Is 2024 dead for events? Or can we create our own? Lets find out.
Well, it's 2024 and our new Calendar is now visible. Sadly, the major events of the past, have slowly been disappearing, one after the other. And we are literally down to just 2 attacking based events now. Elimination in September, and Halloween in October.
For those that are newer to Torn. And by that I mean 10 years or younger. There once was a Zombie competition in torn called "Torn of the Dead". I believe, from memory, it ran in October in 2010, 2011, and 2012 before it was retired and replaced with the Endurance Competition. Some of you may have seen, or even purchased some of the retired Honor Bars for these events in the Token Shop.
(I've been made aware I might have the order of these two events backwards, but either way, ages ago.)
October is now taken and used up with the massively successful and very popular Halloween Trick or Treat event.
A Slightly Altered World History:
On April 26, 2024, a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. In the weeks following the unfortunate disaster at the Chernobyl plant, the radioactive material spread, falling as radioactive rain in all parts of the world. A lot of people died. The direct exposure to the radiation mutilated their bodies. The trouble was, they didn't stay dead.
On May 1, 2024, the first case of a fatality from radiation was reported in Torn City. On May 4, 2024 the first killing occurred. A living corpse, a radioactive mutation of a former Torn City resident, had killed an innocent civilian by biting deeply into their flesh. With no vaccine or medical treatment available, citizens, doctors, businessmen and women all began to flee for their lives. The infection was growing seemingly with little to no escape.
The dead live. The Torn of the Dead has begun.
The Event in a Nutshell (As it was played in the past.)
Chedburn would reach out to a handful of extremely high stat players (Bodybagger was a popular one) and designate them as Zombies. These players would then start to attack other players using the "Bite" option once they defeated their target. Bitten victims would then also become Zombies. The goal of the event was to last to the end of the event remaining a Civilian without getting turned into a zombie.
There were merits for killing zombies, and of course biting other players. There was of course a chance of not getting infected, but this chance was small. There was also the Zombie Brain and Human Head items given as extremely rare drops. And of course, the highly coveted merit for surviving to the end.
Many strategies were used to survive, and the last week of the event was typically utter chaos.
In Conclusion
This event was a massive favorite when it was played out the few years it was ran. It's a real shame that we lost it. But I believe that the OG Torn City players that still play today remember it dearly. It was fun, challenging, and very rewarding.
Our current month of May for 2024 is completely empty outside of museum day. Torn is very different now than it was then. Provided some slight tweaking, I think a fictional nuclear meltdown based on a past real event could play nicely into a fun event for all of us to enjoy.
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Here are are a couple other great past TOTD revival threads with more ideas on alternative takes:
- Edit #2 - Can we experiment with changing the 100 in 24 hours to 100 in 12 hours? That's the happy medium in that area at least, right in the middle.
Currently up until right now, I was fighting for my life best I could... Part of the problem is our revivers can't even successfully revive our active players anymore. I'm currently sitting out, I turned revives off, and I'm letting my revive chance regen because it's so low at the moment, it's not even worth them trying to revive me.
I don't like the idea of a forced break in the warring system when i've literally only been online for like an hour or two now.
Tweaks are definitely needed. And again, I'll repeat, all this whole update does is favor higher stated factions. So it would be nice if we could find a compromise somewhere.
Ideas?
- Community Ideas - Proxima: 1) Bumping med cooldown to 9/12 hrs.
Armag3ddoN: 1) And some kind of indication for the player about his revive chance would be nice...I know it depends on the skill of the reviver, but having a general idea would go a long way to understanding and embracing this system. 2) While we're still making small suggestions :D, would be nice to make revives settings a bit more accessible...since you want to keep turning them on/off, maybe adding a little section in hospital would be good.
- Original Post - Revert back to the old. All this does is favor higher stated factions. All this does is it separates the highs from the lows even more. The lower stat factions can't even hope to compete against one of us upper end factions anymore. It used to be if they had the funds, shit, drop them dollars left and right and you could defend against a top faction. Not anymore tho.
I think this update went backwards of the initial idea of why it was implemented. Because as they get revived, even if they had infinite cash, the chance of success decreases, meaning they will lose in the end as the more powerful faction overpowers them.
Just my first post since now NS and SA are going at it. (I already talked to Stretch about this, he agrees btw...)
Terrible update.
Ched really needs to rely on his committee more.
My 2 cents.
