TL;DR: You like pretty cards, you give me 15m, I make pretty card for you.
Started doing these way back in lockdown. Since opened and closed due to RL stuff but currently OPEN for requests. Upped the price slightly as people tended to tip me anyway, and also because my time is slightly more limited than before.
The rest is as before:
I just use an app and customise it to suit the player while smashing MTG/Torn aspects together with a twist of a trait from the player. I am an author, a nerd, and pretty familiar with MTG. Also looking to add Pokémon stylings.
Edit: The price of "I dunno, some booze?" was too vague. So, the below price was pitched and accepted by several patrons.
PRICE: 15m or equivalent in Alcohol/Cans/A FHC - For a first time, single card, customer. I may do cheaper for alliance or return customers but no guarantees.
There's more littered throughout the faction Torn.
Disclaimer: I reserve the right to refuse any offensive bullshit, ones I don’t wanna do, make a more solidified pricing guide etc.
Edit: I'm Aussie (different timezones to a lot of people) and a shift worker. So, I'm likely not ignoring you. If you see me on and not replying, I may not actually be able to interact and am just dropping e/nerve. I will reply.
So, with the new transparency in companies that was rolled out, it made me remember an idea I had when first studying companies.
The idea is simply an option to invest merits in that helps resist addiction penalties as an employee in a company.
Example: Each point reduces the effect addiction has on your work performance by 2%.
Reasons this idea is good.
1. Players still have to invest in a play style. 2. It’s a bargaining chip to be discussed between director and employees. 3. It helps flesh out merit application options. 4. At a point, older players who have done all edu and are still getting printed merits each week, are wondering where to dump them that they’ll be useful. 5. It gives employees an investment route, where directors have a course set.
Notes: At no point should this make a Xanax fiend as potent an employee as a non-drug user. This is solely something a Xan fiend might invest in to make himself competitive against other potential employees. It should also be transparent as are the other modifiers.
Thoughts and suggestions welcomed.
Edit: Another route suggested is that it simply be +2 efficiency per merit. This may actually be an even simpler and more elegant solution.
A few months ago there was a thread complaining about subscriber rewards, specifically about the enhancers and how they became worthless. (After you had one and the market was saturated.)
Bogie very fairly pointed out that rather than just complaining, offering suggestions for improvement was the way to go. I then threw a suggestion in there that sort of got lost. Which is fair, what was I trying to accomplish mid-thread?
So, the idea.
Name: Workplace Bonus. Effect: Supplies the user with 100JPs in their current role.
Note: The amount of JPs supplied could be altered, it could also be made non-tradable like glasses of beer to avoid stupid price tags. It could also be made to redeem on acquisition of the item.
I personally don’t suggest the last option as it’s not in the spirit of the other items (Books, Drinks, FHCs etc are all on-use items.)
I think this is a superb way to entice subscribers, because it’s not OP but always a nice gift. The god-tier specials like e replenishment are capped anyway, and the item really is all about what the player’s play style is. Whether you’re in a farm waiting to drop a book, a pub soaking up crime merits with nerve refills, or chasing the arduous stealing med supplies merit, this reward is never worthless.
The biggest complaint was that there’s no rewards for long-term subscription. Now, I don’t agree with that. Please, have 7 dollars for a game that’s entertaining me. But this item is just one of many little rewards that could go into the circulation, so there’s a little less ‘Great, another coat hanger.’
I know we are currently amidst the Easter event, but forgive me as I adore Halloween in Torn. I saw we got an Easter Bunny NPC for Easter and I would like to suggest a Halloween NPC.
Jack/Jacqueline O’ Lantern He/She is a money launderer under the guise of being a piñata salesman/saleswoman. Clearly with unsubstantiated claims of a relationship with Sally at the sweet shop.
Some of the drops can be boxes of treats for your bucket, along with all attackers getting the normal treats for the event for attacking (to incentivise going after the NPC and not missing out on treats/chance at rewards. It’s only a week long NPC, so why not make it rain rewards a little?) naturally, the highest prize might be an ultra ‘Spooky Weapon.’
Maybe a piñata? Clubbing weapon with high damage but a chance to break (for a single combat)
Any further suggestions/feedback welcome :) I feel Halloween really is an inclusive event, as even newbies can swing at others for treats. I’d say adding a NPC for it feels like a no-brainer :)
Howdy, all. I was speaking to a couple mates of mine and they suggested that the new gym changes were a nerf to mugging. After they explained the opportunity cost increase in cans and e and gains etc, I kind of understood what they meant.
I’m sorta drafting a company idea suggestion surrounding those who make mugging their Torn career.
But I want to ask the questions: How does the community even feel about mugging’s current state? Should there be a company designed for those kind of players dedicated to it?
Please try to be pragmatic, don’t just knee-jerk because you left 100 FHCs unattended in your bazaar once. Think of it as a mechanic, and a play style that should be just as valid as any other.
I have several ideas for it, but will only try to make a suggestion get to Ched and Co if the community actually thinks it’s warranted.
My personal opinion to open discussion: I believe a mugging company in the mid-late game tier would work well, as those who thrive on mugging appear to be numerous enough that they’d fill positions, but not be so many that it’d become a 12m advertising shit fight to keep 10* like Lingerie Store. I am also a firm believer in all playstyles being nurtured and encouraged. Mugging is a skill. I think it deserves the opportunity to min-max a bit more in a crime related game.
Edit: Yes. I know about the Plunder weapon ability. The 10* will be similar (weaker but stacks), the rest will be to aid the mugging process. Im leaving out the draft until I see support for the concept so it doesn’t auto-turn into a suggestion no one wants
last time the really showed us a good and quick time. A real smash and dash. A right pump and dump.
I look forward to seeing if they can pace it out with us. Hold us little. A bit of aftercare. Prove they are generous and thorough members while they ravish us through the ups and downs.
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Anyway, should be a good war and yes, I will be making it weird.
That’d be retals and assist boost. Travelling boost is a thing but not applicable here (thank you SA for not mass travelling.)
there’s less big jumps now as ESC ain’t retalling. They’re farming with Leaves to end the fight. It might be less volatile jumping, but it’s a steady stream now.
edit: also a switch to warlord weapons. I think. I’m not sure as I kinda just stand here and log in when Derv screams at me.
I’ve quite literally GAINED e in the past 2 hours by sipping Taurine in the faction to keep booster from bottoming out.
The initial swarm may need a breather (maybe? Dunno?) At some point, but the British crew is waiting in the wings with barely touched e and a stable but slow internet connection haha
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