The 51st Global Property and the 46th Limited Time Property is the Power Plant. The great news is the ‘Ask’ timers are back to 2 hours! You need 471 parts to fully upgrade the Power Plant to Level 15 but the extra parts received as upgrade rewards will reduce the number you need to beg for by 48. The details of this property and an updated property chart are shown below.
The standard timer on this property is 15 days and VIP subscribers on the gold tier or higher get 5 extra days. The last Limited Time Property had 16 and 21 day timers so we did get nerfed by a day.
A change in the instructions can be found by clicking on the help mark. A help mark with instructions was something that was added to the last Limited Time Property and it was used to explain the bonus level which this property doesn’t have. It really doesn’t matter that we can collect 12 bonus Parts per day because after a few days it’s nearly impossible to find an active feed thanks to a nerf involving the bragging posts [1].
Players are ecstatic that the 2 hour ‘Ask’ timers we saw with the Oil Rig are back [1]. You can’t get any more parts per day with this structure but you don’t need to be online every 8 hours like clockwork to ask the maximum number of times per day which is 3.
The individual parts needed to upgrade the Power Plant are Gas Turbines, Galvanized Steel and Cordless Drills. Each “Any Part” request will yield 6 parts in the order shown below. You can also make 1 “Individual Part” request and get 6 specific parts. Each type of request can be made once every 2 hours. You can get 4 bonus parts by scanning the news feed and clicking on build and upgrade brag posts. It’s possible to get a total of 48 parts per day.
Here is a closer look at the Gas Turbine which can be found in the inventory. The other parts do not exist in the inventory.
The following chart outlines the number of parts needed to upgrade to the next level.
Total | ||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | |
10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
11 | 11 | 11 | 33 | |
12 | 12 | 12 | 36 | |
13 | 13 | 13 | 39 | |
15 | 15 | 15 | 45 | |
17 | 17 | 17 | 51 | |
19 | 19 | 19 | 57 | |
21 | 21 | 21 | 63 | |
23 | 23 | 23 | 69 | |
Total
| 157 | 157 | 157 | 471 |
To beg for parts try the Link-a-Nator 2. It auto-updates and is ready to go. As long as your ask buttons are active it will work.
To track or brag about your progress, use the Beg-o-Meter by Team Spockholm.
When you are all filled up on each part, you can build to Level 1 or upgrade to the next levels. The popup displays the rewards you get for upgrading to each new level.
The final reward is a 50% energy refill and a Nuke Dismantler which has stats of 229/315.
For each upgrade you get rewarded with partial energy/stamina refills and extra parts. The energy and stamina refills are a percentage of your total energy pool and will go over your max energy if your pool is at 100%. These refills can also be stacked on top of each other but once you level you lose what you don’t use. For this reason you should upgrade when you aren't close to leveling or when you need it to level.
5% | -- | -- | -- | |
6% | -- | -- | -- | |
7% | -- | -- | -- | |
8% | -- | -- | -- | |
9% | -- | -- | -- | |
10% | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
20% | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
20% | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
20% | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
20% | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
30% | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
30% | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
30% | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
35% | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
50% | -- | -- | -- | |
Total
| 16 | 16 | 16 |
Always share your build and upgrade requests with your mafia so they can collect additional parts. The game will tell you the limit is 3 but it’s really 4 additional parts you can collect every 2 hours up to 3 times per day. The timer on these extra parts is a little tricky. They are timed from the last one you collect so if you don’t collect all 4 at the same time they will be spread out over the 2 hour period.
The loot items available for crafting from the Power Plant and the skill points that come with them are listed below.
Levels 1-3: No Skill Points
Levels 4-6: +3 Energy
Levels 7-10 +4 Energy
Levels 11-15:+5/+6 Defense
Who wants to place bets on how many more of these will be added before the game shuts down? By now there is something for everyone and this is probably why the Bonus Level we saw with the Laundromat wasn’t offered with the Power Plant (or perhaps the coding won’t allow for 2 bonus levels at the same time). If you like this chart but would like to sort it based on loot or skills, use the Property Manager 3 by Team Spockholm.
At this point the only thing that could get me to spend my time building one of these would be a permanent 7 point build item. There must be a lot of OCD people out there building these useless properties, though, in order for them to keep rolling them out.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how stupid people will feel when Zynga finally pulls the plug on this game, for all the time they wasted?
Please respond with what you feel is not wasted time in Mafia Wars. That way we can all play Mafia Wars without wasting time. Are the operations ok or are they a waste of time? What about the daily take. Please respond as I and I imagine the whole MW community is waiting with bated breath on how to play without wasting time.
DeleteAre you really this stupid? If it's not fun and there are no other appreciable rewards then it's a waste of time.
DeleteNo problem ... don't build if it is not advantageous to you. I am sure that there will be a 7 point build sometime as the last property build appeared to be a test case much like the one where they first reduced the ask time to 2 hours. I will continue to build as long as I continue to see the short-term benefit.
DeleteWhy would you wonder that? Would it make you feel better knowing that others feel the same way as you do? At some point the game will come to a end ... nothing goes on forever. It does not matter. The whole point of social gaming are the relationships formed with others and that is invaluable ... some have even resulted in marriage.
Sorry to reply as Anonymous but it is simple and easy to do. I have tried to reply using my Google account but I do not know Greek and the other options I do not have a clue about. I tried to find a blog post on posting here but was unsuccessful in the search.
Finally a property with a defense build at Level 15. Zynga hasn't put out a defense based build property since last January/February, with the release of the Ice Hotel or the one before it.
ReplyDeleteYes the Ice Hotel. You are right, we were low on defense properties. ~ jo
DeleteI believe that makes it a total of 5 limited time properties with +6 defense so if that is good if you were focusing on building your defense.
DeleteI'm hoping for a build event where we can finish building 3 old limited time properties. I have several "friends" who don't have energy or stamina 6 point LT properties.
ReplyDeleteI like using beg o meter to make sure I got all my parts but when they change the timer it goes all wonky for me. Right now I have 48 parts but it says I should have gotten 90. I hope they address this. I know 48 is max for today and as we go on I need accurate counts.
ReplyDeleteVery happy to see a new Defense property .. Ice House needed something to go with it :)
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