Looking for people in for the long haul. This will be an excellent opportunity for newer players that aspire to travel some day. Manager coming aboard alone will get us to 3 Stars quickly. Likely to 1 Star within the week.
Come get in on the ground floor with experienced and motivated Director and Manager. Outlaw Money is going places. Where are you going?
I thought about that during the second trip to Mexico. Bought my usual, then tried for the double the second time. Still not go. Not a big deal, I can still use or move those flowers. What will suck is if I find out later that I gave up believing it was a hoax and it was just poorly implemented. I seriously doubt there will be a second round if that turns out to be the case. Fool me once and all that.
Well at least this proves one thing I have wondered about. This must mean all staff work every day, no such thing as even a weekend off. Because the efficiency of Torn never drops at all.
No seriously I only have a small issue with this. From the first day of inactivity????? Slaves do not get a weekend in the real world. Are we saying that of employees here? That they are slaves? I could see this starting on the third or even fourth day of inactivity, but not the first.
Hey Ched, people that play your game do have lives outside this game. Some of us actually like going off grid for a few hours or even a day or two now and again. My daughter is getting married in a few months and not sure how long the travel and everything else will take, but Torn will not be very high on my list of things to do right then. Yeah, change this to something that makes sense and I am fine with it. 10% on Saturday then 20% for Sunday so my people can spend a weekend with their families does not make sense.
I am not going to become a slave driver merely to get clicks for this game.
There are currently 11 companies that have something like this...
1
Rare Import
3
Special flower
3
Cultivation
Passive
25% illegal production success & skill gain (Temporarily Unavailable)
5
Herbal Cleansing
1
Drug addiction reduction
7
Over Capacity
Passive
Buy 5 additional special flowers abroad
10
Floral Contacts
10
View stock analysis of flowers in all countries
that second perk, at 3 Stars and Temporarily Unavailable. I am not sure how long this has been a temporary thing. I never remember it being active though I didn't look almost 4 years ago when I joined Torn. I do know it has been that status for quite some time. It was a factor in me starting the company when I did, but I decided to do so anyway because the other perks were what I wanted more.
But, new companies come along pretty often with 5 possible perks. So why do we still have Temporarily Unavailable?? The devs can come up with new perks they like, but can't go back and resolve issues with these older companies? Maybe consider for a hot minute a couple little things. Making as level a playing field as possible being the point I want to make.
This is the Toy Store. Maybe the closest I can get to the same thing.
1
Memory Lane
1
50 happiness
3
Jumble Sale
3
Special plushie
5
Gamer
Passive
100% console happiness
7
Over Capacity
Passive
Able to bring back +5 plushies from abroad
10
Toy Importer
10
View stock analysis of plushies in all countries
1 Star is pretty much a push, if people want happiness, they want Toy Store, if they want flowers, they want Flower Shop.
3 Star the Toy Store gets the plushies missed at 1 Star. Flower shop gets bupkis.
5 Star another push really.
7 Star, equal.
10 Star, equal.
So it costs $2,000,000 to start a Toy Store, $500,000 for a flower shop. And, this is the justification for the Toy Store having that extra perk? You do realize it makes it harder to recruit people if they know they miss one perk right out the gate? You do know it is harder to keep people once trained sufficiently if they know they can get 5 instead of 4 perks elsewhere? And, those are just the first two things that came to mind.
The bottom line is there are 11 companies out there being short changed while new perks and companies keep appearing.
Why wasn't the 10 Star perk of Logistics given to Amusement Park instead so they could have more than what they get at 7 Stars? What does an Amusement Park do except make people feel better? So the justification for that as the 10 Star perk becomes the director of that company paid for his employees to have a fun weekend at the Amusement Park. Makes better sense to me than giving it to a Logistics company. And, I worked logistics for a very long time. It only boosts the target companies productivity if the employees in that company want to produce more in real life. Yes, I know Torn isn't real life, but every now and then some reality could sneak in and make it a fully experience.
Television Network - 7 Stars -
7
Bad Publicity
Passive
25% extortion success rate and skill gain (Temporarily Unavailable)
Logistics Company - 7 Stars -
7
Contraband
50
Large quantity of a foreign item
Why wasn't that given to the TV Network instead? Reporters and producers don't develop a network of people they can bribe for little favors? Right.
I am not saying can the Logistics company. It is there, people have invested in that, let it stay as is.
But fix the others. If the problem is ideas for what those perks should be, ask the community. Here's an idea for the flower shop that actually makes some sense.
3 Stars - random and very small change of Cannabis. Passive.
Surprising that a bud or two could sneak it's way into a large batch of flowers coming back from overseas. That never happens.{sarcasm alert}
Want more ideas? Ask me, or ask the Torn community. We might surprise you with how well we can think.
Not complaining, just wanted to share a funny story.
I was running Stone Park, an official race last night. Had been holding around top 3 when I would check. Last lap I had an okay lead, but Baldr was there and moving up. But, I was doing okay anyway and started to think I had the race. Last turn, decent lead. Then, I am at the finish line, and waiting, and waiting, and no notification that I won. Couple seconds later Baldr breezes by. That was when I noticed I crashed. At around 99.78% complete. Wish I had gotten a screenie but if you don't finish, it doesn't let you look again. Oh, just thought of something. Baldr, if you see this and still have the rave you can look at, maybe post screenie.
