Torn City Times

sugarvalves [1963573] — Billion-dollar racing tournament returns with January qualifiers. Bugatti Veyron on offer for the champion. Volunteer steward applications now open. Torn's Ultimate Racing Tournament returns with its Winter Rally edition this month, and once more we are asking for your help to run it! Beginning on Saturday the 22nd of January, the URT Winter Rally sees 48 drivers compete once a day for over two weeks, taking in each of Torn's sixteen unique race tracks in a fast and furious fight to see who will be crowned champion and take home one billion dollars and a Bugatti Veyron. Prizes ranging between tens and hundreds of millions of dollars will be paid out to each of the remaining drivers too, with the total prize pool for 2022 set to exceed $10 billion. The last race of the Winter Rally sees our 48 drivers meet up at Stone Park on Sunday the 6th of February, with the final race weekend set to host a number of public prize races and the Weekend Road Trip dou...

g_ho [1261819] — What does the new year have in store for your game play? Will the stars help or hinder as you plot your course through Torn? Find out in this month's Tornology - your Torn horoscope! It’s a fresh new year, but who knows what's in store for you during 2022? The stars, that's who! Our celestial overlords are here to advise you on health, wealth, and the rest, and you'd be wise to pay heed to if you wish to enjoy a prosperous twelve months. So without further ado, let's see what the stars have to say about your gameplay in this month's Tornology! CAPRICORN (DEC 22 - JAN 19) It’s January, Capricorn, and this month is all about you. You’re in a good mood and the new moon on the 2 nd sets the pace for a full-strength you, tapping into your desire to change up your game for the better. With Venus in retrograde, you’ll be wanting to trim your contact list of annoying people, which is great for your concentration, goal setting, and the addition of n...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Which faction will be destroyed? Who will become the top Torn player? And which new features will we see? Find out the community's response to all these and more in our roundup of your 2022 forecasts. 2022 is finally upon us, and with the dawning of the new year come expectations and anxieties over what the next twelve months will bring. Torn's developers are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to ongoing projects, so to find out what awaits us, we've taken to the streets to ask our fellow citizens what they think will happen to Torn City in 2022. Updates As I began trawling through the hundreds of predictions sent to my inbox, it immediately became clear that some players misunderstood the brief. "I think there will be more changes in Pakistan." - Nway Of the Torn-focused forecasts we received, many referenced Crimes 2.0, with the playerbase split as to whether or not this much-anticipated feature will be released this year. Torn is ...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out what the developers did last month, why they did it, and how it will affect you in this roundup of December's notable Patch Notes. Patch List #221 Ranked Warring After a successful period of testing the Ranked Warring feature was released in early December, with factions now able to wage war against one another to earn ranks, respect, and rewards. Ranked Warring is a 1v1 faction warfare system whereby two sides fight in a tug-of-war style format to earn respect until one side has achieved the required lead over the other. The results of ranked wars are used to assign ranks to the factions involved, and over time, this will lead to a fluid and competitive system whereby factions must compete against others of similar strength and activity levels in order to maintain their ranking. The newspaper article goes into more detail about what is involved in Ranked Warring and how you can take part, as does the Wiki , which will constantly evolve as we m...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out why staff are scared to use emojis, what they must do to prove they are human, and how they gain access to the fabled staff nudes folder in this special staff edition of Dear Aunty Torn. Merry Christmas everyone! Aunty here with a special festive version of my long-running advice column. It's usually the players who get to ask me questions on all things Torn, but this time we're letting the staff send in their queries for me to answer. So without further ado, let's see what's troubling our behind-the-scenes team in this staff-only edition of Dear Aunty Torn! Hi Aunty Torn, A lot of people have been sending me mean mails after I've chat banned them and it's really starting to affect me. Whenever I tell them that they can appeal their ban they ignore me or even worse, make a new account mocking my name. Then I have to put them in federal jail for multi-accounting! It's a never-ending cycle and I just want to go back to banni...

