4,000 Levels In 9 Days

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When the Smuggler's Haven Secret District opened the experience/energy ratios were too good to be true. Many accounts were serial leveling and everyone was happy. That is until August 12th when this happened....

The ratios were reduced on all the jobs but they were still really good. Then on Friday August 19th, the following message was plastered on the Zynga Forums, the Official Mafia Wars Blog and Customer Support.

One of the things that makes Mafia Wars so much fun is that it is a living, evolving game. We work hard to release a lot of exciting content and extensively test every feature and event prior to release, but sometimes imbalances don’t become apparent until those features are in use by millions of players. Unfortunately, the XP/energy ratios of the Smuggler’s Haven Secret District is one of those cases and we have determined that they need to be adjusted again this afternoon to preserve the balance that keeps Mafia Wars fun for everyone.

The ratios were reduced once again and it kind of made Zynga look like they didn't know what they were doing.  I imagine they wanted to stop accounts from serial leveling. The second reduction did not stop that from happening and only gave more advantages to the energy accounts. Increasing the loot scores proved only to further widen the gap of imbalance to the playing field.  There was one job on the Gold Level that had a ratio of 2.33.  Accounts with more energy were able to level even more frequently and acquire more of the improved loot than their fighting counterparts.

To demonstrate this, I decided to do a little experiment and I busted out an energy account that I stopped using ever since Zynga destroyed the trading community. The account has been on level 1,829 for probably about a year or so.   By doing the job shown above, I was able to gain 4,000 levels in 9 days.

Saturday August 20th

Tuesday August 29th

I spent all my energy on my main account doing the same job but on the Ruby Level (the exp/energy ratio is 2.32). I received a total of 117 items and only 82 of them helped my equipment scores.

My abandoned energy account was able to acquire 16,340 of the same items. How is that for balancing the playing field?

Many would say that gaining 4,000 levels in less than 10 days is cheating.

All the tools to do this were provided by Zynga. To prevent those who are against scripts from reporting me for cheating, I did it all in a framed state without the use of scripts. I fired up an old desk top and used an auto-mouse and did the "Help Defend The Have From Police" job over and over again. For more information on how to get and use an auto-mouse, go here.

I had to do some babysitting and manually add the skill points into energy to keep the serial leveling ability possible. I vaulted all the collections that added skill points and took advantage of a few Skill Point Reallocations as well. You can see this isn't an account worth playing on and is only good for functions that require energy. I guess tomorrow I will use this account to farm Cuban Mercenaries.  Here are the stats before and after gaining 4,000 levels.

Before

After

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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