VYNICAL: forum

Guaranteed mug-free. Quick payment with receipt. I can still trade when hospitalized so don't hesitate to reach out!
Just start trade whenever I'm open, you don't even have to say hi! Throw in the items, I'll throw back the money and receipt!

Don't know how to trade? Go here.

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2m+ value trade only.

PRICE LIST (Clicky)

• Plushie & Flower: Used to be high, now it's [image: snipboard.io]
• Plushie & Flower Sets: [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Boxing Gloves: [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Dumbbells: [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Parachute: [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Skateboard: [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Donator Pack (DP): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Xanax: [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• E-DVD: [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Feathery Hotel Coupon (FHC):[image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Business Class Ticket (BCT): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• Casino Pass (CP): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• 30e cans (X-Mass, Taurine Elite): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• 25e cans (Rockstar, Red Cow): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
• 20e cans (Munster, Santa Shooter): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
  
• 15e cans (Crocozade):[image: arsonwarehouse.com]
  
• 10e cans (Damp Valley): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
  
• 5e cans (Goose Juice): [image: arsonwarehouse.com]
  

Willing to price match other active trader whenever I can.

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RW corner
Refer to next post for bonus cheatsheet. I only buy RW weapon and armor at 5m/BB

Primary
9mm Uzi - 11% Revitalize | $ 900m
Damage: 70.38 | Accuracy: 46.19 | Quality: 85.65%Yellow
Jackhammer - 15% Stun | $ 200m
Damage: 76.89 | Accuracy: 56.86 | Quality: 127.49%Yellow


Secondary
TBA

Melee
Naval Cutlass - 56% Throttle | $ 145m
Damage: 71.86 | Accuracy: 56.38 | Quality: 122.38%Yellow

Armor
TBA


SOLD

Dune Gloves - 30% Insurmountable | $ 120m
Armor: 44.09 | Quality: 1.72%Yellow
AK-47 - 20% Puncture | $ 150m
Damage: 63.28 | Accuracy: 55.77 | Quality: 110.52%Yellow
M249 SAW - 15% Powerful | $ 140m
Damage: 73.91 | Accuracy: 44.28 | Quality: 101.89%Yellow
Ruger 57 (90m) Quality: 106.12%Yellow
Bonus: 15% Execute | Damage: 38.86 | Accuracy: 59.75
ArmaLite M-15A4 - 55% Cupid | $ 220m
Damage: 73.68 | Accuracy: 61.95 | Quality: 106.35%Yellow
Sawed-Off Shotgun - 15% Eviscerate | $ 139m
Damage: 48.63 | Accuracy: 67.38 | Quality: 120.08%Yellow
Leather Bullwhip - 20% Plunder | $ 95m
Damage: 34.23 | Accuracy: 56.03 | Quality: 112.62%Yellow
Beretta M9 - 15% Execute | $ 85m
Damage: 42.33 | Accuracy: 58.23 | Quality: 105.61%Yellow
Riot Boots - 21% Impregnable | $ 123m
Armor: 45.03 | Quality: 0.51%Yellow
MP 40 - 60% Quicken | $ 60m
Damage: 45.21 | Accuracy: 45.81 | Quality: 130.16%Yellow
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Saw some dislikes on my trading thread and wondered why? Refer below

This guide focus on player company jobs, not city jobs. 99% of the case you should join a player company due to the perks being objectively better than a city job one. For comparison between player company job and city jobs, meckie93 wrote a nice summary here.

This guide aims to give newbie a quick look into companies with quick tags for easy search.

The sections are divided into early, mid and late based on workstat required first, gameplay second. Candle Shop, for example, is a solid mid-game company as well. Clothing Store is a trader favorite and good for late-game warring but have relatively low stat requirement. Pub is just a fantastic all-rounder regardless of which phase you're at but it has mid level workstat requirement and really crowded market.

Classifying based on workstat will help preventing newbie from asking for employment in late-game companies without knowing any better because no one will hire a 1k stat for their Fitness Center or, god forbid, Oil Rig.