All I could think of was the guys that start celebrations before crossing the goal line. I must have decided to do a spin out and hoped to drift across the line.
Moral of this story.
Showboaters never win, winners never showboat.....lol
Baldr had the results. Doesn't prove anything except I crashed at 99.78%. I did have like a 2 second lead though. He was catching up like crazy so another quarter lap I would have been behind. Maybe the Race Fates realized I was not suppose to be that far ahead of him and spun the wheel for me....lol
There are merits attached and even though there are literally hundreds you can attain, the couple from racing are pretty easy to get. And merits are worth it.
I understand where you are coming from to some extent. But I was aware of the rule and made sure I did not go too high even though I passed the portal after the first race so that close. They have not changed my placement so they are following the rules. Not everyone does that any more. Appreciate the people that do.
This is my last shot in this classification and it is a long road until I can do well in the next tier. I knew all that.
And I do appreciate these people for running a competitive but fair tourney. I know I have zero chance in the other. At least here I might win a tier.
I can't begin to express what she meant to me. If you consider how long I have known Whyspurr then factor I would never have known Whyspurr if not for her mom bringing her into the world it starts to become clear. I guess you could say I sort of knew of her outside Torn but it wasn't until she joined that I got to know her better. There are people we have met, people we have known and people we have feelings of some sort for. I think just knowing she is Whyspurr's mom moved her from met, to know to someone I simply had to love.
Thank you for this, Chilly. Maybe I will just direct people wanting to buy the faction to this post. She will be with us as long as we are here and until Chedburn doesn't want to pay the bills anymore if I have a say.
So you are saying even though we have been told all this time that matches are based on RS this is not true and matches are totally random. I find that interesting when most times I check the Officials I seem to be matched with people very close to my own RS. I understand that random plays a huge factor in racing. But I also understand statistics enough to understand that anything that factors into a decision will have effect in proportion to it's weight. In other words, over a large enough sample a person with a 10% higher RS than you will beat you 10% more often. All the RNG does is cause that sample to skew from the usual or average. And I seriously doubt things come down to a 50-50 chance. Why bother with RS or RNG if it is simply a coin toss until you reach 50 RS?
One thing you might consider doing is checking the RS of drivers you enter official races with. Still no guarantee but if 3 of the others are inn the 10s or higher there is a good chance that you with 4 RS will not finished top 3. Exit that race and try, try again until you enter races you feel you have some chance of winning. Alternately run a few and see how you do after checking their RS. Maybe even keep a doc sheet to track your progress. I wish I had but when I started racing did not think of it and really didn't have time. You might not be able to for many reasons, but if you can, no harm in data.
We are a low key very chill faction. We don''t ask anything really of anyone. We have a Legacy member that has been gone for a couple years now so we will not be selling the faction. Really at this time we are just offering heals at the average price as we work up. Anyone interested in working with us do apply.
Just glad I didn't use the Stealth book like I was thinking to do. It sounds kind of like kidnapping in reverse. If you make it out of the first day with tag your chances increase every day after. I guess it is back to holding my breath for a little while.
One future change that should really be considered if this comp returns. Mulitple attacks on the same person over short periods should have a penalty. The last couple years my tag was ganked on the second or even third attempt by someone that I beat the first then second time. I was away so couldn't do anything to prevent the repeated attacks. Maybe remove the option of Take Tag if they fail the first attack for a day or even longer.
Once all the BS and rhetoric has been swept away, the poker game has three types of players. None of which I claim to be, btw.
You have casual but skilled players who literally know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em and these folks tend to break even or do a bit better than break even.
Then you have the people telling you there is an etiquette to the game. These people are also often known as sharks. They tend to make the rules and the 'etiquette' that best suits them. Admittedly they have done some hard work often in order to make good profit by knowing the game. But they exist primarily to find that third group.
The noobs aka fish. People with a vague idea of the game, a few dollars burning a hole in the pocket. Sometimes one of those casual but good players will slowly milk their money away but the fish can swim away with a good feeling about themselves. A shark wants to feed as quickly as possible so the next sucker, excuse me player can settle in.
What you see here and elsewhere is what happens when the shark gets their teeth pulled. They spout rules and etiquette that actually only ever applies to the fish. I have never heard of a poker shark agreeing to another game that the fish might be better at so the fish actually had a chance to win back his losses.
As someone said elsewhere, you need the fish swimming into your games or you end up playing each other with just your money. Considering that is it really wise to alienate potential fish with threats, faux guides and other tactics or just STFU and chalk the rare loss up to a bad day?
)I rarely rate or post forums because like a shark complaining about loosing it just gets noticed and triggers people. But facts are facts. Taking a loss and not making a big deal about means potential fish don't get alerted. Vegas doesn't publish odds on every game for reasons. Sharks exist to feed on fish.(
Note I said OFTEn known as sharks. I have little doubt there are very well educated and skilled players thatgladly mentor and train every noob that sits down with $100 and a dream...right.
The issue is I have 2 possible rewards, exactly the same things but different costs.
12 gauge incendiary ammo, 250 cartridges. One costs 156 mission points, the other 165 mp. I did purchase something which opened the spot for one of them so maybe the price changes based on purchases or something? Or maybe it was just set up this way?