Racketeering: My Thoughts Thus Far « Mafia Wars Tips and Strategy Blog

Racketeering: My Thoughts Thus Far

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Oct/090

Though my journey through the new Rackets feature in Mafia Was has just begun I will clue you in on the things that I have discovered. Some of this may be news to many of you while others may have already discovered it for themselves.

Originally Zynga was going to up the skill points gained from leveling to 6 instead of 5 but the idea was tossed rather quickly after they realized that an energy based account, which is what I teach in my Ultimate Mafia Wars Leveling Guide, would simply explode in levels…like you can’t do that already. Grab a copy of the guide and you will be blasting through levels without the extra point.

Instead of the added skill point per level Zynga decided that accounts that have access to the Rackets feature would only require one skill point to level Stamina instead of 2. This is great news if you are they type of player that works the hitlists. For those of you who are pure energy based leveling machines the extra boost to stamina means nothing.

Rackets tend to generate huge amounts of money very quickly. In fact new players with the feature enabled should be able to purchase everything that they can dream of by level 50 or 60 in New York. Soon after that they will discover what most of us already know…money is useless in the long run. With cash being so easy to come by it becomes mundane, especially in New York, and simply takes up bank space. Cuba and Moscow take a bit longer before it becomes useless but ultimately it will.

Parizad who is a Community Manager for Zynga has said:

“Our longtime players will not have their properties taken away, but we are going to give them really good reasons to cash them in. Also, we’re working on whole new kinds of rackets. For example, some will produce boosts, instead of only having the option to get money.”

This would be a good thing since as I said money becomes all but useless pretty quick.

Another added “feature” to accounts with Rackets is that there is no longer any upkeep on weapons, vehicles, or armor. Once again this defeats the purpose of earning billions in cash.

One thing that I dislike about the implementation of Rackets is that new accounts, and those who were given access to the feature (I was not and I have over a dozen accounts) is that they can still rob players who have properties but have none themselves. Let’s hope that Zynga finds a way pretty quick to fix this.

Rackets could be a wonderful thing for Mafia Wars but Zynga needs to balance it quickly. Earning billions in cash is on so good, especially since those with the feature have no upkeep on items. The ability to rob players with properties should be disabled on accounts that have Rackets since the only way to retaliate is to hitlist someone. Not that cash is that important but fair is fair.

Those are my thoughts on the Rackets game for today. See you tomorrow.