Tags explanation:
Training: Good perks for trainings
Premium: Great perks for paying users or someone with the means to maximize their use (requires high expense to fully and consistently utilize the perk)
Income: Perks are good for making money or has decent daily wage
Warring & attacking: Useful for veterans (1b+ stat) to get an edge during combat (newbie should just stay away since you're going to get oneshotted anyway)
Crime: Perk for training your nerve
Energy: Perk for getting more energy, either via more consumables used or just direct conversion from job points. More e means more training, more chaining, more attacking and thus it is extremely valuable.
Education: Perk for getting your edu class done early
Niche: have one or two perk that is exceptionally valuable for some playstyle and meaningless for the rest.

Any perk not highlighted (Bold, Green) is either inconsequential or have better perks in bold that most people would prefer instead. Companies with bolded perk at high star usually mean they are at the high-end spectrum of workstat requirement.

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Early game: When each of your battlestat is less than 1m (Happy jump effectiveness is high) and you have shitty workstat (0-10k single workstat)
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If you're a day 0 account with barely any stat, the most you can ask for is a 7* company in the list below (unless you're a whale, paying for train or restart). For a 10*, around 10k+ single workstat is the minimum requirement. The more popular a company type is, the more workstat you need to have to get into one with decent star.
Most of these companies will not pay you in wages since the perks are your payment. Only the starting company with low or no star will pay you wages (most of the time not worth it). Higher star companies will even tax you if you have shitty workstat. The majority of the case it's not from Director's greed (there's still exceptions, but those directors would struggle to find employee) but on the fact that most high star company for newbie will operate at a loss to keep their star (just check Advertising expense vs. Daily Income) hence the Director need to tax employees or sell trains to barely keep the star.

Adult Novelty:
Relevant tag: Income (9* & below), Premium, Training (10*)

If you can afford continuous and consistent happy jumps, lots of them, then hands down the best company to do it in (at 10*). If you play casually and only happy jump once in a while, there are better options.
Note:

- I cannot stress this enough: if you're free-to-play and plays casually, only do happy jumps when and only when you can afford it. Otherwise just do 3 xanax 1 refill + natural e daily. Do not skim on that minimum to save for happy jumps, you'll be progressing much slower than those who consistently do 3 xanax 1 refill + nat e. Also, early on you're most likely going to be taxed and not going to be trained for free.

- One way to earn income when you are in a 10* AN is to "sell happy". Basically you get someone who are doing Poison Mistletoe happy jump to pay you for the privilege of sucking the leftover happy after you've done jumping.

Sweet Shop:
Relevant tag: Income (9* & below), Training (10*)

More focused on money-making side and less on the training side. You have to give up income (cans) to do a good happy jump. Suitable for people who jump infrequently. You can get a 99k happy jump much earlier than an Adult Novelty. If you want up-front money that you can see (albeit much lower than the alternatives), it's the job for you.
Note: See Adult Novelty.

Candle Shop:
Relevant tag: Energy, Income (via city find)

Very popular choice for a wide range of players, from free-to-play restarts who know what they're doing to seasoned veterans stacking up job points for attacking events. The main perk they're after is 1 jp for 5 energy at 7* (capped at 100 job point converted in one day). Standard strat is to time the happy jump with 100 job point stacked and you have 500 additional energy for your jump. that's nearly an additional half a happy jump worth of gains. Good alternative for people who jump infrequently. The energy can also be useful in attacking events like Valentine, Eliminations, Dog Tag and Halloween as well. Also, awareness passive for that dream of getting a Stat Enhancer early.

Hair Salon:
Relevant tag: Education, Warring and Attacking

Alternative path for people who want to get their education finished fast. The two valuable perks is at 7* (30 min edu reduction per jp) for general usage and the 5* perk which help you become a good bait for retaliations in a chaining and warring faction.

Toy shop:
Relevant tag: Income, Niche

for dedicated plushie runner. More preferred than Flower shop, against better judgments, due to how faster plushie restocks.
Note: you don't have to exclusively buy one type of goods to proc the passive. If there's only 5 plushie left and 28 flower/other items and you can carry 28 + bonus 5 plushie, buy the flower first so it caps the base amount you can carry THEN buy the 5 plushies. With the recent patch that introduce a pletora of trash valuable items to be imported from abroad (Meteorite, Fossil, Arrowhead), this tip is crucial for you to maximize your perks.

