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Frequently Asked Questions

Mafialife Instruction Manual

Welcome to Mafialife. A brief synopsis of the game

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17. How To Play? What to Expect?

1. I-Introduction.

   1-Welcome to MafiaLife.com. We would like to let everyone know we appreciate there support, thanks for the patience and creativity. For anyone with suggestions, ideas, concerns, or problems, please write an email to: customerservice@mafialife.com. Someone will help you within aprox. 1-24 hrs. For individual discussions, find our emails in the contacts section on the front page of the site. Please do not EVER post to Admin on the Message Boards, we will just delete it and possibly penalize your character. The registry for mafialife is free of charge. Once approved by administration you have a few choices to make, they are:

   2-Click the "get promoted" link on your profile to play for FREE as a restricted soldier

   3-Buy a token. After buying a token it is required you redeem your token for 90 days of non-restricted game play. The option to redeem your token will present itself as you log in the next time after you buy the token.

   4-Let your account disappear. If you don?t like the game, you can log out and choose to not play. If you don?t activate a token, or a FREE restricted account, your account will disappear in 3 full days from registry.

   II-Definitions.

   -Post: writing on any message board is considered posting. A Post consists of 1 entry on any message board. -Penalty: being penalized will decrease some/all characteristics and force a cash payment as well upon Admin claiming you broke the message board rules. If you break board rules, you will pay a Penalty. -Rewards: getting rewarded will increase some/all characteristics and payout mlcash, you gain rewards for role-playing on the public message boards. -Placement: your placement is a value that?s equivalent to the overall worth of your character. The more placement you have, the closer you are at being the number # mobster in your ranking and overall gamewide. Being #1 mobster in your rank or game wide will earn you a free game token to play for 90 days no charge!

   III-Navigation.

   1-Profile: Your profile holds valuable info that makes up one's character. From the profile page you can buy tokens, check your referral code, view family tree. View reports and logs of wallets, job's, protection, sponsorship, blackmarket, inventory, salary, sleep, status, logins, gambling, and accumulations. View stats to see how well/poorly you?re doing. And view the 11 characteristics that make up the character your role playing. Your profile can also show a visual representation of your character, famous quotes, and a history of your character.

   2-Health Status (report): This is your health meter it fluctuates from 1-100. When it reaches 0 AND you, and your protector have 0 bodyguards your dead.

   3-Name: Your characters name.

   4-Age: How many days old is your character (exactly from the second you register).

   5-Current Token: How many days left on your token (exactly from the moment you redeemed, no breaks).

   6-Remaining Tokens: How many un-used tokens do you have left?

   7-Token Credits: You earn credits when a player who joined using your referral link/code pays for the game (at moment of payment). Ask Admin to see what credits can be spent on, they are NOT tokens.

   8-Referrals (report): This report will list who you referred to the game.

   9-Family: Lets you know which family your a part of (if your not in a family your in the streets). We highly recommend joining a family as soon as possible when joining the game. Players like to headhunt in the streets because there?s no fear of breaking family agreements with other families. This link will also take you to your family tree page where you can view who is in your family and under what crew/position/rank.

   10-Rank: This will let you know your rank in the family you are a part of. Your family members higher then you should be able to tell you your role in that position/rank. -Sponsor: Your sponsor will be named here. Anyone who is sponsoring you has the ability to pay your salaries if they choose to. They can use there salary report on there profile to pay them if there due.

   11-Sponsoring (report): This report will tell you who you?re currently sponsoring. How long you sponsored them for, and when you take them off/on sponsorship. Use this to take ppl off sponsorships if need be (may have to wait a period of time after you touched them to re sponsor someone or take someone off). 12-Protection: Who ever is protecting you will be named here. Protecting somebody will give them access to your bodyguards incase there bodyguard level reaches 0. If you have 0 bodyguards and someone kills you, your protector?s bodyguards will be killed instead. You cannot die until you AND your protector loses all bodyguards, and you lose your 100 health. When getting shot and beat at, the amount of bodyguards you?re being protected with will decrease your opponents chances for hitting you successfully (that includes your bodyguards, and your protectors).

   13-Protecting (report): This report will tell you who you?re currently protecting. It will also log when you started protecting someone, how long you?ve been protecting them, and when you drop protection. Use this report to drop protecting someone as well (sometimes a certain amount of time need to pass by after you assigned someone for protection, until when you can assign or drop them again).

   14-Experience: Although this feature never helps successfully hit a player, it will help on most tie breakers, and will account for some placement value. You gain experience for almost everything successful you do(sometimes gaining exp is on a timer depending on the feature to ensure a fair game play for people who don?t have all day to play).

   15-Cash (statement): This is how much money you have in your wallet at the current time. You'll need mlcash in your wallet to purchase what you need, or to make wire transfers. Sometimes, it?s required to have a certain amount of ml cash out in your wallet in order to complete tasks/do jobs. If you forgot to pay your salaries manually, you will need to have your salary money out in your wallet at approx midnight game time when the collector comes around. Clicking statement will show you a log of exactly what?s been going in or out of your wallet and when.

