Do you have anything you'd like to see Zynga change about Mafia Wars?
A few suggestions I'd make to Zynga if they asked for my opinion:
- Allow energy to rollover! When leveling up, allow the energy remaining to be added on top of our refilled energy. It is hard to celebrate with Uncle Luca giving us a "free" energy refill when it winds up wasting what energy we already had. :(
- Make some kind of money sink.
I think it's very sad that getting money loses its importance fairly early in the game. You have a genuine money crunch for the first 20-30 levels when you are trying to purchase equipment that is required for jobs, outfit your mafia, buy some properties. Then somewhere along the way... you just have ridiculous amounts of money and nothing to spend it on. The money Achievements are a nice pat on the back for being ridiculously wealthy, but I'd love to have a reason to spend money.
Some of my money-sink ideas:
- perhaps paying for protection - a large sum of $ sends you "out of the country" for some amount of time so you can't be attacked or hitlisted for a short while, or perhaps a temporary health or defense boost for when you get a feeling that you're going to be attacked or hitlisted
- pay for extra security to thwart robbers for some amount of time for when you're being repetitively robbed
- pay for 'snitches' who will scout out and return in 24-48 hours with inside information about your target's stats, equipment or perhaps even an estimate of when they're likely to not be watching
- pay to leave graffiti, brief public messages on other people's Mafia Wars profiles (filters would be necessary to keep things decent, of course.) Could also have people pay to remove them from their profile, just like real graffiti! Could even make it look graffiti-ish. I'd spend tons of money leaving dancing blob graffiti everywhere <( '' <) <( '' )> (> '')>
- some kind of raffle where the winners get an interesting piece of loot or special property that's only available via raffle
- pay for a once-daily energy and/or stamina pack -- one free energy pack from the family isn't really enough, and a 2nd paid-for one would have the twofold effect of getting people to play more often and draining off money
- pay to be known by a certain nickname out of a preset list - can even have special unlockable nicknames tied to achievements or other milestones (like Fable or Fable 2)
- some kind of avatar builder where you can get clothes, cars, tattoos, backgrounds, accessories or whatever for your profile to show off how flibbin rich and badass you are. MW already has excellent graphics, so I know their artists would be up to the challenge :)
- Please make it where we can help on jobs without having to be Facebook friends. I can send people notifications, wishlist items and use them in my mafia, but not help them with a job? What the pantns is that about?
- Mafia-wide communication within the game. I don't like spamming my friends with Mafia Wars feed stories, status requests and such. They aren't going to suddenly decide to start playing the game after months of being spammed by me playing it... so give us a way within the game to notify our mafia families about stuff (also see #1 re: graffiti and #2)
- Needs a lot more in-game help documentation, and existing help needs to be expanded and clarified
- Better/faster/any responses to bad names & bug reports. Some name filtering would go far in helping with this, too.
- For the love of all that is good, please fix the thing where quotation marks show up with ////'s
- Make different properties have some small, capped benefit other than just money -- something good enough to encourage and entice players to purchase plenty & varied types of real estate and fix them up after robberies (not much reason to right now other than pride & cashflow that likely isn't even missed by most players)
Tell me your suggestions in the comments!

Energy rollover!!!
I hate when I have an energy pack but am a few experience points away from leveling - I don't want to LOSE energy by leveling just after I've used my precious energy pack. It's a similar situation when I've been away from the game for a while (I do have to work and sleep in addition to playing MW, lol) and build up a lot of energy that I lose when I level.
So - I'm left trying to gain points a few at a time by fighting, etc. I'm not high level enough yet to gain much by being hitlisted. It doesn't seem to me like it would be a big deal - I don't know why Zynga is so stingy with energy. :(
Thanks for this tips page - it's well organized and easy to use. I hope Zynga will take notice.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
Oh gosh, you are 100% right. Energy rollover is one of my top things I'd love to see changed as well! I'm adding it in right after I post this. Thanks, great suggestion!!! :D