What am I doing in game?
I'm pursuing some medical merits. I'm pursuing some education. I know I can quantify the value of educations.
I found a pretty cool routine with medical items. Draw an Empty Blood Bag, lose 20% health, get 3 hours medical cooldown, and then eat 7 Small First Aid Kits for +3% health each. This adds 1 hour and 40 minutes of cooldown. This entire cycle adds 4 hours and 40 minutes of cooldown. I can do this cycle 5 times daily. Whenever I randomly fail a Warehouse Arson (which I feel has been happening way too frequently, especially during the weeks I get ready for PAs) I can eat 33 or 34 SFAKs to get back to full health. This is 8-9 hours of medical cooldown and each SFAK costs me roughly 15k. The 25,000 medical items used merit will be expensive (I remember calculating it at 300m when I had 20k remaining) but it's cool to throw money into and chop away at. I buy SFAKs when I have less than 30 on hand. I decided that every Class Action Lawsuit I receive (which have varied from 100k to 7m) will be spent on Blood Bags and SFAKs.
I've already used 7,711 medical items and I've drawn blood 63 times. To have this little project complete I know I'm going to have to purchase around 16-17k more SFAKs and I have somewhere like 380 Blood Bags on hand. Blood Bags merits end at 1,000 drawn, so I will have to purchase around 550 more. If drawing blood counts as a medical item used, then of the 25k used 24k will be the traditional medical items and 1k will be from the Blood Bags.
Political Assassinations will hopefully be successful every 2 weeks or so. It has an 8 day planning period and in between there is a Planned Robbery. I would really like the income of 20, 30 or 40 million every PA cycle. Currently I cannot abandon my Law Firm as it provides a +20% to Organized Crime skill and I don't feel comfortable enough with PAs without it. Unfortunately I'm level holding so I cannot take full advantage of busting.
I also need the Law firm as a vault. I could buy a 3700 or 3725 Happy PI for 8-900m. I think that's better than a PI with a Yacht because my money isn't too liquid. I gotta use it to make more. I invested in some stocks but they are all down for now. They can grow to +50% if I'm lucky which would be nice. That's kind of where I dump 100s of m I have lying around. I don't know what to do with it and I don't feel like making piece purchases. I want FHC back, I want the MCS benefit block, and I don't want to have less than 2B in bank. I can calculate how long that will take to regain and I don't want to make that sacrifice. A free 300m is a free 300m. Part of me wants to be an employee at a 10* rig for like, 3 days every 2 months, just to bank 3B and get an extra 150m. That's just an idea.
It's frustrating. Opportunity cost of being in a Law Firm. I want to sell it for 1B.
Other companies are always interesting. Rig for money. TV for money. If I had a PI vault I wouldn't need to be a director, but I just dumped all this time into business education when it could have been something else. Aha. Oh well. Should've been Law maybe for more busts. I still haven't hit 2500. Only 6-8k left until I'm done with busts. I should spend nerve elsewhere. I should be working at a pub. The passive for extra nerve from bottles (the only boosters I can afford to use) and the job points for energy to help.
Just thoughts. Just rambles.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Mid October Update/Recap
I got lazy. I almost updated in September, and at the end of September, but I didn't.
Lazy Awards List:
Honor's:
Horse Tranquilizer (Rare) - 50 Ketamine
Chasm (Common) - Married for 750 days
Breaking and Entering (Limited) - 7500 Theft crimes
The Fields of Opium (Rare) - 50 Opium
Crank It Up (Extraordinary) - 50 Speed
So Cal (Limited) - 1,000 Critical Hits
Silicon Valley (Rare) - Code 100 Viruses
Medals: Not sure if I tracked all, because of introduction of Networth Merits
Triple Silver Anniversary - 750 days married
Marauder - Theft level 4, 7,500 Theft
Plutocrat - Networth of $25m for 14 days
Aristocrat - NW of $100m for 14 days
Deception - Arson level 12, 6,000 Arson
Mogul - Networth of $250m for 28 days
Billionaire - NW of $1B for 28 days
Celebrity - Celebrity rank, medal #18
Professional Buster - 2k busts
Triple Ruby Anniversary - 800 days married
Supreme - Supreme rank, medal #19
Multibillionaire - NW of $2.5B for 56 days
One thing I noticed is that the Networth medals would sit in the bottom upcoming medal bar at 100% until the day total was realized. What makes me sad is not knowing the next medal to be obtained and knowing that I will likely have to maintain it for 50+ days before the award is realized.
