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Torn City is an exciting, gritty, real-life crime RPG (role playing game). Online RPG games are addictive and great fun to play. Torn City is no exception!

As a new player to the game you'll start off weak and poor. Beware, the murky underworld of Torn City shows no mercy so be on guard from the off. Opportunists will not think twice to mug or hospitalize you for the few quid. As an online strategy game as well as an online RPG game, the rules are very simple; Build a new life. Get to the top. Avoid being killed. Choose any route to get there. In Torn City you can be ANYONE and do ANYTHING.

To earn money and increase your status you'll need to get your hands dirty and commit crimes and attack other players. The stronger you are the more battles you win so prepare to train hard in the gyms.

Other game features include starting or joining a faction, collecting and trading items, invest in Torn City stocks, avoid jail and hospital, undertake missions, race cars, get married, get a job or start a company, take education courses, win big in the casinos, play poker, invest in the bank, shop for items, program viruses, read or write for the Torn City Times newspaper, buy multiple properties, travel, hunt… The list is endless.

Like many MMORPG's (massively multiplayer online role playing games), Torn City is very active and has over 40,000 daily players. Torn City is a very in-depth role playing game with constant feature updates so there's always something new to discover. This is what sets Torn City aside from other text based RPG.

Start playing, keep playing and unlock more features, opportunities and discover more truths about this murky city.

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Level 31, and a Browning that needs reloading

What is it about human beings that mean they’re not happy until they’re unhappy? Are we really that calamitous that we feel the need to moan? And moan. And moan.  Time and time again, when we release updates, in and amongst the positive comments there is an overabundance of negativity.

I don’t really know how to parallel this to anything. I mean, I could say it’s like being with a woman partner. They ask you how they look, which in all honesty should be a question only dealt to those having completed the ‘Iron Man’ challenge. Still, brave men answer – you tell the woman that she looks ‘fabulous, a stunning example of the homosapien. Worthy of nothing less than the front page of a glamour magazine’, and expect them to smile, but they reply with – ‘You’re just saying that. How could you? How dare you? You, Me… so over with.’  You can’t win. It is impossible.

This leads me to those that possess testicles of ‘Unobtainium’, or the fatally stupid. There is probably only one thing worse than the following answer, but we’ve all said it. In fact, we’ve all got very similar stories, so I’m not going to put mine in. I’m sorry if that upsets you, and it was a difficult decision to make, but I wrote it, and therefore have the casting decision.

So, Mr ‘Neodymium’ Balls replies with: ‘I’m terribly sorry darling, but in that particular menagerie of floral, you look a little bit like a lost bulldog munching on a mayonnaise sachet’.

I guess this is the point, where, for men, things start to contract and retract, a bit like a tortoise in danger. You realise you shouldn’t have said anything, and you watch in horror as woman removes the proverbial nail file from her handbag and says absolutely nothing. She will look at you, and ask if ‘you think you’re funny’.

STOP. It’s time to press pause and weigh up your options, but in reality there is only one. It’s like that point on Call of Duty’s, Zombie Nazi’s, where you’re mate has gone down, yet you’ve still got 100 snarling zombies left to kill, 30 rounds in the gunge-gun, and a Browning that needs reloading. I.e. – You leg it. Again, you’ve lost. Admit it, men are pathetic. Even the man with the perfect bone structure from the Old Spice advert would run here.  So what do we do?

In fact, this parallel, albeit somewhat accurate will be the focal point of rage. To be honest it would have been the obvious target for any negative discussion even if I hadn’t paralleled it to woman, and this you see, is my point.

With the recent updates now a week in the past, people are complaining about everything. They don’t like this. They don’t like that. They have found a bug. They preferred it before. They don’t want to spend 120 seconds a day voting for Torn. Bloody hell, it’s almost as if someone has woken them up in the night and told them they’ve just contracted the human immunodeficiency virus, and would they mind awfully not to bleed all over the place.

Whilst we don’t expect everyone to like everything we do, (this is Torn – no one is ever happy) we do like for people to, urm how to say it, think about their comments?

Spam is something that should stay in a tin, it’s horrible, and it’s nasty. You don’t want it advertising all sorts of enlargement possibilities in your mailbox, and we don’t want it in our forums.  Often once we’ve released an update to Torn, there will be a bug. There will be something we hadn’t anticipated, possibly an error somewhere. Granted – it can be annoying. It shows us that we’re not perfect, and we do indeed make mistakes. Take this as a formal apology from me, to you.

Humans, as they currently exist are self-deprecating. It’s a known fact. Similarly, being completely organic, we are somewhat vulnerable to disease. A cold for example is not life threatening. After a nice hot bath, a Lemsip, and a Disney movie you’re jumping up and ready to go about normal life. It’s kind of the same here. Nothing is permanent. Yes, there will be the odd bug hiding in random pages, but until someone finds it, we can’t do anything about it.

Often people think the anomalous things that happen after updates are indelible – or they simply don’t read the announcements. It’s all very well shouting abhorrence at Chedburn and the team, but as per usual, the next day, after a warm malted drink and a good night’s sleep, they wake to find everything is fixed.

