As a new player I could not find any path, guide or w/e how I could set myself up to make Billions with Halloween, figuring out that you actually need to invest quite a lot to be able to make billions in the coming years (or don't invest and won't be able to make a lot of money from it the coming years). So, I hope this helps out some newer players which are able to afford some. If any information is incorrect, please tell me, I will correct it!
In a nutshell
During Halloween event you can get a basket from sally's sweet shop.
Once you have that basket every attack you do and defeat someone you get treats in your basket.
The total amount of treats earned can upgrade your basket with perks, some perks enable getting more treats per attack.
Treats can be exchanged for random items which you can sell for money (sweets, ecans, alcohol), some perks enable the chance of getting more valuable items.
First year(s) you want to focus on upgrading your basket instead exchanging for items to sell. If you want to fasttrack this from scratch it's going to cost you 2x 500m first year(s), so 1B total in the first 2 years, where the following years you can make billions exchanging treats for items.
So what do you want to do?
You want to do as much attacks as possible to earn treats, battlestats or level doesn't matter, as long if you win. So can be super low targets.
DONOT Exchange treats for items unless your basket is upgraded in a certain way it gives you the most value for your treats. You dont have to turn in your treats in the event, they will stay in your basket as long as you wish and carry over to next year. So if you would focus on upgrading this year, you could turn them in next year once you gathered even more treats for max payout!!
First upgrade your basket to get more treats earned per attack (you can do this by clicking use item on your basket), then upgrade to get better item value for payout. (I will put a table in for recommended upgrade path below)
Use as much E as you can, so natural E, but also from xanax, items like FHCs or cans, job points energy, points refill (Shopping list below).
When will it be profitable?
If you'd follow the below recommended upgrade path it would take exactly 1559 attacks to upgrade to the point you can exchange treats for max profit. What does that mean in terms how long this would take, well it depends, if you're able to spend points for refills, or in a Candle shop, or w/e. Table below shows you a realistic optimal E amount for a single halloween event when you're approx 9 months old.
Energy Source
Quantity
Amount of E
Total E
Attacks
point refill
8
150
1200
48
xanax
28
250
7000
280
FHCs
36
150
5400
216
Newsletter
1
250
250
10
Natural E
8
700
5600
224
Farm job
0
7
0
0
candle job
800
5
4000
160
total
23450
938
Technically speaking you could get 1876 attacks in 2 years, not even considered dark power, which means you have ATLEAST 317 attacks which obtains a minimum of 1.75 treats per attack to exchange for profit. Meaning you could break even or slighlty profit depending on your luck on your 2nd year of Halloween.
Maths: When you've followed the upgrade path below your treats are worth approx. 1.5M. with the above info you can have 317*1.2=380 attacks due to dark power. You can get 1.75 treats per attack with the multipliers and change (before getting nightmare basket which is 1.84 treat per attack). Meaning you get 1.75*380*1.5M = 997,5M, Aka you're break even in 2nd year of Fast tracking. 3rd year you can make 938*1.2*1.8*1.5 = 3,039B, So 3 Billion and 39 Million profit per year moving forward after 2 years of fast tracking!
This is a list of items you can get to get the most E out of your halloween
Item
Market Value
Qnty
Total
Xanax
815.000
29
23.635.000
Point refill (30 points each)
1.230.000
8
9.840.000
Feathery Hotel Coupon
12.600.000
36
453.600.000
If you can't afford those save up for next year.
More ways for E
500 E for 100 job points at a candle shop and 700 E for 100 job points at farm (so 8 days you should save up 800 job points)
MCSmoogle stock dividend gives you E
250 E from newsletter in your registred e-mail! (On the bottom of the newsletter in you e-mail, looks like this) You should be able to use the summer edition, so look for mail title: "Torn Newsletter - Summer 20XX"
Recommended upgrade path (Tweaked from this guide)
Order of upgrade
Image
Upgrade
Description
Treat Cost
Total Cost
1
I See Dead People
This upgrade gives +10% chance of receiving a treat when wearing any scary clothing I.e. Kabuki Mask, Medieval Helmet, Witch's Hat, Straitjacket & Scary masks
3
3
2
Here's Johnny
This upgrade gives +10% chance of receiving a treat when ending a victim with a scary weapon I.e. Axe, Chainsaw, Blood Spattered Sickle, Devil's Pitchfork, Petrified Humerus
5
8
3
Doubler
This upgrade has a 20% chance of doubling the treats received after an attack This 2x bonus can stack with Tripler, Quadrupler & Quintupler
25
33
4
Tripler
This upgrade has a 10% chance of tripling the treats received after an attack This 3x bonus stack with Doubler, Quadrupler & Quintupler
50
83
5
Quadrupler
This upgrade has a 5% chance of quadrupling the treats received after an attack This x4 bonus can stack with Doubler, Tripler & Quintupler
75
158
6
Cat in Hell
This upgrade gives a 1 in 500,000 chance with every attack of instantly receiving 1,000 treats. Or the equivalent of being struck by lightning...
