500 Kill streak

500 Kill streak

Index

1. Introduction
2. Requirements
3. Benefit (rewards etc.)
4. Summary (short summary on all methods, for a quick and easy read.)
5. Routes

1. Introduction

First off all, this is very much a work in progress, so please, by all means, notify of any mistakes, or things that are unclear!

Recently I was just sitting around, not knowing very well what to do, and then I thought of the 500 killstreak award and honour bar. Now a lot of you may think this honour bar is well beyond your capabilities, but thinking about it it isn't really that hard! As long as you are willing to sacrifice some (2 weeks tops) of your time ( and perhaps money / energy).

In this guide I will mostly focus on details on how to make your trip to a 500 kill streak more easy and how to maximize the amount of merits you can get out off this. I will also discuss 3 optional routes you can take to get to said goal.

I'm fully aware that for a large portion of players this is a really easy to achieve goal (e.g.: big battle stats etc.), hence this guide mostly being aimed at newer / weaker players, with a little lower stats.

I will use the first -reserved- comment to write down methods used by certain players who are mostly a little bit stronger than the people this guide is aimed at, so if you're one of those check that first comment!

2. Requirements

To complete your mission towards a 500 kill streak there are some requirements, be it small ones, as this is mostly a big variable in between routes you can take.

• Donator status

Why would you need a donator status? Well having a donator status allows you to have more of a key component in this process, this being energy and how fast it regenerates! We will also be using the advanced search option!

• Some degree of battle stats

Now this is probably the most obvious requirement for this achievements, that being said, you don't actually need that much stats. If you're really willing to put yourself to the limit about 100k in each stat will suffice largly!

• Level 15

This is also one of the requirements that you'd best have met before trying to start this achievement, mostly because in one of the options we will have to fly a lot to avoid our streak to be nullified.

• Time

This is probably the most vital component for this achievement, you will have to sacrifice at least 3 to 5 hours of your day using method one and two, and even up to two weeks using the third method!

3. Benefit

Here I'll be explaining what exactly could be the massive benefit from doing this. Mostly you will be able to get a ton of rewards ( honour bars and medals ), but apart from that you will also be able to spruce up some of your stats!

• Honour bars

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These are the most obvious ones, these are the honour bar you will receive once you hit the 500 kill streak ( being 10 - 100 -500 respectivly ).
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This honour bar will be achieved if you have not done any critical streaks before ( 25 critical hits).

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This honour bar is something you will achieve easily as you will be one hit killing the people attacking you ( achieve a one hit kill)

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These are all the finishing hits with all weapons, now you might be saying, how will you get all of them? When we will only do ~500 kill streak? Well we obviously will not, you will be able to chose from 5 of these!
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These honour bars will depend on what method you will use, and how far you have already progressed in the game:
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These will be gained when you use method 3.

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these can only be obtained through method 3 aswell IF you pay a lot of attention ( I will come back to this later)

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this one is only obtainable if you use method 1 or 2.

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These were all obvious honour bars you can easily get using one of three methods, ofcourse I am aware there are other ones but they would not be directly related to this!

• Medals

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This is the medal you will get once you get to a 500 kill streak, its name is 'Onslaught'. You will also gain 4 more medals in this series whilst you progress towards your goal:
Strike: Win 25 consecutive fights
Barrage: Win 50 consecutive fights
Skirmish: Win 100 consecutive fights
Blitzkrieg: Win 250 consecutive fights
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This is a medal you will obtain using methods 1 and 2, its name is 'Turtle' and is obtained when you reach 500 defends. You will gain 2 other medals whilst you are progressing:
Bouncer: Win 50 defends
Brick wall: Win 250 defends
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This medal is obtained using method 3, it is called 'Scar maker' and obtained when you reached 500 attacks. Here aswell are 2 other medals you will get in the process:
Anti Social: Win 50 attacks
Happy Slapper: Win 250 attacks

• Stats

Now to progress to the last benefit, this is quite an obvious one and more something you can poach / boast with. Since the amount of defends one has is very often looked at by people to determine wether they are strong or not, ofcourse this is only a scaring factor and has nothing to do with how strong you are.

4. Summary

As I have mentioned before I currently am aware of 3 methods you can use to achieve your goal. I will list those here very shortly for the people who want a quick read!

• Method 1

This method is by far the fastest and most reliable, yet it is also by far the most expensive one.

