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Which is the best faction in Torn? It's a question I have often asked myself, as no doubt have many others. But is this something you can quantify? And if so, what are the criteria?
Some would say "JFK, no doubt", however, in which fields are JFK #1? Do Subversive Alliance come out on top in any categories, and if so, which are the most important in determining Torn's top faction?
To attempt to answer this I took several days last month to compile some very detailed statistics about many different fields related to faction success, and in doing so, I've come across some rather interesting information. Not only have I discovered who are the most loyal and wealthy, but I've also found out which faction's members have the highest average number of awards, respect and trades too.
These statistics were drawn from the top 50 factions and were correct as of 25th April 2017. It should be noted that since players carry their statistics with them when moving factions, these figures are more representative of the achievements of a faction's roster at the time - they may not paint an accurate picture of a faction's historical ability in any one field.
In total 3,743 faction members were included in this data set, so without further ado let us take a look at some of my findings.
OLDEST LEADER - Rekker
Torn's oldest leader happens to be Rekker of Little Stompers, who joined Torn City on Wednesday September 8th 2004. Easye of Imminent Apocalypse places second having arrived here a few months later on Sunday January 2nd 2005, with Destroys of PT-Bravehearts third with his start date of Thursday March 31st 2005. On the other hand, our youngest leader at the time of writing is MeanMike, who only arrived on 31st January 2015 yet finds himself in command of JFC - a young, but promising faction.
OLDEST FACTION - Subversive Alliance
Torn's oldest faction is 39th Street Killers, but if we're talking about the faction with the oldest players, SA is first with an average member being 3429 days old. JFK, PT-Family and JFR aren't too far behind, with these factions rapidly closing in on achieving an average age of 9 years old (3285 days).
MOST LOYAL - LONDON
LONDON is the only faction whose members have spent over 1000 days in the faction on average, with the figure standing at 1080 days to be precise. At the time of writing they will probably have just reached the three-year mark, with JFK's members in second place with an average tenure of 981 days. In third place are members of The Quidnunks HQ with 854 days.
A special mention must go to Edwingi, who is the only player in the top 50 factions with more than 4000 days service in the same faction. This loyal soldier joined 39th Street Killers when he was 299 days old, and when this article is published he'll be marking his 4133rd day in the faction. Almost two years behind - 707 days to be exact - is Amy_Rose of JFK. Amy takes the second spot having joined JFK when she was 861 days old, and as of today she celebrates her 3426th day in the faction.
MOST DEDICATED - Subversive Alliance
The faction that has played this game the most is Subversive Alliance with a total of 18,950 days in Torn; a figure which equates to an astonishing 52 years total play time, or one Sigourney Weaver. Second on the list is Ãestructive Anomaly with 15,515 days play time, which works out as 42 years and 6 months, or the lifespan of Ray Mysterio Jr. Unsurprisingly, the members of SA and ÃA also come out on top regarding individual logins, with the average SA and DA member logging in 13,654 and 10,373 times respectively.
MOST GENEROUS - Relentless
SA is the faction with the highest donator days per member as their players have accrued 1949 on average, with JFK members in second on 1847 days. However, if we're talking about the percentage of donators per faction there are only five factions where every member is a donator; Relentless, Unrelenting, Hold Your Fire, JFA and SA. But since Donator packs can be purchased with TCD, it is perhaps more pertinent to look at the factions with the most subscribers in order to judge which is the most generous.
Despite having 100 members, Relentless leads in terms of subscribers by percentage with an impressive 51% regular supporters among their ranks. Unrelenting and JFB both have a 50% subscriber rate, and in this category, SA is placed #21 and JFK #23. Therefore, despite SA coming out on top of both the highest donator days per member, I have judged Relentless to be the most generous faction by virtue of their subscription rate.
MOST LADIES - N.0.0.B
N.0.0.B is the faction with the largest number of ladies, while LONDON has the fewest with just one female. Also, women led 8 of Torn's top 50 factions when I conducted this survey, but a few days later this increased to 11, with ladies presently heading up the likes of Destructive Angels, JFK 2.1, Unrelenting, Wolf Pack and occasionally Relentless. This means that women comprise a disproportionately high number of Torn's best faction leaders, with their 22% figure an increase on the 18% of the population who identify as ladies. And they hit pretty hard too - even Duke was whining to me the other day about how he got kicked in the nuts by one of these girls, so you underestimate them at your peril.
