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Game update 2/11/2011

noreply@blogger.com (John Merchant) — Thu, 3 Nov 2011 03:11:00 -0700

Hey there, Crew! The following changes are being made to the game today - there are tons of changes and fixes, but we're especially excited about the introduction of the Armory, which you'll need for 5v5 fighting, which is coming soon!

Of Special Note

The Arena Leaderboard will now reset once a month, not once a week.
New Armor, Weapons, and Vehicles have been added!
- Halloween-themed weapons in the Global Marketplace
- Ground, water, and air vehicles in the Global Marketplace
- Armor, weapons, and vehicles in the Bone Yard shop
A new starter bundle offer has been added to the Payments page. Check it out and let us know what you think on the forums - and if you have suggestions for more bundles you'd like to see offered!
Fight titles can now be seen if you mouse over your rivals in an arena.

Additions & Changes

Boosts in the Marketplace have been reorganized by function instead of level.
Boosts that enhance Critical, Accuracy, and Stealth/Dodge are now collectively known as Tactics.
The Badlands now unlock at level 20.
The Garage for Vehicles now unlocks at level 6, and Garage 2 now unlocks at level 18 instead of 26.
Expansions on your Home Turf will now cost more Street Cred after the first few.
You now have to be in the same zone that contains a mission you're trying to pay through.
The Product Containers for the Give Harbor Master Some Product Containers now stack.
Many missions throughout the game can now be paid through with gold bars:
- Granite Square
  - Question Locals
  - Vandalize Houses
  - Search 3 Stash Houses
- Neon Strip
  - Beat Information Out of Larouche's Gangsters
  - Advanced Interrogation
  - Pay Off Gun Shop Owner
  - Whack Shack's Pack
- Downtown
  - Rent Luxury Suite
  - Rob Buildings
  - Find the Lost Ho
  - Search Hotels
- Bluebird Meadows
  - Under the Table
  - Caught in the Open
  - Sic Transit
  - Do you feel lucky, punk?
- Westside Wharf
  - Give the Harbor Master What He Needs
  - Give Harbor Master Some Product
  - Kill Union Dock Workers
  - Kill Vitale Soldiers
- Badlands
  - Next Bracket
  - The Best Offense
  - Bloody Sunday
  - No Pain, No Gain
  - Total Carnage

Fixes

The dialog about expanding your turf when you return from fighting Dom in Casino Row will now only show once.
We fixed a couple of PvP fight tasks that would trigger even if you fought an NPC in an arena. Now when you have two PvP missions active at the same time, completing one will not cause the other one to break.
The Friends with Benefits quest no longer has a Visit Home Turf button if you're already on your Home Turf.
Cleared up an error that could appear when you clicked on your Mission Log if you had more than 5 missions active in it.
The Reinforced Gate/Secure Fencing in Westside Wharf is now, actually, secure. No, really, we mean it this time! Your avatar can no longer pass through without having to unlock it.
El Kiddo will only remind you that you've unlocked new equipment in the Marketplace, and won’t mention building levels now.
If you use a +5 Energy Pack and then try to do an action that requires more energy than you have, you'll get a prompt letting you know.
One of the many Money Collection missions was incorrectly stating that you only needed to collect from 8 buildings, not 10.
The Marble Wall now matches the placement footprint, and the Marble Wall Corner won't show through other objects now.
We’ve added a new icon to your screen that will let you know when there's a limited time offer or sale.
In the State of the Union, the union worker said "Here, take this" but never actually gave you anything.
The Rob Blind mission's first task was not updating unless you refreshed the game.
Flamingo decorations will no longer show through objects placed in front of them.
The Animated Lion decoration is no longer offset from its footprint when being placed.
If you place the weapon shop for the Build a Weapon Shop mission and then refresh, the guide arrow will no longer return over the Marketplace.
Opening the Crafting tab in the Marketplace will no longer cause the occasional Flash Application error.
Coins no longer fly out of the fuel depot when it's exploding.
The guide arrow in the Build a Grow House mission will no longer cover the Buildings tab in the Marketplace.