This basicly involves contacting 2Pac (Unfortunatly 2Pac has quit the game and left Swatsicle to be the only one doing this.) and Swatsicle who will arrange for you everything you need. Said examples are very fast in accomplishing this and above all are very reliable, they are also very willing to discuss your needs and thus have gotten many positive reviews. You can find her in this thread: http://www.torn.com/forums.php#!p=threads&f=59&t=15961628&b=0&a=0&start=0&to=0

Everything you need / want is explained there!

• Method 2

Method 2 is still a fast and fairly reliable method, it will also cost you a considerable amount of money. Beware though as this one requires a ton of effort!

What you will do here is basicly look for around 5-6 sluts to begin with using the advanced search option, the slutting forums or trade chat, whatever you prefer. Once you have those you will tell them to begin slutting (which is ofcourse not free hence the need of money). While these people are doing there jobs you will have to keep searching for sluts though, this is the annoying part, mostly because you WILL need around and about 30 to 40 sluts to complete your task!

I will explain this more thoroughly later on!

• Method 3

Then last but not least Method 3 involves is the more annoying one for a lot of people, and requires level 15. You will not be in a faction, not do active trading and fly a lot. It is also by far the slowest and most unreliable method. It does have the big advantage that it does not cost you anything ( loss of income not included due to inability to trade).

Here you will basicly use all your energy to attack, attack and attack people, It also involves flying or self hosping whenever you are not arround or do not have energy!

5. Routes

This will be an extensive explanation of all methods. I'll do my best to explain every detail to you guys, if you notice a mistake please, by all means, let me know!

• Method 1 ( Using other peoples services. )

Like mentioned before, this method does not require any effort from your side. All you have to do is contact Swatsicle and try to negotiate a good price for your kill streak. I cannot explain much about this as this does not need explaining, all the work is done by someone else. You just have to sit back and relax. Another advantage in this method, also mentioned before, is that it is fast and reliable. She will even do a second run IF the streak breaks due to a mistake, random muggers etc. BUT this has yet to happen!

• Method 2 ( Finding your own sluts & make your own logs etc.)

This is the hardest route you can take, the biggest advantage here is that you can do it yourself, relativly fast and fairly reliable. Although don't be surprised if you just don't make it (like when I first tried it :c). We will be processing this in a fair few steps.

First off all we will contact a fair amount of sluts through any means nessesary. The easiest way would be trade chat or the slutting (attacking) forum! that takes a lot of time, but it's fairly straight forward, to assemble a good team of sluts. You can also just search for people yourself, but it's easier and less of a pain to just use trade chat & the attacking forums.

Another option would be to use the 'advanced search' option, here is where the donator status comes in handy, as you won't have this function if you do not have donator status. You will have to fill in age: 0 - 10 (preferably, but older might also work) and status: online. Once you have done this you will see a list of players you can message / chat with the offer wether they would be willing to participate in your efforts (I used 300k each and provision of additional xanax and meds). This is a very easy and fast method to find a lot of sluts really fast. Keep in mind a lot of these people do not fully understand torn yet, so it might take some explaining and nurturing them on the how to part. Finally also make sure you do not encourage them to make multis, as that will get them fedded and your money will have been a waste on their part.

Once you've set a date and time you will make a google sheet ( ofcourse this can be anything else to log to, I just used a google sheet), in this google sheet we will log all attacks made by everyone. Why do I use this? Because it's bloody hard to keep track off all the attacks made with the torn logs. While with an easy formula we can make your computer do that!

Assuming we start from scratch:

- write =COUNTIF(B5:B,"*") in A2 likewise:

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this will read every event pasted in collumn B from B5 and on

- Now we'll also want to make a seperate count for each name ( so we can easily track every slut and pay them accordingly:

You will have to write =COUNTIF(B5:B,"Name*") in D4 and lower ( change to your preferance), it should now look like this:
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When you are all done with the defends / sluts it should look like this:

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(Ignore the M's, I had some flagged as a multi and they're fedded now :p)


- Now that we have those systems set up you can make it look nicer anyway you want and you will have to paste all your logs from B5 and on, likewise:
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This is also how it will look after you have completed the run!

Now that you know how to make a nice logging sheet - if you didn't already - we can wait till the stated date and time. Once it's time you will contact these sluts and tell them they can start attacking, it doesn't matter what order, because we can simply copy and paste it in our sheet!