- Edit #1 - Also, You murdered the fun factor of warring. I used to have like 30+ hours of med cooldown just for fun pot shots at people that out stated me, just to see if I could get em. Now I get a measly 6 hours that I wouldn't dare risk even a second of because now it's too precious to even risk using up.
It's absolutely crazy to me that I've reached this milestone. A little less than a year ago I noticed that I had finally surpassed my total post count on a tech forum that I follow and I was curious if I'd ever make it to 10,000 posts here. Clearly I have a lot of spare time.
I've made some friends, and made enemies through my forum presence. Torn's forums are just as much a battle ground as the next wall that goes up on the territory map. It gets heated sometimes. And other times it's as laid back as a night in Discord voice with a Dr. Pepper and some discord games. It's been a journey and it's never ending. Far from over.
So how about some stats:
Total Posts: 10,000
Karma: 18,887
Post HoF Rank: #68
Karma HoF Rank: #41
Favorite forum to post in: Questions & Answers
Favorite forum to read in: General Discussion
Shout outs to other 'HoF Posters' who I feel have made a lasting and positive impact in Torn's Forums:
Thank you for the memories guys, you've all been a part of the journey.
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I didn't know upon buying it it would murder my happiness. I just saw everyone in faction chat talking about it, so I bought it to check it out.
I don't want this effect of losing happiness that I knew nothing about. It's not posted in the forums anywhere from what I can see. Please just remove it from my inventory since I apparently can't dump it myself. Thank you.
(Side note: This should really be stated before you add an item to the game that can be a negative experience for users.)
I'll +1 this as I feel it's definitely a valid discussion point.
But the real problem with territory wars is that there's still no reason to really fight them. I've said it so many times that there are too few rackets on the map to fight over. It's completely illogical to fight over 30 territories to get to a single racket that might despawn by the time you even reach it. Or if you do reach it, it could disappear long before it's ever worth the investment. If there were say 10 other rackets on the way to the one you want, then perhaps it's worth a little risk to stir up some crap.
There's gotta be at least 10x as many rackets to incentivize factions getting off their asses and fighting.
But yes, removing the threat of being raided for merely trying to take someone's shit is 100% something that I can get behind.
PSF all the way. There's no company thats going to take your 800mil stats and turn it into 8bil stats. Your weapons and armor already do the heavy lifting. You have full EOD, a massive investment, do whatever you can to make that investment shine. I feel PSF is the answer.
Pro-Tip... You can avoid a lot of headaches if before you accept a new applicant into your faction you just go to the top of the forums, hit search, and type in their ID and hit enter.
If you mean a specific person/account named Ohadik [424017], I’d need some context about what they did. I can help unpack the behavior or situation, but I can’t fairly conclude they’re a “twat” without knowing what happened.
Tell me what they did, and I’ll give you a straight read on it.
Quality is just a combination of the weapon's damage and accuracy. 50% of the score is attributed to Damage, and 50% to accuracy.
For instance, if a weapon has a damage range of 42.00 and 47.00 and accuracy of 61.00 and 66.00, and the weapon stats are 44.00 and 65.50, that weapon would have 40% for damage, and 90% for accuracy. Which would put the weapon at 65% Quality.
You can SE whatever stat you want. Strength is a good pick.
Most people SE defensive stats when they start stat whoring. If you're not whoring yet and have some spending cash, there's nothing wrong with Strength. Offensive stats help you kill faster or pick harder opponents.
If I remember right, Chedburn wanted to mash-up ideas from quite a few online text based mmo's from the time period and toss in his own mechanics and ideas and used the opportunity to teach himself to code by creating it.
Depending on what you're using to Subscribe to Torn could play an impact in this. Definitely email like AJ- said to see what happened so you can try to keep it from happening again.
But with Paypal for instance, if it tries to subscribe and pulls from an account, and there's not enough money available, it'll just not subscribe and retry every 3 to 7 days to subscribe again until funds are available.
Another situation is that if you have it pulling from your bank account through paypal, but you didn't take the time to verify bank account with paypal, it can sometimes take 3 to 7 days to process.
All sorts of things can happen. I'd email staff and ask specifically why it occured so you can try your best to prevent it in the future.
Late game is up to anyone's own definition. There is no definitive "late game" that every player falls into eventually.
Id consider myself in the late game only because I'm level 100, I have my financial systems in place, can buy pretty much anything that I want, I have a respectable amount of both working stats and battle stats... and also because ive been playing for 18 years so if I wasn't in the late game what the hell else would you call it?
After reading that little chat convo on page 1 knowing the thread was already on page 2... Such a shame. I already stuck the popcorn in the microwave too.
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