   16-Family Bank (view): *Only accessible to some higher ups*. This is the amount of money in all family banks combined. Clicking view will give you a detailed breakdown of the family banks and the money going into them and out. It will also allow you to withdraw, deposit into the banks, create/delete banks, and check on member earnings from any direct deposits into the default bank (tax deposits).

   17-Inventory (view): Inventory is where you store all items you own. Staff, weapons, automobiles, investments, real estate, business items, defense items, health items, job tools, vacation items, promo items and unique items are all part of your inventory. In this section you can sell inventory back to the game for mlcash if you choose to, or use some items for effects. Be careful those effects are sometimes dangerous. Clicking view will show your inventory.

   18-Blackmarket (view): This tells you how many items you have on the black market for sale. Clicking view will take you to what you have on the blackmarket, and also allow you to access the blackmarket items being sold by other mobsters.

   19-Salary (view): This log will tell you if you have salaries due that day, if your past salaries were paid, and the details revolving the salaries. You may also use this link to pay the salary of those your sponsoring. You cannot pay the salaries of those you have sponsored by leaving money . Sponsorships must manually pay the salaries.

   20-Business(list): This displays how many businesses you have. Clicking list will list all the businesses you own, and take you through the business navigation if you need to check up on your businesses, or buy/sell a business.

   21-Business Weight: Every business you buy has its own weight value. Those values totaled may not exceed the amount of business weight you have. No mobster may purchase a business or utilize any business that forces you to exceed your total weight. (Example: 3 businesses with a weight value of 2 =6, if your Business characteristic is only 5 you may not purchase the last one until you get 1.00 business characteristic.)

   22-Stash: Stash is the totaled amount of mlcash hidden in the business stashes. Each business has a hidden stash so you can launder money and save.

   23-Net Worth: Your net worth is the sum of all your Mafialife cash, stash, the value of each business you own, the value of all inventory items you have added together.

   24-Horse Bets(reports): This log will tell you how many bets you have made and how much money your bets add up to. Clicking reports will show you a detailed log of who you bet on and who won, how much you bet, and how much you lost or won, and when it happened.

   25-Horse Winnings: This will tell you how much mlcash you made in profits on horse racing. 26-Boxing bets(reports): This log will tell you how many bets you made on boxing, and how much ml cash you spent on the bets. Clicking reports will show you detailed logs of who you gambled on, and the specifics on the bet results.

   27-Boxing Winnings: This will tell you how much ml cash you made in profits from boxing.

   28-Beats: This is how many successful beatings you have so far.

   29-Kills: This will tell you how many unsanctioned hits you have so far.

   30-Sanctioned Hits: This is the number of contract hits you?ve completed successfully as the shooter.

   31-Online: Displays if the player is online or not.

   32-Last Login: This is the last time the mobster has logged in.

   33-Under House Arrest: Displays if the player is on house arrest currently.

   34-Sleeping(report): Displays if the player is currently sleeping. Clicking report will show a detailed log of when you went to sleep, and woke up.

   35-On Vacation: Will display whether the player is currently on vacation or not.

   36-Quote: This is where you put your mobster?s favorite quote/slogan. Html code is accepted in this section if need be.

   37-Characteristics- 37a-Strength: Needed for beating, some disrespects, some big jobs, and some businesses. High strength can add extra damage to beats.

   37b-Intellegence: Needed for bombing businesses, some disrespects, some big jobs, and some businesses.

   37c-Charisma: Needed for pickpocketting, some big jobs, some disrespects, and some businesses.

   37d-Clout: Needed for extortion, some big jobs, some businesses, some disrespects.

   37e-Respect: Needed for beating, some disrespects, some big jobs, and some businesses.

   37f-Intimidation: Needed for beating, some disrespects, some big jobs, and some businesses.

   37g-Luck: Needed for robbing businesses, robbing banks, some big jobs, some businesses, some disrespects, also helps defend versus a player shooting at you.

   37h-Leadership: Needed for some big jobs, some disrespects, some businesses.

   37i-Business: Needed for businesses, some big jobs, some disrespects. Also, this helps defend versus a player robbing or bombing your businesses. 37j-Accuracy: Needed for successfully shooting someone. Needed for some big jobs, needed for disrespects, and some businesses.

   37k-Suspicion: Hinders chance to successfully do a job. And some jobs need a low suspicion rate to pull off. The more suspicious you are, the more jail time you?ll do as well. Keep your suspicion as close to 0.00 as much as you can.

   38-Accumulated Attempts & Feature Timers: On profiles you can see the accumulations of attempts for some of the different actions you can pull off in mafialife city. Each action has the amount of attempts left, and when theres none left it will grant you a timer of how often you can do that action. If you pull off all of your jobs you may have to wait some time before doing that specific job again. Each action may allow for a different amount of attempts per day.

   39-Reports- ALL Accumulations and timers have a report that will show you details of the specific action. Clicking report will give you access to these reports

   39a-Activities: An activity is equivalent to daily things you?ve done to increase/decrease characteristics. You cannot go to jail from doing an activity. You can only make/lose mlcash, and/or increase/decrease characteristic values. The different activity you do, the difference the change in characteristics.

