Thanks to the help of many members in the community, I was able to complete the chart below. The results aren't pretty. It will take a total of 832 upgrade parts to fully upgrade your Assassin's Academy to Level 15! Go here for an overview of the best strategy for upgrading. Because so many more Galvanized Steel parts are needed, it's best to use your Individual Part request for them because they don't expire until you make a new one.
| Level | Welding Torch | Galvanized Steel | Reciprocating Saw | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 18 |
| 7 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 31 |
| 8 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 41 |
| 9 | 14 | 25 | 14 | 53 |
| 10 | 16 | 35 | 16 | 67 |
| 11 | 20 | 43 | 20 | 83 |
| 12 | 24 | 51 | 24 | 99 |
| 13 | 28 | 59 | 28 | 115 |
| 14 | 32 | 67 | 32 | 131 |
| 15 | 36 | 75 | 36 | 147 |
| Total | 208 | 407 | 208 | 823 |
The good news is 208 of these parts are available via the free gift system. The bad news is you still have to beg for 615 parts. If we weren't limited to only sending 5 parts to our mafia members, this might be more reasonable. If we can have 500+ mafia or 100 family members then we should be able to help all of them. It's not easy to get these requests filled. While hacking into my mothers account to click on my own requests, I started to wonder what was wrong with me.
No matter how popular you are with your mafia, you have to literally beg. Simply posting requests to your wall is not going to cut it. You have to track people down and beg them. You can't even have a conversation with Pistol Pete of Team Spockholm without him asking you to visit his wall! The whole thing is just ridiculous.
Thanks to Frida, Carlos, Robert, Fione, Brad and Richard for helping with the parts needed verification.
| Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. |
Just so you know, you are NOT limited to giving only 5 parts a day. You are able to give 5 parts every 8 hours. However, most people don't try again until the next day once they see the message that "You have already given 5 parts today." I have been able to give 5 parts out every time the timer on my build-a-property resets for every build-a-property Zynga has put out. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's 15 a day x 14 days = 210 and you need to get how many?
DeleteIt would be easier if the most number of parts needed was the first one from right to left... like this:
ReplyDelete208/208/407
I GIVE UP ... not even going to try to build any more properties unless the prize is much bigger than what I can build off the old properties.
ReplyDeleteLol lol...i am about to use my mom and my dad acct too
ReplyDeleteThis is insane. I give up on these properties. I've started playing other games that are far more fun, and like thousands (millions?) of people before me, I'm seriously ready to quit the game.
ReplyDeletelol about the part about hacking your mom's account xD ! But hmmm.. have to go see if I can't lend my little brother's .. ^^ parts are parts. Can't get too many :D xD
ReplyDeleteLooks like another property not completed. Zynga has simply become a bunch of greedy bastards! Maybe after 7 days they'll make the Galvanized Steel giftable...then people MIGHT have a chance to complete this without spending $$$$.
ReplyDeleteDrive em away Zynga....look at your stock. See how your ideas work!
One word: Ouch!
ReplyDeleteI'm fine with the new gift system starting last November. But all this properties is driving me crazy. Another of these shits and i'll be out of any of Zynga's game, no more !!!
ReplyDeleteThis is the first limited property worth to complete. Either I get it done or I'm done with MW. I'm not Bob the builder.
ReplyDelete"While hacking into my mothers account to click on my own requests, I started to wonder what was wrong with me."
ReplyDeleteWajajajaja This is the most hilarious sentence I've read in my entire life!
Despite being allowed to help friends 5 times every 8 hours, it won't help much. The point is: you have numerous number of friends you want to help but you can't. It's frustrating coz you need to select or screening which one of those friend you really want to help. Disgusting, with 100 family plus hundreds close mafia members outside how could you choose?
ReplyDeleteTo help my self and my friends from spamming them with request i'll make limitation. I am after level 11 only. It spares me more than 400 parts and i still have 'raven' assassin that offer 5 energy points. I don't care about level 11 upward. yeah their stats are quite impressive but it'll become obsolete soon. If you agree with me, spread it away and make a little movement out there.
specific part you can send how many you want ...
ReplyDeleteonly any part you can send 6 every 8 hours
While I am not liking the new properties the one thing that keeps me doing it is.... no more asking for weapons packs, special foods etc... So I muddle on
ReplyDeleteevery 8 hours you can send 6 (not 5) any parts plus 6 specific parts and you can get 4 (not 3) parts from upgrades.
ReplyDeleteIf you can get 6 parts per "Any part" post per 8 hours = 18 per day.
ReplyDeleteThe same from your specific = 18
you can collect another 4 from freebies, brings you to 40 per day.
Multiply by 14 days to build = 560/begging + 208/gifting.
Am I missing something???? It is not enough.
According to the chart above, we need 615 parts from begging.
One click closer to clicking "Remove App."
Indeed, the whole thing is just ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteMy mother passed away some years ago, back when MySpace was the big happening thing.
Maybe bring her back to life, sort of...with FB & MW ?
Hey, she came from a large family that's mostly *available* now.
The Magnificent Seven ride again & save the Assassin Academy (plus Mom does what I tell *her* this time) ??
Nah, too much work making up bogus accounts...
especially compared to the vanishingly small rewards offered by these silly buildings.
Just picture me as another paratrooper riding in the MW plane...just waiting for it to get a little sillier before I hop out & pull the cord.
Hey, Loot Lady....last one on the ground buys beer !
I just upgraded my Assassin's Academy to level 15.
ReplyDeleteneed hard work... :)
not sure about anybody else, but i normally posted 6+1, and my backup accs can help all(7) of it. tested since the last few properties, unlimited clicks for specific post and 6 clicks for general post-then it expired. already on level 15 this morning. good luck to the rest of you.
ReplyDeletewell, you still have what? what? exactly, RPs!!!...and that what Zynga really wants...
ReplyDelete