Additional Info &/or Discussions:

• Bangkok Head Start (Top Mafia Forums)
• Bangkok (Mafia Wars Wiki)

Unlock Bangkok:

Image	Feed Icon	Job Info
Triad Coin		NYC Soldier Tier
Yakuza Sake		NYC Hitman Tier
Thai Note		NYC Enforcer Tier
Thai Passport		Available on launch date

Zynga is celebrating the DVD/Blu-Ray release (here in the USA) of the upcoming crime/gangster movie Public Enemies with a special loot event starting Sunday.

Event Details:
Start: Sunday (o6dec2009 12:01a PST)
Ends: Wednesday (09dec2009 11:59p PST)

Reflections from Top Mafia:

• We are becoming increasingly accustomed to these “Loot Events”.  I personally like them a lot but I think that Zynga could still offer more rewarding equipment (not only during these events, but also from their 25 Godfather Reward Points weekly offers).
• I will give Zynga some props for NOT having a Pop-Up “publish to my facebook Wall” and instead having something that we can choose to publish to our walls if we would like to.  I think most people have enough “common” sense to not need an antagonizing box in their face every-time they loot a special event item.
• I also like the Factoids that were included on some of the loot items.  Although some of this seemed to serve as an additional advertising mechanism the additional info surrounding a particular item was nice.
  • Dillinger’s Wooden Gun
    Factoid: To this day, John Dillinger is the most famous inmate Indiana State Penitentiary has ever held. Test your gangster movie knowledge on the Public Enemies Blu-ray™ feature “Gangster Movie Challenge.”
  • Agent Purvis’ Rifle
    Factoid: Special Agent Melvin Purvis, more than any other figure in law enforcement, was responsible for the demise of the Dillinger gang. Test your gangster movie knowledge on the Public Enemies Blu-ray™ feature “Gangster Movie Challenge.”
  • Public Enemy #1 Newspaper
    Factoid: June 22, 1934, Washington, D.C.: Dillinger is declared Public Enemy #1 by the Bureau. Test your gangster movie knowledge on the Public Enemies Blu-ray™ feature “Gangster Movie Challenge.”
  • Locket of Billie
    Factoid: Billie was quoted as saying, “After I met him there was nobody else in my life, and I didn’t want anybody else.” Test your gangster movie knowledge on the Public Enemies Blu-ray™ feature “Gangster Movie Challenge.”
  • Fur Coat
    Factoid: Despite being deprived of sleep and interrogated for two straight days by special agents, Billie Frechette never gave the Bureau any information on John Dillinger. Test your gangster movie knowledge on the Public Enemies Blu-ray™ feature “Gangster Movie Challenge.”
  • Prison Stripes
    Factoid: Dillinger’s prison sentence for his $50 grocery store theft was 10 years. Ed Singleton, Dillinger’s partner in the theft, was only sentenced to 2 years. Test your gangster movie knowledge on the Public Enemies Blu-ray™ feature “Gangster Movie Challenge.”
  • V8
    “Dillinger wrote a letter to Henry Ford telling him he made the best @!*$%!$ getaway car in America,” director Michael Mann recalls in the “Public Enemies” Blu-ray™ and DVD bonus feature “Criminal Technology.”

Additional Info &/or Discussions:

• Public Enemies Loot Event (Top Mafia Forums)
• Public Enemies (Mafia Wars Wiki)
• Public Enemies Loot (Official Mafia Wars Facebook Fan Page)

Loot:

This loot can be obtained from doing jobs or fighting.  It is not giftable.

Weapons	Agent Purvis’ Rifle 44 Attack 29 Defense	Dillinger’s Pistols and Holster 36 Attack 18 Defense	Dillinger’s Wooden Gun 12 Attack 45 Defense
Armor	Fur Coat 12 Attack 28 Defense	Locket of Billie 10 Attack 36 Defense	Prison Stripes 15 Attack 24 Defense	“Public Enemy #1 Newspaper” 6 Attack 30 Defense
Vehicles	V8 13 Attack 26 Defense

Screenshots:

Screenshot Posted: Dec06-2009 2:15a MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Until one of our fans (thanks Brian) tipped me off on this little technique … I didn’t know that you could filter your Facebook News Feed with an application filter.

