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19:29:07 - 10/02/23 Your maximum nerve increased from 99 to 104
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After an unsure first couple months in Torn where I thought I’d only do crimes for merits, I changed my mind and started going after the goal of achieving 60nnb. I took the plunge on my first nerve refill in April 2022, and 294 refills later (only skipping when on faction war perks), I’ve made it, with only 12,027 offenses committed, and at only 389 days old.
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This isn’t really a story about how I got in a 10* pub early and started drinking 5 nerve alcohol out of sheer determination to be the fastest ever. In fact, I was only in a pub and using premium booze for about a month, and I wasn’t even in a faction with +50% voracity for a significant portion of this journey. Rather, the only thing I really did myself was consistently drink beer with my booster cooldown, use nerve refills and hammer the warehouse arson and kidnap woman crimes as much as possible. Here’s the list of crimes I’ve completed and the effective arsons gained as described by torn.report
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“But wait!” you might ask. “Doesn’t it take about 15,000 CE to get to 60nnb? You haven’t even done that many crimes!” Yes, yes it does and no, no I haven’t. Here’s where it really happened. At 55nnb and less than one year old:

5. With a stationary target Fastslough steadies the rifle, and lines the crosshair up with the Senator’s head.
6. BANG! One shot is fired, the bullet pierces the front window and enters the Senator’s head. His body slumps lifelessly.

Our intrepid CE manager at Carbon X, jefersonakl (aka Akenomics) dreamed up a plan to start running what amounted to Political Assassinations with the CE equivalent of four PA “4ths” instead of Plane Hijackings at the end of December. It just so happened that he couldn’t quite finish one more team and so he threw me in. Now, after 6 PA attempts I have been in *3* successful PAs, which along with prior PH successes at Carbon X (which themselves started at 45nnb), saved me months of arson or kidnap grinding.
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These PAs were not even done with some monster pre-nerf bust CE lead, but I’ll let jef speak to how he manages OCs on his own time. Incidentally, it appears clear that PA successes at 55nnb grant approximately 500 CE instead of 650. It’s also clear that PAs are still obscenely overpowered even after the CE gain nerf.

I think there must be people who have made it to 60nnb faster than me, because there was more than a little room for improvement in the way I went about it. I couldn’t find any achievement posts, but I’d be interested in hearing about anyone else who did it quicker!

Thanks again to jef without whom I wouldn’t have yet achieved this goal (or made this post), and a big shoutout to everyone in Carbon Rising and Carbon X! Now onward to properly earning myself a place in a PA.

tl;dr if you want to get to 60nnb just do PAs, bro.

Bro, this is just embarrassing.

He's not wrong about one thing. This is supposed to be a crime for people with 15nnb. Losing just one high speed drive will make the entire crime a significant money loser for someone that new -- even at normal high speed drive prices (not the $10m being charged right now).

[UPDATE - CLOSED as of 20:00 TCT 27-03-2023]

I'm buying losses at $350k each. Attack any time and I'll get payment to you asap.

Available so long as this post hasn't been edited to say it's done (which will be a while) so don't hesitate -- throw yourself at me now!

PM me with any questions.

I applied laceration with an attack from my bread knife, then on the next turn attempted to escape but failed. I would have expected laceration damage to tick after that attempt, but it didn't. On the next attack it went through just fine.
Laceration is described as occurring over 9 "turns", and an escape attempt should be a turn, shouldn't it? Is this intended behavior? I can see why it probably shouldn't if you successfully escape (getting an escape and a win at the same time?), but a fail should probably tick it.

Fight log here

Bro, this is just embarrassing.

Random number generators? Not random. They want you to fail!

A+ service. Succeeded where all the other loss agencies failed.

I applied laceration with an attack from my bread knife, then on the next turn attempted to escape but failed. I would have expected laceration damage to tick after that attempt, but it didn't. On the next attack it went through just fine.
Laceration is described as occurring over 9 "turns", and an escape attempt should be a turn, shouldn't it? Is this intended behavior? I can see why it probably shouldn't if you successfully escape (getting an escape and a win at the same time?), but a fail should probably tick it.

