Cafe World Grill Father
In Cafe World, Super Stoves streamline cooking in the game into a one-click process, but harnessing that convenience costs 32 Cafe Cash. There's also a suited up version, called the Grill Father, that goes for 35 Cafe Cash. This puts it somewhere around $4-5 per stove.
But you can get the Grill Father for free by leveling up 5 times in Mafia Wars. New players will have to make it to Level 15. To get started, look for the tiny icon of the Grill Father Super Stove on the left side of your Cafe World game screen. Click on the notice (image above) and answer "Yes" to be redirected to the Mafia Wars game.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Mafia Wars' 'Take Out a Rival Operation' Secret Mission calls for seven mobsters
Secret Mission Take Out a Rival Operation
Time to start calling up the family. A new Secret Mission (new name) was recently added to Mafia Wars titled "Take Out a Rival Operation," according to Mafia Wars Maniac, that requires seven extra helpers to complete. Considered a Hard mission, the three-day job asks for both Stamina and Energy users--with one role requiring both--and will pay in Lira. There are a slew of common, uncommon and rare items to win in addition to some extra cash.
Find more information on the possible item rewards after the break.
Secret Mission Items
Common:
Death Dealer Minigun: 48 Attack, 64 Defense
Z4 Night Prowler: 57 Attack, 35 Defense
Armed Doorman: 51 Attack, 24 Defense
Reef Shark: 55 Attack, 24 Defense
Uncommon:
Fatima: Collection Item
Mountain Lion: Collection Item
Four of a Kind: Collection Item
Turkey Vulture: 62 Attack, 50 Defense
Rare:
Alpine: 35 Attack, 57 Defense
Sumatra Tiger: 60 Attack, 30 Defense
Players are complaining about some of the potential items being those from collections in much older locations and thus offering little to no help for players currently in Italy. While there still are some impressive rare items to win like the Sumatra Tiger, hopefully Zynga addresses this issue and replaces these otherwise useless items with some that are slightly more valuable to players at this moment.
Time to start calling up the family. A new Secret Mission (new name) was recently added to Mafia Wars titled "Take Out a Rival Operation," according to Mafia Wars Maniac, that requires seven extra helpers to complete. Considered a Hard mission, the three-day job asks for both Stamina and Energy users--with one role requiring both--and will pay in Lira. There are a slew of common, uncommon and rare items to win in addition to some extra cash.
Find more information on the possible item rewards after the break.
Secret Mission Items
Common:
Death Dealer Minigun: 48 Attack, 64 Defense
Z4 Night Prowler: 57 Attack, 35 Defense
Armed Doorman: 51 Attack, 24 Defense
Reef Shark: 55 Attack, 24 Defense
Uncommon:
Fatima: Collection Item
Mountain Lion: Collection Item
Four of a Kind: Collection Item
Turkey Vulture: 62 Attack, 50 Defense
Rare:
Alpine: 35 Attack, 57 Defense
Sumatra Tiger: 60 Attack, 30 Defense
Players are complaining about some of the potential items being those from collections in much older locations and thus offering little to no help for players currently in Italy. While there still are some impressive rare items to win like the Sumatra Tiger, hopefully Zynga addresses this issue and replaces these otherwise useless items with some that are slightly more valuable to players at this moment.
Mafia Wars Italy Rail Ticket: Where to find them
mafia wars italy rail ticket
If there's one thing that's likely to stand in your way of making progress in Mafia Wars, it's those darn consumable items required to complete jobs and defeat bosses. Just when you thought you were done with hunting down consumables, Mafia Wars Italy arrives and everyone's been on the hunt for severed pinkies and other new consumable items to get the job done.
mafia wars rail ticket
You'll need Rail Tickets to complete the 'Bug the Don's Train Car' job in Mafia Wars Italy Region 3 Venezia.