Link for Mafia Wars ONLY on Facebook Home Page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=app_10979261223

Have a tip, strategy, etc for Mafia Wars?  Drop me a line:
I regularly encourage our Top Mafia fans to send me a facebook message if they know about something that they feel may be beneficial to the Mafia Wars Community.  Feel free to drop me a line if you find something of interest.  We always give proper credit to whom provides us information.
http://facebook.com/yonks

Ticket Mastery:

• Day 1-4 [4 tickets] = use for 1 skill point
• Day 5-7 [3 tickets] + purchase 1 additional ticket with 2 Godfather Reward Points = use for 1 skill point
• If for some reason that you don’t play daily, you can always use 2 Ticket Mastery for an additional ticket.

By following this strategy you will end up with 2 additional skill points every week and only use 2 Reward Points.

Some people advocate that you should save all of your Ticket Mastery and claim it when you are at Ticket Mastery 6 of 6.  This randomly awards 1 to 5 Godfather Reward Points.  We do not believe that this will allow you to improve your character as consistently and immediately as our recommended strategy.

Daily Chance Schedule:

You have until Friday morning at 6:00a PST to play the last free Daily Chance ticket.  Once that time passes, you are no longer eligible to redeem your Ticket Mastery.  The Daily Chance #’s are drawn on Friday afternoon … once the #’s have been drawn your Ticket Mastery progress is reset for the forthcoming week.

Not 100% sure about these times.  Will update tomorrow with more specific ones.

Additional Info &/or Discussions:

• Daily Chance – Ticket Mastery (Top Mafia Forums)
• Daily Chance (Mafia Wars Wiki)

Screenshots Posted to Top Mafia Fan Page:

Screenshot Posted: Oct12-2009 11:30a MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

We have NEVER recommended buying a crate. Nothing has changed yet on that topic.

Screenshot Posted: Dec01-2009 5:00p MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Loot

This loot can be obtained from doing jobs or fighting.  It is not giftable.

Weapons	Electric Carving Knife 34 Attack 18 Defense	Pea Shooter 26 Attack 12 Defense	Mashed Potatoes 24 Attack 21 Defense	Cooked Goose 15 Attack 27 Defense	Stuffed Turkey 19 Attack 25 Defense
Armor	Food Coma 20 Attack 42 Defense	Lucky Wishbone 16 Attack 36 Defense
Vehicles	Gravy Boat 40 Attack 24 Defense

Additional Top Mafia Resources on Crates:

• How should I use my Godfather Reward Points?
• WARNING!! Avoid purchasing Godfather Loot (Crates, Weekly Sale, etc) … it WILL permanently make your character inferior

Additional Info &/or Discussions on Food Fight / Thanksgiving Loot Event:

• Top Mafia: Food Fight … Thanksgiving Loot Event
• Mafia Wars Wiki – Food Fight Crate

The Mafia Wars Moscow expansion had an interesting twist. We were required to choose a side while doing jobs. This allowed a little variation in the loot able to be obtained from doing jobs. For most Moscow Episodes the choice wasn’t that difficult … at least until you reached Episode 6. Most people always want to obtain the best loot possible. The only episode where this wasn’t a clear cut decision is Episode 6.

What if you could obtain the best loot from BOTH sides even after your choice was finalized (after you complete Level 3 mastery your side is made permanent). There is a currently a glitch that will allow you to do both jobs from Mafiya / Vory allowing you to obtain the best loot that Episode 6 has from both sides.

