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Sal the Foot's Guide to Mob Wars Property Calculator
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Frequently Asked Questions
If you have questions about anything here or a suggestion for something to be included, please visit my my Facebook group.
- 1. How do I add someone to my mob?
- 2. Can you explain the FAMILY feature?
- 3. Is there a way to see only Mob Wars notices in my Facebook News Feed?
- 4. Which tokens of appreciation items should I trade?
- 5. What happens after completing 11 crime waves on any given job?
- 6. Should I have cards left over after completing all crime waves for all jobs in all cities?
- 7. What's after Rio?
- 8. How many skill points can I earn at higher levels?
- 9. What order do you recommend doing jobs?
- 10. How long will it take to complete all the jobs?
- 11. With huge stamina or energy, it will take forever to fill. Why bother?
- 12. Why do you consider the Godfathers "limited time offers for GF points" a waste of GF?
- 13. What are heists and how do you earn these new weapons?
- 14. Why doesn't my friends name appear when I try to send tokens?
- 15. How do I find someone's Mob Wars profile when they have a text id on Facebook?
- 16. Are plasma cannons real? (or free vans, invisible tanks, unicorns, or a backdoor reset?)
- 17. Is there a way to figure out what my opponents max health is?
- 18. How do I know how much my bounty is?
- 19. How do I remove someone from my mob?
- 20. When I attack someone with force and do more damage to myself than to them, why do I win?
- 21. What does "rigging someone's ignition" do?
- 22. I heard a new feature is coming where you can trade up weapons for better weapons. Is this true?
- 23. I accidentally removed Mob Wars notices from my Facebook News Feed. How do I get them back?
- 24. Can I get the code for one of your tools or something on your toolbar? I'd like to add your features to my group or family toolbar.
- 25. I've heard properties can be used as a bank. I've also heard there's a strategy of selling properties to buy higher level ones. Can you explain these concepts?
- 26. On the Godfather page, I cannot find any options other than buying favor points. How can I get my offers back?
1. How do I add someone to my mob?
[to refer someone to this answer, give them the following link: http://add.salthefoot.com]
If you have a link to their FACEBOOK profile, skip to step C below.
A) If someone sends you an "add me" request through the game, RIGHT CLICK on their link in your MW newsfeed. Select Properties. That will bring up a box showing the URL (internet address) of their Mob Wars Profile. Double click on the number at the end. Copy that number by either pressing Ctrl+C or right clicking and selecting copy. That is their ID number. (Click HERE for illustrated explanation.)
B) Put their id number at the end of this link: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=
To do this automatically, click 
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Clicking this link will open a popup window. Enter the id number of the person you want to find on Facebook. Then click OK and you should be taken to their Facebook profile page. (NOTE: If you are taken to YOUR Facebook profile page, it means they either have their privacy settings set very high or they could possibly have you blocked. In that case, you are unable to send them a friend request and thus unable to add them to your mob.)
C) From their Facebook profile, click on 'Add as Friend'. It's good to then include a personal note saying 'mob wars'. AFTER they accept your Facebook friend request, put their id number (as explained above), at the end of the following URL: http://apps.facebook.com/mobwars/mob/do.php?join_id=
To do this automatically, click 
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Clicking this link will open a popup window. Enter the id number of the Facebook friend you want to add to your mob. Then click OK and they'll be added to your mob.
DONE. They are now in your mob and you are in their mob.
I recommend keeping your mobsters as Facebook friends. That way, you will be able to help with their heists and jobs and they will be able to help you with yours.
Lots of friends to add? The handy links above are also available on my TOOLBAR (which you can download and use right from your browser.)
2. Can you explain the FAMILY feature?
There WAS a thread on my Facebook discussion board showing the developer's announcements about this feature, but something happened to it. I'll try to remember to add some details here.
3. Is there a way to see only Mob Wars notices in my Facebook News Feed?
YES! Use the link: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=app_8743457343
4. Which tokens of appreciation items should I trade?
Check out my GIFTS page to see the stats for all the gift items. (Please don't send me gifts. Sadly, the tokens are quite worthless for many people (including myself). If there's something you'd like, go to the Request Gifts page and you can post a request in your status.
