Hospital Layout Change

If you have been fighting manually, you would have noticed that the layout for the Hospital have been changed today. I'm not sure what the change is for, but for Zynga to go through the trouble to change it, they might have something planned for the Hospital.

NEW LAYOUT

OLD LAYOUT

Thanks to Jennifer of the MW LootLady Blog for the Old Layout image.

Hospital Timer

The Hospital have been updated to show the time before doctor returns to heal your character now.

Money Hungry Zynga: Boost Your Health

The MONEY HUNGRY ZYNGA is back in action!
Guess what did they add to the Hospital?

Double your health for 5 minutes for 5 Reward Points?
Is this a joke or a typo? Hmm..
Zynga should stop trying to make me laugh! HAHAHAHA!! :P

Vegas : Fight Club Tournaments

In Vegas we have 5 categories of fighting :

We can have some new Achievements from fighting... you can do some icings, or clearing whole grids, gaining new titles in fight, etc..

Now, we have new Fight Club Tournaments here..

Well, the pictures are telling all!

How does it work anyway?

Step One

Step Two

Step Three

Step Four

Ok, here is the example of one Tournaments..

You pick your weight class, you will start from the lower one..

The game will randomly choose one opponent for you.. Then you can set a bet.. choose yourself or other players who are on the list there.. and then go fight!

The screenshot below show that the player win on Round 1 and Round 2..

Also he succeeded on Round 3 and be the champion on this tournament!

He can unlocked the new Weight Class and not only that, he can win one special collection dropping from the tournaments.. (this is completely random.. the more winning tournament, the more collection items you can get!).

By the way, don't heal in Las Vegas city..

It is way tooo expensive! Better heal yourself in another city... and then go back to fight in Vegas..

Here are the new collections we have dropping from Tournaments :

Everytime you lose on each tournaments, you can not go back right away!

There is a waiting time.. but you can just use Reward Points to cut the wait time to compete again.


Enjoy the tournaments!

PS : Many thanks to Hayden, Xpelliarmus, Francesco, Hayden, Peter, Fabian, Michael, Mike, Jori Taina, Va!bhaV, David, etc..

Max Your Hitlist Exp With A Max Bounty In Seconds!

Please read this post all the way through before trying it. Your Money and your Health depend on it!

This is based on the experience of the writer himself. He and his friend set the max bounty on each other to see how long they could ride the hitlist with it that high. The results were kinda staggering.

You do not necessarily have to set a $20 million bounty... even $10 million and maybe even less is enough for this to work! However upon my experience, $10m - $20m bounties work the best.

Keep in mind that we both have 501 in mafia with 150+ Defense Stats.

Here is what I noticed:
1. You get attacked much more (much, much more) that being on a low bounty... this one is obvious.
2. We were getting MAX EXP in seconds (Yes, I did say SECONDS)!!!
3. Alot of players with low levels and low cash flow are enticed by the big bounty... that they can't win but try anyways.
4. You don't always Max your exp... sometimes the big guys play and you lose very quickly, but you can still gain a few points because of the amount of attacks you are taking at one time (you're bound to win a few right?)
5. Refreshing with the fight button is the fastest.
6. When you take your first damage start refreshing with the hospital button.
(Don't heal until you have to though, just hit the hospital button over and over until you need to heal, but heal fast because you are dropping fast too!) or go here for quick explanation of healing.

The Max EXP you can gain is 44 points (50 Max minus 6 for getting snuffed).
The Max Bounty you can set is $20 million which ends up being $16 million after the hitlist fee.
You do not necessarily have to set $20 million bounty... even $10 million is enough for this to work!

Again, keep in mind that we were fighting, or rather defending with 501 mafia and 150+ defense stats.

I can't tell you that you will Max your Exp in seconds by doing this, however the max bounty proves for Very Fast Exp gains.

If you want to try it out. Ask your mafia to do it and see what happen..

PS : All credit goes to Blades!

Fighting Basics

Greetings!

I am in the mood! I'll tell you later about what make me feel so happy now.. still about this game matters of course..

Now, let's study about the fighting basics.

For you high level players, I guess you don't need this anymore.. but I believe they are lots of newbies who still need guidance on this topic.

I took this from Zynga forum.. so credit goes to the forum (especially to Lil Ms Mandy)!

You need to have at least 501 mafia family members, the bigger the better! You can fight with up to 501 mafia members, and each can use one weapon, one armor, and one vehicle. The game will use the weapon, armor, and vehicle with the highest attack value when attacking and the highest defense value when you are attacked. It will use Loot items over Inventory items, meaning it will use the .50 Caliber Rifle over the Chain Gun.

Go to this page to see The Loot Items with the Highest Att/Def.

Attack and Defense Skill Points

It is a common misconception that with a large mafia and good weapons there is no need to put a lot into attack and defense skill points. THIS IS FALSE. They are the biggest factor in determining the winner of fights. A good rule of thumb is to keep them at least double your level.

Note:

Attack and Defense Skill Points are added together when fighting, so it doesn't matter which you put them in. Speaking for myself, I like to keep them about even because you never know if they may change the fight formula to where it uses either attack or defense instead of adding them.

Health and Fighting

You can only attack someone when they are over 20 health. (except on the hitlist) Once under 20 health they are considers iced or to weak to fight. If they log out at that point, the system will not register them as healed enough to fight until they log back in the game. People use this method to hide from retaliation after using their stamina.

Fight List

From Levels 1-179 the fight list will show you opponents close to your level. Once you hit level 180 the fight list will show levels from 180 to the highest level in the game. To find people in your fight range when this happens look at the names on the hitlist or people from capo fights in your news feed. Don't be surprised at being attacked by people hundreds of levels above you. You see them on your fight list, they see you on theirs.

Well, sometimes there are bugs appear.. I often see on my mafia's wall that they still lower levels (example : level 100) but the fight list full of very higher levels (example : level 800) or more. This never happen to me.. but let's hope our Zynga team members could find a way to fix this.

Have a good fighting, everybody!

Mafia Wars Hospital, please!

Perhaps you wanna know the fastest link to heal yourself fast..

~To Heal Immediately: http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/remote/html_server.php?xw_controller=hospital&xw_action=heal
~To the Hospital: http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/remote/html_server.php?&xw_controller=hospital&xw_action=view


You can't heal so fast! What the???
Hints:
How long do I have to wait until I can buy health again in the hospital?
60 seconds.

Hope these infos could help you, families