Torn City Times

UrgentAlibi [1608246] — Scrooge cancels Christmas for thousands! The infamous businessman, Scrooge [10], attempted to cancel Christmas once again for thousands of citizens in Torn. After the mayor of the city, Chedburn [1], called for a mass uprising against the public figure, hundreds of people rallied together in the streets of Torn in an attempt to bring the miser down. Snow was falling at the city gates. The forums were abuzz with Christmas competitions and gift exchanges. The entire Torn community seemed, on the whole, to be full of festive spirit and cheer. Ebenezer entered the city, taking residence in Torn's North Side (where most of the markets are located) a few days before Christmas Day. Rumours swirled and Number Ten was attacked before the public even knew of his presence - those in the know wanted Scrooge's infamous snow cannon for themselves. After several citizens turned up in hospital, brutally injured and covered in the dust of exploded snowballs, an offici...

IIIlusionist [253384] — As we have seen in previous articles, Torn's HOF factions have a remarkable and long history that date back many years. Out of the 2500+ factions in Torn today a huge, huge, portion of them will be filled with inactive members which have joined the slow road to deletion, others are peaceful and some used for keeping money safe. Take away these and you will see that there is just as much war mongering lower down the ranks, perhaps more so than in HOF these days. And so the lamp turns on Calculated. Purchased around two years ago by ghosty [1348728], Calculated have been shooting up the ranks ever since. As a rule of thumb most faction dont give away freebies, however HOF factions, with their rich owners and organised crime money, can more than provide supplies for wars. This was what inspired the name Calculated. They could not afford big cash prizes, points, drugs and FHCs that other factions could, but survived by carefully calculating, funnily enough the...

Moguai [423015] — How much is a faction worth? The question is often asked around Torn and the answer depends on a lot of factors - all of which are never definite and never certain. Faction value is exactly what this article aims to explore. Overall, a key component in the value of a faction is the total respect, made up of a combination of current respect and the faction specials bought in the past through trading respect in for specials. Steadfast, historically, has been the most coveted special, increasing gym gains by up to 10%. However, there has been growing popularity for Hermetic - responsible for reducing drug addiction gains by up to 50% - effectively lowering rehab bills when making the long trip to Zurich, Switzerland. Other popular specials include Salutary (reducing reviving energy cost to 25 energy vs. the standard 75) and Cumber (increases items that can be carried up to 10 while overseas). Another factor to consider when buying or selling a faction is the rank of t...

UrgentAlibi [1608246] — The dust has finally begun to settle. Eye-witnesses have described it as akin to watching a bomb go off. Families were shaken, lives destroyed, but Black Friday has finally passed. An annual tradition that began in the United States, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and traditionally seen as the first day of the Christmas shopping period. Retailers came to anticipate this surge in the numbers of shoppers - competition and chaos followed. Stores embarked on a game of promotional one-up-manship, until Black Friday mutated into some kind of blood sport where consumers violently climb over one another to ensure they get the deal they want, before stocks run out. Black Friday is increasingly referred to in popular culture, and with popular online retailers maintaining a global presence, it was only a matter of time until this plague went viral. This last Friday, for the first time, Black Friday reportedly spread to the UK, France, Germany, and China, with...

IIIlusionist [253384] — Seeing as how there have been three separate threads for each dirty bomb that has been dropped, I thought "...why not get all of the information into a single location and save you the time sprawling through the endless pages of 'who dropped the dirty bomb?' or 'Evil-duck is going to destroy the world.'" We have nicknamed the first dirty bomb "Noob Bomb." The dirty bomb was dropped by that "well known" player krilitor1 [1608510] - you might have caught him during one of his 26 logins. However, disregarding the low, and very unlikely probability that any one player can gather $15,000,000,000 together in order to make (or buy) a dirty bomb in barely one hour and seven minutes, krilitor1 is most likely a multi-account. After all, who needs the merit and pride that comes with dropping a many-billion-dollar bomb - much better to hide behind a false account and remain anonymous is it not? The bomb was dropped on JFK, a w...