I'm almost finished with all the drug use merits. I will at some point need that most random Cannabis OD and I still have 24 PCP left to take. I'm not sure if I'm gonna use them while chaining, use them as a small Happy refill, use them to combine with point refill for once I'm training Defense, I don't know.
There was also a Dogtag competition that I didn't really take part in. I just trained instead. I could never keep a tag on hand. Luckily at the very end of the event my faction's leader returned to me my tag, which was valuable enough for me to earn 8 tokens. I can spend them on 2 merits right now if I want. I can also buy 2 more merits with points (500 points are worth about $34m right now).
I also spent a lot of merits on +Crime Success. I am now 10/10 to help with Political Assassination. I've had 1 success so far and that's a paycheck I'd love to hold onto. I'm cranking out busts and arsons.
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I spent $1B in stocks on a 10* Law Firm that I cannot keep filled. Makes me sad. It caused my Networth to drop by about 1,400 places. Now I'm only worth $3.5B which is a long way off from making a $14B purchase.
HoF Snapshot:
Rank: #3132, up 1,151
Busts: #1521, up 131
Battle Stat: #4128, up 422
Traveled: #765, up 43
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Upcoming Education:
My Education Key
| Class Length | My Length |
| 2 | 8 days, 1.5hr |
| 3 | 12 days, 2.3hr |
| 4 | 16 days, 3.1hr |
| 5 | 20 days, 3.9hr |
| 6 | 24 days, 4.7hr |
Bio: Intravenous Therapy, Completes Tuesday October 20, 8:30pm.
This will be great. This will also start to cost me money. I will have to buy my own blood bags, but now I can always keep medical cooldown maxed. I'll be spending easily 1m daily on medical items to go after the 25,000 med items used. There are also 4 Honor Bars related to blood bags.
Bus: Business Ethics, Completes Sunday November 1, 10:45pm.
Another 2% productivity. I figure if I'm going to own this Law Firm for like forever while working on Bust merits... This will have a lot of time to pay for itself.
Bus: E-Commerce, Completes Saturday November 14, 1am. (Friday Night)
The last business class and +2% productivity. Only the Bachelor remains. With Adept and merits maxed, along with the bonus from Education starter job, 5 weeks for the class will only take me 2.88 weeks. That's still time I could be doing other classes for other perks or goals rather than just grab a merit.
Law: Media Law, Completes Thursday November 26, 3:30am.
This will boost advertising in company by some amount. Not sure how significant, but part of the remaining Law classes for Law Bachelor.
Law Classes remaining at this moment:
Working Stats Only: 4 classes, 8 weeks, after specials adjusts to 4.6 weeks
Perks: 3 classes, 9 weeks, adjusts to 5.2 weeks
Bachelor: 6 weeks, adjusts to 3.5 weeks.
Total Law weeks: 13.3 weeks after November 14 is an entire season away. Good grief things take long in this game.
It's all so interesting. After a prolonged period of time as a director and with a lot of long term plans involving the role of director, working stat growth has become meaningless to me. I know it's something I could work on but my stats just won't matter. All the Intelligence gained from Law courses or Math or Business or Computer Science just don't benefit me. There's so many working stat classes I could have taken in the past. Oh well!
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My 10* Law Firm is awesome. Without filling it I profit 1m daily. That means it'll pay for itself in 3 years ha-ha-ha. But I'm also gonna consider any money from Political Assassination payouts to be part of this company's income, as the +20% to Organized Crime perk is specifically for that.
I can also sell spies for money, so that turns into additional income from company.
I'll probably be busting my butt off even past the spring. By the time I have the Bachelor...
Imagine I do 50 busts weekly. It will take about 20 weeks until Law Bachelor is complete for 50% busting and bailing. I will definitely be done with the bail merit by then. 50 busts over 20 weeks is only 1k more busts. Then I will have about 7k left to do to finish that set of merits.
I'll also have to stop level holding to expand the pool of people I actually can bust. That's just crazy huge when I look at it.
