Mafia Wars Properties
*This article continues from Mafia Wars Property Basics
Robbed or Protected?
Now, once you’ve got a strong mafia and have passed level 15 (my recommendation, since you can’t buy protection until you pass level 15), you can begin to build some Mafia Wars properties that require protection.
You really don’t want to build up Mafia Wars properties that need protection when you are a newbie, because higher level Mafia Wars players (needing cash) will rob you blind REPEATEDLY. And the best protection for your Mafia Wars properties is a strong mafia, rather than purchased protection.
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You can tell the difference between un-robbable buildings and robbable buildings because robbable buildings will have a health bar and protection badges. Purchased protection for a building will show as 1-5 illuminated badges on your building. Protection costs a percentage of the total you’ve spent on acquiring property.
(And yes, I think I made the word “robbable” up…don’t hassle me!)
It’s pretty common for a higher level player, if they find you’ve got some major value sitting in Mafia Wars properties, to settle in and rob you over and over. They are after the cash and experience points, and sometimes they enjoy torturing the newbies as a bonus. (It’s like freshman hazing, in a way.)
You are an easy mark when you’ve got a small, ill-equipped mafia with a boatload of casinos and hotels! You can gripe about how unfair it is (and it’s one of my fave soapboxes, too), but remember you are playing Mafia Wars, not teddy bear tea party. Nobody expects a gangster to follow the Golden Rule.
Anyway, when your protected building is robbed, the robbing will decrease the protection and damage the building a little bit with each attack. Once all the protection is worn down, your building will sustain heavy damages, until the police come to shut it down.
Then you will STILL GET 30% of the property income, even though it is shut down!
Don’t repair the damages until your robber has moved on. Usually they will forget about you in a couple weeks. And don’t sell the damaged Mafia Wars properties yet. You’ll only get 50% of what you paid for it, and that’s bad money management. Once your robber has moved on, you can repair it.
You may want to consider your juicy casino a sacrificial lamb – let the robbers get their heists off on that, while you quietly build an empire of small ticket Mafia Wars properties with a solid, unrobbable core of Mafia Mike’s. You can make a ton of take with those nickel and dime properties and MM’s (the best take for the price, BTW).
What you’ve got to understand is that buying protection does not make your buildings unrobbable. It just discourages players near your level from trying to rob you because it damages their health when they do rob you. Higher level players have more health and can take the damage to wear down your protection.
What really protects you from Mafia Wars properties being robbed is:
- Growing your own mafia to at least match your level, and
- Higher level players in your mafia who can match the robber in a smack down fight!
That’s why I recommend recruiting a sizeable crew before you build Mafia Wars properties that require protection. Don’t get indignant when you get robbed; get retaliatory through the big guns in your family!
Send the big dogs to kick butt and then when you are a big dog, you can do the same for your family newbies. It’s all in the family! Or, if you can swing it by being a bit crafty, add your robber to your mafia. That will stop the robber in his tracks! Can’t rob you if they are in your crew.
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