Nerve bar??

Hey guys heard my Nerve bar was pretty low to im not sure how to increase it, i have used some merits but surely there is another way? Also what is your natural nerve bar?



Thanks in advance..

You can increase your nerve bar by doing crimes. Try to stick to crimes that don't send you to jail as these decrease your crime experience. Hospitalization crimes don't decrease it, at least not by any noticeable amount. If you stick to safer crimes, you'll see your nerve bar increase overtime slowly. Keep in mind that just because you're bar isn't increasing doesn't mean you are not gaining crime exp. Torn is a long term game, it takes a long time to build it to high levels.

Another way to increase it to some effect is by busting people out of jail.

My natural nerve bar is 60.

Do crimes.

Here is a guide.

E: I don't think it's worth busting people to try and increase your NB.

My nerve bar is 35, working towards 60.

The most common way is to keep doing crime to build up your crime experience. Do safe crimes to prevent loss of experience as your crime 'level' can drop from failed crimes, unlike your account level. Some example of safe crimes is like GTA crimes to steal in a car park and stealth hacking crimes where you will never get red, or arson on warehouse where red will land you in the hospital instead of jail. Basically, going to the jail makes you lose more experience than going to the hospital. And crime experience is lost based on a percentile of your current experience, not a fixed amount. So the higher your crime experience when you fail and go to jail, the harder then hit is going to be.

Your "natural nerve bar" is your nerve bar without any modifiers (it is based purely on your current crime exp). You can increase this (and your overall nerve) simply by doing crimes. More crimes = more crime exp. NNB increases by factors of 5 starting at 15. You lose crime exp from jailings (NNB can go down).

Note: Increasing your nerve bar with merits does not change your NNB or your crime exp.

There are certain "safe" crimes you should be doing regularly (depending on your current exp) in order to progress in increase your NNB. This is slightly opinionated as to which crimes are "best," but here's one take:

Assuming you are already past the 2-3 nerve crimes. Steal jackets 20 NNB. Thorough Robbery to 25 NNB (maybe a little past it too). Stealth Virus to 30 NNB. Warehouse Arson all the way to 60 NNB. OR Kidnap Mayor at 40+NNB (make sure you have 75k on hand in case of jailings for kidnap mayer though).

If your goal is to increase your NNB, stear clear of all transport drug crimes, as those have high jail rates that will kill your NNB.

I thought that they drastically reduced the amount of crime experience from successful bust? If that is the case wouldn't spending nerve doing crime be better since it might be hard for OP to bust people.

Busting exp was nerfed, yes. But it does increase crime exp "to some effect."

Edit: I forget the specifics of how it works now though.

Yeah busting has been nerfed so bad I don't suggest it at a low NNB and level. Just do the baby crimes that dont get you jailed like stealing jackets then warehouse arson when you get to 30

Edit: and I'm at 50NNB

Thanks for all the help guys i didn't know this about the crime experience :D although my main crime is stealing big box of chocolates i haven't noticed my nerve bar gone up at all since playing the game so not sure what that means

You've been jailed 83 times! That's why your natural nerve bar hasn't budged. Switch immediately to stealing jackets (as others have mentioned) and don't stop any time soon.

As well, Torn is a long game, as others have mentioned. Realising this will help you have patience. No need to rush anything like that. Take it easy, stay a while!

My natural max is 20... my Nerve bar is 25, in a few days my extended nerve bar will be 35 from a 10* Pub special kicking in, unless my natural nerve goes up by 5 between then and now (which I'm hoping but doubting it will).

It will be 40, not 35. 10* pub gives +15 to nerve bar.

Oh my bad

Thanks for the adviceguys youve all been so helpful finally undersanding it better gonna stick to stealing jackets lol :)