Comments on: Racketeering in Mafia Wars

By: Lolita Cruce

Lolita Cruce — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:25:35 +0000

i for one love the rackets instead of the properties that can be robbed everytime you turn around. i had rackets until yesterday and today for some reason it is all gone and i have properties. i want my rackets back.

By: Phillip Scott

Phillip Scott — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:31 +0000

I agree Duce, I am not fond of rackets either.

By: Duce

Duce — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:07:53 +0000

Rackets suck for the first month or two working them. in addition to an energy only farmer you will want an influence only farmer. it takes some time to get the ball rolling but if you never let them bust through the early rackets you can master all of them build the influence and your potential influence grows to MUCH more then you actual max level of influence. Additionally you can accelerate the process when you have leveled enough to get a full influence refill with say 500 influence this is actually a good thing. While an energy refill is pretty much a waste Influence is never lost unless you bust. the job racket rewards are lame but if they improver the racket reward there is a lot of positive potential for boost harvesting. IMHO. Cheers! -Duce

By: brandon

brandon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:11:45 +0000

Rackets are fine i was mad at first but i stuck to them and if you fully upgrade the striper club to massage parlor you make 900k for 26 infulence then you upgrade that the escort and you make 110million in 24 hours and you can have as many of them going as you like but you need to purchase new areas which progressivly get more expensive so after 24 hours i come back click collect and re shakedown to everyone and your good and when you infulence increases over time i like to buy small rackets to fill in the spaces where you dont have enoguh infulence for a escort service so then you can collect from a few and not waste enfulence

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:11:08 +0000

I started recently with Mafia Wars (level 50 now) and I am a “maniac”. All I have are rackets. I don’t have the opportunity to buy properties at all. I have to say that I think the rackets suck. The ‘influence’ take forever to restock and if you miss your time limit you lose the influence completely. They don’t produce enough money or attack or defense to be worth the time they take to produce. I know that my partner is a ‘mogul’ and all she has to have is money to buy her properties. I have hundreds of millions of dollars, but they don’t help a bit because all you can use is influence.

I feel like it’s a hindrance to how well I can do at Mafia Wars because I have to opportunity to buy the property/businesses. I wish I could switch.