5. What happens after completing 11 crime waves on any given job?
After you finish the 11 crime waves (or "tiers"), there are no more cards available. However, you are able to continue doing the job for the cash, experience and any drop items (like the GTRs). Completing ALL the tiers of all the jobs does NOT open up another city, more jobs, or more cards. You're simply done with the jobs. At this point, just do the jobs that earn you the drop items you want or the ones that earn you the most cash (the last one in Medellin pays the most cash).
The developers have mentioned the idea of cities "resetting" so you can earn extra cards, but such a feature has not released yet.
6. Should I have cards left over after completing all crime waves for all jobs in all cities?
No. When you complete every crime wave (tier) of every job in every city from NY to Medellin,
you should expect not to have any cards left over. However, there were some glitches where players didn't get every card as they were doing jobs, or got an additional card. Click here to see your card inventory. If you believe you are missing cards, see my discussion board thread, pawn shop cards, for more information.
Good question. No details are out yet.
8. How many skill points can I earn at higher levels?
- Levels 1-2401 = 3 skill points per level
- Levels 2402-5901 = 6 skill points per level
- Levels 5902-6201 = 15 skill points per level
- Levels 6202-6501 = 20 skill points per level
- Levels 6502-6801 = 25 skill points per level
- Levels 6802+ = 30 skill points per level
9. What order do you recommend doing jobs?
I say "get the most bang for your energy buck". The skill points get you the most power since they affect your entire mob. The guns and vans are very limited in numbers and only raise your stats for that number of mobsters. I will put specific examples on the site when time permits. (In the meantime, you can check out a copy of my old NY guide that I had posted in the MW forum. Have a look at the analysis. While the energy and job per tier are no longer correct, the comparison between skill points and weapons is.)
On my Cards page, notice that the suits start differently in different cities. NY, London, Moscow, and Shanghai all start with hearts. Chicago, Vegas, Dubai and Tokyo all start with spades. This continues for all of the skill point cards of the first 4 jobs in each city (except NY). It also includes the tens. Each particular suit of sixes, jacks, and queens are all in the same place for all non-NY cities. Therefore, if Vegas is your highest city available, the cheapest way to get a set of TWOs to trade at the pawn shop is to do the first two tiers of Fix an MMA Fight, the first job in Vegas (for the two of spades and two of diamonds) and the first two tiers of Fix a race at the track, the first job in London (for the two of hearts and two of clubs).
10. How long will it take to complete all the jobs?
For anyone considering doing jobs as their energy regenerates and not using energy boosts or GF to rebuy, here are some interesting figures... EXCLUDING NY, it takes approximately 262,928 energy to complete all tiers of all jobs in all cities. Given the 5 minute regeneration rate, it would take 913 days of never being maxed out to complete them all. And that doesn't include NY! (This doesn't include the 100E earned for leveling. That would bring it down to 2 years with a level a day. Also, this data was compiled before you were able to have "helpers".) The faster alternative is to go very high with your energy stats, have your friends send you energy boosts as tokens of appreciation instead of weapons, and refill your energy with GF points earned in marathon leveling sessions. See below for more on this.
11. With huge stamina or energy, it will take forever to fill. Why bother?
At higher levels of the game, many players like myself have given up on waiting for things to happen. Everyone learns early that cash refills health. The next step is rebuying stamina with GF points. Go high on stamina and health and you can earn enough GF points with a single round of leveling to rebuy and continue indefinately. Go even higher and you start earning extra GF to buy hired guns. And when you're mob is maxed, use them for energy refills.
That brings up what used to be a radical idea of high energy. It didn't used to make sense. But now that you can get $4.25B for 30 energy doing the top job in Tokyo, it's definately something to consider.
Don't wait weeks to let energy refill naturally. You only get 288E/day anyway (1 every 5 minutes). If you just level once daily, you'll get 200E more from that. (Even at that rate, it would take over 2 years of never being maxed out to complete all tiers of all jobs.)
Energy boosts give me 50% of my max each, so the 2 boosts/day give me a full refill. Also, every 2 hours I can help with 5 jobs, each earning me 10% of my max. Also 10 GF refills it. When the GF offers individual weapons for 25 points, I just laugh now. (I'd rather spend those 25 points refilling energy and making over $100T cash doing the top job in Tokyo.)
