Stories from 2021
Torn stories that happened in 2021, retold from the forum archive with every statement labelled and sourced.
- The argument over permanent mug-loss statistics
Halyangx proposed a permanent record of money lost to mugs. Chedburn questioned its value, and the thread became an argument about negative statistics, manipulation and what an upvote should achieve.
2020–2024 · Muggings
- The secret pirate alliance announced in somebody else's chat
Al1m published a chat in which hakunamatata420 proposed a secret alliance for scammers. The supposedly low-key plan then received mock applications and pirate jokes.
Dec 2021 · Scams and cons
- The forum checks a claim of 7 overdoses in a month
FaRdReDzuaN asked whether 7 overdoses within a month was a record. CRLF produced reporting intervals and a table containing substantially higher totals.
2021–2024 · Player feats
- SeatLeonCupra's collection plan and an alleged market push
SeatLeonCupra said an unknown market push ended their plan to own 75% or more of Torn's Seat Leon Cupras. They then said they dumped 50,103 of them.
Dec 2021 · Markets
- Untouchable records a $1,489,615,806 mug
Untouchable recorded a $1,489,615,806 mug, compared it with larger entries and said anonymous bounties continued afterward.
2020–2024 · Muggings
- Poussky’s warning over an apparent faction recruitment scam
Poussky [2578080] questioned whether a faction applicant might seek vault access. Torn staff (Admin) bogie [148747] described a wider pattern of spam, attempted asset theft and real-life scams.
Sep 2021 · Scams and cons
- LocalizedDark posts a $741,998,470 loan and $827,369,748 fee bill
LocalizedDark posted a $741,998,470 loan, $827,369,748 in fees and said they had been AFK for five years. Replies brought advice, arithmetic, jokes and a claimed $69,000 donation.
Mar 2021 · Player feats
- A 15M faction offer met a 10 billion counter and a scam warning
A faction seller called a 15M offer a scam after countering with 10 billion. Specific replies disputed the label and questioned the counteroffer.
Jan 2021 · Scams and cons
- The mugging suggestion that became a phone-snatching argument
Slate22 wanted mugger names after saying a cousin had mugged them seven times. The forum focused instead on Slate22's admission that they had snatched the cousin's phone.
2020–2021 · Muggings
- xanty's one-trillion battle-stats announcement
In August 2021, xanty said they had become the tenth player to reach one trillion total battle stats. Replies brought congratulations, rounding talk and jokes about SEs and EWM.
Aug 2021 · Player feats
- Reported casino-refill muggings prompted an API abuse debate
Hermaeus-Mora [2136279] reported being mugged almost immediately after casino-token refills. An officer said the statistic was public, and an admin said using it broke no rules.
Mar–Apr 2021 · Muggings
- Yvv's 150 ish Xanax dispute over company trains
Yvv said a prepaid month of company training had produced only a few days of trains. Replies questioned the deal, explained the initial training wait and proposed remedies of varying expense.
Jan 2021 · Scams and cons
- xanty [1169571] claimed a 25k chain under 48h without Love Juice
The post showed a chain of 25000 and 180935 respect. xanty said it beat TuS's record by around 20h, while replies supplied congratulations, memes and arithmetic.
Jul 2021 · Player feats
- The argument over choosing ranked-war start times
FidelCashflow proposed letting matched factions agree to move a ranked-war start. Chedburn later said the scheduler already used each faction’s busiest time for the day concerned.
2021–2022 · Wars
- The HKA timer bug that cancelled a territory war
A territory-war cooldown failed during the fight over HKA. Torn cancelled the war and fixed the check, but declined to return the resources spent.
2021–2023 · Bugs and glitches
- The mugging figures behind the one-second-delay argument
CRLF compared mugging averages around the one-second delay. The thread then became an argument over short windows, selection bias and what the figures could actually prove.
2021–2024 · Muggings
- A Seat Leon Cupra price gap, then challenge pissing
A thread questioned Seat Leon Cupra prices after posts showed $17,500 Dock purchases and much higher bazaar sales. The market discussion soon detoured into “challenge pissing.”
Aug–Sep 2021 · Markets
- A signature explanation for ‘Torn Glitch?...’
Harley [258120] attributed altered profile details to hijoe [1898789] using a signature. Swatsicle [1593313] warned that similar scripting could imitate hospital or travel status.
2016–2021 · Bugs and glitches
- CSY and Yakuza - Defiance test ranked war
In a November 2021 ranked-war beta thread, ThunderThighs praised CSY's activity while Toothless said Yakuza - Defiance's larger-stat members had not joined.
Nov 2021 · Wars
- dark95 called for a CaffeineCon prize and received Dumbbells
dark95 demanded a promised CaffeineCon prize for a method requiring 11 months of inactivity. The resulting call-out ended with sugarvalves sending 1x Dumbbells.
Nov–Dec 2021 · Funny incidents
- Another Maxx1628 palace-trade accusation is Graved
he77789 [2516908] accused Maxx1628 of an accept-first trick over a 1000 happy palace. An existing reputation supplied the replies; an existing thread supplied the destination.
Mar 2021 · Scams and cons
- Kata reports around 120 bounties placed on bogie
Kata’s report of around 120 bounties on bogie prompted players to compare personal highs, old bounty contests and the arithmetic behind the Outcast title.
May 2021 · Player feats
- A suspicious reveal request led back to a desired player name
Patient [2131539] warned that -Notorious [2033302] might be wasting job points. Replies connected the unusual request to taking an inactive player's name, and Patient edited the warning.
Jul 2021 · Scams and cons
- Proxima reports a million-attack Halloween day
Proxima [1879587] reported more than 1,000,000 attacks in a day during Halloween. The thread followed the attack count, event load and the chance of a Cats in Hell payout.
Oct 2021 · Player feats