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Recently Mafia Wars went out of their way to explain robbing. This was incited by a players letter to the Mafia Wars team that stirred them into action to explain what robbing is and what is the thought process that went into creating this feature on Mafia Wars. It also seeks to answer and clear questions that players may have about robbing. This letter also explains what features of robbing are going to stay and features that are going to be added. Please find a copy of the letter below Dear Mafia Wars Player, First of all, I want to thank you for this thoughtful, well articulated letter. I always like hearing feedback from our most passionate players. Your wants and desires for this game are tremendously important to us here at Mafia Wars, and we hope that every feature we create will delight you. In fact, we hope that our features will delight all of our customers, and therein, I fear, lies much of your angst. For you see, robbing was not primarily designed for the hard core player,...

Mafia Wars hopes to elevate the interest in the game with the return of Robbing. To start robbing you need to click the 'Fight' tab in New York. Clicking on the 'Fight' tab allows you to score some nice loot from New York Properties as you work on completing the robbing grid. If you have something to settle with someone specific you can rob from their personal page also.  The difficulty of each robbing job is set up by comparing your attack skill to the defense skill of the defender. Also the Mafia size used to fight varies for each property, as does the stamina cost. Even if you do not have the Mafia size you can proceed to loot a property with the cost of your odd being reduced so proceed with caution.  You may also notice that the robbing formula is not 100% static like the fighting formula. However, your attack skill and any boosts are static, as is a portion of your mafia strength (NOTE: the Diamond Collection alters these percentages). So, having better weapons, a...