12. Why do you consider the Godfathers "limited time offers for GF points" a waste of GF?
Consider how much more attack and defense the weapon has than the top weapon you're currently using. That difference is how much more attack/defense you'll get FOR JUST ONE OF YOUR MOBSTERS. If you add HGs, each one can use armor, a vehicle and a weapon. That's a much bigger improvement in your stats.
Go high on stamina and you can better use those GF to reload and make more levels (and skill points and GF). Those skill points boost your entire mob, not just a single mobster. (That's why I recommend doing jobs for all the skill points before going for the weapons. More on that another time.)
Go high on energy and you can better use those GF to reload and do more jobs. With my high energy, 25 GF let me do enough jobs to max my mob with rocket launchers and GTRs. Yes, I'm an extreme case, but even if you can just earn 10 MMA fighers or 20 GTRs, it's still MUCH better than a single item. Plus, you're also earning money doing those jobs.
13. What are heists and how do you earn these new weapons?
Heists are a type of job that take more time to complete than your average job, but also reward you with awesome drop items for your patience. You can significantly lower the time to complete a heist by recuriting up to 4 friends to help. The first 4 helpers on a heist get a bonus item. After the heist period is done, you'll have an equivalent time to make your getaway. If it took 15 hours to complete the heist, you'll then have 15 hours to go in and click on Finish the Heist to get your drop item. (NOTE: The dev has increased the amount of time you have to make your get away.)
Here's a page showing all the city heist drop items and helper bonuses from NY to Tokyo.
Here's all the info for the limited heists since they were introduced on 1/1/10.
14. Why doesn't my friends name appear when I try to send tokens of appreciation?
Your friend probably hasn't accepted your last gift. Until they accept it, you won't be able to send the same item again.
It is possible that they "LOST" the last one you sent. (A token gets "lost" when you try accepting a token in Facebook, get the Mob Wars message "please wait a few seconds and try again", and then the item isn't in the facebook list any more.) If they "lost" the last one you sent, make sure they have your numeric game id (the number at the end of the URL when viewing your profile page in MW). Then have them visit my Token of Appreciation Recovery Tool. They'll enter your numeric id and select the token you sent and VOILA! They will receive the lost gift and you'll be able to send to them once again.
15. How do I find someone's Mob Wars profile when they have a text id on Facebook?
If you're on the discussion board, you can right click someone's name link and select properties, you'll see their id number. Simply copy that onto the end of the following URL and you'll have a link to their mob wars profile. http://apps.facebook.com/mobwars/profile/?user_id=
Click HERE to do it automatically!
Want to find the MW profile of someone on your friends list who has a text id in Facebook? Find the Remove From Friends link on their FB profile page. RIGHT click it and select properties. This will give you their numeric id. You can then copy it onto the end of the above URL to get their MW profile.
16. Are plasma cannons real? (or free vans, invisible tanks, unicorns or a backdoor reset?)
Simply... NO. The pranksters on the boards are bored with the game and having a laugh at your expense.
The stories change constantly. First, it was punch all the made men. Then, it was punch them all in alphabetical order. Now, it's punch them all, get a pop-up link, follow it to the board, post a secret code, wait a few hours, etc. The latest includes a link to a photo showing a plasma cannon with 290 attack and 200 defense. (It doesn't have the typical reflection underneath that all other weapons in the game have.) Attacking that player claiming to own the cannon shows no such weapon (nor anything with 200 defense). 
They've even started claiming that their leveling partner has special stuff, so their story MUST be true. What they don't tell you is that the link they're sending you is that of the developer! (check his facebook page).
Don't bother arguing with them. The more seriously you take it, the more they laugh. (I'm sure they'll get a laugh at this! I wonder how they change the story next... I'm probably lying to protect MY plasma cannon or invisible tank! LOL) Bottom line: Punching made men on the leaderboard will only get you dead.
UPDATE: In September 2010, a Honda Unicorn motorcycle was introduced as a limited heist drop.
17. Is there a way to figure out what my opponents max health is?
See answer here.
