Torn City Times

sugarvalves [1963573] — What were the most memorable events of the past year? Submit your suggestions and help future Torn citizens relive the experiences of a year that will go down in infamy. There have been many memorable events in the history of Torn City, from massive muggings and forum meltdowns, through to major wars and faction vault scams. Some of these incidents are personal, such as when Big__Al nuked Gareth Bale into oblivion, or that time Champion ruined someone's book use. Other events are experienced game-wide, like when Duke scammed billions out of people via the forums, or Kapten-Klitoris was banned from Torn and everyone's day got better in an instant. Sadly, some of these incidents have been forgotten, and many events yet to pass will also be lost to time - unless we do something about it. That's why I'd like to invite your contributions to a new project I'm putting together called Diary of the Year. The premise is simple. I am going to create ...

ArttiIsGod [1954421] — Our Christmas crossword contains a reasonable number of festively-themed clues. Not too many though. We don't want you to feel sick. Hello and welcome to the Torn City Times Crossword number 48! As you might expect, this month's puzzle has one or two festive answers. But first, let's see who won our previous crossword. There were more right answers than usual sent in for crossword 47, which we're blaming on its advertisement via the new News Ticker feature. The answer to 47 was Bad Medicine is what you need. The first person to answer correctly with a fully solved picture was Laywan . Three randomly selected runner-ups were Heathunterz , Halfers , and Swyn . Congratulations to all the winners. Awards will be sent out shortly. The fully solved image below was created by sarge . Crossword 48 This month's crossword is displayed below. As usual, you must solve it using the clues provided below. Once you've filled in the crossword, the 21 l...

sugarvalves [1963573] — A Christmas message from Chedburn. Merry Christmas to everyone in Torn City! If you're lucky enough to be spending Christmas with your friends and family, then we hope you enjoy the day and wish you the best of luck in trying to convince your crazy Aunt Linda to take the Covid vaccine. If you're spending your Christmas alone due to coronavirus restrictions or a high number of real-life bounties, we hope you'll check in with your Torn family for a chat before you start drinking pints of Egg Nog at 10 am. If you are going to spend some time in Torn today, why not send someone a random present in an act of kindness? We were heartened to see how many people took part in the gifting task for Duke's Dump Giveaway , and it seems that Duke has repeated this task for Christmas Day too! Send someone a present today and you might just receive a nice little gift of your own! Christmas Crackers will spawn around the city too, in case you haven't found...

sugarvalves [1963573] — $45bn-valued item goes up for sale. Hazmat, Dual Samurais, and several collectables also on offer. Auctions end at midnight on the 31st of December. Duke's Dirty Bomb auction has now begun, with five other high-value items also on offer over at the Auction House. Dirty Bombs are one of if not the most expensive item in Torn City, so this sale could very well result in a new record being set for the highest price paid at the auction house. The highest fee paid at auction was $52 billion back in September 2015, when Chaos_Greg purchased the unique property St Paul's Abbey - he later sold it privately to Pokey477 for $70 billion. The second-highest fee paid at auction was registered in June this year when Jas paid $30 billion for a set of Dual MP5s. The Dirty Bomb will almost certainly go for more than the Dual MP5s, but will it beat the all-time record? We shall see! In addition to the Dirty Bomb, Duke has also listed a Hazmat Suit and a Toy Reactor fo...

Kamikaze-Tool [2035028] — Find out how factions really feel about the rackets system, and how Torn's latest changes might address their concerns. In early October, Cristen posted a thread in the Suggestions forum which illustrated the concerns many players had over the racket system. The biggest issue many have, which Cristen alluded to, is that a handful of major factions are able to control almost all of the rackets, either by owning them directly, owning via proxies, or by extorting their profits from weaker factions. Cristen's rather contentious solution was to apply negative respect to those who hold certain rackets, with the amount lost growing as your racket level increases. It is no surprise that players are suggesting such radical changes to the system, especially given that the issue of racket dominance has been raised time and time again since their release. In the aforementioned thread, I asked if Chedburn had conducted a survey of factions to see how players fe...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out which Community Events we're running and how you can use them to win a secret exclusive mask! Would you like to win fabulous prizes? Then why not enter one of our Christmas Community Events which opened for entries late last night! There are seven competitions in total, with two making their debut for the first time, and each one testing a different creative skill. If you can't draw for s**t and your voice sounds like a cat being degloved by a mincing machine, don't worry, we have a wide variety of events for you to take part in. The top three winners of every Christmas competition will receive one of our rare Christmas giveaway masks that are yet to be released, in addition to the usual ribbons and prizes. And certain events will also pay out gold trophies too, with the paintbrush and microphone awards handed out to the winners of the Christmas Card and Sermon events respectively. Here are all of the competitions we're running this C...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Festive frenzy set to begin as Christmas Town prepares to open its doors. Three new mini-games available in massively optimised update to CT. One month left in Make a Map contest. Gold AK offered. Christmas Town is set to open as planned on Wednesday the 16th of December, with three new mini-games and a whole heap of optimisations waiting for you in the yellow snow. If you are new to Torn City, Christmas Town is a self-contained winter wonderland which players can explore in search of mini-games, prizes, adventures, and roaming NPCs who may or may not be nice to you. Many players find that the rewards gained from Christmas Town are able to sustain them for many months after it has closed, so make sure you take a trip to our little merry amp to secure yourself some cans, boosters, and many other treats and trinkets. Pictured: You can also walk north-west along the path, if you so desire. Despite what the official Calendar indicates, the release of Christmas To...

