I remember getting my first billion
I was over the moon because I worked my ass off to get there.
It didn't matter what others had or didn't have. What mattered to me was I got it.
Anyway your perspective is skewed. Buying PI is a noob trap.
Secondly postpone your train until you can make enough profit to cover your train without losing your capital. There are 8 ways to make money in torn:
- Investment
- Land/ rackets (owned by NS and monarch atm)
- Rank wars
- Revivers
- Companies
- Mugging
- Scamming
- Gambling
For 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 you kind of need to have money to pull it off. Well you can mug casino guys but without money it will make your potential targets shorter.
You can use mug bots but to have fast mug bots you need a lot of API. You can abuse ppl api but that will put you to perm fed. And using ppl api without their permission is api abuse. Or using it for different reason they allowed you to is still api abuse. So I won't do that if I am you.
So as you can see, it takes money to make money. But really not much income you can produce from stats. Only number 2 or maybe 6. Stats for rank war is whatever if you have diplomatic and recruitment skill.
When I calculate ppl influence and power and how it can endanger me or my noobs, it is never about their stats, influence, or current money. But the potential in how much they can make.