On the topic of level. I'm still holding at 50. I did however find a level 83 and a level 86 I can consistently beat and leave on the street. I don't have any idea how many leave on the streets will translate into how many levels. I'm investing a significant amount of energy into gaining level exp. It's an eventual goal to get to level 100. I don't know how many times I will have to leave someone 30+ levels above me on the street to gain any levels. I have been level 50 a very long time and I did earn several low level defends and won several attacks on people 40-50 when I was doing the killstreak merits. I've made a lot of mugs, a lot of crime clicks, and have participated in a fair amount of organized crimes. I can think of all these sources of exp but have no idea how much it translates into.
I would love to hit a slots jackpot. That would cover some big purchases I have coming up.
I need to buy FHG BB, 700m. Maybe my own PI. 900-1600m. MCS BB for 1.3B? I want to actually have an investment stock amount. No guarantee with stocks, but sometimes I wish, oh I wish I could consistently make large ass profits. You know? Invest 2B. Get 10% in a couple days. Invest 2.2B. etc.
Too much rambling.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Manual and Intelligence & Endurance
I have an employee with 7.5k Manual, 11k Intel, and 15k Endurance.
We can see that it will take 40 days to become a Brigadier. How much manual will be gained? 5 Days at each rank with the Manual gain from each rank.
= 5 * (3+5+8+12+17+20+24+28)
= 585
Additional, he will gain 240 Intelligence and 330 Endurance
So 7,500 Manual with 585 from ranking up would put us at 8,085 Manual. Gaining 33 Manual daily it will take (10,000-8,085)/33 days, or 58.03 days, rounded up to 59. As Brigadier, 59 days will give 531 job points. 5 days worth of job points, 45, will be required to Rank up to General. This leaves him with 486 job points.
To get to 1,000 job points 52 days will be spent at General. This is
Confectionist is Int/End, Clerk is End/Man, and Cleaner is Man/End. He's more than qualified for all 3 positions. For money, I need to place him at Confectionist or Clerk. If he want's Manual, Cleaner is the only option but is not a necessary full time piece of the company.
Right now, his Intelligence and his Endurance are far ahead of his Manual. I'm making him a Confectionist because it will help me profit and long term it will help his working stats for some awesome later game jobs presented below.
| Company | Position | Intel | End |
| Cruise Line | Ticket Agent | 13,000 | 26,000 |
| Steward | 25,750 | 51,500 | |
| Chef | 64,500 | 32,250 | |
| Bosun | 51,500 | 103,000 | |
| Doctor | 103,000 | 51,500 | |
| Captain | 154,500 | 74,750 | |
| TV Network | Sales Executive | 24,750 | 49,500 |
| Reporter | 82,500 | 41,250 | |
| Producer | 99,000 | 49,500 |
What good is Manual? The main item would be for General in the Army. General allows you to spy stats daily and if you hoard your army job points, gain a substantial Defense boost without using Energy. The merit for 100 spies and the major bulk bonus for Defense both "require" 1000 Job points, or 100 days at General (10 job points daily).
In my specific employee's position, I'll simply round off his working stats. Right now we'll treat it at Exactly 7,500 Manual.
Assuming he has 0 days in the Army, it will take him 5 days to become a Corporal, then 5 to become Segreant, and so on.
In my specific employee's position, I'll simply round off his working stats. Right now we'll treat it at Exactly 7,500 Manual.
Assuming he has 0 days in the Army, it will take him 5 days to become a Corporal, then 5 to become Segreant, and so on.
| Daily Gains | ||||
| Rank | Days | Man | Int | End |
| Private | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Corporal | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Segreant | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| Master Sergeant | 5 | 12 | 4 | 7 |
| Warrant Officer | 5 | 17 | 7 | 10 |
| Lieutenant | 5 | 20 | 9 | 11 |
| Major | 5 | 24 | 10 | 13 |
| Colonel | 5 | 28 | 12 | 15 |
| Brigadier | ??? | 33 | 18 | 15 |
We can see that it will take 40 days to become a Brigadier. How much manual will be gained? 5 Days at each rank with the Manual gain from each rank.
= 5 * (3+5+8+12+17+20+24+28)
= 585
Additional, he will gain 240 Intelligence and 330 Endurance
So 7,500 Manual with 585 from ranking up would put us at 8,085 Manual. Gaining 33 Manual daily it will take (10,000-8,085)/33 days, or 58.03 days, rounded up to 59. As Brigadier, 59 days will give 531 job points. 5 days worth of job points, 45, will be required to Rank up to General. This leaves him with 486 job points.