You'll need a total of 65 Mafia Wars Rail Tickets to master all four levels of the 'Bug the Don's Train Car' job. That breaks down into the following per mastery level:
Bronze - 10 Rail Ticket
Silver - 13 Rail Ticket
Gold - 17 Rail Ticket
Ruby - 25 Rail Ticket
Mafia Wars Rail Tickets are not available as gifts and cannot be traded. There is just one way to find these train slips:
1. Complete the 'Track Down Don Adriano' job in Region 2: Palermo. This job will yield Rail Tickets as loot.
If there's one thing that's likely to stand in your way of making progress in Mafia Wars, it's those darn consumable items required to complete jobs and defeat bosses. Just when you thought you were done with hunting down consumables, Mafia Wars Italy arrives and everyone's been on the hunt for severed pinkies and other new consumable items to get the job done.
mafia wars rail ticket
You'll need Rail Tickets to complete the 'Bug the Don's Train Car' job in Mafia Wars Italy Region 3 Venezia.
You'll need a total of 65 Mafia Wars Rail Tickets to master all four levels of the 'Bug the Don's Train Car' job. That breaks down into the following per mastery level:
Bronze - 10 Rail Ticket
Silver - 13 Rail Ticket
Gold - 17 Rail Ticket
Ruby - 25 Rail Ticket
Mafia Wars Rail Tickets are not available as gifts and cannot be traded. There is just one way to find these train slips:
1. Complete the 'Track Down Don Adriano' job in Region 2: Palermo. This job will yield Rail Tickets as loot.
Mafia Wars Italy Smart Phone: How to find this elusive gadget
mafia wars italy smart phone
If there's one thing that's likely to stand in your way of making progress in Mafia Wars, it's those darn consumable items required to complete jobs and defeat bosses. Just when you thought you were done with hunting down consumables, Mafia Wars Italy arrives and everyone's been on the hunt for severed pinkies and other new consumables to get the job done.
You'll need Smart Phones to complete a variety of different jobs depending on what path you take. In Mafia Wars Italy Region 4 Milano, you need Smart Phones for the 'Bug A Confessional' or 'Infiltrate A Seven Star Hotel' jobs. In Mafia Wars Italy Region 5 Napoli, you need Smart Phones for the 'Take Out a Troublesome Carabinieri', 'Break Out an Incarcerated Lieutenant', or 'Link the Camorra to The Police'.
mafia wars italy smart phone
You'll need a total of 65 Smart Phones to master all four levels of the 'Bug A Confessional' job. That breaks down into the following per mastery level:
Bronze : 10 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 13 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 17 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 25 Smart Phone needed
For the 'Infiltrate a Seven Star Hotel' job you need a total of 91 Smart Phones:
Bronze : 15 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 17 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 34 Smart Phone needed
'Take Out a Troublesome Carabinieri' also requires a total of 91 Smart Phones:
Bronze : 15 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 17 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 34 Smart Phone needed
'Break Out an Incarcerated Lieutenant' requires 112 Smart Phones:
Bronze : 17 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 20 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 50 Smart Phone needed
Finally, the 'Link the Camorra to the Police' job requires 112:
Bronze : 17 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 20 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 50 Smart Phone needed
Smart Phones are not available as gifts and cannot be traded. There is only one way to find the missing cellular phone:
If there's one thing that's likely to stand in your way of making progress in Mafia Wars, it's those darn consumable items required to complete jobs and defeat bosses. Just when you thought you were done with hunting down consumables, Mafia Wars Italy arrives and everyone's been on the hunt for severed pinkies and other new consumables to get the job done.
