General Early Game Advise
Some of it will be useful (hopefully) but some you might know already, if you have questions in general just shoot me a message and I'll try and help out.
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Navigating the game
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At the top of your screen you will have a row of icons messages, events, awards etc
It is a big list of icons, to view all of the icons you can scroll right
The main ones will be
EVENTS - views your events i.e "Someone has attacked you"
CITY - this is where you can check for lost items and also how you navigate to the npc shops and other locations
ITEMS - this is where you can chose your equipment / weapons, choose your drugs and Consumables, use boosters and use medical equipment
GYM - this is one of the ways you can use your Energy (normally referred to as "E"). You will initially start with one gym, over time by using E in gyms you will unlock more that give you better gains
CRIMES - This is where you will be using your nerve, you want to start on the small crimes and work your way up. The more nerve you have the more crimes you will be able to do
FACTION - this is where you can find factions or view your own, it will give you access to organized crimes, armoury, bank and territory
EDUCATION - this is where you will start your education grind, each education will unlock a perk, location, upgrade or ability. You want to ensure you are constantly in education as they can take up to a month to complete
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Making money
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There are multiple methods
1. Buying items from bits n bobs
Beer and plushies give the highest profit, they are refreshed multiple times a day. You can only buy 100 items a day If you sell those items for approx. ~$600 each on the market. (You lose 5% due to market fees though)
2. Selling losses
Assuming you have a full 100E (base max energy)
You can attack buyers for $200k+ using 25E (make sure you have meds to get it of hosp)
If you use 100E you will make 800k
Use that money to buy xanax
Once you take the xanax your energy will jump to 250E and you will have a drug cooldown of around ~7hrs
Using that 250E you can sell 10 losses
This should be around $2m
While you wait for your drugs cooldown to clear you will regenerate back to max energy naturally, you can use this while you wait to get another $800k worth of losses.
Repeat the above steps for a full 3 xanax and natural regeneration to get aprox $9.2m (this will be higher if you use your point energy refill, you ideally want to use all potential Energy in a day as this is cheaper and safer than xanax) If you were a donator you would get $10m due to having a 150E natural energy cap vs 100E
Some Loss buyers I've contacted are
- Construction [2807055]
He will pay $200k per loss and will provide you with meds so you can get out of hosp after the loss (these prices are what I used for the calc above) make sure you dm him, tell him Trovanite sent you and ask if he's still buying losses
His attack link is here
- Tyrosine [3173749]
He will pay $500k per hit (much higher than average, think 25m a day vs 10m) You will need to dm him, tell him Trovanite sent you and ask if he is still buying losses as he isnt permanent.
His attack link is here
This is a good way to make money initially but as your not using energy for training your stats will be effected, ideally you would alternate or just sell losses when you need more cash.
3. Selling items to traders, some traders (like myself) will buy at 99% market rate for certain items. You can find them on the forum and around the market, they will normally message you, they are also in the trade chat chanel.
My trade link is here
My price list is here (I buy various items but I buy plushies and flowers at 99% market rate, meaning you make 4% more than selling on the market)
4. Once you hit lvl 15 you can travel, abroad you can buy items for a high profit, Think $400 for a panda but sell it in torn for $55k If you use TORN TRAVEL you should be able to optimise your flights to make the most profit.
5. Jobs,
torn city jobs are easy to get into and don't require anything but give you some perks but don't pay much (army, Casino, grocer etc) Player owned companies pay much better but have more requirements and you need higher WORKING stats, a different stat group compared to your BATTLE stats.
Working = INT, MAN, END
Battle = STR, SPD, DEX, DEF (and life)
6. Ranked wars
You will fight other factions in yiur faction to rank up, these are very competitive and can pay VERY well. Diamond is over 5m per sucessfull hit on an enemy. Lower down might be 500k-1m
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Training
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Your E is used in the gym, at the beggining you will be at Premier Fitness which is equal across the board (each bar represents how much you can train that stat, more bars = better trains for the same E
Initially at Frontline Fitness you want to train all stats equally, maybe focusing on DEX as its not a primary for a couple gyms.
As you use E you will unlock more gyms, each will cost a bit more than the last but each one will offer better gains. When you unlock a gym, ignore what your highest stat is and only train the best stat that the GYM offers (the largest bar) as this will boost your gains the most, the more stats you have the more you gain, its exponential upto around 200m or so then it slows down a bit (I think)
Steadfast is a faction perk that increases your gym gains by a % (think 12% gains on 2 stats etc)
If you're in a faction that offers steadfast (you want to be, it makes a big difference) Then you want to be trying to line up your steadfast perk with your highest gym stat.
Initially you will be making tiny gains, the fastest way to do this is by happy jumping, the faster you do this the better (even more so very very early game)
EDVD happy jumps are the best* but cost the most*
Choco happy jumps are good and you should be able to constantly do these.
To happy jump
1. Stack your energy with xanax (use all your E so its at 0. Then take a xanax so your at 250e, then wait for your drug cooldown and then pop another. Repeat for all 4 xanax and you will now be at 1000E
2. Wait for your drug cd to be at 0 then buy and then use 4-5 EDVD's (these are pricey) right after a 15min interval, so take it at 0001. 0016. 0031. 0046. As your happy will reset to default every 15 mins.
3. Once you have taken all of your EDVD's take a ecstacy to double your happy. You should be anywhere from 20k-40k Happiness.
4. Train all of your E in the highest stat you can in the highest gym you have
5. Use 30 points to buy an energy refill and then train with the remaining energy.
The only difference between a chocolate jump and a EDVD jump is what you take, but the rest is the same (choc jump just eat as much as you can instead of only 4-5)
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Safety
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1. People will mug you, it happens
2. "Someone" literally means a player has attacked you but they're speed is too high for you to notice
3. In the very early game you have 15 days of protection from everyone and can only be attacked by other new players.
4. If you sell items on the market, you need to self hosp or will likely get buy mugged (they buy and then immediatly mug you for most of the money back)
5. Buy a stock ticker ASAP so yo can bank your money somewhere safe than you have constant access too (as long as your not in hosp, in jail or abroad)
6. When you hit level 15 and travel, make sure you have enough cash for your items plus a little bit. People regularly wait for people to land to mug them.
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Guides
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- bulk list of really usefull guides
- good leveling targets by BALDR (highly recommend to only use these when your power leveling to lvl 15)