How to create a quick "Visit Me" Link

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:37:00 -0700

To create a quick visit me link - which will be good to get help from non friends or from friends who cannot see you in their crew list , first you will need to get your player id

to find it you need to get to your wall and find some game feed you posted , like energy / health / part request . then right click on the Get Health / Help x and click copy link address/location . paste it somewhere to be able to edit it.

the link will look like this "http://apps.facebook.com/mafiawars-two/reward.php?senderId=12345678901...."

now take your sender id (player id) and place it at the end of this link : http://apps.facebook.com/mafiawars-two/?visitId=

so it will look like http://apps.facebook.com/mafiawars-two/?visitId=12345678901

thats it you now have your visit link dont forget to save it :)

Daily Missions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:51:00 -0700

There are now 4 missions that will be restarted every 24 hours , they are easy to complete and you will get street cred and upgrade parts (not many but will still help you)

1
Mission Name : WORKING FOR THE HALLOWEEKEND
What needed ?: Collect cash from 3 workers
Rewards : 9 Products , 1 Street Cred , 1 Bricks

Mission Name : FRIENDS WITH CANDY

What needed?: Visit 5 friends

Rewards : 21 xp , 1 2x4 , 74 Cash

Mission Name : PUMPKIN HEADS WILL ROLL

What needed?: Win 10 fights

Rewards : 74 Cash , 1 Street Cred , 21 xp

Mission Name : STEAL CANDY FROM NEIGHBORS

What needed?: Rob 5 buildings

Rewards : 74 Cash , 2 Street Cred , 21 xp

Basic guide to Mafia Wars 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:25:00 -0700

Welcome, here you can learn the basics of the game Mafia Wars 2. We will start of with very basic instructions so this is dedicated to the beginners of the game.

Basic: Mafia Wars 2 works with click and go action. Your character moves wherever you click on the land. Also, clicking can make your character to do jobs, fight and other different stuffs. In the game there are different locations so you can visit different places and do jobs. Doing jobs and fighting requires energy.
Collecting consumables and bonuses: When doing jobs and fighting different bonuses and loots drop out. To collect them simply hover you mouse above the bonuses and you will be able to collect them.
Locations: There are different locations you can visit. Missions and jobs vary from a location to other. Home turf is your home location where you produce and expand your mafia empire building new houses, employing workers and earn cash from them.
Missions: You will be given different missions in the game. After you complete one another one will follow it and so you will be doing a lot of missions. Basically tutorial missions will teach you a lot of different aspects of the game.

How energy works?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:01:00 -0700

If you have played other Zynga games you should not have much problem understanding the concept of "Energy"in Mafia Wars 2. However energy in Mafia Wars 2 does differ a little from other Zynga games. We will try to explain the most basic things you will need to understand about energy here.

What uses energy?

In Mafia Wars 2, most actions require energy. First of all, collecting requires energy, that is , collecting from workers, houses, casinos etc. Also doing jobs like playing in the Casino, robbing buildings require energy. And finally fighting requires energy.
However, constructing and upgrading buildings, hiring and ordering jobs for workers, and buying buildings do not require energy.

2. How do you get more energy?

Your energy gets slowly increased and regenerates itself in time.
Visiting friends gives you energy.
Posting on facebook feed could get you energy packs.
Or you could purchase energy drinks and packs using gold.
You get energy when you level up.
You can also acquire energy through energy generating buildings.
You sometimes get energy randomly when doing jobs or fighting.

Game update: October 18 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:29:00 -0700

Of Special Note

Some players weren't able to load the game because they had too many crew and rivals trying to visit their turf. If you couldn't load before, please try now!

We've made a few more tweaks to the friend selector: You now have an X to close it, "Cancel" has been changed to "Return to Game," and both will highlight after the first batch of sends.

The number of items you can receive from friends per day has been raised from 15 to 25.

We've added a "MW 1 & 2 Friends" tab in the friend selector. Checking the "Select All" box will select all of the friends currently shown in the window. Request away!

Changes and Additions

Your friends will now randomly show up on your home turf or when you travel to other zones!

The Casino Row zone shop has new items.

Certain missions that had unbalanced Energy vs. Loot rations have been adjusted.

Certain social jobs had their unbalanced rewards adjusted downward.

The Equip, Unequip, and Buy buttons are now easier to tell apart from one another.

Some Arena shop items had their prices adjusted.

You can now sell Wardrobe items from the profile.

We've added the ability to quick-publish (no share dialog) the following events to your friends when you level up or win a boss fight.

You'll now have an indicator over your building letting you know when enough friends have accepted your request to help upgrade it.

Fixes

The guide arrow for the Visit Zoe mission will no longer show up before you get the mission.

When clicking on a red-shielded rival to visit their turf and rob them, the rival would chicken out and not show up so you could rob them. They'll suck it up and fight now.