You'll need Smart Phones to complete a variety of different jobs depending on what path you take. In Mafia Wars Italy Region 4 Milano, you need Smart Phones for the 'Bug A Confessional' or 'Infiltrate A Seven Star Hotel' jobs. In Mafia Wars Italy Region 5 Napoli, you need Smart Phones for the 'Take Out a Troublesome Carabinieri', 'Break Out an Incarcerated Lieutenant', or 'Link the Camorra to The Police'.
mafia wars italy smart phone
You'll need a total of 65 Smart Phones to master all four levels of the 'Bug A Confessional' job. That breaks down into the following per mastery level:
Bronze : 10 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 13 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 17 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 25 Smart Phone needed
For the 'Infiltrate a Seven Star Hotel' job you need a total of 91 Smart Phones:
Bronze : 15 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 17 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 34 Smart Phone needed
'Take Out a Troublesome Carabinieri' also requires a total of 91 Smart Phones:
Bronze : 15 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 17 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 34 Smart Phone needed
'Break Out an Incarcerated Lieutenant' requires 112 Smart Phones:
Bronze : 17 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 20 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 50 Smart Phone needed
Finally, the 'Link the Camorra to the Police' job requires 112:
Bronze : 17 Smart Phone needed
Silver : 20 Smart Phone needed
Gold : 25 Smart Phone needed
Ruby : 50 Smart Phone needed
Smart Phones are not available as gifts and cannot be traded. There is only one way to find the missing cellular phone:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Mafia Wars meets CityVille (sort of) with Urban Warfare on Facebook
Urban Warfare
Enjoying CityVille, but in search of more competition? Well, Blue Shell Games' first effort on Facebook hopes to bring social gamers the best of both worlds with Urban Warfare. With both city-building elements and Mafia Wars-style battles with friends, Urban Warfare is a jack-of-all-trades of sorts, allowing players to both maintain a sprawling town while defending it from invaders. However, this game is certainly not without its flaws. In fact, it has those in spades.
Take a look behind the break to get a detailed look at whether this game might interest you (but probably not).
Urban Warfare Battles
Urban Warfare throws players into a war-torn world where every city is required to have a full-blown military to defend itself, which would be absolutely badass in most situations (fictional, of course). It's too bad that this game doesn't bring much in the fun department. Sure, Urban Warfare is functional, but that's about where development seems to have tapered off to a point. For instance, the image above is what every battle looks like. And that's it. (Well, aside from a blank loading screen that simply reads, "Battling!")
So, don't think you're preparing for full-scale war here. Battles operate almost exactly like those in Mafia Wars, but with less detailed artwork and it's the bland soldiers you train that decide the outcome rather than collected items. Not to mention that Battles can be repeated over and over again with no real benefit or penalty. You'll almost immediately catch on to the trick of finding a weak player pummeling him repeatedly to level up at lightning speeds (due to the lack of animation), but what's the point?
City building
Not much really, though in order to compete at later levels you'll need to build out your city with coin-generating businesses, residencies that boost your population and barracks to train more soldiers--all of which cost coins. The balance between generating coins and population via plopping buildings on the grid and training an army is simple enough. In fact, it's probably too simple. In my short time playing the game, there are really no perceivable setbacks aside from losing a Battle and the excruciatingly long time it takes to train soldiers.
Despite its many shortcomings, Urban Warfare does get a few things right. Take Quests, for example. While they've surely been done before, it's somewhat reassuring to know that Blue Shell at least realizes that these have essentially standard to guide players along in social games. Taking a cue from games like CityVille, players can visit their friends' cities to provide them with boosts to supplies. Alright, I'll admit it: that's all I can think up. For Pete's sake, the game allows players to pay coins for decorations that have no benefit whatsoever besides a sliver of XP. I can get more XP in an instant by pummeling Random Newbie #27.
The game offers a paid currency known as Reward Points (sound familiar?), but I would strongly recommend you not spend your hard-earned dollars on a game with little to no animation or interesting artwork and a gameplay dynamic that doesn't feel complete before really getting to know it. It's a shame too, because the initial premise is spot-on and has loads of potential for the next big social game, which Blue Shell deserves credit for. Unfortunately, it's in the execution that Urban Warfare goes AWOL.
