There seems to be a large portion of all Mafialife.com players who let a certain aspect of the game consume them. Actually, Mafialife is like crack to many of them, and many aspects of the game consume them. Right now, I want to touch up on 1 of those.

Death.

In my days, when you played a game, your character died all the time. You go as long as you can without dying, and usually when you had work, or real life related events, it was a known thing that your character would die. But it was ok, because when you died, you did not lose much.

Just a simple message that said “someone killed you, try again’. The next time you logged in, you would have a chance to go redeem yourself versus the asshole who attacked you, and maybe you’d catch him off guard. Leaving him/her a nice message in the inbox that stated ‘paybacks a bitch sukka’.

Why is that not enough for Mafialife.com players?

I get tons of emails asking me how come you don’t get to steal everything off the dead bodies after you kill them. They want the victim’s businesses, and everything. They would prolly take a fucking right arm of the actual customer if they can. The end goal is to make the victim of death miserable, so they can dance on their dead body in victory, and shame them.

This mentality is the same reason why Mafialife.com is having trouble growing in numbers as fast as we would like to see. Who the hell wants to continue playing a game where they can’t ‘lose’ in fun, and come back the next day to try and compete for revenge? Who the hell wants to play a game where the few days or weeks they played building character has been cut down to a 25-100% loss, so they have to do all that hard work again? The answer is NOBODY.

Dying is the game is just a part of the daily game as living is. Get used to it. I totally understand that the person who issues a death blow to his enemy wants a spoil of victory, because they deserve it. It’s fun to get a reward for ‘winning’. But, there is a big difference between gaining a reward for winning, and penalizing the loser.

In Mafialife.com, when you kill someone, you gain random inventory and power from the game that you may not normally get from other game activities. You also get a hidden boost in your game ‘ranking’ that reflects in your game placement. The loser gets killed, and gains NOTHING. You get major bragging rights for keeping them at the same level for losing, while you advance for winning. That should be enough.

Learn how to die, and come back gracefully for revenge. And start enjoying the ‘gains’ for winning, and stop focusing on the death penalty. Death has to be a challenge too for this to work. Death has to give the desire to come back and get revenge. It is ok to die! Just try to die LESS then everyone else

That’s what makes www.mafialife.com fun.

This is no ordinary Mafia Game. In MafiaLife.com you are playing the role of a mobster in real-time.  The object is to build all of your skills as high as you can, and be Top Mobster at the end of the round. All the top mobsters win prizes.

I. To get started, your going to need to do a few things to earn a living:

1. Commit Crimes>Petty Crimes

Select the ‘petty crime’ option on the commit crimes page. Then, try 1 attempt of each crime, until you figure out which crime pays out best for the day. Petty crimes change per day, and sometimes repeat themselves. When you figure out the best petty crimes, you can use all attempts on that 1 petty, and earn your maximum pay from it.

2. Commit Crimes>Activities

Select the ‘activities’ option on the commit crimes page. Try 1 attempt of each activity the same way to determine the best one for you. You may have to check your profile each time to figure out which activity bumped up your skills the most. Activities can earn you some cash, but mostly will build up your attributes. The higher your attributes, the easier your success rate on specific features. The higher your attributes, the more jobs and actions unlock too.

3. Commit Crimes>Rob Bank

Select the ‘rob bank’ option on the crimes page. The higher your luck, the better chance to succeed at robbing the tougher banks. The counter is the easiest. Start with robbing the counter, and earn some quick cash. If you fail, and go to jail, just go to the prison, and bribe yourself out.

4. Commit Crimes>Small Jobs

When you build up some attributes, find the ‘small job’ option on the commit crimes page, so you can run some small jobs. They will earn you some inventory and cash, and even more attributes. They are fairly easy to commit, and will give you the tools to start your first big job.

5. Commit Crimes>Big Jobs

Take a few minutes to browse through the commit crimes ‘big jobs’ . Clicking each big job will break down the details of the job into organizer and participants. If you navigate inside the organizer and participants boxes, you will notice some links are expandable into more details. You can learn alot about what items and attributes are rquired to fit the organizer spot, and participants. If you have the required items, scroll down to the bottom, and setup the job. If not, you will notice a spot to ‘buy item’ in the bottom right of the page. Once you have all items purchased and placed in the slots, and all the attributes needed to organize the job, then click ‘setup big job’. After you set up the job, the page will turn into an invite page, and you just need to send all of your invites to those mobsters you want to try and participate. They will need to accept the job. You can review the bigjob page to see wh has and who hasnt accept, and when they all accept, you will find a ‘run this job’ option on the bottom right. Running the job will reveal inventory, attributes, cash, for you and your crew. You will unlock other jobs as you gain items, and attributes.

