The Big Payoff Walk Through

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The Big Payoff is finally here. I love how Zynga released things on Monday and Friday this week, not to mention all the other days too. Do they really think we want to spend every waking hour playing Mafia Wars? Have they seen the Application Data? Anyways, The Big Payoff starts out with mass confusion. There is no designated Current Events Module for it. Only if you're lucky will you see an ad on the Ads Module. A few rules to remember about this jobs is you won't have it if your total energy pool is below 2,000, you don't get experience for doing the jobs (unless you get one of the experience rewards) and you can do it up to 25 times.

When you click on "Get Started" from the ad, you are directed to Brazil and that's it. You are taken to whatever District you were working on the last time you were on line. Only because of all the emails players sent to me and posts on the fan page did I know you need to go to District 1.

When you get to District 1 you will see the Big Payoff job at the top of the job page.

The wording is also confusing. To me it looks like the job will only require a maximum of 2,000 energy to complete but what they mean is you have to have a minimum of 2,000 energy points added to your characters skills. What makes this kind of funny is players with less than 2,000 energy won't even see this because it doesn't show up on their accounts.

Click on the yellow question mark to see the potential rewards you can get from each click of the job.

Most players will find they don't have enough energy to even get started. I had to move on over to my energy account for the rest of the images of this post.

For each click, there is a chance to get 1% - 10% mastery of the job. You will find the first few clicks will give better a better range but the vast majority of clicks will yield 1% mastery.

The rewards you have a chance to drop for each click are +5 Attack Skill Points, +5 Defense Skill Points and 2,000 Experience Points.

On your last click that fully masters the job, you get a loot item called Thin Ice. This is the only thing in this event that doesn't rely on chance.

You can brag about it and spam the news feeds. Clicking on these posts will do nothing but bring you to your Mafia Wars game. Unless you were in Brazil for your last session, the post doesn't even even take you there.

The second time I did this job, I noticed that every single click was 1% mastery and I only got 2 rewards.

The 3rd - 24th time I did the job, I got 1% mastery for each click on 0 rewards. Now I see why people are calling this job The Big Rip Off.

Once you master the job 25 times, it will say "25/25 Mastery" over the details for the Thin Ice.

The job will then vanish from District 1.

I activated my Brazil Crew Strategist and Lockpick positions and you can see they don't apply towards the Big Payoff. They shouldn't have put this job in Brazil if they aren't going to let use these bonuses. I think it should have been on a Home Page Module as it would be less confusing.

Matthias Engelhardt of the Mafia Wars Gods!!!! also did this job 25 times but he was finished in less than an hour from release. He had fun bragging about that and posted a copy of 25 active Thin Ices in his inventory. Thanks to Matthias from Skyping me the image below.

I had planned on making all kind of charts with some great statistics but as it turns out, only the first job provided anything very useful. It costs 77,000 energy to do the fist job and 100,000 energy to do jobs 2-25.I will probably just try to finish this one time as it's really a waste since you rarely get experience to level up.

Job #	Total Clicks	Mastery	+5 Attack	+5 Defense	+2000 Exp	Nothing	Thin Ice
1	77	1/9% 2/7% 74/1%	3	1	9	63	1
2	100	100/1%	0	2	0	97	1
3-100	100	100/1%	0	0	0	99	23

Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. All material is protected by copyright law