Click here to play Urban Warfare on Facebook now>
Enjoying CityVille, but in search of more competition? Well, Blue Shell Games' first effort on Facebook hopes to bring social gamers the best of both worlds with Urban Warfare. With both city-building elements and Mafia Wars-style battles with friends, Urban Warfare is a jack-of-all-trades of sorts, allowing players to both maintain a sprawling town while defending it from invaders. However, this game is certainly not without its flaws. In fact, it has those in spades.
Take a look behind the break to get a detailed look at whether this game might interest you (but probably not).
Urban Warfare Battles
Urban Warfare throws players into a war-torn world where every city is required to have a full-blown military to defend itself, which would be absolutely badass in most situations (fictional, of course). It's too bad that this game doesn't bring much in the fun department. Sure, Urban Warfare is functional, but that's about where development seems to have tapered off to a point. For instance, the image above is what every battle looks like. And that's it. (Well, aside from a blank loading screen that simply reads, "Battling!")
So, don't think you're preparing for full-scale war here. Battles operate almost exactly like those in Mafia Wars, but with less detailed artwork and it's the bland soldiers you train that decide the outcome rather than collected items. Not to mention that Battles can be repeated over and over again with no real benefit or penalty. You'll almost immediately catch on to the trick of finding a weak player pummeling him repeatedly to level up at lightning speeds (due to the lack of animation), but what's the point?
City building
Not much really, though in order to compete at later levels you'll need to build out your city with coin-generating businesses, residencies that boost your population and barracks to train more soldiers--all of which cost coins. The balance between generating coins and population via plopping buildings on the grid and training an army is simple enough. In fact, it's probably too simple. In my short time playing the game, there are really no perceivable setbacks aside from losing a Battle and the excruciatingly long time it takes to train soldiers.
Despite its many shortcomings, Urban Warfare does get a few things right. Take Quests, for example. While they've surely been done before, it's somewhat reassuring to know that Blue Shell at least realizes that these have essentially standard to guide players along in social games. Taking a cue from games like CityVille, players can visit their friends' cities to provide them with boosts to supplies. Alright, I'll admit it: that's all I can think up. For Pete's sake, the game allows players to pay coins for decorations that have no benefit whatsoever besides a sliver of XP. I can get more XP in an instant by pummeling Random Newbie #27.
The game offers a paid currency known as Reward Points (sound familiar?), but I would strongly recommend you not spend your hard-earned dollars on a game with little to no animation or interesting artwork and a gameplay dynamic that doesn't feel complete before really getting to know it. It's a shame too, because the initial premise is spot-on and has loads of potential for the next big social game, which Blue Shell deserves credit for. Unfortunately, it's in the execution that Urban Warfare goes AWOL.
Click here to play Urban Warfare on Facebook now>
Friday, January 13, 2012
Mafia Wars 'No Crime Like the Present': Everything you need to know
If you took a look at your Operations today in Mafia Wars, you might have noticed a massive Christmas Tree plopped where your normal group missions should be. Do not be alarmed, this is Zynga's new, elaborate holiday event to ring in Christmas mobster-style, "No Crime Like the Present." In this special, limited time event, players will have to get into the holiday spirit like any self-respecting mafia member would: hoarding and stealing, of course. Mixing a little bit of gifting, stealing and protection, this event is going to take plenty dedication and team work if you want to nab the grand prize weapon: Auld Lang Syne (110 Attack, 135 Defense).
Peek behind the break to get a detailed look at how this huge holiday event works.
