So, I've been messing around with the Chop Shop over the last few days, and here are the highlights:
Upgrades
The Chop Shop is upgradeable up to level 10. There are 5 items you will need for each upgrade: Shipping Containers, Cement Blocks, Power Tools, Car Lift, and Acetylene Torches. There are several ways to get these upgrade pieces:
- As free gifts. Every Mafia Wars player can send 2 types of these upgrade pieces as free gifts.
- From jobs and fighting. These upgrade pieces are a somewhat rare drop from doing jobs and fighting in any city.
- By asking for help. Every 24 hours, you can post a request for "help" collecting an item. Simply go into the Chop Shop page and click "Upgrade" and you will see an "Ask for Help" button below some of the item types. Pick the one you have the lowest one and offer up a request. Note: This 24 hour timer seems to reset if you upgrade your chop shop, so it is possible to call for help on items back to back.
- By spending godfather points. You can trade 1 godfather point for each item. It would require quite a few Godfather points to fully upgrade your chop shop, as you will a few hundred of these pieces to finish up.
The cost for upgrading = (current level + 4) car parts of each type. For example:
If you are level 5, you will need 9 (5 + 4) of each type of ingredient to upgrade your chop shop to level 6.
By upgrading your Chop Shop, your shop will produce more car parts per hour. You will also gain access to more vehicle types, which are listed in the Chop Shop Cars post.
Parts
Your chop shop will produce "Car Parts" on its own every 24 hours. This is a generic item and you will need quite a few of these items to make cars. You can also find these generic car parts as a common drop from fighting and doing jobs in any city. In addition to these items, some cars require other specialty car parts, such as Thai Car Parts, Bulletproof Glass, and Solar Panels.
Solar panels and Bulletproof Glass drop randomly from doing jobs and fighting in what seems like any city (though I found mine in New York). They have a very low drop rate, but if you play a lot, you will find a lot of these.
City Car Parts (Thai Car Parts, Cuban Car Parts, etc) drop from their prospective cities randomly while doing jobs and fighting. For example, you will only find Cuban Car Parts when fighting and doing jobs in Cuba.
Vehicles
Now, the Chop Shop no longer produces 1 vehicle randomly every 24 hours. You have to build vehicles using the car parts listed above. I listed all the vehicles in a previous post linked above that you can choose from. Unlock more vehicles by upgrading your chop shop.
Note that you can only produce 1 vehicle per 24 hours, even if you have the car parts. As a result, you want to pick the best possible cars to build.
Right now, it seems the best two cars are the Rebel 2 and the Solar Flare. The Rebel 2, with 40 attack and 45 defense, has pretty good stats and gives you +5 stamina for purchasing. That would be +5 max stamina - so you could go from 15/15 to 20/20 by purchasing this vehicle.
The Solar Flare stats aren't as high as the Rebel 2 but it gives out +5 energy for purchasing. Once again, that is max energy. Each time you buy another one of these cars you can increase your stats by +5. The only catch is that you can only do it once every 24 hours.
Since you can increase your stats through this function, you can make big improvements in your character as it is like getting an extra level up each day that you build one of these cars. By doing this for a month, you could end up with an extra max 150 stamina or energy points. This will in turn result in more jobs done and more fights participated in, which would precipitate further levels and even more stat points. This is definitely a worthwhile use of your Mafia Wars time, don't ignore it if you want to stay ahead of the curve!
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Chop Shop Upgrade - Info, Cars, and Parts
The new Chop Shop is now live in game! Here's how it works.
The original 5 Chop Shop pieces can be used to upgrade your Chop Shop to different levels (power tools, cement blocks, etc).
There are 10 total levels, with each level unlocking a new car type and the ability of your Chop Shop to produce more parts.
At any rate, it starts off costing 5 of each type of car part for each level and this number increases by 1 per level (6 to get to level 3, 7 to get to level 4, etc).
There are a large variety of car types available at the Chop Shop. Here is a list:
Level 1: Random common car - 10 car parts required
Level 2: Random rare car - 25 car parts
Level 3: Tasmanian - 36 attack, 34 defense - 30 car parts
Level 4: CM Santiago R10 - 42 attack, 30 defense - 30 car parts and 2 Cuban Car Parts (guessing these drop from fights and jobs in Cuba)
Level 5: Rebel 2 - 40 attack, 45 defense, +5 stamina (not sure if you can collect +5 stamina each time you can collect a car - need confirmation) - 45 car parts and 2 bulletproof glass.
Level 6: Russian Dazatz 45 - 18 attack, 46 defense - 50 car parts and 2 Russian Car Parts
Level 7: Solar Flare - 34 attack, 34 defense, +5 energy - 65 car parts and 1 solar panel
Level 8: Thai XS Max - 45 attack, 35 defense - 75 car parts and 2x Thai Car Parts
Level 9: Trio Napoli - 47 attack, 23 defense - 95 car parts
Level 10: Red Angel - 16 attack, 49 defense - 115 car parts
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Some more information:
Car parts drop randomly from all sorts of jobs and fights, as do the specialty items such as "solar panel" and "bulletproof glass". The specialty items seem to be rarer but still seem to be a random drop.
Additionally, each type of zone based cart part drops from its respective city (Cuban Car Part drops in Cuba, Thai Car Part drops in Bangkok, etc). These drop from random jobs and fights as well - you just have to be in the city.