   39b-Petty Crimes: A Petty crime is the things to do daily that increase your pocket. Petty crimes are done for mlcash . Doing a petty crime may result in Making or Losing mlcash and Very rarely sends you to jail. It?s the main way to make some pocket money.

   39c-Rob Bank: The bank is broken into categories based on which section of the bank you?d like to rob. Robbing the counter is the easiest, then atm, vault, and finally the reserve. Luck comes into place when determining whether the bank robbery is successful. The higher luck you have, the better chance you have per attempt.

   39d-Extortion: There are different sections of the mafialife city that can be extorted. Extorting them successfully will result in a possible ml cash payout and/or some inventory payouts. The items paid out depend on the section being extorted. The Level of difficulty for these sections are learned through trial and error, some are harder then others to extort. Having a high clout will aid in your success rate when extorting. The higher clout you have, the higher your chances to extort.

   39e-Dissrespect: Sometimes in a days work another mobster will piss you off. This feature allows you to attack there character by disrespecting them. There are many different types of disrespects. Each disrespect type focuses on a different combination of characteristics. (Example: Spitting on someone would compare accuracy when determining if the spit was successful, but a slap in the face would compare strength). One disrespect may affect multi- characteristics. Succeeding will minus the appropriate characteristics from the victim and add them to you. The difficulty of each disrespect depends on the characteristic the disrespect will be affecting. Details are learned through trial and error.

   39f-Pick Pockets: If you pick pocket someone your charisma comes into play. The better your charisma the better your chance to pick pockets. Picking someone?s pocket will steal ALL there ml cash in there wallet. The rank of the attacker, and the rank of the victim play a factor as well. If you're a big time boss, you?ll have an easier time picking a soldiers pockets. And soldiers will have a hard time picking a dons pockets. Don?t keep your ml cash out in your wallet, the pick pocketters are coming for your money.

   39g-Beating: Beating someone up will require Str, Intimidation and Respect. When attempting to beat someone , the chance is based on the comparison of those characteristics . Rank comes into a play also, and the Weapon you use also comes into play. You may bring bodyguards along with you to raise the chance % for each bodyguard you bring. Failing a beat will cause you to lose the bodyguards brought on the attempt. The bodyguards the victim, and the victim's protector are maintaining will defend the victim per bodyguard. The more bodyguards the victim has and his/her protector the Harder it is to Beat them up. The chances for the higher rank to beat a lower rank is higher then the opposite. Successfully beating someone will grant you a % of the money is there wallet, and do some damage depending on the strength you have and the weapon you chose. For each bodyguard you bring you?ll also do extra damage. Beating someone with low health can beat them to death. although it?s a very low chance, it is still possible. There are only so many attempts per day in beating, but attempting to beat the same person up back to back is forbidden. You?ll need to wait the timer.

   39h-Shooting:Clicking the shooting link will set you up to shoot someone. Select your weapon of choice and a desired message to send along to the victim. When your all set up click ?Kill?, This will attempt to shoot your victim. When attempting to shoot, a few things will come into play determining the chance you have to successfully shoot your victim;

   40-Rank vs. Rank base: A set chance will be determined by what rank you are , vs. the rank of your opponent(example: A soldier shooting a Higher rank officer will have a lower chance to succeed compared to a higher rank vs. a soldier. This base is the beginning odds you have to succeed before the bonuses and penalties.

   41-Accuracy vs. Luck: Your accuracy level compared with the victims luck will determine a bonus/penalty to your base chance to succeed.(If your accuracy is 100 and your victims luck is 50, a 50% bonus will be added to your base chance to succeed. If you have 50 accuracy compared to the victim?s luck of 100 you will have a -50% penalty to this base chance).

   42-Bodyguard protection: Each bodyguard your victim has protecting him will decrease your chance to successfully hit. This includes the bodyguards that the victim's ?protector? is protecting him with also. That bodyguard protection bonus/penalty will be added/subtracted to your chance of success rate.

   43-Weapon ?hit? Bonus: Every weapon has its own ?hit? bonus. The hit bonus will be added to the success rate as well. *AFTER ALL CALCULATIONS ARE ADDED/SUBTRACTED, A RANDOM GENERATED ROLL OF 1-100 IS ROLLED TO SEE IF YOU HIT YOUR MARK.(Example: If the final chance of success is 20%, you'll need to hope the roll is 20 or Less, All other rolls will result in a missed attempt).

