Magnetic Sensors

Casino

Instead of normal properties In Mafia Wars Las Vegas, you have a Casino which all Las Vegas Properties are built around.

The Casino properties consist of:

- Poker Room
- Hotel
- Vault
- Table Games
- Restaurant
- Slots.

These are upgraded in the same manner as any other property, upgrading levels. However, upgrading levels doesn’t cost money but lootable reagents instead. More about upgrading later.

You can upgrade each property 10 times – 0.5 stars at a time. A fully upgraded property will therefore have 5 stars. Your Casino will also have a 0 to 5-star rating, based on the overall rating of your other Casino properties.

Every property except Vault acts like an normal property, they produce Mafia Wars Las Vegas money ($V) based on their level (Star Rating). In the order of least productive to most productive:

1. Slots => 5-Star production $V375 / Hour (Collect every 4 hours)
2. Table Games => 5-Star production $V1250 / Hour (Collect every 8 hours)
3. Restaurant => 5-Star production $V2500 / Hour (Collect every 12 hours)
4. Poker Room => 5-Star production $V3500 / Hour (Collect every 24 hours)
5. Hotel => 5-Star production $V3600 / Hour (Collect every 48 hours)

I personally never bother with properties in any city because the Return on Investment is usually horrible, however in Las Vegas you might as well upgrade your properties as they do not cost money to upgrade.

In Las Vegas you don’t have a free bank like in other cities, you must upgrade your Vault property to use the banking feature.

0.5-Star Rated Vault can hold up to $V100,000 and 5-Star Rated Vault can hold up to V$50,000,000. In addition, Vault can be used to convert other cities’ currency into Las Vegas currency. You can do one conversion per 24 hours and the amount you can convert at a time is dependant on your Vault Star Rating.

At first glance, the conversion thing is great. It is a feature that has been asked for ever since the first expansion city. However, even with 5-Star Rated Vault you can only convert $V20,000 per 24 hours. This is what your low end Las Vegas Property produces, so it isn’t that great after all.

Unlocking

Properties are locked until you have certain progress in Mafia Wars Las Vegas. Each property has a native job associated with it. The native job will unlock the respective property and drop special items to upgrade the property.

- Slots, Bronze Level Mastery of the job “Steal a Truckload of Slots”. Found in District 1.
- Table Games, Bronze Level Mastery of the job “Recruit a Table Game Dealer”. Found in District 2.
- Restaurant, Bronze Level Mastery of the job “Convince A Restaurateur To Leave Town”. Found in District 3.
- Poker Room, Bronze Level Mastery of the job “Hijack a Poker Table Delivery”. Found in District 4.

Upgrading

In order to build your Vault from nothing and upgrade it to full glory you need:

- 75 Security Cameras
- 75 Motion Sensors
- 75 Magnetic Locks
- 75 Deposit Boxes
- 75 Reinforced Steel

These items drop randomly from any Las Vegas Job.

For other properties, each property has a special item requirement in addition to normal building parts. Each unique property also requires more of certain building parts from
the normal building parts list.

To fully build and upgrade a normal Las Vegas Property you need:

- 110 Special Items unique to that property – e.g. Chefs for Restaurant.
- 55 Cinder Blocks
- 55 Steel Girders
- 55 Concrete
- 55 Construction Tools

Normal building parts drop randomly from Mafia Wars Las Vegas Jobs. The special items drop from the job that was required to master in order to unlock respective property.

By: Petka Antonov

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Setting up your kill streaks in Modern Warfare to help your team can benefit your team quite a bit, even though it may not help you as much.

First kill streak to help teams would be the UAV at 3 kills, this shows any enemy without Cold Blooded as a red dot on your map and can prove to be very beneficial to your team.

Next is Care Package, I covered this in another article but if you got a care package with some thing not so good, ammo or something like that, you could set up a trap because the other team cant tell what’s in the package and will be trying to steal it while you and your team mates will be killing them.

Counter UAV can help your team a lot too, if the enemy call in a UAV and you use a Counter UAV it will jam their radar and they wont be able to see you or your team mates. Next is the Emergency Air Drop. This gives you 4 Care Packages which can really help out a team. It takes 8 kills to get and imagine you got a Harrier, Chopper Gunner, Predator Missile and Pave Low the other team would not stand a chance and the game would shortly be over.

At 15 kills you can get an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) which disables Heartbeat Sensors, UAV’s, enemy kill streak rewards and interferes with the enemies vision. This proves to be very beneficial for your team. It last’s around a minute or so.

So a good kill streak reward for your team would be: UAV, Emergency Air Drop and EMP.

By: Aonghus O Donnell

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