As of 23/04/2019 one can also earn a merit for defeating Duke in a groupattack. There's also a chance you get to loot the Duke and ern some rare items.
More about this can be read in the announcements here
Bring it! Expert Mission
So apparently you think a lot of yourself, I hear. You think you're undispu..indispos...you think you're a big shot. How do I know? I got ears everywhere man. Nothing you say stays private from me for long. And I hear you think you are unstoppable...that you're the only thing that protects me from disaster...and how one day you could just reach across my desk and choke my chicken there and then!
And ya know what? I like that. I like confidence. But you gotta understand that when you challenge me like that, I gotta re-asserve my dominance like, like a lion, like the alphabet male. Otherwise folks will lose respect for me, so I say this to you my friend...let's do this thing.
You and me. Outside. Whenever you wanna brawl we're on it. Beat The Duke and you'll be rewarded handsomely. Fail, and you'll shut your ugly maw about being able to take me down. Bring anyone you want to help, I don't care. I'm the freakin' Duke! I may not spend as much time checking myself out at the gym like you, but I raised myself on the streets. I fight like a bear. And you're about to get mauled son.
Defeat Duke, on your own or as part of a group attack.
Name: Duke [4] Level: 0 You managed to get the following results: Money on hand: $3,235,841,151 Strength: 500,000,000,000 Speed: 900,000,000,000 Dexterity: 800,000,000 Defense: 500,000,000 Total: 1,401,300,000,000
Use this thread to organise your group attack. (yes! you'll have to do it yourself... and others will join!)
Make sure to set a date and a time, well before the attack is going to happen, so people will have time to arrange things to be able to be there with you. You know, making sure you're back from traveling or being off or on drugs for the moment... stuff like that.
The set time will always be TC-time
Bring all the energy and meds you can spare and have some fun!
Smuggling - After finishing this course you will be able to smuggle drugs TO a new travel destination to sell at a higher price than market price. To make it not too profitable there is a risk of getting caught which would result in losing all the drugs you brought with you and some jailtime in that new travel destination.
The risk of getting caught could be made so, that this risk is getting lower when more ppl are smuggling at the same time within a 15 or 30 minutes window. So ppl could coordinate travel times to lower their chances.
New Biology course:
Human Caveties - After completion you can smuggle +2 drug items and the risk of getting caught will be slighly reduced.
New Travel Destination:
AMSTERDAM
New Merits
Going Dutch - Travel to Amsterdam 50 times
Skid-Bid - For busting 250 ¹ people abroad
Drug Buster - For busting 500 ¹ people abroad
Tuck - Succesfully smuggle 100 ² pieces of drugs to Amsterdam
Hoop - Succesfully smuggle 250 ² pieces of drugs to Amsterdam
Keister - Succesfully smuggle 500 ² pieces of drugs to Amsterdam
Permanent Pocket - Succesfully smuggle 1000 ² pieces of drugs to Amsterdam
What to do in Amsterdam?
Apart from a hospital, Amsterdam will also have a jail for drug smugglers
After finishing the SMUGGLERSCourse you can bring a few pieces ¹ of any drugs except Canabis and Ectasy to Amsterdam. (Total amount needs to be set by developer)
Visit Jail to bust drugs smugglers or just laugh at them...
Be able to use 1 canabis item per visit to Amsterdam to get some extra nerve (normal ratings/cooldown) to be able to do extra busts.
I came up with the idea that it would be nice if the PILLOW item became a TEMP that you could use about 5 times during a single fight. Not doing a lot of damage, like it does now.
But what if there was a slight chance of the PILLOW BURSTING? Spreading FEATHERS all over the place, like a glitterbomb, and be f*king annoying, distracting the target from the fight, making them MISS THE NEXT 2 TURNS? That would be fun, right? As soon as the pillow breaks, it is lost. So, if it breaks after 3 hits, you don't get to use it 5 times. If it doesn't break the pillow would be lost after the fight if you used it during the fight, no matter how many hits you did.
This thought lingered for a while and I came up with a better plan!!
How about we also introduce a BUCKET OF TAR as a TEMP?
A bucket of tar... You could throw it at your enemy with a 50% (can be tweaked) chance of hitting, slowing your target down because of the stickyness. REDUCTION ofSPEED for 180 seconds
If you team up with someone (or leave the fight and attack again with a pillow equiped), the other person (or you) could hit the target with their pillow, hoping it bursts and have the FEATHERS STICK TO THE TAR.
ONLY IN COMBINATION WITH TAR, the feathers should add a REDUCTION of DEXTERITY for 180 seconds on top of the REDUCTION of SPEED from the tar. Resetting the tar timer to the time when the feathers stuck to the tar.
As an extra layer of humiliation; the image of the tar and feathers should stay on the targets equipment for 6 hours, so everyone else attacking them can see they have been tarred and feathered recently.
I think this will help players with lower stats to also have fun during wars. In stead of just throwing a smoke grenade or teargass to help their friends, they can have fun trying to pull off a Tar&Feather combo.
But also the ubermenschen in this game get to shame one another by hitting them with Tar&Feathers, having their friend and foe walking around with the T&F mark :)
The item TAR could be obtained through:
SEARCHING the TRASH and the JUNKYARD,
SHOPLIFTING at BITS and BOBS,
BURGLARY a TOOLSHED, FARMHOUSE, SELF STORAGE, MARKETPLACE, SHIPYARD, DOCKSIDE WAREHOUSE, FARM STORAGE, TRUCKYARD, OLD FACTORY
New Merits:
Tarred&Feathered: Being tarred and feathered
Bumfluff: Successfully feather someone after they have been tarred
Why is the dutch word -torncity*- (*lek_ker) scrambled in chat and mail and in the forum? It's been like this for a few years now.
All lek ker means is delicious or nice, something that tastes or feels good. It's a very common word in the dutch language and it's really annoying to keep seeing *** or torncity in stead of the word le_kk_er.
I really don't understand what's wrong with this word and I would like for it to be unbanned.
Yes! TornTools was ON when this happened, but I don't think TT can do this...
Here's what happened:
Just after midnight I scouted for 2 targets:
00:09:30 - 05/02/26 You used 3 nerve successfully scouting for an industrial burglary target finding a Dockside Warehouse
00:09:31 - 05/02/26 You used 3 nerve successfully scouting for an industrial burglary target finding a Foundry
Then I cased the targets followed by a burglary attempt. Both attempts failed and showed a yellow screen:
00:09:33 - 05/02/26 You used 2 nerve successfully casing a dockside warehouse
00:09:34 - 05/02/26 You used 6 nerve and failed burgling a dockside warehouse
00:09:48 - 05/02/26 You used 2 nerve successfully casing a foundry
00:10:04 - 05/02/26 You used 6 nerve and failed burgling a foundry
But the second I clicked the button to burgle the Foundry, I saw the bar that showed the Dockside Warehouse and it's red timer vanish... It disappeared into the matrix, never to be seen again!
I have noticed this once before, a couple of weeks ago, then I was thinking TT caused it, bc the next day the lost crime had returned the next morning and I could finish it.
This morning, only the bar with the Foundry was there and I could finish my burglary attempt:
07:01:42 - 05/02/26 You used 2 nerve successfully casing a foundry
07:01:44 - 05/02/26 You used 6 nerve successfully burgling a foundry gaining 1x Empty Box, 1x Scrap Metal, 20x Bottle Cap, 4x Spoon