   44-Rob Businesses: Clicking the rob business Link will set you up to rob a players business of its cash register checks, money secretly stashed inside the business or unit productions. The first page it takes you to will be the business map page, where you can choose which business block your going to attack. After choosing the block, a listing of all businesses on that block will appear. Clicking on the name of the business will open up to the view business page. Click rob business. You can then choose which section of the business to rob, your choices are register, stash, or production. Beside each choice are bag icons. each bag icon means there is more money inside. the more bags the more difficult the robbery. There are a few things taken into consideration while attempting a business robbery, here they are:

   44a- Risk Factor: Each robbery will start with a base chance to succeed. That chance will be determined by how many bags next to the section. the more money, the harder it is to rob.(example: If there?s 5 million in a stash, its gonna be a harder to rob then if it has 500k in it). 44b-Luck vs. Business: After finding a base chance , the robbers luck will be compared to the victim?s business level. The difference will be added/subtracted to the chance of success( if the attacker has 100 luck and victim has 50 business, 50% will be added to your chance. If it was your 50 luck vs. the victims 100 business you would subtract 50% chance).

   44c-Security Guards Protection: Each security guard your opponent has decreases your chance of success rate. *AFTER ALL CALCULATIONS ARE ADDED/SUBTRACTED, A RANDOM GENERATED ROLL OF 1-100 IS ROLLED TO SEE IF YOU HIT YOUR MARK.(Example: If the final chance of success is 20%, you'll need to hope the roll is 20 or Less, All other rolls will result in a missed attempt).

   45-Hit Businesses: Clicking the hit business Link will set you up to bomb a players business. The first page it takes you to will be the business map page, where you can choose which business block your going to attack. After choosing the block, a listing of all businesses on that block will appear. Clicking on the name of the business will open up to the view business page. Click hit business. Choose your business damage weapon and click ?hit now?. A few things come into play while attempting to bomb businesses, they are:

   45a-Base Chance: This feature's base is set by Admin so the proper fail/success ratio is perfected to the owner?s likings.

   45b-Intellegence vs. Business: Added to the base chance %, attacker?s intelligence skill will be compared to the opponent?s business skill. The difference will be added/subtracted to the base chance(example: admin sets base to 50, your intelligence is 100.00 victims business is 50. that is 50 +50=100% chance of success, AFTER this calculation) 45c-Security: The amount of security guards your opponent has will decrease your chance of success a lot. Having maximum security guards is KEY to protecting your businesses. *AFTER ALL CALCULATIONS ARE ADDED/SUBTRACTED, A RANDOM GENERATED ROLL OF 1-100 IS ROLLED TO SEE IF YOU HIT YOUR MARK.(Example: If the final chance of success is 20%, you'll need to hope the roll is 20 or Less, All other rolls will result in a missed attempt).

   46-Big Jobs: Big Jobs is one of the more complex features of the game. It allows for more then 1 player to co-operate in a mafia job , getting paid inventory or cash , or both. Organizing big jobs will require certain items, and certain characteristic skills. Without them, you cannot organize one. Once you have the required skills needed to start organizing, you will have the ability to send out invites to other mobster players to participate with you in your job. Once all invites are accepted, an option to ?Complete Big Job?. Click that and your job will be attempted. Each big job has its own chance of success. Amount of participants, skills of participants, items used, or ANY other scenario cannot help or hurt your chances EVER. Each big job has its own separate chance of success odds. A RANDOM GENERATED ROLL OF 1-100 IS ROLLED TO SEE IF YOU HIT YOUR MARK.(Example: If the set chance of success is 20%, you'll need to hope the roll is 20 or Less, All other rolls will result in a missed attempt).

   47-Edit Profile: Here is where you can edit the profile's picture, quote, and history section. Players may edit those sections accordingly to role play a character in a mafia life better. Sometimes awards and rewards are given to those who role play more, or better. Only Jpegs are allowed to be uploaded, and HTML is allowed.

   48-Hire Hitman: Clicking the hitman icon will hire a hitman to attempt on a mobster?s life. although this feature is VERY costly, it bypasses all bodyguards and protection and ends a player?s life early regardless of ANYTHING. The only thing protecting you from a hitman's contract are FBI agents. Each FBI agent you have will decrease a hitman?s chance to kill you. You can NEVER decrease the odds below 1%. This feature can also hire a hitman to kill a mobsters staff members instead of a direct attempt on his life. Killing staff members are cheaper and with higher base chances of success. *AFTER ALL CALCULATIONS ARE ADDED/SUBTRACTED, A RANDOM GENERATED ROLL OF 1-100 IS ROLLED TO SEE IF YOU HIT YOUR MARK.(Example: If the final chance of success is 20%, you'll need to hope the roll is 20 or Less, All other rolls will result in a missed attempt).

   49-Snitch: Clicking the snitch icon on profiles will hire a snitch on your victim. Hiring a snitch will reveal information on the victim's profile that was not normally revealed by default. If a snitch fails, just use another one. There chances of success are based on 1 chance set by admin, it may be low, but if you keep trying you?ll snitch your mark.

   50-Sleep: The bed icon will let your character go to sleep in the ML world. Your sleep time is 8 hours long. If you want to stop sleep early you can wake up, but you wont be able to use the feature again for 8 hrs unless you use valiums. Using 100 valiums will allow for 1 extra sleep use per day, as long as your up for at least 2 hrs. Sleep will protect you from ALL attacks but will limit your game play to hardly anything.