You can also get car parts pieces simply by fighting and doing jobs. It would seem that the fastest way to upgrade your chop shop would be to repeat a low energy cost job in New York!
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The original 5 Chop Shop pieces can be used to upgrade your Chop Shop to different levels (power tools, cement blocks, etc).
There are 10 total levels, with each level unlocking a new car type and the ability of your Chop Shop to produce more parts.
At any rate, it starts off costing 5 of each type of car part for each level and this number increases by 1 per level (6 to get to level 3, 7 to get to level 4, etc).
There are a large variety of car types available at the Chop Shop. Here is a list:
Level 1: Random common car - 10 car parts required
Level 2: Random rare car - 25 car parts
Level 3: Tasmanian - 36 attack, 34 defense - 30 car parts
Level 4: CM Santiago R10 - 42 attack, 30 defense - 30 car parts and 2 Cuban Car Parts (guessing these drop from fights and jobs in Cuba)
Level 5: Rebel 2 - 40 attack, 45 defense, +5 stamina (not sure if you can collect +5 stamina each time you can collect a car - need confirmation) - 45 car parts and 2 bulletproof glass.
Level 6: Russian Dazatz 45 - 18 attack, 46 defense - 50 car parts and 2 Russian Car Parts
Level 7: Solar Flare - 34 attack, 34 defense, +5 energy - 65 car parts and 1 solar panel
Level 8: Thai XS Max - 45 attack, 35 defense - 75 car parts and 2x Thai Car Parts
Level 9: Trio Napoli - 47 attack, 23 defense - 95 car parts
Level 10: Red Angel - 16 attack, 49 defense - 115 car parts
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Some more information:
Car parts drop randomly from all sorts of jobs and fights, as do the specialty items such as "solar panel" and "bulletproof glass". The specialty items seem to be rarer but still seem to be a random drop.
Additionally, each type of zone based cart part drops from its respective city (Cuban Car Part drops in Cuba, Thai Car Part drops in Bangkok, etc). These drop from random jobs and fights as well - you just have to be in the city.
You can also get car parts pieces simply by fighting and doing jobs. It would seem that the fastest way to upgrade your chop shop would be to repeat a low energy cost job in New York!
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Chop Shop Update and Upgrade
Mafia Wars just announced an upgrade to the currently weak Chop Shopproperty. Currently, the Chop Shop produces 1 random vehicle every 24 hours, of varying quality, making it a fairly useless item. However, here are the slotted changes noted on the fan page:
Note that the Chop Shop is coming soon - it's not in game yet. Apparently, the chop shop will now produce car parts that can be turned into vehicles. I'm guessing players will be able to choose which vehicle they want to construct, so if a player who already has it all wants to collect 100 car parts for a top tier vehicle, he can do so, while a low-end player will be able to make some decent vehicles for a much lower cost.
Additionally, note that these car parts will drop from fighting and jobs - giving players a chance to earn extra vehicles that way.
Finally, it looks like the Chop Shop will now be upgradeable to different levels, enabling it to produce more cars or car parts. We'll have to see. Not sure when the upgrade is due in.
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Note: Collection pieces from the Valentine's Day Collection event (which are no longer collectible, but still able to be vaulted) are increasing rapidly in value. I expect a similar situation (but not quite to the same degree) with the mystery bag collection if they ever discontinue the mystery bags. Perhaps stock up on a few to be safe, and if you have a Heart Tattoo left over from Valentine's Day, know that it is now quite valuable!
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We're updating our Chop Shop! Now, not only will you get car parts dropped from jobs and fighting, your Chop Shop will also produce car parts for you. Collect and turn them into hot vehicles. Also be sure to upgrade your shop to produce more car parts and unlock new rides! Updated Chop Shop coming soon!
Note that the Chop Shop is coming soon - it's not in game yet. Apparently, the chop shop will now produce car parts that can be turned into vehicles. I'm guessing players will be able to choose which vehicle they want to construct, so if a player who already has it all wants to collect 100 car parts for a top tier vehicle, he can do so, while a low-end player will be able to make some decent vehicles for a much lower cost.
Additionally, note that these car parts will drop from fighting and jobs - giving players a chance to earn extra vehicles that way.
Finally, it looks like the Chop Shop will now be upgradeable to different levels, enabling it to produce more cars or car parts. We'll have to see. Not sure when the upgrade is due in.
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Note: Collection pieces from the Valentine's Day Collection event (which are no longer collectible, but still able to be vaulted) are increasing rapidly in value. I expect a similar situation (but not quite to the same degree) with the mystery bag collection if they ever discontinue the mystery bags. Perhaps stock up on a few to be safe, and if you have a Heart Tattoo left over from Valentine's Day, know that it is now quite valuable!
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3 Free Reward Points!
Another free Reward Points to welcome the Grand Opening of Marketplace!
I have posted about the fan blast link where you can get 2 free RPs... now the have released the new one(s)..
Copy and paste these links on your browser.. Please notice how many RPs you have now.. and see if both links work..
http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/track.php?next_controller=marketplace&next_action=fan_blast&zy_link=marketplace0226&id=15
http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/track.php?next_controller=marketplace&next_action=fan_blast&zy_link=marketplace0226&id=16
The difference is only at the last number of the link code.. You'll have 3 RPs on each link, so you can have 6 RPs in total..
I'm sure many of you now are trying to change the last number in case you'll have a chance for another free RPs.. Have a try! 
PS : Thanks to Giuliano for the tips! Thanks to Adil & Robert too...
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