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Bugs are everywhere. I actually didn't come across any bugs yet. My only problem is that I am being attacked in the Mafia Wars while I'm not there and they take a lot of my money. Then when I'm there, I do a lot of jobs, make more money again, but then the Mafia bullies take it again. How do you cope with that situation?

ok here are some tips.

You've got to put your money in the bank constantly. I never have money floating around that can be taken in an attack. When it is in the bank, they can't take it when they attack you. The 10% you pay to the bank is only a small price to keep your money safe.

Also another trick.. just before you log off, fight, regardless of whether you win or lose, just fight until your health goes under 20 points. Once you are under 20 points, log off, don't do anything else. You will be considered "dead" and they can't fight you.

As for the bullies, *cough* you haven't seen bullying yet, trust me. Bullying is when they gang up on you and fight you in such a way that it disables your game.
Many people in those games are hardcore players and respect the rules of the game. They won't bully unless there is a reason to. If a player finds you and knows they can beat you, they'll tend to come back for more (especially if your money is exposed), that is not bullying, it's just people trying to get ahead in the game.
There are several ways to deal with true bullying should you ever be a victim of it.

There are four ways to play the game, you can be an energy player, a stamina player, a health player, or even out the game. Each time you level up, you get 5 points, how you spend those points determines what kind of a player you will be. If you evenly divide the points (attack, defense, stamina, energy) you build your game carefully and you have a good chance of working your way up slowly but nicely. Don't ever waste points on health under level 100.

Personally I'm a stamina player, nearly all of my points go to attack and defense. It has major advantages.. you still get the experience points to level up quickly because you win more fights = more experience points. You also earn money quicker because when you win a lot, you tend to rake up loads of money.

Once you get some mafia together, you need to arm each member of your mafia up to 501, no more.
For example, if you have a total of 10 mafia, you need one of each weapon for each mafia, like you need 10 of everything, 10 hacksaws, 10 tommy guns, etc.. you need to fully sustain your mafia, otherwise they are useless.

You can only throw 501 mafia in a fight, so if you have more than 501 mafia, you don't need to buy weapons for each one, 501 of each weapon will do.
You can't invite people into your mafia unless they are on your friends list, but if you want a huge crew, it doesn't mean that you have to invite everyone and their grandmother to be on your friends list. Once they have joined your mafia you can disconnect from them as friends, a lot of people do that. This way you have your privacy back if you have a private profile, but you can still have all those mafia.

For every two members who join your mafia you can buy a special weapon that is more deadly than the weapons offered the regular way. If you don't buy a special weapon for each two members who join, you lose the opportunity. You have to accept mafia two at a time in order to get full use of the special weapons offer.

Energy packs: an energy pack is good for 24 hours. Don't ever use an energy pack when you're close to levelling up because then you'll just waste it because your energy gets refilled when you level up.

lol Bob, if I made that much an hour for real, I'd buy myself a castle on some exotic island or something.

smokie be careful, once you have some more property, you'll have to pay a lot of money to protect it. Well, you don't have to, but you can and if you don't, people can rob you more easily. When they rob your property you have to pay money to repair it and you get less income from it until it is repaired.

I didn't have time yesterday to look at my game for most of the day, and when I finally went to the game late last night, I noticed that someone had robbed me, I had to pay almost 6 million between repair and new protection and I didn't have that much in the bank so I repaired it and let it sit unprotected. Just make sure to have a few million in the bank once you get more property.

If you get robbed regularly you are better off not repairing or insuring your property.
It can only be robbed until it is down to 30% of its income. After that, as long as you don't repair, you'll still get 30% of your income and you can't be robbed.

Some properties can never be robbed, like the empty lots, those are not available to robbing, ever.

Oh and my game is broken, I can't send gifts anymore. I barely logged on yesterday but when I finally did late at night, they had a maintenance period. When the game came back, I had lost the ability to send gifts. Took a quick look at the help forums and people are real mad about it and they say that this was done on purpose that it is not a bug. Apparently people with large mafia were exploiting that feature (I have no idea how or what the advantage of that would be)
But, coincidentally, all players who have over 500 mafia members have lost the ability to send gifts.

If it really is true that they disabled it on purpose, then I'm done playing, because the ability to give and help out the lower level mafia members was one of the most fun parts.

hmm they were saying it was only affecting people with mafia of over 500. My gifting option is still broken, it worked for a half hour and then broke again. People are screaming about that one, because three of the achievements involve gifting and people can't do their achievements now.