Flower shop:
Relevant tag: Income, Niche

for dedicated flower runner. Have addiction reduction perk which, frankly, is much, much better than Toy shop, at the tradeoff that flower is such a pain in the arse to run since it frequently goes out of stock.
Note: read the Toy Shop note. Also, seriously, the addiction reduction perk is OP. The more rehab you do, the less effective it will be so reducing the amount of rehab you need to do is a very legit long-term strat. Especially if you stick to the standard 3 xan 1 refill per day religiously.


Property Broker:
Relevant tag: Income, Niche (5* & 10* perk) for Traders

All perks point to money (except for the shitty 3* perk). Trader-centric company with 5* perk for general trading and 10* perk for specialized property upgrade service. Most people will spend their job point on the 7* perk (exchange 150 jp for a random property, up to Castle). So in a 10* one, every 15 days you have a chance at the property lottery, which averages to around 200k/day.

Clothing Store:
Relevant tag: Warring & attacking, Niche (7* perk)

Good warring & attacking perk. Makes a def whore becomes a tank and a dex whore becomes a slippery slime. Couple with an exceptional perk for trader and high-stake casino players (75% mug amount reduction). The job point conversion to workstat is nice but not really high on the want list.

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Mid game: Each battlestat is within the 1m-50m range. Workstat around 10k-50k single stat
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Grocery Store:
Relevant tag: Premium, Energy, Income (10*, if you ignore the other 2 perk)

A direct upgrade of Sweetshop and geared more toward paying users. No perk for happy jump but hey, you can get and consume more cans at a better efficiency now. This is the more affordable alternative of Restaurant in terms of chugging e-cans.

Restaurant:
Relevant tag: WHALE Premium (10*), Energy, Warring & Attacking

Hands down the most preferred job for whales / people with shady networth growth (we're speaking 30-days old accounts with 10b in networth or 200 days old with 100b+). Basically if you can afford chugging 10-16 cans daily (with 30e cans it's ~50-80m in daily expense just from cans alone), 10* restaurant is the best job because of how much energy it can give you on top of the standard 3 xan + refill + natural e. Just remember to join a faction with maxed e-drink effectiveness perk first. Instead of drinking 12 cans maximum per day like a normal human being, you can drink 16 now, with additional 3e per job point on top. That's a total of 750 extra e per day comparing to 3 xan + refill + nat e. Ever wondered how can some people get 1b stat in less than 400 days? Restaurant and a lot of shady stuffs money, that's how. The perfect job for the 0.01% of Torn citizens.

Music Store:
Relevant tag: Training, Warring & Attacking

Two use cases: (1) For free-to-play users who want a cheap training route via the 3* perk which helps you unlock better gyms 30% sooner. (2) Chaining and late-game warring at high stars. The perk is not bad but awkward combination with the low star perks. If you're in a chaining and warring faction, you'll be a good bait for retaliations. A better choice than Theatre, frankly.

Cruise Line Agency:
Relevant tag: Income, Niche.

For xanax runners / general flyers and people who wanna burn their networth in the Casino trying to be the next Alexstraza or Hildegarde or something. The drug addiction reduction is much better value-wise but idk, feeding your gambling addiction vs. reducing drug addiction is such a toss-up, not gonna lie. At 10*, it's a direct upgrade for both Toy Shop and Flower Shop. 

Pub:
Relevant tag: Crime, Energy

For people training crime the right way. Multiple perks optimized to boost your CE gain to sky high level. Recommended to do nerve refill on top at 10* Pub when your nerve bar is around 90+ (with faction perk). A 10* pub is pretty hard to get into even with 50k single workstat due to how cutthroat the competition is. The 7* perk is good enough for many to stick around and hope that their pub one day reaches 10*. Good luck trying to get in one during alcohol-boosting event (St Patrict & International Beer Day) tho.

Meat Warehouse:
Relevant tag: Crime, Income (via Hacking crimes)

For people training crime but get distracted by short-term monetary gain via the 3* perk. Basically this means less CE reduction for failing a crime, in this case they're doing unsafe but profitable crimes like the 18 nerve Hacking crime (crime 1.0), which is lucrative but if you're low in nnb, it also means settling at 35-40 nnb forever. Also since most good perks is at low star, Meat Warehouse is much easier to get into than a Pub if your workstat is on the low end. For 60 nnb people, FBI hack in a Meat Warehouse is a decent income alternative to faction PA OC and you don't have to fear your OC getting cancelled on your due to factionmate quitting or throwing a tantrum.
Note: Watch out for random arrests. If you're trying out Crime 2.0, this company kinda sucks now until high risk high reward crime gets released later.