sugarvalves [1963573] — $45 billion-valued destructive item to be sold at auction in ten days time. Further Christmas auction details announced. In a move which is set to shock the city in the most literal way possible, Duke has decided to add a little festive glow to the holiday season by auctioning off a Dirty Bomb this Christmas. Duke’s Dirty Bomb auction will take place via the Auction House and begin at 00:00 am on Tuesday the 22nd of December. The auction will run for exactly ten days, ending at the stroke of midnight on Thursday the 31st of December. Duke will be auctioning off two other nuclear-themed items at the same time, with a Hazmat Suit and a rare Toy Reactor being put up for sale alongside his weapon of mass destruction. Duke’s henchman Jimmy is also auctioning a handful of items on the 22nd of December too. Jimmy’s trio of rare treats will include a Snowflake, an Elf, and a set of Dual Samurai Swords. These items will be posted shortly after The Duke’s are put up f...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out how you can win free stuff in return for writing on food, kissing things, and harassing celebrities online. Do you love searching through the trash for prizes? No, nobody does, which is why Duke is going to make you do it again from Monday the 14th of December as part of his annual dump giveaway. Duke's Dump Giveaway sees tens of thousands of items given out for free in the run-up to Christmas. The only catch is that most of them will be thrown in the dump for you to find on your own, but a limited quantity will also be given as a reward for completing daily forum challenges set by the Duke at around 9-10 am TCT. Pictured: Or later, if Duke has had a heavy night. There are three new items that will be handed out this year, along with a selection of other festive supplies, including Poison Mistletoe, Christmas Spirit, Humbugs, and Christmas Crackers. In addition, Duke will also give out limited quantities of boosters and other miscellaneous s***e ...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out how you can put the Slash Wednesday event to good use this week! UPDATE: Player suggestions added. The event known as Slash Wednesday returns to Torn City this week. Beginning at noon on Tuesday the 8th and ending at the same time on Thursday the 10th, all hospital patients will receive a 75% reduction in their treatment time. For example, if you lose a fight to a player, you will now only become hospitalised for roughly 7 minutes, compared to the usual treatment time of 28 minutes. Slash Wednesday remains something of an enigma within the Torn community, as many are unsure how to make use of the event. We've come up with a few ideas below based on previous years' activities, but if you have any thoughts of your own, please send them to Sugarvalves today. Anyone whose ideas are published will receive a Donator Pack. Here are a few of our suggestions: SURPRISE ATTACK Slash Wednesday is the perfect time to wage war due to the reduction in poten...

sugarvalves [1963573] — What will Xanax do over Christmas? Are medical item prices set to skyrocket? Which items will be the most affected by Christmas events? And what is the true value of the Cosmetic Caches? November was an odd month for the market, as in among the predictable trends caused by Dog Tags, World Diabetes Day, and the approach to Christmas, we also had the chaos of Black Friday to contend with. Our logs showed that hundreds of thousands of items were sold at $1 over the course of the 27th, and so you may see an anomaly in many item market graphs related to that period. There doesn't appear to be any long-term effects on the market price of most items stemming from this event, however, since a large variety of items were sold by many different sellers , and these items have now recovered their pre-Black Friday value. So let's move on and find out how some other events might have affected the market this past month, and also take a look ahead to the events arr...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out who sold the most items for $1 to the most individual customers on Black Friday! The 27th of November's Black Friday event saw nearly 200 traders sell $1 items to thousands of happy customers, many of whom bagged themselves the bargains of a lifetime by snapping up items worth millions and sometimes billions of dollars. There were also plenty of unhappy customers too, in particular, those who clicked on Duke's $10 billion-valued Rheinmetall MG 3 only to see it disappear before their very eyes. Pictured: Black Friday Comic courtesy of Hogfather The event was so popular that many players accused scripters of being prevalent due to the extreme speed at which items were bought up by hundreds of lurkers. Thankfully, Torn's anti-scripting systems prevented bots from being a major issue, and the temporary blacklisting of players who obtained high-value items meant that the discounts were able to be shared among a larger group of buyers than ever...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Vault desirer, CONFESS! Idiot mugger, CONFESS! Trading trickster, CONFESS! Big spender, CONFESS! Rent payer, CONFESS! Wife abandoner, CONFESS! Let us begin this month's column with a confession of my own. I, Father Williams, see many ills and injustices on a daily basis. And yet, I have been made aware of how blind I am to the experiences of one group in particular - the blind. Those with restricted vision are numerous in Torn - a fact made evident by the horrendous outfits many of you deem appropriate to wear in polite company. However, the blind are prevented from reading our monthly confessionals in full, as their screen readers are incompatible with the text-laden images we use to convey your messages of sin. To remedy the issue, from this day forth, we shall publish your confessions in text below the image. This will allow those with impaired vision the chance to pass moral judgement upon you wretches along with the rest of us. And really, is there a...