To get to 1,000 job points 52 days will be spent at General. This is
| Daily | Man | Int | End |
| General | 40 | 25 | 20 |
In the 59 days as Bridagier, he will gain 1947 Manual, 1062 Intelligence, and 885 Endurance.
In the 52 days as General, he will gain 2080 Manual, 1300 Intelligence, and 1040 Endurance.
If he started pursuing the Army general route now it would take him 40+59+52 = 151 days to rank up and he would gain 585+1947+2080= 4612 Manual, 2602 Intelligence, and 2255 Endurance.
100 days as just General will gain 4000 Manual, 2500 Intelligence, and 2000 Endurance. Ranking up, 5 days at each position, from Private to Brigadier will gain 750 Manual, 330 Intelligence, and 405 Endurance.
The highest working stats would result in joining the Army above 9250 Manual because you will be able to rank up as General immediately However, I have no use for my employee's Manual stat.
If I kept him as a Clerk 6 days weekly and Cleaner 1 day, to help Environment, he would gain 6*18+30 = 138 Manual weekly from daily stat gains With Endurance, he would gain 6*36+15 = 231. If I train him 5x weekly on the day that he is Cleaner, he will gain 250 Manual and 125 Endurance from them. This gives him 388 Manual and 365 Endurance weekly. This method bring him up to the 9250 Manual point in about 4 and a half weeks.
However, instead I have made him a Confectionist. in 7 days he will gain 38*7 = 266 Intelligence and 133 Endurance. From 5 weekly trains it will be a further 250 Int and 125 End. His weekly Intellgence will be 516 and 258. This won't save him 11 days in ranking up in Army, but it will help his future career in different Torn City Companies!
In the 52 days as General, he will gain 2080 Manual, 1300 Intelligence, and 1040 Endurance.
If he started pursuing the Army general route now it would take him 40+59+52 = 151 days to rank up and he would gain 585+1947+2080= 4612 Manual, 2602 Intelligence, and 2255 Endurance.
100 days as just General will gain 4000 Manual, 2500 Intelligence, and 2000 Endurance. Ranking up, 5 days at each position, from Private to Brigadier will gain 750 Manual, 330 Intelligence, and 405 Endurance.
The highest working stats would result in joining the Army above 9250 Manual because you will be able to rank up as General immediately However, I have no use for my employee's Manual stat.
If I kept him as a Clerk 6 days weekly and Cleaner 1 day, to help Environment, he would gain 6*18+30 = 138 Manual weekly from daily stat gains With Endurance, he would gain 6*36+15 = 231. If I train him 5x weekly on the day that he is Cleaner, he will gain 250 Manual and 125 Endurance from them. This gives him 388 Manual and 365 Endurance weekly. This method bring him up to the 9250 Manual point in about 4 and a half weeks.
However, instead I have made him a Confectionist. in 7 days he will gain 38*7 = 266 Intelligence and 133 Endurance. From 5 weekly trains it will be a further 250 Int and 125 End. His weekly Intellgence will be 516 and 258. This won't save him 11 days in ranking up in Army, but it will help his future career in different Torn City Companies!
tldr; I'm going to boost his Intelligence and Endurance instead of saving him 11 days in Army
Saturday, August 1, 2015
July Recap
Now that July is over with, I figured I'd do a quick write up on what I've accomplished this month and maybe list some goals for August. Happy August!
I returned to Torn on July 1st. I logged in to see that I had earned Medals for Four Years of Service, Anniversaries for 550, 600, 650, and 700 days of marriage. I also had the Discovery Honor Bar which told me my faction had completed a Dirty Bomb before kicking me out for being inactive. Feels nice to log in to 6 merits.
Returning to the game and not being in a faction, I realized I had a rare opportunity to pursue the 500 Kill streak merit, something that would never happen in my faction as we were constantly in war and constantly getting hit.
I started a little late and relied mostly on sluts, but on July 18th I had made it to 500 kills without getting mugged or hospitalized. My previous kill streak was 71, so I earned 3 medals, Skirmish (100), Blitzkrieg (250) and Onslaught (500) the final medal with stars. This also came with 2 honor bars: Killstreaker 2 (100 - Uncommon)
and Killstreaker 3 (500 - Rare) 
.