II. After you earn a few dollars, you are going to need to learn how to protect yourself, so you can join a crime family, or start your own:

1.Supply Store>Staff

Go to the ‘supply store’ and find the staff category. Based on your rank, you will have a max number of staff you can buy, so purchase the maximum bodyguards, fbi agents, and judges you can buy. Bodyguards will die instead of you when your health goes down to 0, and give you anoher 100 health. FBI agents will protect you from being hitmanned, and judges will get you out of jail, if you fail at crimes. You can use a judge to bribe, or bail yourself out of jail. Just goto the prison link, and find your name, and click bribe/bail and find where it says to use a judge. You’ll be out in no time. As you lose your staff, you have to replenish them. Check your inbox often, so you can learn who is attacking you, so you will know when you buy more staff.

2.Supply Store>Defense Items

Go to the ‘supply store’ and find the defense item category. You can buy bullet proof vests here. A vest will absorb damage from guns for 1 shot attempt. Each hit will require a new vest. So buy as many as you can afford.

III. Pay Your Salary:

1. My Bank>Make A Deposit

Go to ‘My Bank’ and make a deposit into your swiss bank. Every night at midnight, your salaries have to be paid, or the staff and tax items will leave you for good. Cars are considered tax items as well. So, make sure you have the total salary in your swiss  every day at midnight. Salary will automatically be paid using your swiss. You cannot withdraw from swiss, so put the amount in that youll need for salary only.

Mafialifers,

Round 49 is going to start soon and the elite players have taken a stand. There have been changes in the last few rounds to help draw some casual members to the game, because the game was so advanced, and intense that the casual signups got scared away within minutes of joining up. If you are an elite Mafialife player, then you know that it is not always easy to just keep yourself alive without good help from a crime family. You join the game, starting out in the streets, and before you know it, your being hunted by established crime families, and creating trouble for yourself. Then your marked the moment you get into a family, starting wars and find yourself dead because nobody would protect you. Newbies are so quick with their guns!

We thought it was best to make the game simple, and give them a place to hideout if they did not want to play, but it turns out most of them became chicken shit during wartime. By the time we knew it, that ‘hideout’ feature because a reason why active players did not need to remain active protecting themselves, and playing the game. Elite players would log in, and find 5-10 mobsters on, and nobody to fight and play with. Disheartening, and discouraging.

After hundreds of you screamed at me, that you want your game back… I have decided to do just that. In an effort to revise the features to bring back the addiction, and active mob enthusiasm, we created a group on facebook that you guys decided to name “The Mafialife Commission“. With this group we all will use your ideas and your love of the game to make whatever changes to bring back all that fire and flames you guys love so much.

From the looks of it, round 49 will make revisions to the hideout so one person may not run scared for long, and at some point must log in to protect himself or die. At the same time, it will also give the dying member a fighting chance to log in, find himself dead, and come back at those who attacked him, and avenge himself with his crime family, if he has one. We will also put a cap on how many power points can be used during war, so the playing feild is fair. I am reading about changes to the system to allow for ‘levels’, and ‘achievment badges’ . So if your mobster has enough kills, beats, robberies, pickpockets, crimes, and other stuff under his belt, he can get to level 2 where more items, weapons, jobs, crimes, dissrespect options, and businesses await you. And when you wack mobsters, you can knock them off, and hurt their chances of leveling themselves up. With the new war challenges, looks like round 49 is going to be alot of fun.

20-30 new jobs, new old school challenging payouts will return so it’s not so easy to gain the rare inventory anymore, and creates the need for family togetherness, and interaction. And tons of new shit. Check the group out if you want to give your feedback or input. Or you can simply join the new Mafialife Round 49, as soon as it begins. As always, there are details on the Mafialife.com home page, and a countdown to when the next round begins. If the countdown is not there when you look, then it only means we are clearing out the past round’s data, archiving the ‘top mobsters’ for your round results, and we will put the countdown up within the next 1-48 hours.

If you have not registered to the game, and are interested in joining the Mafialife Game, you can still register while we are pending the round 49 start. Just click here, and register. Check the countdown on the homepage, or just join the Mafialife Game Facebook Page and we will update you.

We will also be having a LIVE interactive chat session to discuss the next round, the hostile takeover, and answer questions if you have them. Click here for event details. Hope to see you there.

Join My Personal Fan Page while your at it.

