No matter how many people you add, if you do not use your skill points every now and again on attack and defense you will start loosing as you progress in the game. I have just under 1000 mafia members and I loose to people with only 300 members. I have more weapons, cars ect ect, but my attack and defense points are low as I always use them for energy. you can have 2000 people in your gang, but someone with 300 will beat your *** every time if you have very low attack and defense skill points. Only because it tells you your total mafia attack and defense is in the thousands doesn't mean anything. It will help a little,,,but mostly your gonna get beat every time unless you surf the rivals lists and find people with very low attack and defense. Right now I am at 13,000 attack and 14,000 defense and I am loosing to people with 2 to 3 thousand less in each category because they have a higher skill point level in defense and or attack.