Finally I would also like to suggest that you keep looking for sluts even when they have already started. Why? Well there's first off all gonna be people that don't show up, it's a fact, there always are, and secondly, it are often new people, they make mistakes ( a random runaway, a wrong attack etc ) so you will need backup and extra sluts to finish your streak.

And also, please, stay away from any means of global communication during this period. This is the mistake I made, and the price I had to pay was big, I got mugged at 468, which was really close after a few hours of work. You do not want that to happen.

You can find my excel sheet here, if you need to see the entire result:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10zPeT0RFT-kV_RYdQmUxC06Gg7keeAOBSvUThTxRHxU/edit#gid=0

Keep in mind though, you can also do this with 'hiding' basicly what you do then is you post in trade chat once, and then you just skulk in the forums and in trade chat contacting every slut you can find, slowly building up towards that 500 kill streak, yes it isn't as fast, and yes there may be a chance that you get mugged in the process, but it is a lot less work, and a lot more easy going. If you do this method in this way it will probably take you about 1 perhaps 2 days at most!

• Method 3 ( Hide, Hide and again Hide!)

This method is basicly for everyone who wants it relativly easy and very cheap, although reliabilty is not good from what I've experienced ( I managed to get to 144).

Basicly what you will do here:

You will first off all not be in a faction (massive disadvantage long term), You will also have to cancel all trading you do and perhaps even let your trading thread drop first, another tip I got was that it would be smart to avoid being on any muggers list by always keeping money on hand very low, so when you get mugged it's for tiny amounts and they don't put you on their list ( We do not want to have any muggers disturbing us). When you have all these requirements met you can basicly begin with attacking as much as weak ( preferably inactive) people. It is to be noted that 500 attacks is a lot of energy (12,500). So this will not be done within 2 days.

• Use 150 energy (naturally generated), then take a xanax, this will give you 400 energy to do some attacks. Repeat this ritual three times every day. This will get you to 1200 energy daily.
• Add your daily refil to that, which is another 150 energy daily
• If you have the money (which I assume you do not because you chose this method) Use 4 fhc's every day, that's an additional 600 energy.

All these steps bring you to a maximum of 1950 energy per day with the feathery hotel coupons and 1350 energy per day without. Which means these methods will respectivly take 6 and 9 days. One more important thing, Do not forget to fly everytime you finished using all available energy, flying minimizes the chance someone will find you and mug / attack you for any reason you can think off, this does include setting a timer on arrival so you can get out of that country asap again (there's a big chance you get mugged abroad), the best place would be to fly to mexico as muggings are relativly rare out there.

After you used your energy to attack it may also be usefull to use some bloodbags to get you down to a low health, that way it looks like you may already have been mugged very recently, and it works towards the bloodbag filling honour bars!

Extra:

This is a really good method if you only just started and haven't got a lot of money and stats, which means you can get a bunch of other achievements aswell.

• Bounty each person you attack so you can claim your own bounties placed, this should give you the bounty hunter honour bar (claimed 10 million worth of bounties) and should also give you three bounty medals:

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• The attacking itself should give you atleast 6 camo honour bars for the amounts of attacks you have done.

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• Make sure to turn on your stealth so you can get the honour bar for 100 stealthed attacks!

• It helps if you wait until you are a higher level. A high level with a low networth makes for a poor mug target. Level 50+, but this may interfere with other goals such as faction commitment medals and is also dangerous as you may end up on someone's power leveling list!

I think with that we can conclude this guide, if I have missed anything I said I would mention, or just missed some aspect entirely, please tell me via chat / pm or here in a comment! Hopefully this can be usefull for atleast some people. And last but not least, if you have any layout tips please, explain them, Because I find my layout to be utterly and horribly failed!

Thanks

Harley

Credit:
- 2Pac and Swatsicle for making an easy possibility to get this.
- Scootaloo for suggesting the third method.
- Spades, Psychotica for a couple of additional tips to perfect the methods.
- Everyone who helped me get rid of spelling / grammar and other mistakes.

Sources:
- http://www.torn.com/wiki/Awards#Miscellaneous_2
(for all the awards)
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10zPeT0RFT-kV_RYdQmUxC06Gg7keeAOBSvUThTxRHxU/edit#gid=0
(my own sheet for method 2)
- http://www.torn.com/forums.php#!p=threads&f=59&t=15950480&b=0&a=0
(2Pac's thread for method one)
- IRC for a lot of exchange in information.

Here I will post optional methods that can be used by higher statters, or just nice additions overal which don't belong in the main guide.