   51-Wire Transfers: When you want to wire money to a mobster click the money icon. Just remember you can ONLY wire money to 2 ranks above you or less. Nobody can wire money past 2 tiers up on the Rank chart(example: soldiers can only send money to captains or below). -Send a message: Clicking on the envelope icon will set your message up to be sent. You may ONLY send a message up 2 tiers up the chain of rank command. Add as many ppl you want to the message, then type your message and send. You can send your message to as many ppl as your allowed to using this message system.

   52-FBI Witness Protection: Clicking the FBI icon will prompt you to join the FBI witness protection program. Joining that program will allow you to change your name. Along with changing your name, comes other side effects like not being visible on listings in the game for 24 hrs, and you get kicked back to the streets . you lose a low % of skills when joining the fbi program in order to relocate and disguise your appearances and names. You will also lose all assets . the ONLY thing besides your stats you will keep is the CASH in your wallet. This feature is used to escape a family, and penalties are normal to get out of a family. Do not type anywhere on the site if you want to keep it a secret, there are ways to figure out who someone is when leaving a family.

   53-Inventory: Clicking inventory will take you to a page that will let you view your inventory by categories. Click the category you want. You can sell your item on the black market from this page also. Just click the link. Certain items have Salary payments on them, and you?ll need to financially maintain by paying salaries. You?ll find the expenses on these inventory breakdowns as well. The worth value of most items fluctuate depending on the buying and selling of the game altogether. The sell button in this inventory section will sell your item back to the game for the worth value. Using the item may cause an effect. Most uses are learned through trial and error. Each rank has its own maximum inventory it can carry per type, this page will tell you what your rank max is for that inventory type. Hit % is a bonus added to your ?to hit %?. Usually a weapon type will change this hit bonus. Damage bonus will add to the damage when successfully used. Health items will add the bonus to there health when used.

   53a-Beating Weapons: These weapons are used for the beating feature. Each weapon has its own bonus/penalty ?to hit?, and a separate damage rating. On this page, you can sell your weapons back to the store, buy them, or sell them to other players using the black market. It also has some other logs to help you understand the value of the items you carry, and the salary you?ll need to pay to keep them overnight(if there is one).

   53b-Business Repairs: These items are used to repair businesses. Fully healthed businesses produce more items and make more money for the owner. Its best to heal a business as often as possible. 53c-Business Weapons: These weapons are used to attack businesses/bomb. When a businesses health reaches 0% it will be destroyed. Each business weapons has its own to hit bonus/penalty, and damage rating.

   53d-Contracts: A murder contract is needed to write a contract on a mobster's head. Only dons can write contracts.

   53e-Defense Items: Defense items are damage protection. Each time your hit, your defense item will reduce some/all of the blow. Items disappear after 1 use.

   53f-Health Items: Health items add to your mobster?s health. you need to keep your health at 100% or you risk death.

   53g-Investments: You can buy investments to ensure your money is safe from robbery or attack. Of course, dying will cause you to lose all investments. Investment items change in price according to a game wide supply and demand. Buying and selling moves the price accordingly, you can make money by buying low, and selling high.

   53h-Promotional: Promo items consist of raffle tickets or lottery tickets. you may only have 1 of each. Only a purchased promo item can be used in your contests, and it will allow you the chance to win the prize of the specific promo item.

   53i-Real Estate: Real estate is where you keep your money when you don?t want to kick it up to anyone else, and you need to save it. They allow for bigger investments in 1 shot, but the prices do not change.

   53j-Staff: Staff items are items that need to be manually paid daily by using the salary feature. If your being sponsored by someone, they can pay your salaries for you, but if your salaries are not paid daily, you will lose your staff. Staff members get paid in order of most expensive to least.

   53k-Unique Items: Unique items are items that can be considered "rare". They are used for big jobs and other features in the game.

   53l-Tools of the Trade: Tools of the trade are usually items used by mobsters to run jobs. A Mobster's tools can be found in this category. They are also used in big jobs.

   53m-Vacation: When you want to take a break from the game and enjoy some peace from the rpg world, go on vacation and your account will be placed on hold, until you come back. Remember, when using a vacation item, you may not come off early, so make sure you use the right vacation which keeps you protected the right amount of time. We strongly suggest dropping ALL protection, protectors, sponsoring, and sponsors before using vacation, otherwise it may be necessary to still have your salaries paid. Not paying salaries , even while on vacation will result in the loss of staff/salary items.

   53o- Whacking Weapons: Whacking weapons are weapons you can use for whacking other players. You need these to use the shooting feature.

   54-Businesses: The Business Link will break down all blocks bought by families, and all businesses on the block. Only Dons can buy blocks, but cannot buy businesses. Non-Dons can buy businesses and not blocks. They may be purchased from a player though.

   55-Mailbox: Use the mailbox to send a message to another mobster. You may only write mail to a few ranks above you, after that you?ll have to use the chain of command and pass the message up. You may add as many possible mobsters to the mail for a "mass" message to be sent.

   56-Store: Buy what you need for your mafia life in this store.

   57-BlackMarket: Black market is used to sell your goods to other mobsters in the game, you may set your own price and restrictions, so that you can allow only family members, 1 member, or any members to buy from you.

