If you are a Facebook user, one day a friend of yours may send you a invitation to play Mafia Wars. Before you start, you should know some features and items that are in the game during your first steps. At the first look Mafia Wars looks like a very complicated game to play, but if you know the goals of the game, and some basic strategies, it will be a more simple to play and enjoyable.
The main goal of the game is to expand your criminal empire, by doing jobs to earn cash and experience. As you gain more experience, you gain higher levels, increase your Mafia size. Doing that you will be able to buy more and more properties, that will bring you more and more money. But first you have to understand some basics of the game.
There are 3 important attributes in Mafia Wars, Health, Energy and Stamina. There are indicators on the main screen displaying these.
Every player has an equal level from the start. Your Health should be kept at the maximum value all the time, since if somebody attacks you, your health will decrease. You can heal your character at the hospital, but you have to pay hospital bills.
Your Energy level will be the one deciding if you can do a job or not. Each Job will decrease your level of Energy with by a certain amount. When your energy reaches 0 you have to wait about 5 minutes before your Energy will automatically increase by 1 point.
Your Stamina level is very important, become it helps you to fight others, and fighting will be your main source of income. When you are fighting all the time choose an enemy that has more or less the same Mafia size like yours.
Then with money you will be able to buy proprieties, guns, armors, that will help increase your chances to complete a job, fight others and gain more cash.
In addition to the the Health, Energy and Stamina indicators, the action bar has the following buttons.
Jobs – you can do jobs in order to get more money and also have the chance to win a rare item.
Fight – you can fight with other players as long as your Stamina is not empty
Properties – with you cash you can buy properties in order to make more money almost each hour.
Inventory – here is where you can go in order to buy, sell properties.
Godfather – from here you can purchase reward points , or spend your rewards points in order to increase your family size, heal yourself or buy an instant full stamina, health or energy refill.
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