Law Firm:
Relevant tag: Crime, Income

"Wow, all green? is this Shrek's swamp or the company is too OP?"

Well, not really, all the perks are useful toward one single goal but they are not that OP. 

Two main use cases:
1) Bust: You want to get the 11 busting and 1 bail merits quickly or have the busting book.
(2) You wanna join a high level OC team in your faction ASAP for that sweet money and CE.
Either way, make sure to join a Law Firm or you'll be missing out. In case you don't know, busting have a time-gated mechanic: every successful bust will reduce the success chance for subsequent busts, the success chance reduction will decay by half in 12 hours and completely in 3 days, allegedly. Which is why the 5* merit help you fast track your progress by a lot. The background check is also a lucrative service with average demand. The demand kinda went to crap with several tools that estimate battlestats with fairly high accuracy being introduced recently.

Amusement Park:
Relevant tag: Crime, Income, Warring & Attacking

Weird combination. Half nerve training, half service for money, a random warring perk for str whore thrown in for good measure. Good luck finding a buyer for Free Ride tho. They exist, they're just very hard to find. 10* perk seems decent for a crime-training focused player.


Gun Shop:
Relevant tag: Warring & Attacking

Early on, pretty useful perk for getting those special ammo merits. 7* perk is very useful for getting the Peppered merit (more ammo to waste). The most valuable perk is at 5* where you can spy anyone and everyone's loadout for free before you enter battle or drop a DB (if you're that 0.1% of the population). Put yourself in a war and this perk becomes immensely powerful not just for you but for your entire faction.

Cyber Cafe:
Relevant tag: Income

You're here just to sell bounty reveal and get the coding merit quickly. After you get your coding merit and realize that the demand for bounty reveal is as low as your sexual appeal, you buy a SYS block and then go around putting $1 bounty on people with fake accusation like "scammer", "vault thief", hoping they'll use your service and get firewalled. Waste of time for both but hey, you got some money. A soul? who needs it?

Software Corporation:
Relevant tag: Income

Want to know a worse company than a Cyber Cafe? Software Corporation baby. You spend literal days in job points spying for noob Directors with no SYS block and more than 1b in company vault to hack for money. Unless you get lucky or know how to identify cash cow (mostly players who play Torn purely for the Casino experience and don't know how to protect their company vault), the perk is a crapshoot.

Mechanic Shop:
Relevant tag: Niche

Mechanic Shop caters to the fringe racer population of Torn. For others, getting all the driving merits is main reason for them to join. The 250 races win on one car and 10 driving skill is a pain in the arse to get. If you joined thinking you could make some income by hitting jackpots with a Sierra Cosworth. Well, someone did the math and the income is 440k a day on average. You have better options, really.

Car Dealership:
Relevant tag: Income, Crime, Niche

10* Car Dealership is for escape sellers, those without the "Running Away From Trouble" book or those with the book but don't know any better (you don't really need to be in one to sell escapes with the book). These sellers flocks to 10* Car Dealerships to always have escape button at the first turn, then ask their client to equip pepper spray, set Temp to 100 and other weapon to 0 so they can always escape successfully on the second turn.
7* perk is only for those in Crime 2.0 who like to say "it's fraudin' time" and just fraud all over the place (Cardskimming, Hustling & Scamming crime).

Gent Strip Club:
Relevant tag: Training, Warring & Attacking

Top tier choice for dex whore at the moment. The 10* perk will see limited use at end-game warring, however, since you're facing mostly GAK or RW primary weapon-equipped opponents. But for mid-game warring, dex whore in a 10* will become a nightmare for most of the playerbase since most tend to neglect their Spd stat and go melee when attacking. The point conversion at 1*, while it is pretty much bottom-tier in any other comp, is okay if you're training with cans and need to top up your happy occasionally.
Also, that moment when you realize that all possible weapons with Plunder effect are melee. Good luck muggers.