13
171
7
Quintupler
This upgrade has a 1% chance of quintupling the treats received after an attack This x5 bonus can stack with Doubler, Tripler & Quadrupler
100
271
8
Shadow of Doubt
This upgrade immediately provides exactly 1,100 treats. Probably...?
1000
1271
9
Mortal Coil
Receive 1 treat for free every hour while the Halloween Basket event is active.
500
1771
10
Multipack
This upgrade gives a 3% chance of consumables being upgraded to Multipacks upon exchange. I.e. A rewarded bottle of beer may become a Six Pack of Alcohol.
180
1951
11
Deal with the Devil
This upgrade gives a 3% chance of consumables being upgraded to Boosters and Special items upon exchange. Treats may be converted into Erotic DVDs, Feathery Hotel Coupons, Business Class Tickets and Casino Passes.
320
2271
12
Dark Power
When exchanging your treats you'll also receive +5 energy for every treat exchanged. Up to 1,000 energy.
285
2556
13
Freebie
Receive an additional bonus treat for every 10 upon exchange. Exchange ten and get one free.
120
2676
14
Bloody Mary
This upgrade unlocks medium-tier alcohol. Bottle of Wicked Witch is added to the alcohol reward pool.
15
2691
15
Nice Chianti
This upgrade unlocks high-tier alcohol. Bottle of Stinky Swamp Punch is added to the alcohol reward pool.
30
2721
16
Nightcrawler
This upgrade unlocks medium-tier energy drink. Can of Munster is added to the energy drink reward pool.
45
2766
17
It's Alive
This upgrade unlocks high-tier energy drink. Can of Red Cow is added to the energy drink reward pool.
90
2856
18
Cashback
After exchanging your treats you'll immediately receive 10% back with this upgrade. We want to reward your loyalty.
230
3086
19
Candyman
This upgrade unlocks medium-tier candy. Bag of Bloody Eyeballs is added to the candy reward pool.
5
3091
20
Sweet Release
This upgrade unlocks high-tier candy. Bag of Chocolate Truffles is added to the candy reward pool.
10
3101
21
Cold Sweat
When exchanging your treats you'll also receive +1 nerve for every treat exchanged. Up to 32,767 nerve.
You withdraw your money from a 2b bank investment, when all of the sudden you feel a breath in your neck, followed by red flashes in your eyes. You wake up in the hospital with all your money gone.
I’ve been thinking about this whole ranked war thing for a while now, especially after seeing the idea about adding seasons. I really like that idea, and it also reminds me of another game I played a lot, Albion Online, that had the same problem Torn has right now, everyone avoided real fights and just played safe because it was the best way to get rewards with almost no effort.
In Albion they fixed it by adding seasons with a leaderboard. Factions got points for winning real fights and for holding territories (also territories would reset a few times during the season so it was up for grabs for anyone and as factions holding multiple you had to choose which you wanted to regain instantly and what you wanted to take on later, allowing smaller to pick up some scraps), and it worked kind of like an ELO system, beating someone above you gave more points, losing to someone below hurt more. So suddenly fights actually mattered because climbing the leaderboard meant something.
The big thing that changed everything wasn’t money, it was prestige rewards. At the end of each season the top factions got exclusive non tradeable stuff that you could only get for that season. Things like profile badges, trophies, icons, collectible mounts, unique cosmetics, that kind of stuff. If you missed it that season, you never got it again. People loved that and suddenly everyone wanted to push hard to win.
They also did something cool at the end of the season, the last month had x2 points, so the season wasn’t over until the last minute, you could still push for rank one and flip the standings. It created chaos and hype instead of boredom.
I think something like that could work really well in Torn. Keep the current rewards the same, but add a seasonal competitive system on top where you earn points from winning real wars and from holding territories, and where there is a live leaderboard everyone can see, and where exclusive prestige rewards are given at the end, like trophies, badges, icons, merits (for each season), temporary perks, things like that, and points are doubled in the last month.
If you do that, you don’t need to punish terming. Just make real fighting the best way to score points, then terming becomes useless if you want to win the season. People will actually want to fight, push, defend, recruit, plan, betray, and do all the stuff that makes the game fun instead of everyone doing safe terms forever.
Im curious if top factions/players are willing to go for wins because of this. Let’s be real, half of Torn is just measuring E-penises anyway, and a leaderboard is the perfect place to show who is on top, people might want to push crazy for that.
I’m not saying this is the perfect or complete solution. There are probably things that need changing or problems I didn’t think of. But I really think this idea/perspective is worth exploring. Let staff look into it, get feedback from the community, check data, and see if factions would actually fight for wins instead of terming if a system like this existed (go survey or something like that).
