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Bonus event sees increase to point payouts for item exchanges. Plushie / flower prices set to slump shortly. Flights out of Torn expected to quadruple as traders fight to stock up.
Torn's annual Museum Day event begins at noon TCT on Sunday, with citizens set to receive a 10% bonus to points received from the Museum in exchange for donated items and item sets. This event runs for 48 hours until noon TCT on the 19th of May, so make sure you time that last plushie run correctly, otherwise you'll be stuck waiting a whole year to see this bonus again - if we're even alive come 2021.
The Torn City Museum of Stolen Foreign Treasures is a controversial institution due to its complicity in the smuggling of non-native artifacts to supply it with exhibits. Once players have completed the History Studies Education bachelor, Torn citizens are permitted to travel abroad to pilfer items on the Museum's behalf in return for a reward. And with millions of relics flooding into Torn City every year, it seems our people are more than happy to bring back a few souvenirs when they go off on their holidays.
Many of these items hold huge cultural and religious significance in their place of origin, so it is understandable why some people would be angry at their theft, especially in exchange for profit. Yet judging by their lack of action on this issue, it appears that the Torn City authorities have taken the same admirable stance held by the British Museum on the matter of foreign relics: finders keepers, losers weepers.
Pictured: Shabti sculptures are often wrapped in bags of LSD tablets to avoid suspicion.
So long as the Museum provides a healthy reward in exchange for these treasures, the people of Torn will continue to steal them. Egyptian Amulets are the most highly prized item, with a payment of 10,000 points made for just one of these precious ancient relics. On Museum Day, this figure will swell to 11,000 points, a haul which is worth $521 million at the time of writing.
The price of an Egyptian Amulet on the open market is currently $590-640 million, so it is not worth buying up these treasures just to exchange them at the Museum. However, if you are in possession of an incomplete set of Plushies, Flowers, Coins, Scripts or the Senet game, then it may be worth paying slightly over the odds to acquire that elusive final piece, depending on how much you pay of course.
Here is a list of each item and item set which you can exchange at the Museum, including their bonus point value, and the cash equivalent at the time of writing (points were worth $47,367 on May 16th):
Plushie Set - 11 points - $521,037
Flower Set - 11 points - $521,037
Medieval Coin Set - 110 points - $5,210,370
Vairocana Buddha - 110 points - $5,210,370
Ganesha Sculpture - 275 points - $13,025,925
Shabti Sculpture - 550 points - $26,051,850
Quran Scripts - 1,100 points - $52,103,700
Senet Game Set - 2,200 points - $104,207,400
Egyptian Amulet - 11,000 points - $521,037,000
The vast majority of people will use this event to exchange multiple sets of Plushies and Flowers, as this is the main source of income for many Torn citizens, especially those who are new to our city. Last year over 300,000 sets of Plushies and 250,000 sets of Flowers were exchanged over the course of Museum Day alone. Given the continued increase in the city's population, this year we expect both figures to top 400,000 easily.
Why the Museum accepts Flowers and Plushies alongside those of genuine historical significance is uncertain. Some have suggested that the vast majority of Plushies purchased abroad contain items which are simply too well known or valuable to smuggle overtly, but most people believe that the Museum simply wants a stock of exotic toys for its overpriced gift shop.
Pictured: $4,000 for a Hieroglyphic Umbrella? How reasonable!
The reason for the flower hoarding is less pleasant. Given the huge daily death toll in Torn City, and the fact that our land is so irradiated it is virtually impossible to grow anything, the demand for funeral wreaths and bouquets has to be met through the smuggling of flowers from abroad. The Museum uses its role as a floricultural middle-man to boost its income, an income which has dwindled ever since the people of Torn realised its exhibits consist of the same sculptures and coins displayed in different cases over and over again.
But while the Museum remains unpopular with visitors, it will still welcome huge numbers of traders through its door this weekend. If you're planning to use Museum Day to supplement your own earnings, you may wish to keep an eye on the price of points before you exchange your precious haul on the market. As we revealed in our monthly Market Report, point prices tend to be low around this time of year, so it may be wise to sit on your stash of bonus points for a short while before offering them up for sale.
Point prices were at a two-month high of $48,000 on the day we published the Market Report. However, when players read our in-depth analysis of the effects of Museum Day on the points market, the price plummeted to just $46,000, and although they recovered most of this loss, we cannot rule out another drop over the next few days.
