loot you will receive. Haunted Halloween Missions will last all weekend.  Don't get tricked and miss out on all the fun.  
Play Mafia Wars Now!Jennifer has been an avid Mafia Wars player for over a year.  She maintains her own Mafia Wars blog,Mafia Wars Loot Lady, and is a contributing writer for Mafia Wars Wiki and co-host on theInformant Podcast.

Trick or loot? We hope you're ready for some fantastic Halloween loot because we've got haunted limited edition items coming your way! We’ll have 4 scary Halloween-themed items available in the Marketplace for a limited time only, so you'll have the perfect opportunity to get this spooky collection.
If you need some extra protection in your fights, you won’t want to miss the Bone Cycle, with 39 attack and 76 defense, or the Hell Sickle, packing a 36 attack and 77 defense!  If offense is more your game, you'll want the Doom Gauntlet with 76 attack and 41 defense on your side, as well as the Nightmare, a powerful animal that brings 77 attack and 37 defense!
Don't miss out on the treats - be on the lookout for these fantastic goodies coming your way soon!
Go play Mafia Wars and get your loot!

by Jennifer Patterson, contributing writer
To perform jobs in Italy, you need equipment items and energy or stamina.  Equipment items are purchased with Lira on the inventory page.  Unlike Bangkok and Las Vegas, there are no jobs which require currency.  You can save your Lira to craft equipment items in the Village Port property.  In addition to the requirements stated above, many Italian jobs require consumable items.  Consumables are produced by performing specific jobs.  Below are all the consumables you will need to complete Regions 1-5 of Italy and the jobs which produce them.

Are you stuck and can't remember which job makes the consumable item you ran out of?  Fugettaboutit! The Godfather provides a link which takes you directly to the job you need to perform.  Guessing and searching are no longer necessary.  Simply click on the link and start farming Severed Pinkys or any of the other consumables.

Hidden Charges are special because the job which produces them requires the consumable Cooked Book to perform. This is similar to the New York consumable Set of Black Mail Photos which requires Concealable Cameras to perform the job that makes them.

A useful game strategy tip is to make enough consumable items to master the entire Region on the Bronze Level. This will save you great amounts of energy and/or stamina.
Jennifer has been an avid Mafia Wars player for over a year.  She maintains her own Mafia Wars blog,Mafia Wars Loot Lady, and is a contributing writer for Mafia Wars Wiki and co-host on theInformantpodcast.

We’ve lined up some cool cross promotions coming your way soon. Mafia Wars has teamed up with FarmVille and FrontierVille for our latest release, Italy! When players play FarmVille during the cross promo, they can receive a special notification directing them to Mafia Wars. From there, they’ll have a chance to earn an Italian-themed Limited Edition item after leveling up 3 times and reaching level 8.
For the FrontierVille cross promo, players playing FrontierVille will be able to enter Mafia Wars through a notification where they will work on mastering the job “Find an Old Family Friend” in the Palermo region (District 2). Once they complete their task, they’ll be handsomely rewarded with another great Limited Edition item.
Get ready for the cross promotions and play Zynga’s FarmVille and FrontierVille! More details to follow…
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by Jennifer Patterson, contributing writer
Along the Mediterranean coastline lies a picturesque Italian Village named "My Village".  It can be found by traveling to Italy and utilizing the Property Tab on your Mafia Wars game.  The images are breathtaking and there are many surprises in store. Don't let the beauty of this small seaside village distract you.  There are major crime syndicates waiting for your arrival.  Show them who's in charge and start building your Village.  
The first property you will encounter as you explore Italy is The Port.  Your Level I Port is ready and waiting for you.  Once you claim it, strive to upgrade it to Level X.  The Port is like the Chop Shop, Weapons Depot and Armory Depot of New York but is not specific to any one type of equipment item. There are a total of 10 items that you can craft.  Each item unlocks as you upgrade your Port.  There are four property building parts that randomly drop while performing jobs, fights and robberies.  Use these parts or Reward Points to upgrade and unlock the items that will make your character stronger.





Lira is required to craft the equipment items and no additional building parts are needed.  The items are listed below along with their stats and any character skill boosts.
There are 5 other properties which will unlock as you progress through Italy. These properties will earn you more Lira and Boosts as you upgrade them.  These properties require an additional building item to upgrade.  The unique property building items are acquired by doing specific jobs.

Building Item	Property	Job	Region
Volcanic Bricks	Villa	Connect with La Familia	Roma
Wine Barrel	Winery	Build the Winery	Palmero
Fishing Net	Fishery	Smuggle Goods Through a Fishery	Venezia
Motor Oil	Auto Boutique	Rob a Collector	Milano
Football Player	Soccer Stadium	Trash a Rival Camorra Stadium	Napoli

In addition to Lira, 3 properties offer powerful boosts.

Boost	Benefit	Property
Olive Oil	+150 Robbing Defense	Villa
Wine	+100 Defense	Winery
Swordfish	+100 Attack	Fishery

John Mac "The Knife" is a very popular and strong Mafia Wars player.  Here is the image of his fully upgraded Italian Village.


Get yourself ready, because there is a lot more coming your way! Play Mafia Wars now to prepare!

Jennifer has been an avid Mafia Wars player for over a year.  She maintains her own Mafia Wars blog, Mafia Wars Loot Lady, and is a contributing writer for Mafia Wars Wiki and co-host on the Informantpodcast.

Mafia Wars introduces Italy, a brand new destination that is full of challenges.  A game containing the word mafia would not be complete without an homage to the country where it all began. Italy is in the Beta test phase and will be available to all accounts that have reached Level 5 or higher on October 23rd. There are no other requirements to gain access to Italy. The overall layout and functionality is very similar to Las Vegas but there are a few key differences.

1.  Regions
Italy is divided into Regions and they function like the Districts of Las Vegas.  Only the first 5 Regions will be available and Regions 6-8 will be released at a later date.  Regions will contain Energy, Fighting, and Social paths.

Region	Name
Region 1	Roma
Region 2	Palermo
Region 3	Venezia
Region 4	Milano
Region 5	Napoli

Regions 6-8 will be released at a later time.
 
2.  Currency
The currency used in Italy is called Lira.  There will be no Vault like in Las Vegas and the banking system will be like all the other destinations to include the money laundering fee.  The Italian Satchel of Lira will be available and will function in the same manner as the Envelope of Thai Baht and the Vegas Rack of Chips.  
3.  Jobs
Regions have 2-3 Paths (Energy, Fighting, and Social paths).  All jobs in each Path will have 4 tiers of mastery (Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Ruby).  Mastering all Paths of a Region is no longer required to complete a tier.  When you defeat the Region Boss, you automatically advance to the next level of mastery.  You will be able to request help for Social Jobs every 8 hours.  All jobs require a variety of equipment which can be purchased with Lira from the inventory pages.

Stay tuned as we'll have more information coming tomorrow!
Play Mafia Wars now and get ready for the full release of Italy later this week!
Jennifer has been an avid Mafia Wars player for over a year.  She maintains her own Mafia Wars blog, Mafia Wars Loot Lady, and is a contributing writer for Mafia Wars Wiki and co-host on the Informantpodcast.