Ladies Strip Club:
Relevant tag: Training, Warring & Attacking

Copy & Replace mostly everything related to dex in the Gent Strip Club portion with def and you'll have this. The 10* seems to be 5% better than the dex counterpart on average; which could be Ched's solution to balance a bunch of different factors going on such as the difference between Sero & Tyro buff, the 100% mitigation requirement vs. 100% evasion requirement, the amount of alternative company for dex whore vs def whore, etc. This is a top tier choice for def whore until you reach SE stat range, afterward there're some competitive alternatives.

Lingerie Store:
Relevant tag: Income, Warring & Attacking (niche for dex whore)

This company leans toward money making. Nine to Five is a solid point sink for newbie to get their workstat up. Concealment and Sex Appeal together absolutely blow Flower Store and Cruise Line out of the water if not for their addiction reduction perk as a saving grace. Oh, Toy Shop? Its corpse is already rotting at the bottom of the ocean. The Simp perk alone would save you 352k/day in upkeep and staff cost at a fully staffed PI. 
Best company choice for very, very active flyers, we're talking 8-10 flights a day. If you logs in 2-3 times a day only, maybe consider Cruise Line, Flower Shop or, god forbids, Toy Shop instead.
Note: Considering how competitive LS are and the best perk being at 10*, if your workstat is less than 50k single stat, just go look for employment elsewhere. Even so, most LS have to tax their employee just to barely keep the star.

Firework Stand:
Relevant tag: Income (via City Find)

You're here, in a 10*, for the merit Dragon Breath and all the other merits involving spending Inc ammo. You might also be a frequent NPC looter and want a stockpile of Inc ammo for your personal use. To be honest, this company is good for passive and newbie directors since there's no stock to order and the market is not so competitive. Oh, you're not a director? what are you doing here then?

Furniture Store:
Relevant tag: Warring & Attacking, Energy/Training, Crime

Used to be a good choice for str whore who actively participate in war due to how flexible it is and how important damage is over accuracy. Now with Crime 2.0 it is a good alternative for beginner crime training (Search for cash, Shoplifting, Pickpocketing, Burglary).

Post too long so I had to cut the Late game section to this one below.

TL;DR version: When the event starts, click on "Christmas Town" on the bottom of the sidebar on your left (won't show up if you're hosped or traveling). Select a Story map for 50% drop rate boost. Walk around for mystery gifts, combination chest & key to spawn, play daily games (5 games per day plus Pick-Your-Present and Spin-The-Wheel) and visit Santa for loot. Loot value generally ranged from 80k - 3m, sometimes up to 14m (Feathery Hotel Coupon). After 10-15mins loot will no longer spawn. Check in every 6-8 hours and they'll spawn again. Exchange only GLASS of beer in the shop. Do not play Pot game (unless you're a gambler then you do you).

After the first walk and you're already bored to bits? There's a pretty helpful user-made script by Father (i've been naughty). The script highlights presents, chests, santa, npc, help with word games. An upgrade, frankly.

Also, if you want more from Christmas Town, try out Story Map and get unique Snow Globe for each map +1 drop rate. Ched also buffed these this year to have more people doing Story Map, which says a lot about Torn's society.
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Christmas Town is the most profitable event for newbie, maybe ever. If you're aiming to rent a PI, this event alone can help you pay for a 100-day rental 3 times over at the minimum, so make sure to be prepared for it so you don't miss out on anything. You can make upward to 500m-1b if you're active and lucky enough.
Update #1: loot value is now dependent on a player's networth. Still newbie can make a sizeable income in the event.
Update #2: Ched seems to have nerfed the drop rate hard to encourage partaking the Story Maps, some story maps have looping pathway, use those as loot maps.

There are some very detailed guides that will get bumped in this subforum when the time come. I've listed some at the end of this post

This guide is to provide a quick overview and the Dos and the Don'ts so newbie know what to expect & prepare for. Some info might change this year if Ched wants to be creative with methods to bore us.

Overview:
There will be a tab at the bottom sidebar named "Christmas Town", replacing the "Competitions" or "Community Event". Click on it and it'll put you in a default map with a list of custom maps by player to choose from. Just select the most upvoted loot map and forget the rest unless you're very, very bored. Who am I kidding? you're playing Torn.

What's the map for? by walking around in said map, loot will be spawned, the most upvoted custom-made maps have considered various aspect which boost the loot spawn rate. Other maps are just for narcissists to showcase their creativity and hoping for upvotes in vain.