100% MARRIED MEMBERS - Dropbears
Dropbears is the only faction where all of its members are married. The loneliest faction would be the aforementioned N.0.0.B - a bit strange considering they contain 38 ladies, or at least people who pretend to be ladies. Despite having the most singletons, N.0.0.B as a faction has also placed the fewest personals with just the one. On the other hand, it seems that the guys over at Itsi Bitsi Bikini feel a bit lonely, as they have placed 124 personals in total.
FRIENDLIEST FACTION - JFK
The faction with the most friends is SA, as they have 317 friends more than 2nd placed JFK. However, JFK is a smaller faction, and their members have 90 friends on average, (#1), which is eight more than a typical SA player who has 82 (#2).
On the other hand, the faction with the most enemies is JFA, with SA in second having made 1178 more enemies than JFK in third. These results differ ever so slightly from the average enemies per member stats, since JFA players are individually the most hated with 51 enemies a piece. SA come in 2nd on 39, but Milk and Cookies take third over JFK with 37. Therefore, since SA and JFK both top one of the two friend leaderboards but SA outstrip JFK concerning enemies, we can conclusively say that JFK is Torn City's Friendliest Faction.
MOST KARMA - JUX HQ
If JFA's feeling a little salty for having the most enemies in Torn then their forum stats may provide them with some redemption. In karma they're placed #2, with their average member having 578 Karma. First is, of course, JUX HQ, with professional crowd-pleaser bogie accounting for almost 30% of his faction's forum good will - although, this may change should Ched punish JFA members for intentionally keeping MarlonBrando out of the VIP forums. The faction that has posted the most is Evolution, but since their posts are mostly for trading purposes Passie's troops barely scrape into the top 50 for karma.
MOST DIRECTORS - Subversive Alliance
Subversive Alliance has the most directors with a total of 52, with JFK being close behind on 49. interestingly, N.0.0.B faction has the most grocers - more than all the other top factions combined. It would be kinda cool if they were called Team Lettuce, but they would probably have to fight Team Salad over the name rights first I guess.
BEST TRADERS - Milk and Cookies
The faction with the most bazaar customers is Ãestructive Anomaly, as an average DA member has an impressive 2306 unique bazaar customers. Placed second we have Milk and Cookies with 2236; however, regarding average profit, Myhedin's faction are #1, with their average member having a massive $38,857,659,082 sales. In comparison Ãestructive Anomaly only hit #3 on the profit list, below Subversive Alliance in 2nd. Milk and Cookies have secured their position as the city's best traders by also placing third in terms of individual trades completed, with their members participating in an average of 316 exchanges. SA tops this list with 439 trades per member, ahead of JFK in second with 413.
WEALTHIEST FACTION - JFK
No surprises here; JFK is the wealthiest faction, despite having 16 members fewer than SA. JFK members have a combined worth of $4,552,014,886,716 - that's right, over 4 trillion dollars! JFK's wealth is roughly equivalent to 52 Bill Gates or one year of the GDP of Japan. SA is not far behind; they're worth $4,239,726,442,222 and are "only" $312 billion behind, with Itsi Bitsi Bikini in third a further trillion dollars short.
Individual stats also confirm JFK's status as the richest faction, with an average member worth $52,930,405,659 - roughly 60% of Mr Gates. In comparison, the average SA member is second with a personal worth of $42,825,519,618 - 48% of Bill Gates. So, if you were to draw these figures on a proportional graphic of the Microsoft founder, JFK could afford to purchase from his feet up to his large intestine. Sadly, SA would reach no higher than Mr Gates' own personal software.
BIGGEST SE MUNCHERS - Subversive Alliance
As expected with BodyBagger in their ranks, SA uses more Stat Enhancers than any other faction with an average of per person 74. JFK is second with 66, but if we were to remove BodyBagger, the average for SA would drop down to 26. The only other factions with 10 or more SE's used on average per member are Evolution (17), Milk and Cookies (16), JFR (14), JFK 2.1 (11), PT-Family (10) and Ãestructive Anomaly (10). All top 50 factions combined used total of 24,779 stat enhancers, and if someone were to sell all of these, they would be worth over 11 trillion dollars!