Holiday Gifting
Before you do much of anything involving Presents, we recommend getting your tree to the max level as soon as possible for it to hold the maximum amount of Presents: 45. (This becomes vitally important later, trust us.) To make your tree shine brilliantly at Level 5, you will need to collect large amounts of each Decoration: Ornaments, Lights and Candy Canes:
Level 2: Three of each Decoration (increases capacity to nine)
Level 3: Four of each Decoration (increases capacity to 18)
Level 4: Six of each Decoration (increases capacity to 30)
Level 5: Eight of each Decoration (increases capacity to 45)
That's a total of 21 for each Decoration, which adds up to a grand total of 63 gifted items.Thankfully, you can send these Decorations to your mafia members through the Free Gifts page as well as request them, making the task slightly less tedious. However, what you can send from that page is a Holiday Sack, which may contain one of seven items: any one of the three Decorations, any one of the three Presents or a Lump of Coal. If the person you're sending the Holiday Sack too has already maxed out their Christmas Tree, then that narrows down the possibilities to one of three Presents or the Lump of Coal (a weapon with one Attack and one Defense). After you've decked out the tree with blinding holiday bling, it's time to pilfer those Presents.
Rewards List
This is done exactly how decorating the tree was, but you can send Presents directly from the Christmas Tree menu. When sending or receiving a Gift, you have a random chance at getting or giving either a Blue, Red or Green Gift. This directly effects your chances at winning the 11 available items, most of which have impressive stats, thankfully. While there are five common items that can be found inside any of the three varieties of Presents with lesser stats, there are six items that can only be inside one of the three Presents with numbers that match some Italy-grade items. Here's where you can find the rarer holiday items:
Blue Gift: Shadow Transporter (77 Attack, 60 Defense); Bengal Tiger (72 Attack, 99 Defense)
Green Gift: Mobile Garage (55 Attack, 79 Defense); 40mm Bunker Buster (101 Attack, 68 Defense)
Red Gift: Achilles Salvation (69 Attack, 100 Defense); ET Hybrid (63 Attack, 75 Defense)
However, we don't recommend opening these Presents before New Year's Day. If you can't wait long enough and have the maximum amount of Presents come Jan. 1, you'll receive the grand prize. Unfortunately, that won't be so easy considering anyone can steal Presents from any Christmas Tree. Luckily for you, six friends can be enlisted to protect your Presents with their statistics contributing yours. So, make sure you recruit only your most powerful friends to keep your tree safe.
Tree Robbery
If you want to steal your own Presents, Christmas Trees will randomly appear on the Robbery Page with varying difficulty based on the mobsters protecting it, but you'll always need at least five mafia members and six Stamina to rob one. Also, Zynga added a News Feed to this Operation's home page so you can track who did what to your Presents and retaliate accordingly. With the threat of your precious Presents being stolen, we know where you're going to be this Christmas.
Peek behind the break to get a detailed look at how this huge holiday event works.
Holiday Gifting
Before you do much of anything involving Presents, we recommend getting your tree to the max level as soon as possible for it to hold the maximum amount of Presents: 45. (This becomes vitally important later, trust us.) To make your tree shine brilliantly at Level 5, you will need to collect large amounts of each Decoration: Ornaments, Lights and Candy Canes:
Level 2: Three of each Decoration (increases capacity to nine)
Level 3: Four of each Decoration (increases capacity to 18)
Level 4: Six of each Decoration (increases capacity to 30)
Level 5: Eight of each Decoration (increases capacity to 45)
That's a total of 21 for each Decoration, which adds up to a grand total of 63 gifted items.Thankfully, you can send these Decorations to your mafia members through the Free Gifts page as well as request them, making the task slightly less tedious. However, what you can send from that page is a Holiday Sack, which may contain one of seven items: any one of the three Decorations, any one of the three Presents or a Lump of Coal. If the person you're sending the Holiday Sack too has already maxed out their Christmas Tree, then that narrows down the possibilities to one of three Presents or the Lump of Coal (a weapon with one Attack and one Defense). After you've decked out the tree with blinding holiday bling, it's time to pilfer those Presents.
