The important thing to remember is when you grow your "Mafia Wars family", the only reason why you should keep growing in mafia size is to get more of the Limited Edition Loot and Mafia Mikes. Once you are over 501 members they DO NOT HELP YOU IN A FIGHT.

Only equip with weapons to 501 and no more because they wont do any good. In Mafia Wars, players form mob families by inviting other Facebook members to join. The more family members a mob has, the stronger they are. The first and ultimately most important key to advancing is to keep the mafia family growing. This can be done in a several ways:

* Players invite all of their friends to join

* Link to other players on one of the many add me pages in FB, thousand of players network on these pages

* Reciprocate when players join their mob family, Mafia Wars players can be members of more than one mob.

* One of the best ways to add literally hundreds of players with just the click of a few buttons is to join an email mass add.