Top Mafia

It's gone live today.

It will probably show up in your MW home screen eventually but there's a way to force it open for you. Just use this link:

http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/index.php?next_params=YTozOntpOjA7czo4OiJ0b3BtYWZpYSI7aToxO3M6NDoidmlldyI7aToyO3M6MDoiIjt9

Once you go in you will see there are various positions to fill. I can't say what these new positions will do and what the benefits will be so as soon as that information is available we will pass it along.

Currently the requirement is to fill:
2 captains
4 lieutenants
6 enforcers
6 street crew

On each position it will give you the option to add people in so click add and you will get to see around 505 of your mafia to choose from. Not everyone will show up so you may have to exit from that screen and go back in so it grabs a new batch of people. Also, it's possible that people who haven't started in on this may not be eligible to be selected. I wouldn't worry too much about that for now as you can change the positions later (there's a 24 hour timer). There's clearly going to be some benefit for being in a top position so look at who your regular players are and who helps you and add in those people. I'm sure Doug is in your old top mafia in some position so try and add him in as a captain if he comes up as selectable in your list. Right now I don't know what's going to happen to the old top mafia and how it interacts/effects the new top mafia, but currently they both co-exist and it may continue that way.

Once you add each position you will get various bonuses for filling up the tiers. Plus for each gift or energy pack you send you will also get a 28 XP bonus which is great, so don't miss out on that..

You get further bonuses by giving at least one gift to one person in each tier. The only area it gets sticky is in street crew where you have to be level 19 or below to qualify. You're likely to have a number of friends who started in on MW but quit for one reason or another - so here's Zynga's plan: use you to recruit these people back into the game because if they're "MIA" you don't get credit for them! Plus there's a further bonus for getting 6 people to lvl 20. So you can see what they're up to.

There are also more changes coming with the introduction of something called the "Fight Club". My guess it will be a revamp of fighting along the lines of the new robbing. There's lots more going on there but I'll hold off on going into that further until I really have some definitive info to pass along.

Quick note on the new robbing features. Hopefully you're all enjoying the benefits of the revamp. Clearing the screen of 9 robbing targets give you an extra XP payout no matter what your record is for that screen, so it's a nice extra bump that everyone should take advantage of.

The two new achievements that go with robbing, the tools one which is fairly easy to get as they drop regularly, and the diamonds which is very hard to get. There is no particular way to get the diamond. You can get them for robbing any target or get them on the summary screen for clearing the targets. You can go 9-0 or 1-8 for the screen, that has no effect on getting a dia. I've had screens where I went 9-0 back-to-back and got no diamonds, so that doesn't help get them. All you can do is keep robbing and hope they drop. There's just a bit of confusion on the dia issue so I hope this clears it up somewhat!