To answer the gym or attacking, for your first 15 levels you want to gym until you can consistently take down a leveling list (it's in the guide below) then attack until level 15. For the rest read below:
Recommend reading this guide:
Baldrs BasicsBut expanding past that a few things important things are:
- Get to level 15 asap to start flying and making some cash
- Torn is a slow burn dont expect to become big fast. I'd think of it as an advanced idle game/cookie clicker
- Try to get to 3 xanax a day + refill as fast as possible your future self will thank you (god knows I hate myself for not doing it)
- Expanding on the point above try to happyjump as much and as soon as you can (happy jumping is explained in the guide iirc)
- Join a faction thats 1m+ respect to start taking advantage of their perks like steadfast, criminality etc
- Get a job in a player run company and start getting train to build up your work stats
- Don't feel pressured by people that are bigger stats than you. They can claim theyll ruin your expirience, make you quit the game etc but as long as you persevere and ignore them theyll eventually back off
- Stay out of global chat and gd for a bit. People have an obsession's with hating green leafs/newbies and can lead to the issue above
Those are my top linus tech tips. Hopefully you stay around and enjoy the game, wishing you the best of luck!