Bangkok Goes Live!!!

Bangkok is now open for everyone! Simply click on the Bangkok tab and click "get your passport", select the clerk as an option, and off you go. Well, almost. There is a chance you can get denied by the clerk and then you will have to wait anywhere from a couple minutes to nearly a day before you can try again.

If you get denied, you can spend 30 godfather points to "Bribe an Official" to get there early (on the same get passport screen). If you do spend the 30 points, you will get access and 3 passports for your friends.

You may also now receive passports from doing jobs in Bangkok. You can send them to your friends that got denied by the clerk.

Thanks Andrew for the pic!

Now that Bangkok is live, you can gift job and fighting drop items!

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In other news, loot from episodes 3 and 4 is now dropping from fighting.



Loot list:

Weapons:

Scalding Hot Tea: 26 attack, 35 defense

Type-103 Machine Gun: 42 attack, 29 defense

Komoto Dragon: 34 attack, 22 defense

Cleaver: 25 attack, 44 defense

TAR-21 (rename): 23 attack, 38 defense

Forest Scorpion: 25 attack, 37 defense

Armor:

Monk's Robe: 29 attack, 41 defense

Optical Camo Suit: 43 attack, 26 defense

Vehicles:

Royal Thai Army Jeep: 38 attack, 25 defense
(vehicle)

Kage Jet: 27 attack, 42 defense (vehicle)

Fugama Kame SUV: 31 attack, 21 defense

Lloyds Spectre: 18 attack, 45 defense

Seua Daao Sub: 35 attack, 22 defense

MalayMobil Helang: 19 attack, 34 defense

(thanks Hartmut, Ron, and Hubert for the contributions!)

Edit:

Originally I had not realized how many new items have been added to the game. At this point, I am thinking this is ALL of the episode 3, 4, 5, and 6 loot. There are just too many new pieces for it to be otherwise.

This is really disappointing considering how weak these items are compared to Moscow loot. The only upgrade in this bunch is Lloyds Spectre, which is only a 1 defense upgrade over the Konstantine Cargo Carrier.

Bangkok Loot Items

Tons of new loot will be added to the game with the release of Mafia Wars Bangkok. Here is a sneak peek at what you will get:

From the Store


Weapons:
Armor




Vehicles



Nothing to special from the actual in game store. However, there is a faction specific store which has items that you can buy after you do enough jobs for a specific faction. Have a look:


In the Yakuza store, you can buy a Yakuza Assassin (armor) for $480,000 Baht. This item has 50 attack as an armor, making it the best offensive piece of armor to date. You need to be of allied (I believe 1450/1500 faction points) status with the Yakuza in order to buy this.

Alternatively, you can buy a Shaolin Bodyguard in the Triad store for $470,000 Baht. This item has 51 defense as an armor, making it the best defensive piece of armor to date. You need to be of allied status with the Triads in order to buy this.

I will cover faction in more detail in a post later tonight. At first glance, it appears Yakuza is more offensive and Triads are more defensive. So if you want to win fights on offense, side with the Yakuza. If you want to win fights on defense, side with the Triads.

Mafia Mike's & Bangkok Update

So, since some of you have been asking about Mafia Mike's:

Yes, the Mafia cap is off of Mafia Mike's (the property in New York - assuming you have property and not rackets).

However, the price has gone up significantly. At around 600 Mafia Mike's, it will take around 100 days to get a return on your investment, so make sure you calculate that before dumping a bunch of money into them:

Cost of Property
___________
Pay per hour * 24

Ex:

Mafia Mike's #600 costs ~$30,000,000. Pays 12,000 per hour. $30,000,000 / ($12,000 per hour * 24 hours per day) = ~104 days.

Mafia Mike's are now worth no more than Valu-Marts (or even less) in terms of the time they will take to pay you back for having them.

Note: They didn't reduce the price output of your Mafia Mike's, but rather significantly increased the cost. So if you had 1,000 Mafia Mike's before, this change does not negatively effect you in any way.


Mafia Wars Bangkok

In other news, looks like a few stealth changes (or maybe I just did not notice the first time around) to Mafia Wars: Bangkok.

Now, when you are in Moscow and you go to fly to Bangkok, the "New" tag is gone (at least on my version of Mafia Wars).

Additionally, as expected, there will be a new type of currency for Bangkok, the Baht, which you can see at the top left of the screen by the "bank" screen. Clicking "bank" just leads back to New York for now.

Mafia Wars Bangkok could really be just a few days away!
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Mafia Wars Bangkok Preview

The preview for Mafia Wars Bangkok is now up! Looks like they are intent on getting it ready for the holidays. You can now "fly" to Bangkok (although you can not access any of the jobs yet).

To do jobs in Bangkok once it is released, you will have to collect 4 items first: a Triad Coin, a Yakuza Sake, a Thai Note, and a Thai Passport.


For now, you can get started on the first three items:

Triad Coin: In the soldier tier, the "Museum Break-in" job is now "Asian Museum Break-in. This job drops the Triad Coin.



Yakuza Sake: The Repel the Yakuza job in the Hitman tier drops this item. Thai Note: The 2nd job in the Enforcer tier is now "Smuggle Thai Gems". This job drops the Thai Note.



These items were all very easy for me to get. I got on one the first try, one on the fifth, and one on the second try. Looks like the Thai Passport will simply be given out once Bangkok comes out.

Yakuza vs Triads

Just like with Mafia Wars Moscow, there will be two sides to choose from in Bangkok - the Yakuza or Triads. I am sure it will play out in a similar fashion to the way Moscow is set up.

While there is no official launch date, at this point I would say we're likely to see Bangkok within 2 weeks. It will be at least a week - it definitely won't be launched during the Public Enemies Crime Spree limited time job. Stay tuned for updates.
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