BEST ATTACKERS - Subversive Alliance
Thanks to a combination of high activity and stat enhancers, SA takes first place in most of the city's attacking categories. As a faction they have over 100,000 more attacking victories than their closest rival Destructive Anomaly, with SA on 827,279, DA on 722,403 and JFK in third with 694,841 attacks won. Interestingly, Destructive Anomaly has also lost the most attacks with 51,999 in total.
Individually SA wins out again, despite spreading their attack total over a higher number of members than their rivals. SA recruits have on average 8,356 wins compared to 8,079 for JFK, although JFK members do seem to be more cunning as they average 6,244 stealth attacks compared to SA's 6,198 silent kills. SA is also the faction that has the most attacks assisted overall with 4,432 total, with ÃA and Relentless close behind on 4,273 and 4,254 assists.
Yet another category in which SA lead is in critical hits, with 498,074 incisive strikes good enough for another first place over 100,000 ahead of DA in 2nd and JFK in 3rd. But, what about a different form of attacking? Who comes out on top in terms of money mugged?
BEST MUGGERS - Milk and Cookies
When this data was collected the winner was clear; Milk and Cookies topped the list and had a 29 billion advantage over second placed Subversive Alliance thanks to a mugging haul of $482,734,711,365 TCD, with MMCP and Wolf Pack in third and fourth place respectively. However, it must be said that Wolf Pack placed #4 because of Tezwar, who is alone responsible for over $200billion. Without him, Wolf Pack would have dropped to #14 behind PT-Family.
And with Tezwar joining SA just recently, Subversive Alliance has now taken the top spot with Wolf Pack falling to 16th. In Tezwar and Bodybagger SA now have the #1 and #4 muggers of all time, and if these two were factions they would place 7th and 18th respectively. Nevertheless, despite SA's current status as top dog, we have awarded the title to MnC because they were top at the time we collected the data.
BIGGEST BOUNTIERS - JFK
JFA holds the record of bounties received with a whopping 25,733, with SA in second with 21,349 and Milk and Cookies third with 18,346 bounties. But for bounties placed the honour goes to JFK, whose members really enjoy paying others to do their dirty work. JFK's crew have put a total of 100,620 bounties on opponents in their lifetime, which is almost double that of their rivals in SA, JFA and Destructive Anomaly.
MOST RESPECT - Destructive Alliance
It is not surprising that members of DA, SA, JFK and MnC have earned the most respect for factions, but as we said at the beginning, some of their players will have earned respect for other factions as well, which is still counted. ÃA members lead in this category with 2,248,901 respect earned between their current members. However, regarding averages, LONDON hits first place with a typical member of their faction earning 24,873 respect.
MOST DEFENDS - Subversive Alliance
DA, SA, JFK and MnC are the only factions with over 100,000 defends won, but in a slightly different order. First we'd have SA with 223,930, second JFK with 145,834, third ÃA with 114,531 and fourth MnC with 103,006 defends won. Since losing is part of the game as well, it has to be said that SA, JFA and DA have lost the most defends too. Luckily for SA, there's quite an achievement behind these figures; they're the only faction with more defends won than lost. And yes, this is the case even if we exclude BodyBagger (223,930 defends won / 161,595 defends lost). Closest to achieving the same is JFK (145,834 defends won / 151,922 defends lost).
MOST RUNAWAYS - Subversive Alliance
There are only three factions that have over 10,000 runaways. First is SA with 16,063, second is Calculated with 11,072 and third are Relentless with 10,922 runaways. Subversive Alliance also strikes more fear into their opponents than anyone else, since 18,324 people have run away from SA members (#1), 17,422 from JFK (#2) and 13,480 from Relentless (#3). The aforementioned Calculated sit at 10 on this list with 7,950, however, I must say that last few months were probably toughest in Calculated's history. After ghosty quit, some members decided to join other factions despite Calculated having outstanding perks. Nevertheless, I think Calculated will get back on the right track, and eventually go on to best their previous achievements.
BIGGEST CRIMINALS - Subversive Alliance
Criminal offences are crucial to Torn life, yet there are only four factions with an average of over 50,000 criminal offences per member. SA has taken #1 here as well with an average of 66,191 crimes and total of 6,553,003 crimes performed. JFK is second with 60,019 crimes on average, with third and fourth place held by MnC and PT-Family, thanks to their 50,806 and 50,437 offences respectively.