Since I was not in a faction with Hermetic X like I had been used to, I also figured I would spend some time doing other drugs. Once I logged back in all I took were shrooms. It took me 17 days to take the 50 that I had collecting dust in my bazaar, earning me one of the coolest honor bars IMO: I Think I See Dead People (Rare)
. Afterwards I took some Ketamine, but then rejoined my faction and went back to training with Xanax. I'll probably pursue more drug merits. I've already purchased the remaining Ketamine and Opium required (15 and 27 respectively). Opium's funny because I know I started taking it years ago. I also need to purchase 49 Speed and 41 PCP. That's gonna run about 12.5 million, or the price of 1 FHC. Not bad at all!
Another pleasant development was that Foot Russian Roulette was up and running. Ironically, the only item I found in the city this month was an S & W pistol, which is no longer used for RR. There was also an update to the Medical Item system -- Morphine, First Aid Kids, and Small First Aid Kits now restored a percentage of life. This got me thinking: I can lose RR as an effectively free way to use more medical items. From the 16th until the 23rd I played RR until I maxed my medical cooldown (SFAKs have 15min cooldown, so you can take 96 daily) and after my 5000th medical itemearned the Medical Veins (Rare)honor bar
. With all the Russian Roulette I played to use medical items, I happened to win 50 games and earned yet another Honor - One In Six (Rare) 
.
To end the month I earned my final Travel merit: 50 trips to Dubai, Land of Promise (Uncommon)
which took incredibly long. As far back as my personal stats graph does, I was at 29 trips in December 2012.
So total merit count. Logging in to Torn I earned 6.
In the month of July I collected 9 more.
In August I know I can definitely collect Ketamine merits and maybe either PCP or Speed, not likely both, but could also probably get Opium if I play more RR. The next Medical item merit for me is using 25,000 items used. That alone will cost roughly 300 million in SFAKs and will take about 7 months to complete if I max my cooldown daily. I'm at 92 viruses coded and each takes 7 days, so that puts completion sometime in September. I can commit about 50 jacket thefts daily, so I expect 2 merits from 7500 Thefts to occur late in August. Crime merits take a crazy amount of time I'm realizing.
I remember this time last year, I was hunting several merits at once. I grinded out 50 LSD, got my Defense and Dex over 1 million, and received two merits for 5k thefts. All in a short period of time. Good times.
I returned to Torn on July 1st. I logged in to see that I had earned Medals for Four Years of Service, Anniversaries for 550, 600, 650, and 700 days of marriage. I also had the Discovery Honor Bar which told me my faction had completed a Dirty Bomb before kicking me out for being inactive. Feels nice to log in to 6 merits.
Returning to the game and not being in a faction, I realized I had a rare opportunity to pursue the 500 Kill streak merit, something that would never happen in my faction as we were constantly in war and constantly getting hit.
I started a little late and relied mostly on sluts, but on July 18th I had made it to 500 kills without getting mugged or hospitalized. My previous kill streak was 71, so I earned 3 medals, Skirmish (100), Blitzkrieg (250) and Onslaught (500) the final medal with stars. This also came with 2 honor bars: Killstreaker 2 (100 - Uncommon)
and Killstreaker 3 (500 - Rare) .Since I was not in a faction with Hermetic X like I had been used to, I also figured I would spend some time doing other drugs. Once I logged back in all I took were shrooms. It took me 17 days to take the 50 that I had collecting dust in my bazaar, earning me one of the coolest honor bars IMO: I Think I See Dead People (Rare)
. Afterwards I took some Ketamine, but then rejoined my faction and went back to training with Xanax. I'll probably pursue more drug merits. I've already purchased the remaining Ketamine and Opium required (15 and 27 respectively). Opium's funny because I know I started taking it years ago. I also need to purchase 49 Speed and 41 PCP. That's gonna run about 12.5 million, or the price of 1 FHC. Not bad at all!Another pleasant development was that Foot Russian Roulette was up and running. Ironically, the only item I found in the city this month was an S & W pistol, which is no longer used for RR. There was also an update to the Medical Item system -- Morphine, First Aid Kids, and Small First Aid Kits now restored a percentage of life. This got me thinking: I can lose RR as an effectively free way to use more medical items. From the 16th until the 23rd I played RR until I maxed my medical cooldown (SFAKs have 15min cooldown, so you can take 96 daily) and after my 5000th medical itemearned the Medical Veins (Rare)honor bar
. With all the Russian Roulette I played to use medical items, I happened to win 50 games and earned yet another Honor - One In Six (Rare) .To end the month I earned my final Travel merit: 50 trips to Dubai, Land of Promise (Uncommon)
which took incredibly long. As far back as my personal stats graph does, I was at 29 trips in December 2012.So total merit count. Logging in to Torn I earned 6.
