Hello,
This is my first thread and as a player with only a year of experience, i can say, you locked the Torn City from new players. I personaly get from the total sewer via running the plushies and flowers. To be fair, this income is nearly dead. New players will have now less chance to catch or even compete with the more experience players. Yes, you decribed the positives, but be aware, that torn is getting older and older. Without this faucet for new players, you are locking torn and it will by years start to cease. Because: Old players are maybe loyal, but they will be only older and older and, sorry to say it this way, be dead once. After that, you should check if there is even enough player generation and sustainability. I see this major flaw in the plan. Yes, nice faucet from crimes 2.0. I agree, but that is maybe 20% of income in comparision with plushies. With this move, you make Torn less accessible towards the new players.
Even me personally i get to the torn more after plushie running. Untill that moment, i was just wandering arround and just getting here once a day. Because i had no options how to make serious money. Going to job in army and other stuff? For that funny small wage? What i can buy for it? Live in a shack maybe for ever. Be in an Faction? Who wants to have a rock on the feet in the faction and a player, which is unable to attack even a sheep plushie without a damage?
Find a better job? Which with the job stats at 0? I was lucky that somebody gave me a chance and invested into me dozens of torn dolars. I can say only huge thank you to Nodelore he get me a hit.
But now? Who has this much luck? Not everyone.
Setting the pawn shop to a lower point will be better. Opportunity for muggers? Yes, that is the answer. Sell points and the new accounts which will sell them will be robbed.
Torn will be extinct in the future. This is the end of the fall i predict, because now, new players are doomed.