If you think something is exceptionally bizarre and outlandish, out of the ordinary or a completely contemptible thing for a text based game to do – it probably doesn’t exist. Announcements are not read correctly, and instantly someone assumes something ‘very bad and stupid’ has been added to the game.

We could argue with every single ‘omg this change is sh*t’ post in the forums until we’re ready to explode, but what’s the point. Some Charlie comes round the corner, without reading anything, and posts the same thing. We could reason again that things will be fixed, but, as you guessed it, another Charlie comes round the corner and does the same thing.

So. in summary:

You should expect bugs / issues, and weird things to happen a few days after updates are released.

There is no need to swear at admins.

There is no need to boycott donating.

There is no need to spam the forums with how angry you are.

And to remember; bugs and issues will always be fixed. It just takes time.

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Bug Reporting for Javascript related problems

Torn uses AJAX for much of the front end code. Most obviously it is used for the Chat feature, but it is also used extensively elsewhere on the site.

This post describes how you can post a bug report with something that may involve Javascript and provide information that will allow the development team at Torn to actually fix the bug.

  • Information to send – Start every bug report with a description, in English, of the problem. This is most useful if it explains the entire process that one must go through from logging in to the bug occurring, if the bug is reproducible.

    Then describe the nature of your PC. We are most interested in the Operating System (Windows, Mac, Linux etc.) and Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer) and version of browser. However, also include details of any ad blockers that you have, software firewall products or any other security software.

  • Recording the problem – Screenshots are very useful if you can catch them showing something super odd. Either embed them into the forum post or use one of the many free image hosting sites out there.

    Video is also extremely useful – use software such as http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/ and upload the resulting video to Youtube.
  • Showing the internals – Often we need to know what it is that is going on “under the hood”, and the best way to do that is to use Firefox with the Firebug plugin installed.

    To configure Firebug, install it from the link above and restart firefox.

    Once into firefox, click Tools, Firebug, Open Firebug or just press F12.
    A tab should appear from the bottom
    Click the “Console” menu item to the top left of this new tab, and click “Enabled”
    Reload the Torn site
    You should see some entries in the Console Log.

    Ideally, if you can send just the firebug entries that relate to the pageload that occurred when the bug is expressed, but in some cases it may be useful to send the whole log and in other cases just a screenshot with Firebug open will give us enough answers to fix the problem (this is particularly the case when there is a red error shown).

We hope this will solve any problems when submitting a bug report to our team.

Thanks

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A bit more detail!

After a busy few weeks, having lost count of the number of sleepless nights and heavily caffeinated drinks consumed, we’ve finally released our new look, the official Torn blog, and the official Torn Wiki.

Alongside this, we’ve also added a new Torn Introduction video, a live events viewer – awesome (if we do say so ourselves), and heaps of other feature improvements, and we hope you’re as impressed as we are!

It was time for a new front page, the old one had served us well; but it was time for some spring cleaning! We hope this doesn’t come as too much of a shock to you all, we’re going to be updating this and tailoring everything until it’s perfect –we’re going to need your help!

To the new homepage, we’ve added a lot of new pre-login content which we hope will bring lots of new players to the game, and help boost our search engine rankings. After hours of being locked into a cupboard, our very own genius (Davz) managed to create a live events viewer, showing instant in game activity. Everything that goes on is now pumped directly to the home page!

We’ve got a new Torn blog, yep the one you’re on now! We’ll be updating this frequently with all sorts of information, images, news, thoughts on subjects, annoyances, game development, pretty much anything and everything to do with Torn, so make sure you continue to check it out.

We’ve made a few updates to the casino. After months of teasing, we’ve been testing chess, and, (drum roll please) a beta version is almost ready for deployment. Follow the forums, news, and of course here for further updates. We’ve also made a number of developments to our poker system which should all help to make everything smoother.

The Torn Wiki – we’ve got a snazzy new help site, and we’re going to need your assistance to build this into a plethora of Torn information. This will contain everything from guides to support new players, improved help tutorials, FAQs, as well as other material. If you want to help us populate this, head over to the wiki page and logon using your Torn username and password. Note – for those that put a lot of effort into this there is the potential for a ‘Torn Wiki admin’.

We’ll constantly be rolling out updates and improvements. If you think we’re missing something, head to the suggestions forum and make your voice heard there. If you think you’ve got what it takes to be the Torn Wiki admin, get to the Wiki page and start adding entries left, right and centre. For further updates, remember to watch this space, the forums, and the news.

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New face of Torn City revealed!

It’s been a busy few weeks but today we launched our new look, official Torn blog and official Torn WIKI. We hope you like?

Also bundled into this release we’ve launched a new Torn City video, live events viewer (very cool), a chess game in beta mode and heaps of other feature improvements.

As online RPG games are becoming more and more popular, we need to ensure our game provides more than the average MMORPG. You guys (and girls) play a huge part in the success of the game and we’d like to hear your thoughts on the new design, so feel free to comment below.

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