In the month of July I collected 9 more.
In August I know I can definitely collect Ketamine merits and maybe either PCP or Speed, not likely both, but could also probably get Opium if I play more RR. The next Medical item merit for me is using 25,000 items used. That alone will cost roughly 300 million in SFAKs and will take about 7 months to complete if I max my cooldown daily. I'm at 92 viruses coded and each takes 7 days, so that puts completion sometime in September. I can commit about 50 jacket thefts daily, so I expect 2 merits from 7500 Thefts to occur late in August. Crime merits take a crazy amount of time I'm realizing.
I remember this time last year, I was hunting several merits at once. I grinded out 50 LSD, got my Defense and Dex over 1 million, and received two merits for 5k thefts. All in a short period of time. Good times.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Multiple Special Gyms
Today marks a huge achievement for me. I always wanted to have a build of both types of Special Gyms. Originally I was planning on having Frontline Fitness and Mr. Isoyamas, the Defense 8 Dot gym. However, after battle 2.0 was released, 0 damage hits became a thing of the past. Looking at my passive stat bonuses, Dexterity looked even more appealing. At the time I had only trained the stat to help with busting, but now I get to take it to a new level.
You have purchased a membership to Elites. 2015/07/29 7:46:50 PM
Although the general consensus is that the advantage goes to players with balanced stats, this build is something I have wanted for a while and I'm intending on sticking with it. In order to keep this build, Strength and Speed will be essentially equivalent. Combined, they must be 25% than the sum of Defense and Dexterity. At the same time, Dexterity must be 25% larger than the larger of Strength and Speed
At the moment, roughly my stats look like:
| Strength | Defense | Speed | Dexterity |
| 5% | 29% | 29% | 37% |
What it looks like I will be doing is keeping Defense constant at what it is. I don't plan on sinking much if any Energy into it, unless for some reason I acquire or apply to a 10 Star Ladies Strip Club because that will include a +10% Defense gym gains perk. My return to the game has seen a chance to company specials, notably the removal of Fitness Center's Job Points (JP) for Defense. My hope was to work at a Fitness Center and use JP for Defense while utilizing this dual gym setup.
So, it looks like I will be training Dexterity up to a certain % of stats, stop training that all together, and then evenly train Strength and Speed up to certain percentages of total stats.
| Strength | Defense | Speed | Dexterity | Comment |
| 29% | 5% | 29% | 37% | Str+Spd Max% |
| 27.5% | 5% | 27.5% | 40% | Dex Max% |
The table above is a rough layout of at what point I will be switching between being a physical boss at Frontline Fitness and catching flies like a ninja at Elites. Although the percentages seem to vary slightly, as stat total increases each percent will be equivalent to a few million in stats and an increasing amount of time to train the stats up to the next switch point. By ignoring Defense, its percentage of my stat total will decrease over time. The math behind it is also very convenient. Once my stat total is doubled, Defense will be 2.5% instead of 5%.
I am interested in writing code that will enable users to input their stats, rounded to the nearest million or hundred thousand for convenience, and return what benchmarks to train there stats to. This would have to work for both Frontline and Isoyamas or Elites as well as Balboas and Gym 3000 or Total Rebound. Essentially, it would increment 1 set of stats (ex: Strength and Speed) while the ratio (Strength+Speed) >= 1.25 * (Defense+Dexterity) is preserved, while preserving the ratio of Dexterity >= 1.25 max(Strength,Speed). Ideally the code would stop before the ratio is broken so that one can just not HAVE to go to George's to train a stat that a special gym caters towards. I've already brute forced it in Excel.
Monday, July 20, 2015
Purpose
First, I am aspiring to become a software developer and have only just begun seriously studying and learning to program. I learned some HTML 16 years ago, took a course in Visual Basic 10 years ago, and took a summer class in Java 9 years ago. I'm currently 26 without a college degree and no longer wish to work in restaurants.