Steps for doing the Vory VS Mafiya “Job Switch”:

1. Right Click on “Do Job” button and open in a new tab/window (see screenshot below)
2. Change the job ID# (example: &job=78&tab=) at the end of the URL from 78 to 81 (or vice-versa).
   Job ID# 78 = Hijack A Mafiya Cargo | Loot = Konstantin Cargo Carrier [vehicle|18,44]
   Job ID# 81 = Hit a Vory Nightclub | Loot =  Zmeya Carbon Blade [weapon|28,44]

Job ID# 78 = Hijack A Mafiya Cargo | Loot = Konstantin Cargo Carrier (vehicle|18,44)

Job ID# 81 = Hit a Vory Nightclub | Loot = Zmeya Carbon Blade (weapon|28,44)

This will probably be similar to their past “loot event weekends” where the quantity of loot will be limited (probably to 32).

We’ll update this post as more information becomes available.

Loot

This loot can be obtained from doing jobs or fighting.  It is not giftable.

Weapons	Electric Carving Knife 34 Attack 18 Defense	Pea Shooter 26 Attack 12 Defense	Mashed Potatoes 24 Attack 21 Defense	Cooked Goose 15 Attack 27 Defense	Stuffed Turkey 19 Attack 25 Defense
Armor	Food Coma 20 Attack 42 Defense	Lucky Wishbone 16 Attack 36 Defense
Vehicles	Gravy Boat 40 Attack 24 Defense

Additional Info:

• Food Fight … Thanksgiving Loot Event (Nov26 to Nov30 2009) | Top Mafia Forums
• Black Friday Sales Event (Nov27, 2009) | Top Mafia Forums
• Mafia Wars – Thanksgiving Food Fight Items (Official Fan Page)

Screenshots Posted to Fan Page:

Screenshot Posted: Nov24-2009 6:45p MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Screenshot Posted: Nov24-2009 7:50p MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

I’ve personally never been fond of browser toolbars myself as I believe they excessively track your pages visited and do other unwanted things.

For those wanting the Utility Belt … there is a way to get it without installing the toolbar.  Here is how:

1. go to any mafia wars profile … link to mine:
   http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/remote/html_server.php?xw_controller=stats&xw_action=view&xw_city=1&user=1538175519
2. run the Spockholm mafiagift bookmarklet
3. copy the “Secret Key” from the Spockholm Mafia Wars Gift Linker page
4. place it at the end of this url

   http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/index.php?xw_controller=index&xw_action=toolbarlootreward&gift_key=

Screenshot Posted: Nov19-2009 9:20p MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Screenshot Posted: Nov20-2009 3:30a MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Additional Discussions &/or Resources:

• Top Mafia Forums: The Official Mafia Wars Utility Bar
• Introducing the Mafia Wars Toolbar

We always enjoy “Game Enhancements” … however they often come with glitches.  Zynga has a consistently poor track record of adequately testing features/enhancements prior to releasing them into production.

Links:

• Link to request friends to help launder money:
  (NOTE: go to New York BEFORE launching this link)
  http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/remote/html_server.php?xw_controller=launder&xw_action=start&xw_city=1&job=69&tab=9
• Vault Collection:
  http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/remote/html_server.php?xw_controller=collection&xw_action=vault&vault_id=17
  Bonus Received: -3% to bank deposit fees

Glitches Include:

• Currently DOES NOT reward people any money for performing the act of laundering money
• The collection set DOES NOT appear on someones list of collection items
• Can request help for laundering money using a hyper-link even though the option to launder money didn’t appear in-game

Screenshot Posted: Nov13-2009 7:05a MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Screenshot Posted: Nov16-2009 9:55p MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Screenshot Posted: Nov17-2009 9:40p MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Update (Nov19-2009):

Zynga has improved upon the Money Laundering component for friends that help you to launder your dirty money by awarding experience now. Funny thing is that they still HAVE NOT fixed that it IS NOT awarding any money.

Money/Experience I’ve seen received:

• $2,500,000 / 7 experience
• $5,500,000 / 9 experience
• $9,000,000 / 13 experience

Screenshot Posted: Nov19-2009 12:50p MST | (click on screenshot to see content originally posted on facebook fan page)

Additional Info:

• Top Mafia Forums: Money Laundering … jobs, help, collection, links, etc
• Money Laundering (Zynga Official Forums)