BIGGEST BUSTERS - Subversive Alliance
In total busts done, PT-Family (357,847 busts) has done well to surpass JFK (357,030 busts), but SA is still out in front (377,516). However, SA has more members than JFK, so because of that their average per member busts is lower - they're in third place here (3813 busts done), behind JFK (4151 busts done) and PT-Family (4066 busts done).
The reason SA takes this category is that they've also bought the most players from jail - 50,010 - which is incredible when you consider they've spent less money than JFK (33,109, #2) in doing so. SA's outlay on prison bails is $4,649,525,126, whereas JFK spent $4,850,417,907 - equating to $146,498 per bail compared to $92,971 for SA.
MOST JAILED - JFK
JFK members have been put in jail the most, having been sent down a total of 222,510 times for an average of 2587 times per member. SA are second thanks to a total of 180,973 and an average of 1828, with PT-Family 3rd on 165,515 jailings and 1880 average.
MOST HOSPITALISED - Relentless
In Torn, the hospital is some people's second home, and this is especially true for the members of Relentless who have been hospitalised 205,618 times - it seems that people simply enjoy needles, operations and blood. This affection for the red stuff is further demonstrated by the fact that Relentless also take the top spot in raiding the blood bank, with 192,203 haemoglobin withdrawals made by their members.
MOST REVIVES - PT-Ironhearts
PT-IronHearts are known as a reviver's faction with good reason, and their tally looks unreachable even over the next few years. PT have done more than twice the amount of revives (36,557) than second placed Relentless (17,026), and Evolution is in third place with 16,511 revives performed. SA members are the faction most often discharged from the hospital, having made use of 28,186 revives just ahead of JFK in second with 26,802.
BIGGEST DRUGGIES - Subversive Alliance
SA is #1 in all drugs taken, in Xanax taken and in refills taken; in averages as well as faction totals. In second and third place are JFK and MnC for all the same categories. SA also has the largest amount of overdoses with 13,681, and once more JFK take second with 10,731. Interestingly, the faction with most stoners is Calculated with a total of 25,561 cannabis taken - make of that what you will.
MOST MISSIONS COMPLETED - Subversive Alliance
Missions were released not so long ago, but SA claims the first place here as well having completed a total of 26,576 tasks for Duke, George and Anonymous. Second is Relentless with 24,961 and third Ãestructive Anomaly with 21,445 missions completed.
MOST CITY FINDS - Subversive Alliance
SA has found most items in the city with a total of 43,503; ÃA is second with 37,070 and Relentless third with 35,997. The faction that has sent most items is JFK, and they're also the only faction that has sent over 100,000 items - 108,302 to be exact, with ÃA close to reaching 100,000 themselves. In third place is PT-Family with 95,400 items sent.
MOST TALKATIVE - Subversive Alliance
SA members have sent total of 1,613,430 mails. Other factions that have sent over 1 million mails are FTW (1,376,655), JFK (1,302,939), MnC (1,237,485) and ÃA (1,209,276).
MOST TRAVELLED - Subversive Alliance
SA members have travelled the most out of any faction in Torn, having left the city a total of 213,582 times. ÃA is in second place with 202,959 trips, and Relentless is third with 199,117 travels.
HIGHEST AVERAGE LEVEL - Subversive Alliance
Subversive Alliance members have achieved the highest level in the city, with their average of 88 three better than second placed JFK and their 85 average level. Milk and Cookies come in third with 79.
HIGHEST AVERAGE AWARDS - Subversive Alliance
This last category is where the real fun is - awards. The average member of SA has an impressive 331 individual awards. Yes, that is their average - to have 75% of the game's entire set of awards. In second place is JFK with 302 awards on average and in third Milk and Cookies members who typically have 298 awards apiece.
So that's my list! I hope you enjoyed this collection of data. It will be interesting how much things will change over the next 365 days. If you are interested to see more information, feel free to visit this link and browse for yourself.
Oh, and to answer to "which is the best faction in Torn", well, Subversive Alliance has taken home more individual awards than La La Land. However, you have to wonder how many they'd swap to be the richest, or in exchange for a few more victories in wars. The one area JFK is said to be the strongest is regarding battle stats, but since these aren't made publically available (and we don't want to go snooping) perhaps we'll never know for sure.
Also, there are some categories in which neither of these two factions will ever be #1, so it really is impossible to say who the best faction truly is. In Torn, just like real life, there are many great things you can achieve, and no one can have everything. But, so long as we have our goals, and as long we strive to be better and to improve, nothing else matters - not even who is best.
