Chains

How do i achieve chains

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Chain

A chain is a warring tool designed to supplement warring between Factions. Chaining begins with an initial five minute "warm up" period, in which ten successful attacks must be made. Once a chain reaches ten, each subsequent hit must be made within a timer of five minutes - if a successful hit is made this timer will reset, the chain counter will increase by one and the chain will continue.

Contents

• 1 How to Chain
• 2 Unlocking chaining
• 3 Gaining respect
  • 3.1 Base respect
  • 3.2 Chain scale
  • 3.3 Attacking type
  • 3.4 Retaliation
  • 3.5 Group attacks
  • 3.6 Warring
  • 3.7 Fair fights
  • 3.8 Overseas attacking
• 4 Losing Respect
• 5 Chaining Merits
• 6 Patch History
• 7 References

How to Chain

A successful attack may be made against anyone Torn that is not in your own faction; after defeating a target any result (leaving, mugging, hospitalizing etc) will count. Only full members may contribute toward a chain; a member who joins after the chain begins must wait out the 72 hour Recruit status.
If your chain breaks (i.e. no one in your faction makes a hit for 5 minutes) it will begin to cooldown at a rate of 6 seconds per hit made. So if you reach a chain of 100, it will take 600 seconds to reach zero and be fully 'cooled down'. You may attack during the cooldown period, however it will have no effect on the cooling chain.
The purpose of building a chain is to reach 13 designated bonuses at 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2500, 5000, 10000, 25000, 50000, and 100000 attacks. Each bonus provides a huge flat bonus amount of respect.
Notes:

• The Warlord Weapon Bonus is not applied on bonus hits.

Chain Cooldowns
Bonus	Respect	Cooldown
Hit #10	10	60 seconds
Hit #25	20	150 seconds
Hit #50	40	5 minutes
Hit #100	80	10 minutes
Hit #250	160	25 minutes
Hit #500	320	50 minutes
Hit #1,000	640	1 hour, 40 minutes
Hit #2,500	1280	4 hours, 10 minutes
Hit #5,000	2560	8 hours, 20 minutes
Hit #10,000	5120	16 hours, 40 minutes
Hit #25,000	10,240	1 day, 17 hours, 40 minutes
Hit #50,000	20,480	3 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes
Hit #100,000	40,960	6 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes

Unlocking chaining

In order to build chains, you must first unlock each bonus by completing a challenge and assigning a permanent respect cost.
If you have completed the challenge for your next chain upgrade and have enough respect available, upgrading mid-chain will not break the ongoing chain.For example, if you have completed a 5,000 chain before, have an active chain, and have 48,358 respect available, you can unlock and continue to complete a 10,000 chain.

Chain Costs
Maximum Chain Unlocked	Challenge	Respect Cost
10	No challenge	1,412
25	Achieve a chain of 10	2,173
50	Achieve a chain of 25	3,067
100	Achieve a chain of 50	4,719
250	Achieve a chain of 100	6,662
500	Achieve a chain of 250	10,251
1,000	Achieve a chain of 500	15,773
2,500	Achieve a chain of 1,000	22,265
5,000	Achieve a chain of 2,500	34,258
10,000	Achieve a chain of 5,000	48,358
25,000	Achieve a chain of 10,000	74,404
50,000	Achieve a chain of 25,000	105,027
100,000	Achieve a chain of 50,000	161,596

Gaining respect

Every time a member of your faction makes an attack (on users not in your own faction) they will earn respect. The amount of respect earned varies quite a bit depending on the target due to a number of different multipliers that are applied under certain conditions.

Base respect

Base respect is level dependent. Very simply, the higher the level of your target, the more respect you will earn. Base respect follows the equation:

• Base Respect = (Ln(x) + 1.0)/4.0

where x is the level of the target. It also appears to be rounded to 2 decimal places before being applied... For example, a level 95 yields 1.3884 based on the formula above, although data suggests 1.39 is the true value applied.
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Chain scale

Beyond the 10th hit, a chain scale multiplier is applied to each hit's respect, that increases very slowly between 1x and 2x for chains between 10 and 100,000. This multiplier follows the equation:

• Chain Scale Multiplier = 0.25 * Log_10(x) + 0.75

where x is the # hit in the chain. For example, the 1,337th hit of a chain will apply a 1.53x multiplier to the respect earned. This multiplier is not applied at any bonus, instead the designated bonus multiplier described above is applied instead.
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Attacking type

As mentioned previously, any type of attack counts toward a chain - although this comes with a single caveat: mugging someone applies a multiplier of 0.75x to the respect gained.

Retaliation

A retaliation hit is an attack (hospitalisation only) made on someone that has attacked one of your faction members within the last 5 minutes. Retaliations provide a multiplier of 1.5x, and can only be claimed once on a player until they attack your faction again.

Group attacks

Attacking as part of a group not only aids in defeating a target, but can substantially increase the respect gained too. Each additional friendly attacker will result in a depreciating bonus multiplier being applied to the respect earned, following this equation:

• Group Attack Multiplier = 1.5 - 0.25 * 0.5^(x-1)

where x is the number of additional friendly attackers in the same faction. For example, 3 additional attackers will apply a multiplier of 1.4375x.

Warring

Hitting an opponent you are in a war with - be it Territorial, Competitive or Destructive - will apply a multiplier of 2x to the respect earned. For a territory war, your opponent must be on their wall for you to receive this bonus.

Fair fights

The fair fight (FF) multiplier ranges between 1x and 3x and is applied for attacking a target with battle stats that are similar to your own. The simplified mechanics are as follows:

• Attacking someone with roughly 75% of your total battle stats or higher yields a FF of 3x

• The lower a target's battle stats are compared to yours, the more the FF multiplier tends toward 1x

• Players hitting anyone with a battle stat score higher than the player with the top 1000th battle stats will receive a full FF of 3x

For a more comprehensive understanding JTS (Journal of Torn Science)^[1] derived the formulas behind the fair fight mechanic as follows:

• The Fair-Fight multiplier is solely contingent upon the battle stats of both you and your opponent. Each player has their own battle stat score (BS Score).

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• The battle stat score for the attack and defender is therefore used in the calculation of the fair fight ratio (FF).

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Overseas attacking

Attacking a target that is currently in another country will apply a multiplier of 1.25x.

Losing Respect

Your faction will lose 25% of the respect gained by an opposing faction if one of their members attacks yours. This can potentially be devastating at the higher bonuses, so watch out!

Chaining Merits

There are numerous Awards than can be achieved through chaining:

• Chaining 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 for contributing toward chains of 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000, respectively.

• Carnage, Massacre and Genocide for making a single hit that gains your faction 10+, 100+ and 1000+ respect, respectively.

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just kill many people (10+) in a row in a short amount of time (within 5min) and maintain at least 1 hit per 5min