Good morning, afternoon and good evening all.
As of today it is my 1 year in Torn.
I wanted to share some stats of a daily enjoyer of the game, one who is not hardcore at it but enjoying it none the less.
I started being introduced by my brother @OliverKraft I decided on 2 things.
First of all as a gaming achievement whore I decided I wanted my goal to get all merits. My second was to collect every item in the game (not each type like different stats or boosts).
Sadly both of these goals may forever be out of my reach.
With my inability to cause or be part of another torn rollback, a single merit may stop me from ever reaching that goal post. It might happen somehow, but the odds are lower than Duke learning proper terms when giving missions. Then the sheer number of items including multiple trophies, properties, or unique items make it a longer then Torn service have been going goal. Possible but unlikely.
Still that leaves me to enjoy and learn and grow and find ways to enjoy it.
Networth: I was lucky on a couple of points. First was literally points. I won the subscriber 5000 points giveaway. 04:20:15 - 14/12/25 You won a daily subscriber draw and gained 5,000x points. I used this to get a bunch of the extra merits, the racing license, bazzar and display case, sold a bunch to put in the bank, and traded with friends for future help and items.
Christmas gave me the biggest boost in items and cash. With a couple of poison mistletoe and a lot of ecans it was a great year.
Lastly was my city finds. I maxed my awareness pretty quickly in my career so my finds were pretty good. However last week I got exceptionally lucky and found a skateboard. That was nearly 1/4 extra my total networth.
As of right now I am at 1.8billion.
Friends: I don't have many friends on here. I talked on global about 4 or 5 times. First time I got an initiation bounty. Deserved and welcomed. And the few other times was just fun banter or my unless 2 cents.
I have been in 2 factions Akademia who helped me learn the ropes and got me started. I then joined my current faction Criminal Masters, and been there since.
I enjoyed the talk and chill atmosphere with people I talk to here. It's a great community.
Special shout out to 2 players. Johannakatten who saw I was in a ranch and showed me the amazingness of a PI. And Dragon, who I reached out too as I was looking up unique properties and saw the Silo X17 and the username I hoped for.
Both of you are amazing and thank you for your advice and support you are both amazing.
As for any advise I can give it's nothing compared to the forums. They have so much more info. If you have direct questions I will do my best. Look up the crimes 2.0 tutorials. Amazing guides by Emforus.
I am on mobile mainly PDA which I also suggest if your just casually playing and not on Pc, but I do swap the the official app when it goes down or when I select the notification instead of swiping it. As always PC is far superior with timing, ease, but I don't have a pocket PC. I'll ask Santa this year.
Merits and medals: I am at 260 merits/medals altogether. I have focused on the uniques from crimes, starting top down in crimes (search for cash, then bootleg, then graffiti, ect),
I did the 500 attacking streak which was nerve-wracking but fun. Help from my faction and brother to get the higher stats then you ones, and still upset that I have not gotten the guard and the camera off to get the shoplifting ring but my luck was spent elsewhere.
For my merit buys I have max awareness, education length, employee effectiveness, bank interest and 8/10 on nerve.
Education: I have finished the courses on computer sciences and I'm a few days away from history. Plus the ability to kick because... Well.. I did say I was an achievement whore.
My next goal is awareness and probably gym stats.
I have not owned a company or faction. And I probably won't for a long time. It's not currently in my goal list.
I recently started speed running the city jobs to get revives and the education speed reduced so maybe you will see my name reviving you from a overdoses soon.
Speaking of Drugs: I actually have not OD'd on anything. Probably because my drug use probably less then 20. Except weed. I have also been trying to get that merit but the greening out eludes me.
However that mean Stats: Since I am not happy jumping my stats and far less then what it should be barely 100k total. Easy hits sadly. Yes I know there is merits for drugs I focus on one at a time. Eventually I will have the 50 of each and then be on my happy way.
My Work stats are hopefully decent, I have to work on my manual labour but I'll get there. I got into a really good player company owned by the bossman, QQDBQQC. Thank you Bossman for the free trains, support on what we want to train and share when the company's sell. I'll be at work soon. 5 more days till revives!
Manual labor 4,444
Intelligence 10,839
Endurance 17,777
Lastly I'm happy to say I am married to my irl partner. Even though she didn't like torn and has since decided to stop, I'm happy to stay married to get that sweet sweet triple platinum medal bab..... *ahem* I mean share a forever gaming moment with her though the irl medicl issues going on.
So thank you Torn for the fun. I will keep playing daily, join in the fun as I grow, and hopefully win of the evens this amazing community creates.
Edit : Random spelling fixed and autocorrect mistakes