Last year, it seemed that late-June / early July was a good time to sell your Museum Day points haul. But if everyone takes this advice, then said advice will be bunkum.
tl;dr: The Museum pays out 10% more points from noon on the 17th to noon on the 19th of May.
The Torn City Museum of Stolen Foreign Treasures is a controversial institution due to its complicity in the smuggling of non-native artifacts to supply it with exhibits. Once players have completed the History Studies Education bachelor, Torn citizens are permitted to travel abroad to pilfer items on the Museum's behalf in return for a reward. And with millions of relics flooding into Torn City every year, it seems our people are more than happy to bring back a few souvenirs when they go off on their holidays.
Many of these items hold huge cultural and religious significance in their place of origin, so it is understandable why some people would be angry at their theft, especially in exchange for profit. Yet judging by their lack of action on this issue, it appears that the Torn City authorities have taken the same admirable stance held by the British Museum on the matter of foreign relics: finders keepers, losers weepers.
Pictured: Shabti sculptures are often wrapped in bags of LSD tablets to avoid suspicion.
So long as the Museum provides a healthy reward in exchange for these treasures, the people of Torn will continue to steal them. Egyptian Amulets are the most highly prized item, with a payment of 10,000 points made for just one of these precious ancient relics. On Museum Day, this figure will swell to 11,000 points, a haul which is worth $521 million at the time of writing.
The price of an Egyptian Amulet on the open market is currently $590-640 million, so it is not worth buying up these treasures just to exchange them at the Museum. However, if you are in possession of an incomplete set of Plushies, Flowers, Coins, Scripts or the Senet game, then it may be worth paying slightly over the odds to acquire that elusive final piece, depending on how much you pay of course.
Here is a list of each item and item set which you can exchange at the Museum, including their bonus point value, and the cash equivalent at the time of writing (points were worth $47,367 on May 16th):
Plushie Set - 11 points - $521,037
Flower Set - 11 points - $521,037
Medieval Coin Set - 110 points - $5,210,370
Vairocana Buddha - 110 points - $5,210,370
Ganesha Sculpture - 275 points - $13,025,925
Shabti Sculpture - 550 points - $26,051,850
Quran Scripts - 1,100 points - $52,103,700
Senet Game Set - 2,200 points - $104,207,400
Egyptian Amulet - 11,000 points - $521,037,000
The vast majority of people will use this event to exchange multiple sets of Plushies and Flowers, as this is the main source of income for many Torn citizens, especially those who are new to our city. Last year over 300,000 sets of Plushies and 250,000 sets of Flowers were exchanged over the course of Museum Day alone. Given the continued increase in the city's population, this year we expect both figures to top 400,000 easily.
Why the Museum accepts Flowers and Plushies alongside those of genuine historical significance is uncertain. Some have suggested that the vast majority of Plushies purchased abroad contain items which are simply too well known or valuable to smuggle overtly, but most people believe that the Museum simply wants a stock of exotic toys for its overpriced gift shop.
Pictured: $4,000 for a Hieroglyphic Umbrella? How reasonable!
The reason for the flower hoarding is less pleasant. Given the huge daily death toll in Torn City, and the fact that our land is so irradiated it is virtually impossible to grow anything, the demand for funeral wreaths and bouquets has to be met through the smuggling of flowers from abroad. The Museum uses its role as a floricultural middle-man to boost its income, an income which has dwindled ever since the people of Torn realised its exhibits consist of the same sculptures and coins displayed in different cases over and over again.
But while the Museum remains unpopular with visitors, it will still welcome huge numbers of traders through its door this weekend. If you're planning to use Museum Day to supplement your own earnings, you may wish to keep an eye on the price of points before you exchange your precious haul on the market. As we revealed in our monthly Market Report, point prices tend to be low around this time of year, so it may be wise to sit on your stash of bonus points for a short while before offering them up for sale.
Point prices were at a two-month high of $48,000 on the day we published the Market Report. However, when players read our in-depth analysis of the effects of Museum Day on the points market, the price plummeted to just $46,000, and although they recovered most of this loss, we cannot rule out another drop over the next few days.
Last year, it seemed that late-June / early July was a good time to sell your Museum Day points haul. But if everyone takes this advice, then said advice will be bunkum.
tl;dr: The Museum pays out 10% more points from noon on the 17th to noon on the 19th of May.
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