When the leaderboard resets each week, it should only reset your rank on the leaderboard, not your title. You'll no longer be reset to Newbie every week!

You can now choose your reward from Charlie the Drunk!

It now costs energy to fight the security guards in Neon Strip.

Guide arrows were added to the building & harvesting Gun Shop missions.

It will be easier now to collect energy from your friends' energy stations during the Recharge mission.

The Weapon Shop's Upgrade pushpin sometimes got lonely and started to follow your avatar around. It's been sent home to stay.

Zoe's buildings will no longer have Power-Up icons after you collect from them.

The Rob icon will now only show up if the building or agent can actually be robbed.

When you remove one of the three pieces of debris on the home turf that get swapped with safes, the debris will now clear immediately.

The Moose is no longer loose! The Moose is Loose mission now completes when you kill Moose.

Missions that have Street Cred as rewards will no longer throw an error when you open their information screens.

The female Yellow T-shirt no longer colors outside the lines.

The thugs accompanying Moose and Bonecrusher no longer have "Cannot Find String" when you mouse over them.

The Gearing Up quest has been moved to level 18.

Moose is a little dense, so you'll have to forgive him for telling you to upgrade your garage to level 2 right after you already did it. We got it through his thick skull and he'll no longer tell you to do it again.

The Place a Parts Factory mission will no longer pop up a "0% increase!" message (it was kind of a letdown).

The Joshua Tree is no longer offset when rotated.

Clicking on the brass knuckles when you're already in an arena will no longer cause the game to hang.

The Laspear no longer has placeholder art.

The Crazy Cat Lady in Bluebird Meadows no longer has a placeholder icon.

The Ski Mask and Eye Patch now display correctly when worn.

The Recharged mission will now update correctly when you collect from a friend's energy plant.

The "inventory full" message was hidden behind the Workshop window, so you couldn't tell why you weren't able to buy more parts.

The mouse-over text for Bonuses in the Bone Yard has been updated.

Instead of getting close enough to stab your rival in the eye with your gun, your avatar will leave enough space to aim and fire.

Hidden Gun Safe Locations

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:29:00 -0700

Gun safe's provides you with xp, cash, weapons, armors, collection items and street cards. They are hidden in the game mainly besides and between buildings. We have found one of each in every city. The pictures below show the locations of the gunsafe's we have discovered till date. We will add more of them, if we find them.

Casino row

Bluebird Meadows

Downtown

Granite square

Neon Strip

Westside Wharf

Boxer Island

Mafia Wars 2 Characters

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:01:00 -0700

Mafia Wars 2 Characters

Arthur Roteman: AGE:32 HOMETOWN:Chicago WEAPON OF CHOICE:.38 Special
Lucius Jackson AGE:29 HOMETOWN:Las Vegas WEAPON OF CHOICE:9mm Semi Automatic
Tony Valente AGE:58 HOMETOWN:Brooklyn WEAPON OF CHOICE:Revolver
Vinnie Mancuso AGE:26 HOMETOWN:Manhattan WEAPON OF CHOICE:Mixed Martial Arts
Zoe Sato AGE:24 HOMETOWN:Honolulu WEAPON OF CHOICE:Beauty and Brains

There are many other characters that will be coming soon. For now we just have 5 characters shown above. We will ve updating with more Mafia wars 2 characters very soon. It will not take much until the game releases so stay tuned and get the latest news immediatly.

Zoe Sato

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:54:00 -0700

Mafia wars 2 Characters

CHARACTER BIO

The daughter of a Yakuza gangster and his French-born mistress, Zoe was born in Honolulu. When she was a teenager, she witnessed her father put her mother in the hospital following a drunken rage. Shortly after, she stole a cache of her father’s money and caught a flight to Los Angeles. After unsuccessfully attempting to break into the movie industry, she decided to move east to Las Vegas where she found work as a cocktail waitress.

THE SPY WHO LOVES HER . . .

While working in a casino, Zoe met Arthur Roteman, an up-and-coming FBI agent who befriended her and protected her from an abusive ex-boyfriend. In exchange, she passed him information about criminal activities she picked up while waitressing. Arthur frequently flirts with Zoe, who appreciates his friendship but has deftly dodged his advances.

UNEASY RELATIONSHIPS…

Zoe is an acquaintance of Tony and Lucius, but hides her dislike of them in the interest of her aspiration to become a player in the Las Vegas power game. Tony has agreed to back her plans to build a nightclub; however, she realizes that if her club is successful, Tony will simply take it over. Zoe is looking for someone she can trust to remove Tony from the equation if and when it becomes necessary.

