Since The News paper will not publish my article...
This is a story unlike others in some ways.
For us old timers, this one started back in the day. As a young player trying to figure out my place and what to do to set myself apart from other players. I started to collect fruitcakes in Christmas Town when you had to use graph paper to mark your journey. (insert pic)
After a couple of years playing. I had a collection of about 25,000 of 150,000. then the next year I was at 30,000 of 175,000....then the prices went from $10,000 each, too $400,000 each....well that stopped my collection... I had a networth of 12 billion in fruitcakes alone...then with the wisdom of the Elders, they made fruitcakes an everyday item as a temp...Aside from killing my networth, cool a new weapon, WooHoo ... The flood of new fruitcakes for the masses. then it was switched to an other item, instead of making it a candy item for happiness (game suggestion, but turned down) to keep the numbers in check...
So in my journey to my current numbers, I held at 1 million fruitcakes over the years... I sold a few hundred thousand to help others get to their goal of reaching 1 million fruitcakes...I slowly kept buying...sometime in 2020 I hit 2 million fruitcakes ..I reached 2,870,000
As of today, with the help of MehraticA [2363876] . I have reached the total of 5 million 330 thousand FRUITCAKES of 8,743,842 total with an odd number in my item list until it reaches the 10,000 mark. Yet for some ODD reason (coding error). There is a cap of 10,000 item is trades and 9,999 in sending items limits. Their are traders out there at would like to see that cap upped to 100,000 items, atleast 25,000 items for trades. As I spent 4+ hours the last couple of days having to transfer 10,000 items at a time... Yet here I am, the King of Fruitcakes at last...
With ya'lls help, can you get me too 6 million and above?
Edit 25/5/21 Current collection is 5,880,000 Fruitcakes of Circulation : 9,388,045 ...
Edit 4Jun21 Current collection is 6 million Fruitcake of Circulation : 9,582,388 ...
Edit 27Jun21 Current collection is 6,400,000 Fruitcake of Circulation :9,943,359
Edit 21july21
Current collection 6,730,000 of Circulation: 10,315,946
When you see NPC UP. That is the 5 minutes before the player goes to the next level...typically fromlevel 3 to level 4.
With a NPC UP go to the player page and click start attack. [image: i.imgur.com] It will take you to the attack page where you see START ATTACK. [image: i.imgur.com] DO NOT START until 10-20 other players have joined the ATTACK. [image: i.imgur.com]
ONCE the attack starts, Wait until the other players start tossing temp items... [image: i.imgur.com]
That's when you start your attack...
KEEP an eye out for your hits and timer...
If you have a HIGH hit count or about to time out...ESCAPE...
You should ESCAPE anyway close to the end....As there are 3 MERITS for ESCAPING 50, 250, and 1000...
There is also a STALEMATE merit for doing 100..
(EDIT) There is also SIDEKICK merit of 250 assists...
DOUBLE DRAGON merit of a single assist attack....
NPC's also good for getting the 1,000,000 rounds fired merit...
In my early days in Torn. I got fedded as a multi due to ISP location. Found the other player lived 30 miles from me. Living out in the country in Texas using the same rural internet provider as I.
can someone completely explain the move to 2.0 benefits... don't "you have to move eventually or you are such a noob or it's the right thing to do for CE....
i have seen how torn has done things for 16 years.... gym 2.0 was a fail, busting 1.0 was a fail, stocks 1.0 and 2.0 was a fail... even the NCP's are a fail...
give me hard evidence 2.0 it is not a fail
if it is not... when is the forced conversion date? i mean crimes 2.0 was promised 10+ years ago, so the forced conversion is what 5-6 years from now???