Rewards List
This is done exactly how decorating the tree was, but you can send Presents directly from the Christmas Tree menu. When sending or receiving a Gift, you have a random chance at getting or giving either a Blue, Red or Green Gift. This directly effects your chances at winning the 11 available items, most of which have impressive stats, thankfully. While there are five common items that can be found inside any of the three varieties of Presents with lesser stats, there are six items that can only be inside one of the three Presents with numbers that match some Italy-grade items. Here's where you can find the rarer holiday items:
Blue Gift: Shadow Transporter (77 Attack, 60 Defense); Bengal Tiger (72 Attack, 99 Defense)
Green Gift: Mobile Garage (55 Attack, 79 Defense); 40mm Bunker Buster (101 Attack, 68 Defense)
Red Gift: Achilles Salvation (69 Attack, 100 Defense); ET Hybrid (63 Attack, 75 Defense)
However, we don't recommend opening these Presents before New Year's Day. If you can't wait long enough and have the maximum amount of Presents come Jan. 1, you'll receive the grand prize. Unfortunately, that won't be so easy considering anyone can steal Presents from any Christmas Tree. Luckily for you, six friends can be enlisted to protect your Presents with their statistics contributing yours. So, make sure you recruit only your most powerful friends to keep your tree safe.
Tree Robbery
If you want to steal your own Presents, Christmas Trees will randomly appear on the Robbery Page with varying difficulty based on the mobsters protecting it, but you'll always need at least five mafia members and six Stamina to rob one. Also, Zynga added a News Feed to this Operation's home page so you can track who did what to your Presents and retaliate accordingly. With the threat of your precious Presents being stolen, we know where you're going to be this Christmas.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Mafia Wars 2: Like Facebook fan page to unlock prizes in final game
While little is known about Mafia Wars 2 in terms of it's actual gameplay, we do know that prizes are being offered for users that Like the game's Facebook fan page. If this entire promotion looks familiar, it's because EA/Playfish pulled this one during the Sims Social pre-launch hype, and now we're seeing it again here.
Either way, we know that there will eventually be nine prizes available to unlock, although only seven of them have been revealed. These prizes are limited to varying (increasing) amounts of Likes, and will be unlocked in the final game upon launch if we reach those milestones in time. Here's the complete rundown:
Black Mohawk Hair - 20,000 Likes
Casino Row T-Shirt - 50,000 Likes
Graffiti Wall - 100,000 Likes
Skull Bandana - 250,000 Likes
Animated Lions - 500,000 Likes
Tribal Tattoo - 1 million Likes
Stripes Baseball Cap - 1.5 million Likes
Two additional prizes have yet to be revealed. So far, the fan page has only gained 70,000 Likes, so we've only managed to unlock the Black Mohawk Hair and Casino Row T-Shirt as prizes. Since the game's announcement is so new, and the hype train has barely left the station, I'd imagine we'll see that number climb slowly at first, and then monumentally as the game comes closer and closer to launch. And once we find out what those final two prizes are, we'll make sure to let you know.
Are you excited about Mafia Wars 2? If the game doesn't offer any incentive for users to switch from the original to this new version, will you? Sound off in the comments.
Either way, we know that there will eventually be nine prizes available to unlock, although only seven of them have been revealed. These prizes are limited to varying (increasing) amounts of Likes, and will be unlocked in the final game upon launch if we reach those milestones in time. Here's the complete rundown:
Black Mohawk Hair - 20,000 Likes
Casino Row T-Shirt - 50,000 Likes
Graffiti Wall - 100,000 Likes
Skull Bandana - 250,000 Likes
Animated Lions - 500,000 Likes
Tribal Tattoo - 1 million Likes
Stripes Baseball Cap - 1.5 million Likes
Two additional prizes have yet to be revealed. So far, the fan page has only gained 70,000 Likes, so we've only managed to unlock the Black Mohawk Hair and Casino Row T-Shirt as prizes. Since the game's announcement is so new, and the hype train has barely left the station, I'd imagine we'll see that number climb slowly at first, and then monumentally as the game comes closer and closer to launch. And once we find out what those final two prizes are, we'll make sure to let you know.
Are you excited about Mafia Wars 2? If the game doesn't offer any incentive for users to switch from the original to this new version, will you? Sound off in the comments.
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