Thanks SugarValves and Harley for editing this post, and making it more pleasant to read!
Some would say "JFK, no doubt", however, in which fields are JFK #1? Do Subversive Alliance come out on top in any categories, and if so, which are the most important in determining Torn's top faction?
To attempt to answer this I took several days last month to compile some very detailed statistics about many different fields related to faction success, and in doing so, I've come across some rather interesting information. Not only have I discovered who are the most loyal and wealthy, but I've also found out which faction's members have the highest average number of awards, respect and trades too.
These statistics were drawn from the top 50 factions and were correct as of 25th April 2017. It should be noted that since players carry their statistics with them when moving factions, these figures are more representative of the achievements of a faction's roster at the time - they may not paint an accurate picture of a faction's historical ability in any one field.
In total 3,743 faction members were included in this data set, so without further ado let us take a look at some of my findings.
OLDEST LEADER - Rekker
Torn's oldest leader happens to be Rekker of Little Stompers, who joined Torn City on Wednesday September 8th 2004. Easye of Imminent Apocalypse places second having arrived here a few months later on Sunday January 2nd 2005, with Destroys of PT-Bravehearts third with his start date of Thursday March 31st 2005. On the other hand, our youngest leader at the time of writing is MeanMike, who only arrived on 31st January 2015 yet finds himself in command of JFC - a young, but promising faction.
OLDEST FACTION - Subversive Alliance
Torn's oldest faction is 39th Street Killers, but if we're talking about the faction with the oldest players, SA is first with an average member being 3429 days old. JFK, PT-Family and JFR aren't too far behind, with these factions rapidly closing in on achieving an average age of 9 years old (3285 days).
MOST LOYAL - LONDON
LONDON is the only faction whose members have spent over 1000 days in the faction on average, with the figure standing at 1080 days to be precise. At the time of writing they will probably have just reached the three-year mark, with JFK's members in second place with an average tenure of 981 days. In third place are members of The Quidnunks HQ with 854 days.
A special mention must go to Edwingi, who is the only player in the top 50 factions with more than 4000 days service in the same faction. This loyal soldier joined 39th Street Killers when he was 299 days old, and when this article is published he'll be marking his 4133rd day in the faction. Almost two years behind - 707 days to be exact - is Amy_Rose of JFK. Amy takes the second spot having joined JFK when she was 861 days old, and as of today she celebrates her 3426th day in the faction.
MOST DEDICATED - Subversive Alliance
The faction that has played this game the most is Subversive Alliance with a total of 18,950 days in Torn; a figure which equates to an astonishing 52 years total play time, or one Sigourney Weaver. Second on the list is Ãestructive Anomaly with 15,515 days play time, which works out as 42 years and 6 months, or the lifespan of Ray Mysterio Jr. Unsurprisingly, the members of SA and ÃA also come out on top regarding individual logins, with the average SA and DA member logging in 13,654 and 10,373 times respectively.
MOST GENEROUS - Relentless
SA is the faction with the highest donator days per member as their players have accrued 1949 on average, with JFK members in second on 1847 days. However, if we're talking about the percentage of donators per faction there are only five factions where every member is a donator; Relentless, Unrelenting, Hold Your Fire, JFA and SA. But since Donator packs can be purchased with TCD, it is perhaps more pertinent to look at the factions with the most subscribers in order to judge which is the most generous.
Despite having 100 members, Relentless leads in terms of subscribers by percentage with an impressive 51% regular supporters among their ranks. Unrelenting and JFB both have a 50% subscriber rate, and in this category, SA is placed #21 and JFK #23. Therefore, despite SA coming out on top of both the highest donator days per member, I have judged Relentless to be the most generous faction by virtue of their subscription rate.
MOST LADIES - N.0.0.B
N.0.0.B is the faction with the largest number of ladies, while LONDON has the fewest with just one female. Also, women led 8 of Torn's top 50 factions when I conducted this survey, but a few days later this increased to 11, with ladies presently heading up the likes of Destructive Angels, JFK 2.1, Unrelenting, Wolf Pack and occasionally Relentless. This means that women comprise a disproportionately high number of Torn's best faction leaders, with their 22% figure an increase on the 18% of the population who identify as ladies. And they hit pretty hard too - even Duke was whining to me the other day about how he got kicked in the nuts by one of these girls, so you underestimate them at your peril.
