Fuelling My Way To Failure!

05:16:44 - 01/10/24 You found a Tin of Treats and a book titled "Fuelling Your Way To Failure" on your doorstep.

Fuelling My Way To Failure? I think so!

I've been begging the Torn gods for the 99k Happy book to appear on my doorstep and was initially disappointed until I read a little more about my newest book!

So, I've come across this book in my second month of donator status, and I want to use it "as soon as practical" to unlock gyms as early as possible and keep my gains going strong! I'd love to hear what everyone else did when reading this book! From what I can find, I will need to save about 500m to buy cans, which I'm currently working towards. Since I'm quite active, I don't fly very much, as I can make more by buying and selling on the item market, which keeps me in Torn to catch deals.

I'd love to hear from everyone about the good, bad, and ugly of this book! Should I use it as soon as I can afford it and read other books afterward? Should I read it now and wait for the "Memories & Mammaries" book to appear in my inventory before reading another book? Or should I wait until I find the "Memories & Mammaries" book? I really want to get this right!I have a book available in my mission shop that I can (just) afford: "Self Control is For Losers." Should I leave this and hold out for "Memories & Mammaries"?

Currently, I'm in an amazing faction and (at the time of writing) have messaged AirQuotes to find out about our faction's Voracity branch and how it all works! I'd really like to stay in my faction, but if needed, I may speak with leadership about possibly asking to have my spot held if we don't have the branch open. I'd be open to moving to another faction for 31 days if anybody would have me! Haha.

At the time of writing, I have 4.56 of my middleweight gyms unlocked and would love to unlock as many as possible!

Once I'm ready to read the book (hopefully before Caffinecon in a couple of weeks!), I will update this thread and also make sure that I update my progress regularly throughout the month!

So many hard decisions to make! Let me know of all your experiences and any tips you could give me! Please and Thanks in advance!! 

So many hard descions to make!

Highly recommend you look at the books guide provided by Andyman. Can be found Here

I did look through this but looking for a bit of guidance over what the book does. Maybe some could use the date I give when I read it to make a guide aimed at us newer players :) I would write it myself but I'd just embarrass myself lol

I'd wait until you're at least a year in to use this book and do so just before Caff Con begins. This means you'll have Fac perks + book perks + event perks and if you want to stretch it further then a 10* Grocery Store perks can aid with your booster cooldown and booster items. You will then have a full month of Can training and then lead yourself into Halloween where you will want to be in a Faction that is chaining throughout the week and improving your basket as much as you can following the guide, this will set you up nicely for future events. You can then do what I have done and wait to receive Memories book and reuse it again.

Get yourself to Heavyweight Gyms, at least 10% bonus to gains, enough NW to fund being able to use at least 20e cans throughout an entire month.

Seconding this - think you're using it way too early if you do it anytime soon

That makes alot of sense! thanks! Would it be better to use just under a month before caffinecon to get full use of the cans in training or best to use roughly half for chaining? thansk for the reply!

Best is to mix it with Halloween once you have the disposable income to spend ~2B on it:

Read it just before CaffeineCon, train up till Halloween, attack for Halloweek, train after 

I would use it on the 14th October at whatever time you have set your event to start, personally. It means then that you get the effects of the event, you then get started on Chaining on the 25th and then you get the ability to end the book off with a World Diabetes Day boost to your happy to jump up some of your lower stats.

Perfect, Thanks! That would be a massive fast track to upgrading the basket completely and would (maybe) come close to paying for itself with treats if used correctly 

Great, thankyou! Ill look back on this thread when it gets closer to using it!

i dont think you can afford to utilize that book properly

When you do use it don't let anyone know you're using it. Keep that ish to yourself.  If you want to tell anyone you're using a happy book, tell them you have the Pherrell book and then complain about how stupid of a book it is (double rate of happy regen for a month... Yey.)

If you have any bug reports that month matke sure to censor your happy bar.

FYWTF doubles the E gained from energy drinks. It has nothing to do with happy. 

Oh lol 😂 I don't have all the book titles memorized.  Read it was 2nd month of donator status and got a book about training and made an assumption 🤪

I wouldn't use an e can book without having enough money to buy all max ecans for the whole month while in a 48 hr cool down faction with max e can boost, and a grocery store with booster cool down and increased booster effect.

And I definitely wouldn't use any energy book for training until in energy training stats.

yeah his real best bet would be to wait until next year where he has time to plan everything correctly instead of like "well i got this book and halloween is now.." which is stupid frankly 

overall could be worse (reading it as day 1 or day 1,000 noob without researching guides AT ALL) but still not much better if you can only afford like 2x Taurine

literally every year the margin to make money back on treats goes down - due to inflated player numbers, simplicity of rewards / game structure for the event (hit this, get this, turn this in, get rewarded) 

the first (whatever) amount of years it was profitable, and even in my first (2) years you can make a decent amount of money, though now it's way less likely to be the case - and, with more players, it'll just keep tanking profit-wise every year 

best thing you can look forward to is pvp eventing and getting some merits from that (levels, mission credits, and what have you) pretty much anything pvp related 

10:04:16 - 20/09/24 You began reading the Book : Fuelling Your Way To Failure

Took a lot to prep for this book and yeah, will echo everyone else here, it’s worth waiting to use it. I pretty much did everything in Andyman’s guide. You definitely want Voracity perks and the e can perks they give. If you can pay for trains in the meantime, it’d be worth it to buy a slot in a 10 star restaurant for the reduction in cool-down time. Failing that, grocery store is a good back up. Think it’s 7 star that gives you the two relevant perks. 

You also need to either rehab prior to use or pay for amusement free rides from amusement parks, as all booster cool-down should be on cans. Can strippogram in a pinch too.

While using this book, 30e cans are worth it, so you’re actually looking at spending between 1.2-1.5b cans. Buy them after Christmas as the price will crash from now, with Halloween/CaffeineCon/Christmas Town on the horizon. Demand will massively fall and supply will massively rise.

TL;DR wait til next year, prep yourself for it. Ideally you also want the book to end before Halloween but after CaffeineCon, so all your book e goes on training but so that it ends in time for you to stack for halloween

Caffeine-con is gonna go crazy with this book. I learbed about it late last month and did the math but unfortunately havent gotten it in 6 years. 

180e/30e can for 2 days adds up

I got DB'ed when I read the book during halloween. Never wanna read books since then. I get chestpain somehow anytime I remember it so I now I dont evem wanna see my books. Idu why either.

Make sure to unlock dark energy basket perk before you use it btw. So overpower combo for halloween

Max e cans is only worth if you already consume cans every day. Otherwise cheaper cans for less money but for 2 months with or without the book may bring more gains than more expensive cans for a month with a book. Best to calculate and not just throw money at things. 😎