Fight log here

It actually restocks 2,500 now. Screenshot taken just a minute ago:
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Duplicate

He's not wrong about one thing. This is supposed to be a crime for people with 15nnb. Losing just one high speed drive will make the entire crime a significant money loser for someone that new -- even at normal high speed drive prices (not the $10m being charged right now).

Thanks everyone. Going to close this up for now but we'll do it again soon.

I expect to close it after the end of the day for now, but until I say otherwise consider it open.

[UPDATE - CLOSED as of 20:00 TCT 27-03-2023]

I'm buying losses at $350k each. Attack any time and I'll get payment to you asap.

Available so long as this post hasn't been edited to say it's done (which will be a while) so don't hesitate -- throw yourself at me now!

PM me with any questions.

I don't see the problem. You can nab some good deals from P_1 if you just read. Thanks for subsidizing the rest of us!
16:41:11 - 27/01/23 You bought 1x Xanax on P_1's bazaar at $791,578 each for a total of $791,578

Thanks! I intentionally switched to kidnap woman after a while so I at least have the arson merits until 10k to work towards after 60nnb. After that I'll just do the slow grind up thefts using kidnaps. I'll probably be working solely on my CE for quite a while, with a plan to fill in all the other crimes once I'm, as you say, a solid fixture on a PA team.

19:29:07 - 10/02/23 Your maximum nerve increased from 99 to 104
[image: media4.giphy.com]
After an unsure first couple months in Torn where I thought I’d only do crimes for merits, I changed my mind and started going after the goal of achieving 60nnb. I took the plunge on my first nerve refill in April 2022, and 294 refills later (only skipping when on faction war perks), I’ve made it, with only 12,027 offenses committed, and at only 389 days old.
[image: i.imgur.com]

This isn’t really a story about how I got in a 10* pub early and started drinking 5 nerve alcohol out of sheer determination to be the fastest ever. In fact, I was only in a pub and using premium booze for about a month, and I wasn’t even in a faction with +50% voracity for a significant portion of this journey. Rather, the only thing I really did myself was consistently drink beer with my booster cooldown, use nerve refills and hammer the warehouse arson and kidnap woman crimes as much as possible. Here’s the list of crimes I’ve completed and the effective arsons gained as described by torn.report
[image: i.imgur.com][image: i.imgur.com]

“But wait!” you might ask. “Doesn’t it take about 15,000 CE to get to 60nnb? You haven’t even done that many crimes!” Yes, yes it does and no, no I haven’t. Here’s where it really happened. At 55nnb and less than one year old:

5. With a stationary target Fastslough steadies the rifle, and lines the crosshair up with the Senator’s head.
6. BANG! One shot is fired, the bullet pierces the front window and enters the Senator’s head. His body slumps lifelessly.

Our intrepid CE manager at Carbon X, jefersonakl (aka Akenomics) dreamed up a plan to start running what amounted to Political Assassinations with the CE equivalent of four PA “4ths” instead of Plane Hijackings at the end of December. It just so happened that he couldn’t quite finish one more team and so he threw me in. Now, after 6 PA attempts I have been in *3* successful PAs, which along with prior PH successes at Carbon X (which themselves started at 45nnb), saved me months of arson or kidnap grinding.
[image: i.imgur.com]


These PAs were not even done with some monster pre-nerf bust CE lead, but I’ll let jef speak to how he manages OCs on his own time. Incidentally, it appears clear that PA successes at 55nnb grant approximately 500 CE instead of 650. It’s also clear that PAs are still obscenely overpowered even after the CE gain nerf.

I think there must be people who have made it to 60nnb faster than me, because there was more than a little room for improvement in the way I went about it. I couldn’t find any achievement posts, but I’d be interested in hearing about anyone else who did it quicker!

Thanks again to jef without whom I wouldn’t have yet achieved this goal (or made this post), and a big shoutout to everyone in Carbon Rising and Carbon X! Now onward to properly earning myself a place in a PA.

tl;dr if you want to get to 60nnb just do PAs, bro.

I'd love to act as a steward. I'm available all days between 15:00 and 07:00 TCT and I'm very active and dependable.

Merry Christmas! Thanks for doing this!

Merry christmas!

Please congratulate me for winning, everyone.