Story maps can give rewards after completion (have a question mark on the Prize column).

There'll be 7 kinds of item/attractions:
Fixed, set by the map:
- NPC: Santa/Rudolph (you'll get a bunch of loot and Santa Bucks by catching him daily), Grinch (curb-stomp your ass and teleport your character to the designated spawn point. most map will put it in cages unless the map creator is a sadist)
- Game stand: give you daily Prize Coupons (updated) & Santa Bucks for playing and getting a decent score. some game are harder, read up on guides in forum. Based on tested evidence, it's better to exchange the coupons in bulk for maximum gain. I'd recommend exchange at the end of each year. However, you might want to hold onto the loot for a little while before you sell because many people will exchange their coupon at the end of the event as well -> extreme oversupply and price crash is bound to happen. But hey, if you want quick cash anyway, hit me up. Pick-Your-Present and Spin-The-Wheel also give additional daily reward (not counted toward your five games per day limit) so make sure you don't miss out on them.
- Exchange shop: Exchange your Santa Bucks for Gifts, Beers or Candy.
Spawn as you go around:
- Key-locked Chest: shared by others and will stay in the map it spawns in (once opened by one, it disappears). Have 3 variants: Bronze, Silver and Gold. Gold-locked chests being the most valuable with much less key spawn chance. Drop ornaments which will increase loot spawn rate.
- Combination Chest: read guides in forum for how to open. Unique to you. These seems to still have a small chance to spawn during period when no loot is spawning. Chest value is around 5m-20m. Also drops ornaments.
- Mystery Gift (Present): Unique to you, no one can grab em. These can be candy, e-can, alcohol or consumables (very small chance but very valuable. I've seen Book of Carol, Feathery Hotel Coupon, Business Class Ticket, Alcohol Pack, E drink Pack, etc.).
- Key: pretty rare, unique to you. Just think of them as rare Mystery Gifts. No specific way to increase their drop rate that is known. It's very likely that the more networth you have, the better chance for a rare key to spawn. Other than that, just pray so you can be blessed by RNGejus.
- Cosmetic Hat: Seems to be a new extremely rare drop in 2022. I didn't found any so don't ask me how to get one.

What should I exchange?
List by priority:
- Beer shop: exchange up to 72 GLASS of beer (or 96 if you plan to join a faction with max voracity in the future). Wait until International Beer Day (08 August, beers are 5 times more effective). Each glass will give you 10 nerve then. The event lasts 2 days, plus 24 hour max cooldown if you start at 0 cooldown = 72 glass of beer. No other alcohol is worth it. Fun fact: it takes 3 clicks to buy a glass of beer, it took me 100 clicks to contemplate quitting Torn and doing something else with my life, hence this guide. If you don't want to waste your life buying glass of beer, consider using this.
- Candy Shop: 150 happy candies tend to be the most cost-effective santa-buck-wise for the exchange. But when more and more people start exchanging their bucks for them and sell on market for cheap, expect the price to drop. Basically just do your own calculation for the best returns per santa buck before you do the exchange.
- New Gift Shop (shoe shop): Exchange for speed boost ornament. Many noted that there are no difference after buying several. This is simply Ched's way to make you grind so you can becomes a little better at grinding Christmas Town and wasting your life away a little bit quicker. But hey, the placebo effect is powerful enough for many to happily purchase these junks thinking they got their purchase worth.
- Gift shop: for trash collectors, if you couldn't give a rat ass about getting your santa buck worth and just want to stick it to the man, just dump your bucks here.

