One way to cheat in mafia wars is by making the most of your energy. Yes, making the most of your energy. I know it seems like it should only require a little bit of common sense, but let's face it, some people suck at math and energy optimization within mafia wars requires a little bit of foresight and a little bit of math.
Before we begin with the rules on saving energy in mafia wars, we need to know the situations in which saving energy methods will even have an impact on your game. I came up with two situations in which I routinely manipulate my remaining energy to get the most bang for my buck.
In the first scenario we have just leveled up within mafia wars. We have full energy, full health, full stamina, and an entire level's worth of experience to get before we gain our next reward points. For most of us this is a situation in which we must maximize our gains to get us closer to the next level. "How do we maximize our gains?" you ask. I'll tell you.
In order to maximize your experience gains in mafia wars you will need to look at each job you can do closely. Each job is rated for the amount of experience you gain and the amount of energy you use. When you are trying to maximize your experience gains you are going to focus on jobs with the highest experience:energy ratio. Looking at an example from my personal game I have the "Steal an Arms Shipment" job rated at 73 experience and costs 40 energy. The experience:energy ratio then is 73:40 or 1.825. I also have the "Fix the Big Game" job rated at 66 experience and costs 44 energy. The experience:energy ratio on this job is 66:44 or 1.5. Obviously, if I'm trying to maximize my experience then I'm going to do the "Steal an Arms Shipment" job as much as possible and leave the "Fix the Big Game" job for last.
The second scenario you are finding yourself with way more energy than you need to level up, resulting in wasted energy at the end of the level. This can occur if you've been away from the game for a while, allowing your energy to fully refill. For most of us, this is a situation in which we are going to get as many jobs done as we can prior to the level up. To do this we look at jobs that we must do whether we level up or not and pick the ones with the worst experience:energy ratio. This allows us to expend most of our energy before we level up, while completing a larger number of jobs before leveling up, resulting in fewer wasted energy points. Using the same jobs as above, we would want to pick the "Fix the Big Game" job in this situation.
The whole goal with both of these scenarios is to maximize the amount of experience you have gained when you level up. In each of these scenarios there is one more condition to always consider. If the next job you do is going to level you up, then make sure you do provides the most experience with the remaining energy you have available.
Now that you have seen the scenarios in which strategic game play can enhance the experience you gain with the energy you have, you can start making better use of your energy and start leveling up that much faster.
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good post i like the way you wrote it - very easy to follow. This has been my strategy in more recent play. nice to have it affirmed. Keep writing!
ReplyDeleteIf you have a lot of energy but few experience points remaining to level up you should demote your mastermind, which takes away the bonus experience points in turn lowering the exp points:energy ratio. You will then possibly get more jobs in before you level up.
ReplyDeleteGood points. Properly using energy packs is also very important. One can waste energy packs if one clicks on energy prematurely. One should try to get to the next level, even if it takes an hour or so of patient waiting to gather up some additional experience points.
ReplyDeleteBecause if you can reach the next level BEFORE using the energy pack, you'll be able to use all your "ceiling energy" for the next level PLUS all the energy-pack energy.
If you get, let's say, 1.6 x energy [ceiling] from jobs, then you'll have (1.6) x ( (1.25 x energy) + energy) = 1.6 x (1.25 + 1) x energy = 1.6 x 2.25 x energy = 3.6 x energy.
Let's say you're Level 160. You might have 600 energy points by then. Using the above examples, if you prematurely use your energy pack, it will be gone when your each the next level, and you'll be able to make your 600 points into about 960 points if you use jobs with an average ratio of 1.6.
BUT if you get to the next level before you use the energy pack, you'll be able to get the 960 points ((1.6 x 600)) PLUS 1.6 x energy-pack-value ((which is 1.25 x 600 = 600 + 150 = 750)), or 1.6 x 750 = 750 + 450 = 1200. Or a total at that next level of 960 + 1200 = 2160 points. That ought to get you well on your way to yet another level.