Mafia Wars, Mob Wars and Crime City - Status

Today, I want to share the status levels in each of the three games with you, dear readers:

• Mafia Wars - level 623
• Mob Wars - level 768
• Crime City - level 91

As regular readers know it's important that you share things such as gifts and energy with fellow mobsters. It's the best shortcut to getting more tools, weaponry and energy, and gifting back is essential to ensuring a constant flow of these resources.

Please remember this in the year ahead if you want to be succesful and grow your mobs.

Crime City App on the iPad

I must say quite a lot has happened since I originally tried the Crime City on the iPhone 4. Originally, I was somewhat surprised - and, yes, even disappointed - that you had to start all over from scratch when you played the Crime City game on the iPhone.

I am still disappointed that you can't transfer the level achieved on your Crime City profile connected to your Facebook profile when you play using the browser on your computer...

But the speed of the app on your iPad IS fast. Not just faster than on the iPhone 4, but it is quite literally fast and the gameplay is FAR improved compared with Flash running on your computer.

Funzio have really improved the app, and is warmly recommended if you want to enjoy the game.

The Art of Social Gameplay in Social Networks

When it comes to gameplay in social networks such as Facebook games, there is an art that has been forgotten. In order to GET help in your own games, you need to start the circle of good karma.

I have seen numerous players who gladly add themselves to your network, and even though they get help for the boss fights in Crime City or wars in Mafia Wars, they don't return the favor. Some even start a fight with a boss in Crime City, and don't even spend the first bullet (stamina), but expect their friends to do the entire work.

First of all, added bonus - special hardware - is earned by delivering at least 10% of the damage in Crime City. If you do more, some would say it was wasted. That is the wrong attitude, and here's the reason why this is so. If the fight ends (after 2 or 3 days) without a full win even your 10% help is wasted.

So for tougher bosses you need to go all in - and don't waste time adding several bosses to the fight list at the same time. You will only lose everything from that strategy.

But if you want some real fun, and are willing to return the favor you can get a lot of help by being social in your gameplay. Start being succesful today so you won't be considered a leech as some are in online games.

Crime City Collections

It never ceases to amaze me how collections gathered from laundromats in the Crime City game on Facebook are somewhat identical all the time. Just watch this:



Over 400 sweat pants - and that multi-colored t-shirt is actually the key to trading in the collection. More t-shirts certainly needed to remove this stock of incredible proportions...

Have you had similar experiences in this game - or in other games on Facebook?

About Crime City

Dear readers, I want to correct myself here. I previously said Crime City was produced by Zynga. That is wrong. The company behind Crime City is Funzio.

Zynga have created Mafia Wars and Mob Wars, but they are NOT the authors behind Crime City, and I just wanted to rectify that as soon as I discovered I had made a mistake.

Have a nice weekend everyone. :-)