1. PMV's method



This method is considerably more risky in the new chaining system as of 19/01/2018

Join any faction that is going to do a long chain, preferably a low profile one, as with the "new" chaining system the immensely long chains can attract unwanted attention. This might take a few tries but is also a method that's worth it as the faction will gain a good amount of respect due to:

- Hits (just normal hits made during chaining.)

- bonus hits (Any number of bonus hits. More information can be found in Proxima's guide here)

- Retals (Hits made on people who attacked one of your faction members, this gives bonus respect.)

- Much more, try to maximize your multipliers!

This of course also brings plenty of opportunity to get the rewards mentioned in method 3 , and above that you also have a chance to get medals for the amount of respect you gain (or the chain sizes you participate in:

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It might just get you those additional medals! (If you keep in mind that it might take a few tries)



2. New Player method


This method shall and will only (really only) work for people who JUST joined the game. Now, you could wonder why? What's so special about just joining the game that others don't have? Well, the answer is pretty straight forward, you just have to think of it.

Beginner protection


In this option we shall try to reach our goal of a 500 kill streak by taking advantage of our beginner protection and the wonderfull guides already out there.

Back to business, first we need to get some facts straight. Beginner protection lasts 14 days, not a minute longer, it also is important to know that when you join a faction you also lose your beginner protection, be wary of that!

On your first 5 to 10 days you will focus solely on training, using any form of premium trains possible. This is vital because it will give you an edge towards other new players that will easily find you and try to attack you once your beginner protection wears off. Next up (after those first 5 to 10 days) you'll have to power level to level 15, this means you will need a list of power level targets (high levels with very low stats. This will already bring up your progress towards your kill streak considerably

But this alone will not be enough, you will also need to worry about the financial side of things. This is so you can use those assets to also buy defends. Together with those defends (right after your beginner protection wears of) you should be able to get to a 500 kill streak very fast. Just stay low and don't attract any unwanted attention by going to the forums or trading, this also is a very vital part of what we are trying to accomplish here.

credits for this section go to Master_Mark, he was the one to come up with this idea, however this was majorly changed in recent patches, so needed updating.





And as always if you feel like anything is wrong or missing, give me a shout and I'll see what I can do!

R+

Yeah pretty much method 1

I say "yo, give me 500"

he replies "k blud"

he then completes the order and i gave him 1b

the above is a 10/10 guide and also a tl;dr.

Great job Harley, R+!

Only thing I would say is with regards to my service (the best option for 99% of people!)

"They will even do a second run when the streak breaks due to a mistake, random muggers etc."

"when" is the wrong word. "if, in the extremely unlikely case" is a much better phrase. Our streak has never broken.

But yeah, great job man, lots of effort and it looks good. :D Merry Xmas to all!!

Made some slight changes! Merry christmas :D

It should be noted that if you go with my offhanded suggestion, turn your stealth on >_>

R+

ah yeah stealth I was gonna mention that for that award xD

Four tips to add to this from someone that almost made it except was in a faction.

1. Fly to Mexico. Muggings are more rare there.
2. After attacking use empty blood bags to reduce your health to near 0. It works towards 2 honor bars but also makes it look like you may have been recently mugged.
3. Spend a while with minimal or no cash on you before hand so you aren't on any mug lists.
4. It helps if you wait until you are a higher level. A high level with a low networth makes for a poor mug target. Level 50+, but this may interfere with other goals such as faction commitment medals.

incorporated your tips into my guide!

I like method 1 a lot. Definitely a good one.

I will go poor man route. More excitement.

best of luck!

Unique.

Me personally: I just joined JFB when they were first starting out and beat up their entire warbase till I got it :) it took a few tries cuz of 'friends being funny', but it got em a nice bunch of respect in the meantime.

Added it as little suggestion to the guide :p

How much you getting paid by 2pac and swatsicle lmao

I got it using method 2. But I didnt fuss with any google sheet or set time/date. I just made a post in the slutting thread of trade forum and watched trade chat. The trick to using method 2 is to keep quiet! Dont go around advertising everywhere that you are buying defends. People see you doing that and they'll break your streak for the lolz. Instead, wait til you have a day or two with a lot of free time and watch for people who are selling them, they post in trade chat quite often. When they do, pm them with what you are willing to pay. I got it done in 23 hours.

I'll add that as another option for method 2 when I get home :p

Nothing... But naturally, we werre very pleased to find this thread, and thanked him!