sugarvalves [1963573] — A Christmas Message from the Torn Team Merry Christmas everyone! 2021 has been a rough ride for many, especially towards the end, with a new wave of corona hopping from house to house like Santa, and unfortunately putting paid to some people's plans for the holiday season. If you're spending Christmas Day by yourself out of circumstance or choice, or you simply want a little alone time while you digest your own bodyweight in confectionary, we hope you'll reach out to your Torn friends and factionmates while you're here today. Day Three of Duke's Dump Giveaway showed that this is a tough time for some, so if you're going to be nice on just one day of the year, make it this day. One way you can make someone's Christmas a little brighter is by dropping a nice story or a joke in Duke's final giveaway thread . Just try to make your gag PG-13 won't you, as the way some people have responded to Duke's tasks will put you off ...

Pixie- [2342246] — Solve our Christmas Wordsearch for a chance to win your choice from one of the two new masks and more! The Torn City Times Wordsearch is back for another edition! This month's puzzle has some extra special prizes on offer, but so did the last one that we published back in October, with four Sandworm masks soon to be paid out to our winner and three runners-up. But before we find out who gets to take home one of those weird-looking butt-masks, here are some of the comments we received on Wordsearch 15. Sorry for the mess. Have a good one! Here it is, my first word search. I didn't try before because I thought the clues where too obscure, but I was wrong...it took me a while to find some words but it was fun. Well done! I'm dumb as bricks with computers Hi Pixie! This was a lot of fun. I learned so much and my eyes are fuzzy. Thanks for doing these! My favourite part was being unable to work out which one I had missed despite having written an answer for...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out who won Lt_Wolf's $100m comic prize for November, and what you should be doing if you want to win this month's prize! November was jam-packed full of events, with faction drama, scheduled boost days, and new feature releases all keeping us busy ahead of the festive period. This meant that our city's finest comic creators had plenty of things to reference, and they responded by sending in a bumper crop of fine artworks - many of which were from new artists! November's winning comic was provided by tophnox, who takes home the $100 million prize for the first time thanks to a comic that makes fun of how World Diabetes Day works. Here's what our city's economist and the comic prize sponsor Lt_Wolf had to say. "This winner was not the most beautiful comic. But sometimes, you have to choose the funny but ugly duckling. Congrats, tophnox!" - Lt_Wolf Artist: tophnox. Larger Link In addition to tophnox, Lt_Wolf has chosen si...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out which Extremely Rare items Torn's NPCs are posting on the auction house next week as Torn's Christmas Auctions return for another year! For many people, the holiday season is a time to spread love, kindness, and generosity. For others, the true meaning of Christmas is consumerism, for 'tis the season to spend your dead grandma's money, buy yourself some nice shiny stuff, and rub it in the face of those less fortunate. If that sounds like you, you'll be pleased to know that our Christmas auctions are returning this year, with our NPCs set to auction a number of rare and expensive items beginning this Tuesday. The headline item up for sale is a Gold Laptop valued at $8 billion TCT. There are only nine of these in existence, making Gold Laptops one of the rarest items in Torn City, so we expect competition to be fierce when it goes up for sale this week. Due to its scarcity, you'll be able to find the Gold Laptop under the Extrem...

sugarvalves [1963573] — Find out how you can win one of our two new masks by entering one of our Christmas Community events or our festive Lucky Dip! Torn's Christmas Community Events are now open for entries! While Duke is busy combing through low-effort posts in response to his daily giveaway tasks, the Community Events are here to raise the bar and showcase the very best bakers, artists, and meme-lords that Torn City has to offer. We're running six competitions this Christmas, each of which gives you the chance to win one of two brand new Christmas masks alongside the usual ribbons and prizes. Read on to find out what we want from you and what you'll get in return if you win! CHRISTMAS WRAPPING COMPETITION Following repeated complaints that we hate rap, the Torn City Community Event Committee (uhhh, me and bogie) have decided to put our apparent prejudice to one side and run a rap competition. But if you think saying some words fast in a slightly offensive accent will...