Sunday, January 31, 2010

Maximize Your Cash Flow With Mafia Wars Rackets

By Stephen Spiers

The future of the game is to use Mafia Wars rackets as a alternate for properties. Players who are new to the game will receive the rackets feature while "old" players will still have access to the properties feature. An incentive of some sort will ultimately be given to players under the old system in order to move everyone into the rackets system. The new system is not meeting with much enthusiasm, especially from players who have played under the properties system. There is also some complaints about how Zynga delivered the new system.

How do you use the new Mafia Wars rackets system? Under the new system you can no longer buy properties and let the cash roll in, instead you have to return to the rackets at timed intervals and collect on them.

You "shake down" a racket in Mafia Wars and then have to return after a specific time in order to collect. It is important that you return to collect on the shake down because the payout could be lost. You have to return to collect on the shake down "promptly" or you can lose the profit from the shake down. Although your are told how long the shake down will take, you are not told how long you have to collect.

You use influence to shake down a racket.|In order to shake down a racket you have to have sufficient influence. Your influence is regenerated at a rate of one per hour and is not reloaded when you level.

Under the rackets tab there are a number of different rackets and a variety of tabs, each with more rackets. The tabs are cash, attack, defense and jobs. These specify the cash return or boost you get when you shake down the racket.

The influence that you used to shake down a racket is also returned to you along with the cash or boost. You will only get back influence to a maximum of 125% of your total level. The influence you used can be lost if you are too slow at returning to collect. Along with your influence you will lose any take and other benefits of the shake down if you do not return promptly.

Each racket can be mastered. Each time you master a racket you get access to additional rackets. Rackets seem to pay out very little when compared to properties but as soon as you have mastered them your take will increase.

For those coming from the properties version of the game this may seem really bleak, but the payout can receive quite high once you master the racket levels.

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