100% MARRIED MEMBERS - Dropbears
Dropbears is the only faction where all of its members are married. The loneliest faction would be the aforementioned N.0.0.B - a bit strange considering they contain 38 ladies, or at least people who pretend to be ladies. Despite having the most singletons, N.0.0.B as a faction has also placed the fewest personals with just the one. On the other hand, it seems that the guys over at Itsi Bitsi Bikini feel a bit lonely, as they have placed 124 personals in total.
FRIENDLIEST FACTION - JFK
The faction with the most friends is SA, as they have 317 friends more than 2nd placed JFK. However, JFK is a smaller faction, and their members have 90 friends on average, (#1), which is eight more than a typical SA player who has 82 (#2).
On the other hand, the faction with the most enemies is JFA, with SA in second having made 1178 more enemies than JFK in third. These results differ ever so slightly from the average enemies per member stats, since JFA players are individually the most hated with 51 enemies a piece. SA come in 2nd on 39, but Milk and Cookies take third over JFK with 37. Therefore, since SA and JFK both top one of the two friend leaderboards but SA outstrip JFK concerning enemies, we can conclusively say that JFK is Torn City's Friendliest Faction.
MOST KARMA - JUX HQ
If JFA's feeling a little salty for having the most enemies in Torn then their forum stats may provide them with some redemption. In karma they're placed #2, with their average member having 578 Karma. First is, of course, JUX HQ, with professional crowd-pleaser bogie accounting for almost 30% of his faction's forum good will - although, this may change should Ched punish JFA members for intentionally keeping MarlonBrando out of the VIP forums. The faction that has posted the most is Evolution, but since their posts are mostly for trading purposes Passie's troops barely scrape into the top 50 for karma.
MOST DIRECTORS - Subversive Alliance
Subversive Alliance has the most directors with a total of 52, with JFK being close behind on 49. interestingly, N.0.0.B faction has the most grocers - more than all the other top factions combined. It would be kinda cool if they were called Team Lettuce, but they would probably have to fight Team Salad over the name rights first I guess.
BEST TRADERS - Milk and Cookies
The faction with the most bazaar customers is Ãestructive Anomaly, as an average DA member has an impressive 2306 unique bazaar customers. Placed second we have Milk and Cookies with 2236; however, regarding average profit, Myhedin's faction are #1, with their average member having a massive $38,857,659,082 sales. In comparison Ãestructive Anomaly only hit #3 on the profit list, below Subversive Alliance in 2nd. Milk and Cookies have secured their position as the city's best traders by also placing third in terms of individual trades completed, with their members participating in an average of 316 exchanges. SA tops this list with 439 trades per member, ahead of JFK in second with 413.
WEALTHIEST FACTION - JFK
No surprises here; JFK is the wealthiest faction, despite having 16 members fewer than SA. JFK members have a combined worth of $4,552,014,886,716 - that's right, over 4 trillion dollars! JFK's wealth is roughly equivalent to 52 Bill Gates or one year of the GDP of Japan. SA is not far behind; they're worth $4,239,726,442,222 and are "only" $312 billion behind, with Itsi Bitsi Bikini in third a further trillion dollars short.
Individual stats also confirm JFK's status as the richest faction, with an average member worth $52,930,405,659 - roughly 60% of Mr Gates. In comparison, the average SA member is second with a personal worth of $42,825,519,618 - 48% of Bill Gates. So, if you were to draw these figures on a proportional graphic of the Microsoft founder, JFK could afford to purchase from his feet up to his large intestine. Sadly, SA would reach no higher than Mr Gates' own personal software.
BIGGEST SE MUNCHERS - Subversive Alliance
As expected with BodyBagger in their ranks, SA uses more Stat Enhancers than any other faction with an average of per person 74. JFK is second with 66, but if we were to remove BodyBagger, the average for SA would drop down to 26. The only other factions with 10 or more SE's used on average per member are Evolution (17), Milk and Cookies (16), JFR (14), JFK 2.1 (11), PT-Family (10) and Ãestructive Anomaly (10). All top 50 factions combined used total of 24,779 stat enhancers, and if someone were to sell all of these, they would be worth over 11 trillion dollars!
BEST ATTACKERS - Subversive Alliance
Thanks to a combination of high activity and stat enhancers, SA takes first place in most of the city's attacking categories. As a faction they have over 100,000 more attacking victories than their closest rival Destructive Anomaly, with SA on 827,279, DA on 722,403 and JFK in third with 694,841 attacks won. Interestingly, Destructive Anomaly has also lost the most attacks with 51,999 in total.