   58-Work: Work is what a mobster does every day. here you will find a lot of ways to make money or carry out the boss?s orders.

   59-Jail: Failing will sometimes send u to jail. You cant do much when in jail, except stare at bars. While in jail, you may beat others who are in jail. You may bribe yourself out, or bribe someone else out of jail. You may use a judge to bribe out as well. After 5 minutes of time, you may use a bail bondsman to get you out of jail.

   60-Favors: Its a FAVOR. You click on my sponsors and participate in there sites , I give your character some minor stats adjustments!

   61-Family Trees: This is where you find about other families. This is where the Consigliere and Don manipulate there own tree, and promote or demote mobsters into button men, or underbosses.

   62-Family Board: Your very own Private board, ONLY your family can see.

   63-The Streets: All players who start out begin in the streets.

   64-Health Report: You can check this log to see any changes to your health and how they were done.

   65-Wallet: This report will show changes to your wallet.

   66-Horse Racing: Gamble on the horses.

   67-Boxing: More Gambling!

   68-Who's On: This will tell you how many players are online currently.

   69-Mafialife Forum: This is the public forum where all the history is recorded!

   70-Top Families: This will show the top families according to a specific aspect of the mafia life.

   71-Obituaries: This is where you find the dead ppl. And some of there killers.

   72-F.A.Q.'s: This will answer most of your questions. Please check regularly. its updated often.

   73-News: a Player-Ran Site that reports articles on the games history and what?s happening.

   74-ML Online Store: Purchase Mafialife Real Merchandise. All at a low cheap rate.

   75-Log Out: This is how you log out of the game

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17. Do you have any survival tips? Any advice?

1. The following are survival tips from successful players throughout the game:

   #: Survival Tips:

   1 Every character starts with a certain amount of days of protection. Utilize this protection to make friends who will teach you the ropes

   2 Mobsters will beat you if you have money out. Keep no money in your wallet. Stash it in your business, or buy investments until you need the cash.

   3 Learn the different roles of the staff members. They each play a small part in living the life of crime.

   4 Make sure you pay your salaries every day before 11:30pm EST, or you will lose any unpaid staff or items due to late payments.

   5 Remember your rank in your family tree. Respect your family, bosses, and higher ranks then you, or you will become a mobster's target quickly.

   6 Guns are not toys. If you dare try and shoot someone, make 100 ure you can defend yourself from retaliation. One lucky shot from anyone can kill you.

   7 Become an "Elite" mobster by purchasing a game token for 14.95. Your game features double in action, and it opens up stuff a non-paying member cannot do.

   8 Organize, and complete as many jobs as you can in a 24 hour period. This will optimize your characters attributes. The more you do, the more you build up.

   9 If you have the guts to beat someone up, Prepare for the retaliation. Nobody likes being a target of a beating, you wont either.

   10 Defense items will lesson the damage when your shot. Allways have more bulletproof vests then bullets shooting after you, and restock after your hit.

   11 Use the sleep feature wisely. You cannot be harmed while sleeping. Sleep your character when you are really sleeping. Sleep is only 1 time daily for 8 hrs.

   12 Rumors has it that if you use 100 valiums properly, you will be allowed to sleep 1 extra time a day.

   13 Sponsor's can pay your salary for you if your not online to pay it yourself. Have someone you trust in your family sponsor you.

   14 A family member can protect you with his bodyguards, incase your at risk of being killed. Have someone you trust in your family protect you.

   15 Once you are down to 0 bodyguards, and 0 health, you will die! Allways maintain maximum bodyguards by your side at all times to ensure 100% safety.

   16 F.B.I. Agents on staff can reduce the chances of success from enemy hitman attempts. Allways have maximum agents at all times if possable.

   17 Posting on the public boards will get your noteriety up, but be carefull what you say. It also will provoke troublemakers to watch you.

   18 When robbing a business register, production or stash, it will require intelligence. Also, the more in it, the harder the chance.

   19 Any agressive act upon a family will raise there "mood meter". Besides your attributes, families mood towards you contribute to their chance

   20 If 2 families raise there moods to war at the same time, it will lock. Only declining, or completing a family challenge can reduce the mood after that.

   21 Become an "Elite" mobster by purchasing a game token for 14.95. Your game features double in action, and it opens up stuff a non-paying member cannot do.

   22 Do not ever take this game personally. Even harsh comments should be directed at the characters, not the players.

   23 Break any of the rules is considered very , very strict in the eyes of admin. If you get caught, you will be suspended, with no refund.

   24 By doing your "favors", you will raise your attributes. Be sure to check for them often, they can be on different timers. They may drop items off the truck at times.

   25 I would suggest you read all boards everytime you enter, and then right before you leave the game. You can learn quite alot from your peers.

   26 You can beat someone while your in jail, if they are also in jail. If you have money out when you go to jail, get out quickly.

   27 If your health goes below 6% you will be considered "knocked out", and will not be able to work.

   28 Learn about the family your going to join. Once your in the family, your only leaving in a bodybag, or by joining the witness protection program.