18. How do I know how much my bounty is? See answer here.
19. How do I remove someone from my mob? See answer here.
20. When I attack someone with force and do more damage to myself than to them, why do I win? (For example, I took 11074 damage, dealt 5730 damage, but still won.)
Just like you're charged extra stamina for a force attack, you're also charged extra health. That extra health is taken AFTER the winner of the attack is calculated. Before that extra charge, in your example, you may have only taken 5000 damage, so you win! But then, because you used force, you're charged a health fee and that took you up to 11074 damage.
When force attacks first came out, you paid extra stamina, but not extra health. This meant you could level very inexpensively since you didn't need to heal as much. This change brought everything back in line. Now, attacking with force gets you slightly less in the way of experience and cash returns, but you can level much more quickly and without having to chain people on the fight list as much.
21. What does "rigging someone's ignition" do?
For 50% of the price of hitlisting someone, you can rig their ignition. Then, if they hitlist you, they will be assassinated by your ignition bomb. They will lose the amount of cash they would have spent hitlisting you. They also lose the same amount of xp as if someone their own level killed them. If the player you've rigged never hitlists you, they will remain 'rigged'. Again, rigging has no effect unless the person you rig attempts to put you on the hitlist.
22. I heard a new feature is coming where you can trade up weapons for better weapons. Is this true?
This feature was announced by the developer in May 2009 as a coming update. However, in September 2009, the developer confirmed that the idea had been scrapped. For more information, visit my News from the game developer thread on my discussion board.
23. I accidentally removed Mob Wars notices from my News Feed. How do I get them back?
Make sure Top News is selected for News Feed.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Edit Options.
Click the Applications tab.
Find Mob Wars.
Click on Add to News Feed.
24. Can I get the code for one of your tools or something on your toolbar? I'd like to add your features to my group or family toolbar.
I do not share my code, but you CAN add my tools to your (Conduit brand) toolbar. On Conduit, it's accessed under the Settings | Toolbar Group menu. Then click on "Add a community toolbar" and enter "Sal the Foot Mob Wars". This will give your group or family full access to my entire toolbar in addition to yours. You get a simple + button on the very left of your toolbar. You're then able to toggle between your toolbar and mine.
25. I've heard properties can be used as a bank. I've also heard there's a strategy of selling properties to buy higher level ones. Can you explain these concepts?
When you buy the FIRST 10 of any property, the price doubles. You can then turn around and sell those 10 and you will get your entire original investment back. However, once you buy the NEXT 10, you start losing money when selling (since the price doesn't keep doubling.)
ADVANCED INVESTING - Here's a cool way you can use this information. Say for example that you currently own 10 each of 4 properties in Tokyo: Small Restaurants, Exclusive Nightclubs, Industrial Megafacilities, and Office Megacenters. You have zero Office Highrises and zero Condo Superplexes. To buy the Office Highrises, it will cost $90B. Rather than waiting until you get $90B, you really only need $81B to get them. With $81B cash, simply sell the Small Restaurants and Exclusive Nightclubs (in lots of 10. It won't work if you sell them individually!). You'll then have $90B cash to buy the Office Highrises. Then, when you have $3B cash, you can rebuy the restaurants. Then, when you have $3.3B, you sell the restaurants and buy back the Nightclubs. And so on. You'll get to owning everything except the condos. Price for 10 condos (always buy in lots of 10!), is just under $397B. For this, you'll need $153.6B cash and to sell all 4 lower properties. Then you'll have 10 each of the top 2 properties. Then repeat the process accumulating the lower properties again and working your way up. Once you have 10 of everything in Tokyo, it will be a while until it's time to buy there again. If you ever need a 'loan' from yourself, you can always sell one of the lots of 10 in Tokyo and you won't lose any money. This also works when you're just starting out in other cities.
26. On the Godfather page, I cannot find any options other than buying favor points. How can I get my offers back?
Click this link...
http://apps.facebook.com/mobwars/godfather/missing.php
Then scroll down and find the link that reads...
<< Return to the offers page
Click on that link and you should see your offers.
(To see your offers on a page without frames, RIGHT CLICK on the << Return to the offers page, and select open in new tab or window.)
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