Individually SA wins out again, despite spreading their attack total over a higher number of members than their rivals. SA recruits have on average 8,356 wins compared to 8,079 for JFK, although JFK members do seem to be more cunning as they average 6,244 stealth attacks compared to SA's 6,198 silent kills. SA is also the faction that has the most attacks assisted overall with 4,432 total, with ÃA and Relentless close behind on 4,273 and 4,254 assists.
Yet another category in which SA lead is in critical hits, with 498,074 incisive strikes good enough for another first place over 100,000 ahead of DA in 2nd and JFK in 3rd. But, what about a different form of attacking? Who comes out on top in terms of money mugged?
BEST MUGGERS - Milk and Cookies
When this data was collected the winner was clear; Milk and Cookies topped the list and had a 29 billion advantage over second placed Subversive Alliance thanks to a mugging haul of $482,734,711,365 TCD, with MMCP and Wolf Pack in third and fourth place respectively. However, it must be said that Wolf Pack placed #4 because of Tezwar, who is alone responsible for over $200billion. Without him, Wolf Pack would have dropped to #14 behind PT-Family.
And with Tezwar joining SA just recently, Subversive Alliance has now taken the top spot with Wolf Pack falling to 16th. In Tezwar and Bodybagger SA now have the #1 and #4 muggers of all time, and if these two were factions they would place 7th and 18th respectively. Nevertheless, despite SA's current status as top dog, we have awarded the title to MnC because they were top at the time we collected the data.
BIGGEST BOUNTIERS - JFK
JFA holds the record of bounties received with a whopping 25,733, with SA in second with 21,349 and Milk and Cookies third with 18,346 bounties. But for bounties placed the honour goes to JFK, whose members really enjoy paying others to do their dirty work. JFK's crew have put a total of 100,620 bounties on opponents in their lifetime, which is almost double that of their rivals in SA, JFA and Destructive Anomaly.
MOST RESPECT - Destructive Alliance
It is not surprising that members of DA, SA, JFK and MnC have earned the most respect for factions, but as we said at the beginning, some of their players will have earned respect for other factions as well, which is still counted. ÃA members lead in this category with 2,248,901 respect earned between their current members. However, regarding averages, LONDON hits first place with a typical member of their faction earning 24,873 respect.
MOST DEFENDS - Subversive Alliance
DA, SA, JFK and MnC are the only factions with over 100,000 defends won, but in a slightly different order. First we'd have SA with 223,930, second JFK with 145,834, third ÃA with 114,531 and fourth MnC with 103,006 defends won. Since losing is part of the game as well, it has to be said that SA, JFA and DA have lost the most defends too. Luckily for SA, there's quite an achievement behind these figures; they're the only faction with more defends won than lost. And yes, this is the case even if we exclude BodyBagger (223,930 defends won / 161,595 defends lost). Closest to achieving the same is JFK (145,834 defends won / 151,922 defends lost).
MOST RUNAWAYS - Subversive Alliance
There are only three factions that have over 10,000 runaways. First is SA with 16,063, second is Calculated with 11,072 and third are Relentless with 10,922 runaways. Subversive Alliance also strikes more fear into their opponents than anyone else, since 18,324 people have run away from SA members (#1), 17,422 from JFK (#2) and 13,480 from Relentless (#3). The aforementioned Calculated sit at 10 on this list with 7,950, however, I must say that last few months were probably toughest in Calculated's history. After ghosty quit, some members decided to join other factions despite Calculated having outstanding perks. Nevertheless, I think Calculated will get back on the right track, and eventually go on to best their previous achievements.
BIGGEST CRIMINALS - Subversive Alliance
Criminal offences are crucial to Torn life, yet there are only four factions with an average of over 50,000 criminal offences per member. SA has taken #1 here as well with an average of 66,191 crimes and total of 6,553,003 crimes performed. JFK is second with 60,019 crimes on average, with third and fourth place held by MnC and PT-Family, thanks to their 50,806 and 50,437 offences respectively.
BIGGEST BUSTERS - Subversive Alliance
In total busts done, PT-Family (357,847 busts) has done well to surpass JFK (357,030 busts), but SA is still out in front (377,516). However, SA has more members than JFK, so because of that their average per member busts is lower - they're in third place here (3813 busts done), behind JFK (4151 busts done) and PT-Family (4066 busts done).