   29 Read the board disclaimer upon entering the boards. Breaking board rules can get you penalized, or suspended.

   30 Try to do all your activities, and petty crimes allowed in 1 day. Missing accumulations more then 24 hours will lose the attempt opportunities forever.

   31 Your security guards staff lesson the chance of your businesses to be robbed or bombed. Keep as many as possable on staff at all times if you own a business.

   32 Businesses have a hidden stash that you can hold your money in. Be carefull the business doesnt get bombed, or robbed, or you will lose some/all of the cash.

   33 Health items will raise your health if you "use" them.

   34 The vacation feature will protect you 100f your not going to be around to play. But, you may not play earlier then your vacations end date/time.

   35 As in any game, the more you play, the more you advance. It is still possable to be top ranked without playing alot, but you will have to work harder and smarter.

   36 Try 1 attempt in each activity first to ensure the movement of attributes is what your looking for. Once you learn what activity does what, use them accordingly.

   37 Try 1 attempt in each petty crime first to learn the payout of each crime. Some can make you lose money. Once u know payouts, use them accordingly.

   38 Having a business will increase the money, stats, and inventory you make in a day. Learn there details completely by studying the business page before buying.

   39 Become an "Elite" mobster by purchasing a game token for 14.95. Your game features double in action, and it opens up stuff a non-paying member cannot do.

   40 Horde as much inventory as you can for bigjob requirements. The more equipment you have for the jobs, the more jobs you will do.

   41 Trade excess items with your peers on the black market to get a different item you need for a job. Beware the black market holds risks of losing your stuff or cash.

   42 Picking pockets will take alot of money off thier wallet but, you wont go unnoticed. Prepare for retaliation if you do so.

   43 Investment items in the store fluctuate in price alot in the day. If you pay attention, you can buy low and sell high on many items to make coin.

   44 Once protection ends while your in the streets, we strongly suggest joining a family you trust. Most mobsters hunt in the streets so it doesnt piss anyone off.

   45 Extort as many times as you can, even though its hard. It doesnt effect other players so you wont piss anyone off. Its a good way to gain inventory and coin also.

   46 Read the obits daily, and try to learn why people are dying. Learn from thier mistakes, so you dont end up there also.

   47 Mobsters will send you job invites. Decline or accept, do not leave it unanswered. It is seen as a dissrespect.

   48 The dissrespect feature will take your vitims attributes if you succeed. if you fail, they will take yours. Each dissrespect uses different attributes so study them.

   49 If you decline a bigjob, leave a message why. Most of the time the mobster sending you the job can/will help you with what you need. he wants to pull off the job.

   50 Never attack any rank higher then you, esspecially don or his consigliere, without permission from your boss. This act can kill your whole family at times.

   51 Learn the inner family rules once you join. Each family has their own set. Obide by them, unless you are looking for trouble.

   52 When in jail, you can attack others in the jail with you on a level playing feild. Be aware some families see this is dissrespect, others do not.

   53 Allways keep your suspicion at 0.00. This helps you meet the requirements to pull your jobs off faster.

   54 Weapons with a higher chance bonus have a tendency to hit more often then others.

   55 Most families have an outside means of communication. It is wise to comminucate with them on the same forum, or chatroom. Find out how, by asking a boss.

   56 This game is played in "rounds". Each round is 100 new slate. All grudges should be left behind. Admin will not tollerate it if its on the game anywhere.

   57 Do not get caught up in the real life person who plays the character. When sending a message to them, call them by the character name NOT there real names.

   58 Become an "Elite" mobster by purchasing a game token for 14.95. Your game features double in action, and it opens up stuff a non-paying member cannot do.

   59 Robbing the banks require luck attributes. Rob the smaller ones until you have the luck to pull off the bigtime banks.

   60 Do not be discouraged when you fail your attacks or crimes. Your attributes will determine your chance but, your chance succeeds with a roll of a die.

   61 Higher attributes don't guarentee you win over your enemy, all it does is guarentee your "chance" to hit is greater. A roll of the dice still determines success/failure.

   62 Just because your opponent has 0 attributes does not mean you will succeed over him. A level playing feild allows for 100 to fail, and 0 to succeed at times.

   63 You can bring your bodyguards to help you beat opponenets with greater success and damage. But if you fail, you will lose your bodyguards.

   64 Stay updated with your family, by reading the family boards each time you log in, and right before you log out. Only your family can read them.

   65 Experience level never decreases and is needed for job requirements. Learn what raises experience and raise it as fast as possible.

   66 Bribe/bail friends out of jail. You can also make good friends by getting ppl out of jail that get caught.

   67 Dont retaliate when your pissed off! If a guy beats or diss's you, follow your family rules. Dont just get trigger happy.

   68 Follow the chain of command. If you have any issue, try letting your imediate upper know about it first. He has his rank for a reason.

   69 Do not quit. Dying is part of the game. If you cannot take the shock of dying, even when your playing your heart out and are on top, we suggest not playing at all.

