Mafia Wars - Hitlist Riding

Here's my biggest xp hitlist ride so far: 2 +19 xp and -6 xp. :D

I wonder how people get so many attacks in such a short span of time? I literally see myself go from full health to zero in the space of a 2 second refresh of my mafia home page. When I try attacking on the hitlist, it takes that many seconds (or more) to refresh between each attack.

Upsen.

0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were knocked out by [guy who killed me] who claimed the $8,000 bounty on you set by Default Don.
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were snuffed in the fight, losing 6 experience points.
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [guy who killed me]
You lost the fight, taking x damage and losing $0. Get revenge now!
0 minutes ago:
You were attacked by El Capitan [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 21 damage to your enemy. You gained 1 experience points and $0. Fight back now!
1 minute ago:
You were attacked by [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 4 damage to your enemy. You gained 2 experience points and $65,000. Fight back now!
1 minute ago:
You were attacked by Brigadir [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 17 damage to your enemy. You gained 2 experience points and $4.382. Fight back now!
1 minute ago:
You were attacked by Soldier [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 5 damage to your enemy. You gained 2 experience points and $65,000. Fight back now!
2 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 20 damage to your enemy. You gained 2 experience points and $293. Fight back now!
2 minutes ago:
You were attacked by Master Dragon Head [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 12 damage to your enemy. You gained 2 experience points and $0. Fight back now!
2 minutes ago:
You were attacked by Oyabun [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 19 damage to your enemy. You gained 1 experience points and $0. Fight back now!
2 minutes ago:
You were attacked by El Capitan [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 13 damage to your enemy. You gained 2 experience points and $65,000. Fight back now!
2 minutes ago:
You were attacked by Oyabun [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 25 damage to your enemy. You gained 2 experience points and $0. Fight back now!
2 minutes ago:
You were attacked by [weaker player].
You won the fight, taking x damage and dealing 9 damage to your enemy. You gained 3 experience points and $59,058. Fight back now!

Mafia Wars added in a class change option

A totally ideal job - zero point cost and +50% bonus xp

So I started playing it again. It took a little while to get the 14 reward points together to do the change, but once I did, I could get the Fearless - Top Wheelman option in other people's Top Mafia, and it made a huge difference to the game. As you can see in the above pic, occassionally jobs don't cost anything. It's hugely unfair to the other classes who couldn't get that sort of option, and one of the reasons I stopped playing it in the first place - I had the gimped Mogul class which occassionally earns more money in the old shop system that is no longer in use.

Anyways, now that I'm one of the chosen classes instead of one of the downtrodden peon classes, the game is a good way to spend my lunch break at work. :P

Upsen.

Mafia Wars (Spamfia Wars)

This pretty truncated screen is what I get when I try to look at my character sheet (profile page)

Here's the good parts:

• Not much in this game requires you to be constantly in front of the computer so you can easily get up and walk away from it to do other stuff.
• You can play with your facebook friends.
• You play a mafia boss, and keep track of various stats - mafia hits, money laundering, wars with other mafia players, rosters of other players on your team etc. It's a nice little playground if if you like the theme.
• Also, you can level up almost indefinitely if you are good at min/maxing. You get points to do stuff. If you level up, you get a refill of your points. You can get into the position where you can reach the next level up before you finish spending all your points! So, I managed to crank myself a few hundred levels within a month, finishing scenarios that have taken other people a year to do. It did take me a 2nd character to figure out how to do it, and I abandoned my 1st one.

Here's the bad parts:

• There is always some timer about to refresh in a few minutes, so you are ALWAYS on the game.
• You have to add enough 'friends' to your Facebook account to reach the maximum number of 501 players in your Mafia - otherwise you are meat for other 501-mafia players. (though in the long run it doesn't matter if people attack you, looking at it from a stats perspective)
• 501+ Facebook members make for a lot of spam on your Facebook account. Most serious players with large mafias create a fake Facebook account and play the game using that, to avoid the spam on their real facebook account.
• You don't currently get to choose your character class - they have 3 classes available but they only let you start as a Maniac. Mogul class is gimped and Fearless class is overpowered due to a ridiculously overpowered Top-Mafia bonus for Fearless.
• You can't restart a new character if you are unhappy with your current character. It takes removing Mafia Wars from your account and waiting 90 days for the data to expire before you can create another character. You can however, create another facebook profile and play a new character from there. (which probably breaks a load of Facebook Terms Of Service agreements.)
• The game is incredibly buggy and they keep changing the rules, since they know the rules are broken.
• They don't compensate if rules change. (such as fighting stamina: it used to cost 1 point, then was changed to 2 points for a long time, and then changed back to 1 point - anyone who put points into stamina at the 2-point rate lost out and were never given back the difference.)
• Not everyone is actually playing the same game. some people get Properties to manage, others get Rackets (scams that cost points to buy) and there are a set of achievements that are based on Properties that Rackets people will never get.
• There are some RTM (Real Money Trade) elements to the game and a RTM player will always beat a free player.

Something went bugged and I got a zillion free electric carving knives

Anyways thats just the tip of the iceberg on this one, but I dont think I will write too much about it. It is an annoyance to me right now since the latest updates have broken the game interface and I can't use the skillpoint distribution screen. (Makes levelling up a little difficult doesn't it)

Oh well. Back to Lord of the Rings Online. :D

Allen.