1)Build & Promote Your Mafia Family:

No better way to get some built-in muscle than promoting some heavy hitters to sit on your “council” of 6, raising your levels for all areas between 10 and 15 points. Obviously the assignment of these is pivotal, and it’s nice you can compare before promoting.

2) Get Experience Points:

No way around it, you need them to advance. Work on those Jobs which provide the biggest reward first. In other words, if one takes the same amount of Energy as another, but provides many more Experience Points, you know what to choose. Make sure you clear each level up through level 3 on each Job Tier, to get the bonuses. More on applying Experience Points later.

Another great way to get Experience Points is through extended Robbery, often picking up 1 to 3 points per hit, plus a while lot of cash (depending on the properties, qtys., & relative levels involved). More on this later under “Robbery.”

3) Arm Your Family:

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone up against someone with a large “family”, and wipe them out easily, because they aren’t armed. On the spreadsheet I created, the biggest advantage is that you can type in the number for attack or defense (based on family size for Attack or level for Robbery). Then you’ll see which weapons, armor and vehicles would be used, with the corresponding qtys. levels, etc. This is important, because you don’t want to be attacking someone that has a bunch of Gold Desert Eagles with Baseball Bats and Crowbars! Look at it this way, if your family is improperly armed, they may as well not be there for Fights, Robbery and protection. Read the rest of this entry