Vinnie Mancuso

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:52:00 -0700

Mafia wars 2 Characters

CHARACTER BIO

The son of an old-school mobster sent to Vegas in the early 80s at the behest of the Cavalcante family of New York, Vinnie grew up in a traditional Italian household. Vinnie soon followed in his father’s footsteps, receiving permission from the Cavalcante family to run an illegal sports book. Following an FBI sting in 1998, Vinnie’s father was arrested on racketeering and murder charges and is currently serving 4 consecutive life sentences in High Desert State Prison.

THE PLOT THICKENS

Feeling that the Mafia abandoned his father after his arrest, Vinnie severed ties with La Cosa Nostra and aligned himself with Vitale’s goons. He has been steadily increasing his influence on the Strip, gaining control of many of the most lucrative criminal enterprises in the city, including the casino protection racket. Following a verbal dispute with Tony in which Tony implied that his father had turned informant in prison, tensions have steadily escalated between the two and Vinnie is looking for any opportunity to reduce Tony’s power and influence.

Tony Valente

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:51:00 -0700

Mafia wars 2 Characters
CHARACTER BIO

A former Vietnam vet, Tony was born in Brooklyn in the 50s. After several stints in juvenile hall for drug-related offenses, his mother enlisted him in the Army, hoping they could provide him with some structure and discipline. After serving 2 undistinguished years in Vietnam, Tony was implicated in the killing of his superior officer. While he was brought up on charges, the prosecutor quickly found that cooperating witnesses either recanted their testimony or vanished. He was acquitted, but was discharged from the Army soon after.

HEADING WEST…

Returning to the US, he moved to Las Vegas and leveraged contacts made in Vietnam to begin smuggling heroin into the country for distribution. With the cash flow from his smack business, Tony expanded into other vices and soon controlled crime in numerous neighborhoods of Las Vegas.

THE BLACK DRAGONS

With the arrival of the Black Dragons a decade ago, Tony read the writing on the wall and joined their organization, rather than engaging in a costly war for control of the city. He has since been frustrated by the lack of advancement opportunities within the Black Dragons, and is scheming to eliminate his rival Vinnie and take over his territory. Tony loves to play the role of the helpful patron, but underneath his friendly exterior he is a cold sociopath, willing to eliminate even trusted associates to rule Sin City.

Lucius Jackson

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:48:00 -0700

Mafia wars 2 Characters

CHARACTER BIO

From the gentleman’s clubs off-strip to the escorts trolling the bars and clubs of the major casinos, everyone involved in the skin trade in Las Vegas kicks up a percentage to Lucius. A former gangbanger in the Spencer Street Boyz, Lucius showed a knack for intimidation and extortion – a talent that Tony recognized and valued. He recruited Lucius to be a part of Vitale’s squad, and has promoted Lucius through the ranks to his current position – Tony’s lieutenant and trusted triggerman.

NASTY TEMPER

Lucius has a hair-trigger temper – those who displease him once earn a beating, those who displease him twice disappear. He uses his network of pimps, prostitutes, and exotic dancers to stay abreast of events in the city and to strategically blackmail prominent local figures who have succumbed to the vices he offers.

Arthur Roteman

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:47:00 -0700

Mafia wars 2 Characters

CHARACTER BIO

Arthur Roteman joined the FBI 12 years ago, straight out of college and determined to make a difference. Assigned to the Las Vegas branch office, Roteman quickly advanced through the ranks by building an extensive network of criminal informants. A series of high-profile arrests soon led to media coverage and local celebrity status. But Roteman began to enjoy the fame a little too much.

THINGS TAKE A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE…

When juicy leads from his informants began to dry up and the spotlight started to fade, Roteman began fabricating charges against people he felt had wronged him or who he disliked. When authorities discovered that Roteman had been paying off witnesses, a conviction was overturned and his career advancement inside the FBI was over. That was four years ago . . .

CORRUPTION

Since then, Roteman has used his clout as an FBI agent to further his own ends, becoming more entangled with the criminal elements of the city each year. You can find him in the bars and strip clubs of Sin City, drinking heavily and investigating “persons of interest” – attractive waitresses or strippers who’ve caught his eye. He was recently photographed providing payment for services to an escort working for Lucius, who has been subsequently blackmailing him for information about ongoing FBI investigations. Roteman is looking for a way to eliminate Lucius without attracting suspicion.

Zoe

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:21:00 -0700

Zoe