Gym Training Tutorial for quick boost in low stats

EDIT: Things have changed and happiness now caps out at 99,999. I'm not sure how this will effect happiness jumps. I will try and keep you all updated.

Updated video!!!

Thank you for watching and like I said if anyone has suggestions on how to improve this tutorial or would like to see more, please let me know!


Edit: The most popular feedback I seem to get is that they wish I had just written it out instead of doing a video. There are several reasons I did a video. The people I had in mind are people who have already read what to do but aren't confident in doing it themselves/are still confused and for much newer folks to gym training in Torn City. There are plenty of written gym tutorials out there. This tutorial is visual and sprinkled with helpful gym and training info throughout, so it's quite possible that you could learn something. It's also helpful to be able to visualize other training methods once you've seen this one in it's total 9-10 minutes it takes to train.

For an amazingly written Training Guide, I would see Hank's Training Guide also in these here forums. My training style for this video is very similar to his Premium Option #1, but not the exact same.

For those still wanting a written version (TL;DW), here you go: This is how to boost stats that are lower than 150k. (Assuming you have donator status) Max out your energy (1000/150). At midnight TCT, make sure your booster and drug cooldowns are empty and then watch 5 Erotic DVDs and take an Ecstasy. Assuming you did not overdose, train your lowest stat in the best gym possible for you. Then refill your energy bar. Then train again. then wait until 00:05 TCT time and refill your energy bar again. Then train again.
This method costs 4x Xanax OR 3x Xanax and 4x Can of Red Cow + 5x Erotic DVD + Ecstasy + 50 points and takes 1-2 days to complete.

Little tip (may be usefull for some people, like me), just post the steps, so readers can choose to watch 10 minutes video or just follow some quick reading steps :).

Buut, thumbs up!

"It don't matter what you do, you just 502!" Great video D, thanks!

Funstic dude, if you or anyone want a list check out here (topsy and ofgortens):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kNzpQ5yQj8-zG4twn8JK69GmzE4tEFiGKMJjpelMbfM/edit#

I thought a video could be helpful because I have explained it many times over text but some people are more visual learners.

Thank you for your support!

I'd say it's better to post a video, yeah it may be faster to read steps but like she said they may not always understand what is meant to happen. Afterall 10 minutes of someone's life and torn playing time won't make or break them. Never even got a 502 btw lmao, not sure what people are doing to get these errors so often but I've literally never seen one xD

Did you work out how much stats you lost from not having natural energy regain for the 1 day+ you were stacking energy. Seems like a bit of a waste.

It does seem like a waste but the stats gain is so much more for lower stats than it would be to just use natural energy all day. It is a huge boost.

kyle, that amount changes as you get higher in stats. up until 100k stats or so it is far superior to 1300e happy jump then to train regularly. After 100k it's still better, but when you account for the passive cost of not progessing gyms as fast and the increase impact of od it starts evening out(although 48 sweets+xtc/refill a day is still worthwhile for a bit after that depending on lvl of activity).

Surely that point is well below 100k in a stat though.

If you give me some values of gains I could probably work out the optimum.


Oh and can't you improve the resolution on the video? It's impossible to see. It also could be cut down and shortened a little.

at 150k its still like 16% better, but it's difficult to account for lost progression towards new gyms. The formula is such that the impact of happiness drops off very hard very quickly.

edit: to give an idea of how badly it drops off. it is 400% effective compared to 3 xanax + refill use a day early on. if you can manage 48 truffles + xtc + refill + 2-3 xanax a day then you bridge the gap between the 2.

How are you working that out. dafuq is a truffle?

Forget about working out progressions between the gyms.

Is there a stat calculator about

If you could recommend a good program for making videos (that's free to use) I'd love to look into it.

I also made the video wanting to show, in real time, how exactly to train this way as well as be able to explain training in general. I was keeping in mind those critical and intuitive thinkers that are new to the game to be able to see this style of training and come up with their own or understand better another style of training they may have read. Seeing someone train in real-time and have some terminology explained in a more of a visual style, I thought, could be helpful to some. Some people learn better this way.

I suppose I can post the steps in text as well in this thread, for those that learn through reading. I will try to work on that soon.

As for a calculator to prove that this is effective, I don't think I've seen it completely calculated out. But it makes sense to me when I train regularly without the boost and train with the boost, I see a huge difference. Happy does matter so much more for small stats.

A truffle would be reference to a Bag of Chocolate Truffles, a Torn City candy item previously found through Hallow Town that boosts happy +100 and has a Booster Cooldown of half an hour.

But, kyle8048, I'm sure your stats are high enough that this tutorial wouldn't be of much use to you.

Oh yeah it's not worth anything to me. I'm years past that point.
I was just going to work out what is optimal.
As for video capture. I know a lot of gamers use FRAPS but I wouldn't be too clued in on that sort of stuff.

You can use bandicam.it only has 10 mins in free version

click here for link

or you can use camtasia studio

click here for link

Thank you :)

nice info... thx

that was worked out when myself and others were training. in bot we also have progression of people doing different training regiments which lets you compare(using pstats to account for variables such as being a lazy mof**ker). It's also not really fair to the overall training efficacy calculation to not look at missed oppertunity cost associated with getting to better gyms later. The gain difference is decent from that. When adult novelty comes out this will all be rendered useless since by far the best way will be to take3 xanax ontop of your 150, take 4 cans during the day, and then 4 edvds + xtc + refill. You'll move backwards a little each time so will need to have new schedules that account for that(my schedules are exclusively set to maximize 2 day routines without losing refills).

Didn't know about the train 1 at a time.

Thats my girl! Webside |/

The main reason you want to train the smallest number possible (using a 1) is that growth is exponential - growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.

So the larger your stat is when you train it the more you get.

So the question come down to - do you want that stat multiplied by a percentage once or multiple times, each time picking up the gain?

Here is an example.

Let's say you have 500 in a stat. You have 3 energy and the gym you are going to use gives you 5% to your stat. Let's say you could use the three energy all at once or use it one at a time.



Using all 3 energy at once:

500 x 0.05 x 3 = 75 so you would have 575 now in that stat



Using the energy 1 at a time

500 x 0.05 x 1 = 25 now you have 525 in that stat
525 x 0.05 x 1 = 26.25 now you have 551.25 in that stat
551.25 x 0.05 x 1 = 27.5625 now you have 578.8125 in that stat


As you can see just with 3 trains we picked up 3.8125 more in that stat using energy 1 at a time versus using it all at once.
So it is always in your best interest to train using the smallest possible number which is 1.

B+R coz this gurl is amazing.