Respectfully,

Mafialife Chris

Hey buddies,

One thing I have learned from the years of creating and working with mob theme games, are the differences between what I like to consider the casual mobster, and the elite mobster. Some of the Mafialife subscribers used to get real pissed off when I would use those terms. I’d be in a video chat room with other members who accepted an invite to the ‘Official Mafialife Room’ on Paltalk, and we would be having a session where I would ask the members questions, and answer some of the questions they had about the game, and the behind the scenes inner thoughts of why I built some of the features. I was trying to explain how ML could not be an elite only game design, because it would not be able to pay it’s bills. Many of them did not want to be classified as casual members, because they paid money to subscribe to extra features sometimes, and they considered themselves elite members. But, I was not sizing them up by skill level, and they were pretty much worried I was telling them they suck, lol

What I mean by elite or casual when I say it, is that they spend a certain amount of time on the game. That’s all. A casual member, can only jump on, in that 5-25 min window they get after they eat, or when they can jump on the PC. They want to enjoy the concept of the mafia fantasy games, without spending too much time on it. Perhaps their daily lives does not allow the time, or perhaps they are just limiting their leisure time, or time on the internet. It doesn’t matter. They are considered casual to me. And as my developer Anthony Vos would call them, they are the ‘casual mass’ because you will find that a huge portion of those who register to these games are only casual mobsters. They are the ‘masses’ you look to reach, because if you reach the casual mass, and interest them, your game will strive forever. If you spend your time catering to only the elite audience, you will find yourself stuck with a very small player base. The elite mobster is your fanatic, so you definately need to maintain them, but there are not enough of them to pay bills. These are the type of players who when you make a slight change in the settings on how much damage a weapon makes, they are already talking about it the day you add it. They learn the exploits, use them to thier advantage, and look to win by staying on longer, and playing better then everyone else.

For every 1000 signups, you will get yourself about 10-20 elite members. That means 980-990 will be casual. The casual doesnt want to sit around and learn how to navigate your site, or use the features. They want it to be simple. The elite, may take extra time reading an FAQ. Take some time to walk through the registration process and navigation of your features, and decide if a 60 yr old lady can understand how to be part of your site. At the same time, keep it a challenge once you have them hooked using those features. Your game must be able to maintain the elite’s enjoyment, and spark the interest of the casual mass. If you want to stay on top, it cannot cater so much to the elite, that the only way to win, is to stay on all day long. But, it also can not cater so much to the casual that it gives the elite no reason to be on for thier desired long periods.  Find a way to keep those elite’s playing, yet give the casual mass a fighting chance. If you plan to be the best in the business, find that medium.

Otherwise, get the fuck out of the business please, so you don’t cluster up my streets with these ugly, lopsided, copycat scripted mob games, that suck.

Thanks,

MLC

Mob Enthusiasts & To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Chris Chiarmonte, but most of the folk I talk to on the web would call me by the moniker Mafialife Chris. The reason is pretty simple. Any project I have ever touched on the web had something to do with the word mafia, and I developed a game called Mafialife.com. I was always fascinated by the genre.

I signed onto all mafia type forums, and linked up with tons of mafia networks. Played tons of games about tough guys, and criminals, and I always registered under the user name ‘Mafialife Chris’.

While on the internet, I would always be listening to talk radio. At that time, on the FM dials they had an all talk station with all of my favorites such as Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, The Radio Chick, JV and Elvis, and in my personal opinion the best talk radio show in existence, The Ron and Fez Show. Of course, I joined all of the fan sites all about these shows, since I was the ultimate fanatic. I would listen and always wanted to call into the shows and participate, but never truly had the balls. I figured they would not take my calls any hows.

The Ron and Fez Show make their listeners feel very welcome to call. Almost all of the callers make it on air, and get to participate in the topic, so I tried my luck. For a while I was called Chris The Nemo Cake Guy when I called in, because I used to work and deliver the cakes, and always found time to drop the pudding cakes off to Fez, and the crew. I registered for www.ronfez.net as Mafialife Chris, and once the Soprano’s hit TV, I called the show weekly, gave my Soprano’s Updates. At that time, Ron B called me Mafialife Chris, and the brand continued to be broad casted on radio. I became a regular guest, promoting the www.mafialife.com game, and all of the other mafia products I am part of. Years later, I am happy to consider myself Mafialife Chris, The Don of The Internet.

This is my new blog. I started one years ago, and we lost all of the data, so I will start all over again. The MafiaLife Blog will encompass all what I bring to the Internet table, and all of what I have already done. If you are interested in the mafia genre, then you will certainly enjoy this blog. I welcome any feedback, and encourage you all to register and make comments, or just email me chris@mafialife.com. I am up close and personal, and always will reply. If you think you are interested in helping me out, and becoming part of the ‘crew’, let me know.

Thanks for reading. All the best,

Mafialife Chris