The reason SA takes this category is that they've also bought the most players from jail - 50,010 - which is incredible when you consider they've spent less money than JFK (33,109, #2) in doing so. SA's outlay on prison bails is $4,649,525,126, whereas JFK spent $4,850,417,907 - equating to $146,498 per bail compared to $92,971 for SA.
MOST JAILED - JFK
JFK members have been put in jail the most, having been sent down a total of 222,510 times for an average of 2587 times per member. SA are second thanks to a total of 180,973 and an average of 1828, with PT-Family 3rd on 165,515 jailings and 1880 average.
MOST HOSPITALISED - Relentless
In Torn, the hospital is some people's second home, and this is especially true for the members of Relentless who have been hospitalised 205,618 times - it seems that people simply enjoy needles, operations and blood. This affection for the red stuff is further demonstrated by the fact that Relentless also take the top spot in raiding the blood bank, with 192,203 haemoglobin withdrawals made by their members.
MOST REVIVES - PT-Ironhearts
PT-IronHearts are known as a reviver's faction with good reason, and their tally looks unreachable even over the next few years. PT have done more than twice the amount of revives (36,557) than second placed Relentless (17,026), and Evolution is in third place with 16,511 revives performed. SA members are the faction most often discharged from the hospital, having made use of 28,186 revives just ahead of JFK in second with 26,802.
BIGGEST DRUGGIES - Subversive Alliance
SA is #1 in all drugs taken, in Xanax taken and in refills taken; in averages as well as faction totals. In second and third place are JFK and MnC for all the same categories. SA also has the largest amount of overdoses with 13,681, and once more JFK take second with 10,731. Interestingly, the faction with most stoners is Calculated with a total of 25,561 cannabis taken - make of that what you will.
MOST MISSIONS COMPLETED - Subversive Alliance
Missions were released not so long ago, but SA claims the first place here as well having completed a total of 26,576 tasks for Duke, George and Anonymous. Second is Relentless with 24,961 and third Ãestructive Anomaly with 21,445 missions completed.
MOST CITY FINDS - Subversive Alliance
SA has found most items in the city with a total of 43,503; ÃA is second with 37,070 and Relentless third with 35,997. The faction that has sent most items is JFK, and they're also the only faction that has sent over 100,000 items - 108,302 to be exact, with ÃA close to reaching 100,000 themselves. In third place is PT-Family with 95,400 items sent.
MOST TALKATIVE - Subversive Alliance
SA members have sent total of 1,613,430 mails. Other factions that have sent over 1 million mails are FTW (1,376,655), JFK (1,302,939), MnC (1,237,485) and ÃA (1,209,276).
MOST TRAVELLED - Subversive Alliance
SA members have travelled the most out of any faction in Torn, having left the city a total of 213,582 times. ÃA is in second place with 202,959 trips, and Relentless is third with 199,117 travels.
HIGHEST AVERAGE LEVEL - Subversive Alliance
Subversive Alliance members have achieved the highest level in the city, with their average of 88 three better than second placed JFK and their 85 average level. Milk and Cookies come in third with 79.
HIGHEST AVERAGE AWARDS - Subversive Alliance
This last category is where the real fun is - awards. The average member of SA has an impressive 331 individual awards. Yes, that is their average - to have 75% of the game's entire set of awards. In second place is JFK with 302 awards on average and in third Milk and Cookies members who typically have 298 awards apiece.
So that's my list! I hope you enjoyed this collection of data. It will be interesting how much things will change over the next 365 days. If you are interested to see more information, feel free to visit this link and browse for yourself.
Oh, and to answer to "which is the best faction in Torn", well, Subversive Alliance has taken home more individual awards than La La Land. However, you have to wonder how many they'd swap to be the richest, or in exchange for a few more victories in wars. The one area JFK is said to be the strongest is regarding battle stats, but since these aren't made publically available (and we don't want to go snooping) perhaps we'll never know for sure.
Also, there are some categories in which neither of these two factions will ever be #1, so it really is impossible to say who the best faction truly is. In Torn, just like real life, there are many great things you can achieve, and no one can have everything. But, so long as we have our goals, and as long we strive to be better and to improve, nothing else matters - not even who is best.
Thanks SugarValves and Harley for editing this post, and making it more pleasant to read!
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