The purpose of this blog is to answer questions regarding Torn aka Torn City, a (mostly) text based MMORPG with nearly 17,000 daily players! Torn has provided me with so much enjoyment and excitement. I am motivated to use its challenges as opportunity to practice calculating things for fun and focus on optimization.
What I hope to do is to outline problems as precisely as I can and provide solutions. I will also host data collected. A lot of information on Torn is found in it's Wiki but I will be displaying information I'm using.
Most of the problems in Torn can be solved with arithmetic and algebra. Some problems I hope to model in such a way that I can write code to solve them. I am currently learning Python on Code Academy and I intend on looking at some database languages like SQL. Microsoft Excel is essentially my notebook and scrap paper for running calculations. It can also be used to make a database for some specific Torn problems such as optimizing Education decisions.
This blog will also provide perspective on my play style and what I hope to accomplish. Posts will demonstrate my attitude and priorities when it comes to planning and will at first showcase my solution for my specific circumstances. I hope to expand on problems introduced in this format and solve for general cases.
I do hope to write a few calculators. One project I absolutely intend on building is for users to submit their crime data, total number of crimes in different categories, and tell them which merits they will be closest to obtaining. This will be done by multiplying the closest crime medals by Nerve cost and an estimated percentage success rate. There will also be special cases to look at such as merits for Total Crimes as well as situations where both an Honor Bar and a Medal are awarded for a certain number of crimes. I'm really excited to write this in particular.
I hope you enjoy the blog.
PS: I have some posts from years ago, They could be edited and updated, but I may just write new or similar articles if I'm motivated to look for answers related to those specific problems.
The purpose of this blog is to answer questions regarding Torn aka Torn City, a (mostly) text based MMORPG with nearly 17,000 daily players! Torn has provided me with so much enjoyment and excitement. I am motivated to use its challenges as opportunity to practice calculating things for fun and focus on optimization.
What I hope to do is to outline problems as precisely as I can and provide solutions. I will also host data collected. A lot of information on Torn is found in it's Wiki but I will be displaying information I'm using.
Most of the problems in Torn can be solved with arithmetic and algebra. Some problems I hope to model in such a way that I can write code to solve them. I am currently learning Python on Code Academy and I intend on looking at some database languages like SQL. Microsoft Excel is essentially my notebook and scrap paper for running calculations. It can also be used to make a database for some specific Torn problems such as optimizing Education decisions.
This blog will also provide perspective on my play style and what I hope to accomplish. Posts will demonstrate my attitude and priorities when it comes to planning and will at first showcase my solution for my specific circumstances. I hope to expand on problems introduced in this format and solve for general cases.
I do hope to write a few calculators. One project I absolutely intend on building is for users to submit their crime data, total number of crimes in different categories, and tell them which merits they will be closest to obtaining. This will be done by multiplying the closest crime medals by Nerve cost and an estimated percentage success rate. There will also be special cases to look at such as merits for Total Crimes as well as situations where both an Honor Bar and a Medal are awarded for a certain number of crimes. I'm really excited to write this in particular.
I hope you enjoy the blog.
PS: I have some posts from years ago, They could be edited and updated, but I may just write new or similar articles if I'm motivated to look for answers related to those specific problems.
Restaurant Analysis
I did I wanted to do some analysis on Restaurants in Torn, so I made a table tracking
Company Rank in Stars and Overall. Weekly income. Position Count
Showing top company of each respective star, including all 9 stars above 3m
Let's Go. All bruteforced at time of post
Company Rank in Stars and Overall. Weekly income. Position Count
Showing top company of each respective star, including all 9 stars above 3m
Let's Go. All bruteforced at time of post
| Rank | Stars | Name | Weekly Income | Employees | Waiter | Sous Chef | Head Chef | Kitchen Assistant | Head Waiter | Line Cook | Chef | Apprentice Chef | Dishwasher |
| 1 | 10 | Hell'sKitchen-HK- | $9,112,886 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 9 | All U Can Eat | $6,774,988 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 9 | The Grand | $6,265,706 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 9 | Hiring Now! | $4,917,408 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 8 | Hell'sKitchen | $5,050,949 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 7 | King'sLayResto | $6,671,630 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | 6 | TheMunchbox | $2,675,560 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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