   70 When doing favors, vote for mafialife.com on all the voting list sites. We may not require you vote, but we track tham all and do appreciate it when you vote.

   71 You can use a snitch to learn alot of info on a characters profile. Some info does not show to snitches, or anyone.

   72 Save the actions that lower your suspicion for when you need them. You only have limited supply in 24 hrs, and therefore you will need them to lower suspicion.

   73 If your a low rank, you can view the streets boards. Read them often, you can learn alot from them. This is also where you can recruit new mobsters to family.

   74 Be carefull that you do not invite just anyone to your family. Once they arrive, you can not get them out, unless you kill them.

   75 This is a role playing game. We urge all of you to play the role of your character at all times. post as your character, and communicate to others as your character.

   76 In death you will lose all your inventory, a percent of your stats, and your name. If you want to start over, don't get yourself killed. Use the witness protection.

   77 When using witness protection, You lose less stats. You will also be hidden from all listings in the game for 24 hrs. So if you want it secret do not make it known.

   78 if you want to try to kill someone anonnomously, use a hitman. It is very hard to do and costly, but noone will ever find you did it.

   79 Dons may write contracts on someones life, if the families agree to it. They may also write one if it is 24 hrs within the death of a familyman for retaliation.

   80 Have bailbondsman and judges on staff at all times. When you get stuck in jail with no money and need to get out, they will come in handy.

   81 Prostitutes will heal your health when you pay there salary. Keep them on staff, and when you need a "boost", use or pay them.

   82 Become an "Elite" mobster by purchasing a game token for 14.95. Your game features double in action, and it opens up stuff a non-paying member cannot do.

   83 Allways read admin sent emails, they hold alot of information you may need to get free stuff. It may just teach you something you needed to know.

   84 Make sure every post you make is on topic with the boards category, there is a category for all topics. Posting off topic will get your stats penalized.

   85 Send all customer service issues to customerservice@mafialife.com outside the game, all other emails will not be catered to.

   86 Do not cancel a bigjob after your participants have accepted allready, they will lose all stuff they had to set the job up.

   87 Some items in this game are rare items. If you aquire them, do not sell them unless your willing to. Find out from other players which items are rare.

   88 A don or consig can have you house arrested if you act up. Do not go rogue, unless you plan on dying to your own family members, or the witness protection.

   89 If your online, the faster you accept invites to bigjobs, the faster more ppl will send them to you.

   90 Keep inner family issues inside the family. If you publicly announce your private family issues, the troublemakers will use it against you later.

   91 Family protection should be granted by active players to the less active. If your logging off and your protecting someone, switch protectors to someone who on.

   92 Check the mood meter daily, allways know what mood your family feels towards other families. Your moods add/minus to the chances to aggress your opponents.

   93 The players directly above you in the family tree are your immediate bosses. Check the tree daily, your uppers need to be respected and may change often.

   94 Keep your businesses fully constructed, when its damaged, construct it using hammer and nails/ or repeair items. Check them daily.

   95 Become an "Elite" mobster by purchasing a game token for 14.95. Your game features double in action, and it opens up stuff a non-paying member cannot do.

   96 Killing someone is very difficult sometimes. Just because you have them to 0 bodyguards doesnt mean youll kill them.

   97 The kills in this city are controlled by dice rolls. The last shot on a mobster to kill him must bypass the games "last kill" dice roll, no matter what his attributes are.

   98 Last kill chances are based on the families moods towards each other. It is easier to kill during your war mood towards an enemy.

   99 If you hold a high rank, do not let it get to your head, or a bullet may accompany it.

   100 Check your profile often. All your reports are there, incase you need to review what you've done in the past. Most answers you need about actions can be found.

   101 Remember, this is the mafia, it's always about family. Every action you take should in some way help your family, not just yourself.

   102 In this game, defense is vital. The moment you dont sleep one night, could easily be your last. Every bullet is potential death, the fewer that hit you, the better.

   103 Never lose sight of the big picture. Remember every little thing you do now has an effect on the big overall outcome at the end, placement.

   104 When your protecting a player and he falls to 0 bodyguards, each one killed after that will kill your bodyguards. Be aware.

   105 Before going to the store, check the blackmarket for items you may need for big jobs. Some items may being offered at no charge for members of your family.

   106 Check to see if there are any gambling matches. Gambling is a great way to earn extra coin. Horse races run daily.

   107 Do not get more staff than you need (ex: if you dont have businesses, don't buy construction workers, or security guards). They waste your money on salaries.

   108 After you work your business, make sure you fully repair it before cashing in on any production or checks. You cannot make full potential if it is damaged.

   109 Pick a name that replicates one of a mobster-like character. Do not pick a name that will piss everyone off. You will be a target.

   110 Specializations may limit you to some items, jobs, and actions. Learn about each specialty the first time you play so you can mold your character properly.

   111 We suggest you play each rank first starting with soldier, then leutenant, capo, underboss, and consig before you take on the don position.

   112 For each life insurance policy you own, youll receive 500k upon the creation of your new character when you die. Buy as many as you can for when you die.

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