Arrests

Although this is only for those who work in a Detective Agency, arresting has really added something new to the game. It's common that I'll get a message from someone I arrest asking me if that's a new feature in Torn. It has awakened curiosity, and for me as an old timer, it gives me something new to be excited about while we wait for War to be released. 

What I feel is missing though is having arrests show up in our personal stats, as well as potential for merits for x amount of arrests. It's bad enough that they don't count towards chains, and they make wayyyyy less than slutting or mugging. There needs to be more incentive for arresting, as it's genuinely a cool feature, but has a lot of points lacking for it to be truly worthwhile. Torn needs new things, and for those new things to be practical for players. 

My suggestion:

1. Show arrests in personal stats / Have arrest recorded

2. Create merits/honors/awards for those with x amount of arrests

3. Allow stealth arrests using the same requirements as stealth attacks

Edit: Additions from the community

1. Have a book that helps with arrests or allows/unlocks arrests while the book is active

2. Make arrests not only exclusive to Detective Agencies 

3. Allow arrests to count towards chains, similar or same as Mug. UPDATE: Wonderful news, arrests now count towards chains. It seems they are set as leaves! Thank you Ched!

4. Allow merits/awards for other company specials / Update companies to make awards/merits for arresting fair across the board. 

5. Update: I wish there was a log for me to see how many and who's flights I've delayed.

That would be cool.

I agree totally! 

It's a company thing, so providing merits or honors for it makes no sense whatsoever.

Like revives for example? Or spies? Or faction specific awards only for people in factions? 

I don't get your logic why a company special that is 100% unique to torn and a new function, should not get a merit similar to the above. 

Revives and spies merits are both earned from basic jobs, not companies. 

revive ability is gained from primary job, so is the spying (tv spies doesn't count towards the spy merit). Faction warring is still one of the main features of torn wheres the arrest is just a company perk. No private company activities should be providing awards.

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I can see both sides of the argument. None of the other companies specials show up. However, if they aren't going to show on our stats, they should still count towards chaining.

Ched/ his developers/the committee did a really good job in bringing this genuinely fresh and exciting new company to Torn.  As part of that, I would also like to see some recording of arrests  showing in our stats, its unique, after all. And similar recording exists for a few other jobs  already - spying, revives, etc - as TomDickHarry said. So there is some precedent already for this.

But, I think it is important too to make sure that companies are fair and equal across the board. So perhaps there should be a whole review of what additional company stats (across all companies) might be worth recording/introducing.  I understand there are many new merits planned. Perhaps this could be a good platform for adding this across all companies?

Oh and "arrests made" are already being tracked, which you can check out on tornstats, and much like all the other new info being tracked, it will also be added to player statistics soon, as stated in the latest patch notes.

Surprised you didn't know this, being on cumity and all. :P

About the merits, I agree, would motivate people more into trying out this mechanic which imo seems a bit useless atm.

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How about the number of times being arrested or the longest time not getting arrested or the most money given by arrest?

These can be applied to all torn players.

I agree with the statistics...and I think they started working on improving the personal stats, as stated here. 

However, with the merits, as some pointed above, it would be awkward to introduce merits that can only be achieved while working in a private company. Let's take for example the spies merit. It can only be achieved with army points. Even though you can spy using your job points in other companies, it doesn't count towards the merit.

Good stuff, need it.  I probably wouldn't get the merits or honors or anything like that, but It would be cool to see the amount of arrests people have made.

Arrests made is available on tornstats atm

Some merits for various company specials would be a nice addition to the game, it's a matter of finding ones interesting enough to justify it I think. I won't spam your thread but in addition to arrests there's a few glaring ones:



-Oil Rig: Invest over 2b in the bank

-TV: Spies

-Cyber Cafe: Cancel target virus programming

-Software Corp: Hack a company bank

-In general: Trade job points for items or boosts (cans, ammo, happy, energy)



Overall agree with the premise but it shouldn't be unique to one company type. I'd also point out, if this isn't released with a broad array of other company awards, we're going to see people flocking to one company type immediately, and I think that'd generally be bad.

ched wont make merits or honours for the arrest system cause it to easy to get 

You mean like drinking 500 beer? That was a hard one.

good lcu