Do(s):
- Play Pick-Your-Present, Spin-The-Wheel and 5 other type of games (except Pot, f**k Pot) and visit Santa daily. The daily timer reset at 0:00 TCT.
- Check back to Torn every 6-8 hours and do a lap around a loot map for 15 mins. Why? There's a hidden timer for loot to respawn, usually a player will get 4-10 loots per lap within 10-20 mins and then none for the next couple hours.
- (I cannot stress this enough so I'm repeating it again) Remember to check in frequently, one loot for newbie could worth days of buying plushy & candy in Torn
- Open a tab to search up the quiz & puzzle guide before playing the daily games. Some games are easy, others could be difficult if you're not a native English speaker (those are words game, like come up with the longest word based on a group of letters, come up with word with specific length, etc.)
- If you're a newbie, it's better to sell the loot ASAP and use that money to invest somewhere more profitable.
- If you have capital, this is a great time to buy up cheap loots from newbie selling them as well. Alcohol price will peak in March (St. Patrick Day), e-can will peak in September and October (Caffein Con Day), and candy November). Generally it'll be smart to sell around February since the price will be stabilized then. However, keep in minds that you might not be the only person hoarding stuffs expecting the price to rise. Predictions tend to go south when more and more people act based on it.
- Keep your cash on hand low, less than 1m at all time. Deposit in faction vault, buy up points, xanax, e-dvd, whatever. (this is good for general daily Torn play as well)

Don't(s):
- Use the loot, unless you know what you're doing. Most of the time, selling the loot is much more cost effective, especially if you don't know what it does. Ask your friends or faction before using.
- Sell too much loot at once in your bazaar/item market (>20 m) or sell without any buymug prevention measures (self-hosp, flying, etc). Muggers be jolly and active this season. They'll be more than happy to have a buymug discount from you. If you don't know what self-hosp is or can't fly yet, consider selling the loot to traders (Hey, that's me, hit me up).
- Fly to Cayman Islands, same as above, tis' the season for muggers. Unless you can do what you need to do within less than 15 seconds
- Think that this is easy money. Well, it is, but it won't last long. Be frugal and smart with the income you can make during the event. Save up for a maxed happiness PI, focus on training up your battle stats, do some happy jumps while you're at it. Point is, don't get too comfortable with how much income the event give you or you'll struggle afterward. But then, if you decide to get too comfortable and share the happiness around, you can always tip me :P.
- Play the Pot game. I repeat, for the love of Chedburn, DO NOT PLAY THE POT GAME. Don't enter it, don't click anything, don't even take a glance at it. For newbie, the Pot game will eat you alive and take all your loots away. This is a beginner trap. You could be attracted to the Pot game by seeing a lot of player standing in it. Guess what? those are the predators and you're their prey. Curiosity will not just kill the cat, it kills its family too. Playing the Pot game is like withdrawing all your cash to your hand and then beg for money in Global chat. If you want to know what's up with the Pot game, more details is in the Q&A section.

Some guides I found are listed below:
- NT: Christmas town and mini games 2019 by 3omda [2442678]: Another overview guide of Christmas Town with game explanations. Much nicer to look at than this one.
- Christmas Town All You Need To Know by Diabolicale [2139661]: Some more overview about the games & the event (with pictures!)
- Christmas town - Combination chest by windy [2039424]: explanation on how to open Combination Chests
- Solving the CT Combo Chests by WildHare [2173250]: Better explanation on the combo ches
- CT Combination Chest by Somoone [2146684]: explanation with video!
- "Word Fixer" word list by Ahab [1735214]: possible word list of the Word Fixer game (Hangman used the same set of words)
- Christmas Town Snowglobes Walkthrough Guides! by MonChoon [2250591]: Walkthrough on each Story map.

Q&A
for people who's flying and want something more to read:
Q: Can you play Christmas Town while you're in hospital?
A: No

Q: Can you play Christmas Town while you're flying or abroad?
A: No

Q: How can I drop items / Is there an inventory limit? What if I collect too much stuff that I cannot collect more key?

A: There's no inventory limit in Christmas Town. You won't ever see something like "Inventory full" pop up that prevent you from collecting items/key.

Q: I got 5 loots in one map and then none in others, what gives?
A: Loot spawn is not map-dependent, it's account-dependent. The hidden timer carry over across all map. once you go 10 min without loot, just check back in 6-8 hours

Q: I'm not convinced on buying glass of beer as the top priority. I can't even sell it!
A: The only other source to generate glass of beer is from Keg of beer. At the time of writing this, the cheapest one is 9m. There's a 1/80 chance of the keg will disappear when used. Let's be generous and say you can get 80 glass from 1 keg. So 80 Santa Bucks = 9m or 1 buck = $112,500. I dare you to find anything else in the shop with that good of a return.
Additionally, in terms of personal benefit, during international beer day, it's 1 Santa buck for 10 nerve. None other goods come close.

