Quote Originally Posted by mstammm View Post
Thanks but Yes I knew that. I mean if I receive a request via request page for both mob & syndicate??
You mean check a mafia member's stats before accepting their request? I'm not sure you can, but I don't see why you'd ever need to do that. You could always accept, check their stats via their hood, and remove them if you had to. I haven't not been in a syndicate for so long that I don't even remember how you get syndicate requests (and if I was joining a syndicate, I'd already know who they were already). I'd recommend the same course of action, probably, if you needed to check the syndicate's bonuses or their members profiles, etc. Join, check them, and leave if they aren't to your liking. Sorry.

Quote Originally Posted by Death666 View Post
What is the best way to increase mafia defense? I mean drastically. I'm a level 84 with a def of just over 50k. Yet I regularly come across players who's mafia attack/defense blow mine away, double and triple my numbers or even ALOT more! How are players doing this? Does it all come down to gold? Have these guys invested hundreds or thousands of dollars acquiring all the best ****?
150k defense at that level isn't that crazy. I have a syndicate member at 72 with 300k defense. Here are the most likely factors (in order) that are contributing to their stats:

1. Top syndicate prizes
2. Events
3. Camping
4. Gold items

Gold spending is kind of inherent in the first two, especially if they have the top syndicate/event items, but I wouldn't be that surprised to see a 150k defense as a free player. You probably haven't run into anyone who spends thousands of dollars on gold yet, but I'll bet they have better than 150k stats.