Q: ummm, what's the pot game's about? I'm pro marijuana and your recommendation above offends me...
A: Long story short, it's a gambling game with exploitative mechanic. You put in what you have for a chance to win the pot. The odd heavily favors veterans with loads of alcohols, cans and candies. If you comes into the game without knowing anything and just put things that show up to try to test the game, you're going to be the loser.
Here's how it works: the game will generate a random number every round (it falls somewhere between 1-99). Each player will have 3 chances per round to add one of either candy, alcohol, or energy can into the pot. You can only add one type of item (rotational order) at a time. The pot will gradually fills up as people add stuffs in, as it passes a certain point (the random number), the one putting in the stuff at that point will get the entire pot. With this current mechanic, anyone who starts the pot is a loser since the random number won't be that low.
How can this be exploited for newbie? Two aspects: the start of the pot, and the value of the bet.
Newbie who don't know better will come in and add stuffs trying to understand the game, this serves as the fodder so the pot get closer to the supposedly random number. As described above, whoever start the pot is guaranteed to lose the item or at best, break even if the random number is 3 or something.
Additionally, since only the type of items matter, the value doesn't mean shit, the veteran will just bet the cheapest items (5e can, 1 nerve beer, 25 happiness candy) while the newbie put all their high value stuffs in because they don't know better.
If you want to play the pot game, instead just send your loots to me and I'll randomly let you know whether you are lucky or not (spoiler alert, you're not lucky). Same result for you but better for me.

Q: But wait, after I read your guide, wouldn't I know what I'm doing and win Pot games now?
A: At the end of the day, assuming everyone knows what they're doing, the pot game is still a gambling game. Of course it has better odds for people with knowledge about how it work so if you're okay with exploiting the ignorance of others to your benefit, you do you.

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Well, my guide is on the perspective of the typical job-seeker. Your request caters more to the director population, which I am very lacking in knowledge about. I also don't think that it would contribute much to the guide's main purpose. Appreciate your feedback though. 

There's no hard cap on loot, loot timer decay as time passes, I guess the drop boost would quicken the decay, there's no scientific way to test this except for Ched's "trust me bro"

loot map is story map with looping pathways so you can brainlessly walk while collecting loot

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Read the Q&A section of the guide

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Gave me an ending so happy that my wife filed for divorce

looking at the format of this reply, did you ask ChatGPT to help you come up with it as well?

Prompt: "People said mean word, made me boo boo. Respond, help."

Because boosters (serotonin, melatonin, epinephrine, tyrosine) exists which multiply your stat. There's also ranked war weapons being thrown into play. At Hard & above you theoretically should have finished your bio bachelor to access those boosters

Safari and other attacking missions would be a pain when you reach Expert tier of missions with targets that are sometimes x2 or x4 your stat. At Easy it's a cakewalk.

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Tl;dr: Ched wants Bazaar to be a Rolex-like luxury, tailored experience where people leisurely taking their times browsing the wares and splurging their coins for their Favourite Trader. An user need to click at least 10 times before they can actually buy something.

Actual Torn population: Walmart shoppers chasing deals during black friday

This release of feature brings as much joy and prosperity to Torn as Brexit to the UK and Liberation Day to the US

I paid actual artists for my degenerate pfp

One small feedback:

One of the known scamming method for using aggregator sites is to have the API update with one set of price in bazaar, then change the actual price to be much higher. While giving people the option to change the frequency of API update is a great QoL feature, it also allow scammer to capitalize on this feature. My suggestion is to have a small tag of the frequency that the bazaar owner chose in the item listing, maybe color-code the frequency even, so that if a bazaar owner chose to have the frequency too low it'll be like a warning that "this person might be doing some shenanigans with their listing."

I understand that scamming is a part of Torn, but since the site is new and need all the goodwill it can get to raise popularity, having scammers using the site might be counter-productive hence the above suggestion.

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Everyone on the internet is male. Good catfishing attempt but you're making it kinda too obvious though. If you want to fish for simps, Torn newspaper has a section precisely for your "activities". Also most thirsty people either lurk in Global chat or Torn discord, go there and fish.

Dude want an alternative action for his Spouse, instead of attacking and hosping it's sexing. I'd just hosp my spouse then open Pornhub at that point.