Hello all,

This guide is on HOW to buy losses and WHY it can be useful to you. Yes, an elite guide for the richer Torn players. This is not a guide on how to sell losses, you can find a good one Here.


Why should you buy losses?
It’s possible to gain 43 merits from just buying losses. Some of them you might already have and other you will have to work on for a long time and buying losses can speed them up considerably (see below for all merits).

This will be the main reason people buy losses for most. Mission help with 'bullets or 10 grenade finishes, gaining merits and ‘bragging rights’ is always nice and speeding that process up with some cash is worth it for most competitive players.

Since wall-slutting is patched out of the game a lot of perks have become harder to achieve and buying losses is the easiest solution to some of those. It’s also something that helps new players, so you can feel good about it too (if they aren’t multies).


When should you consider buying losses?
Are you a competitive player that likes to earn merits? Do you earn on average at least 20m per day in stock / trade / scam / company / merc. / etc. then you can easily afford to spend some cash on losses. Age isn’t that important of a factor, since young and old enjoy the bonuses of merits. It’s also possible to buy them in layers, so not all at once.


How much does buying losses cost?
An averge loss goes for anywhere between $200k-$500k. The most desperate noob will sell them cheap and the most professional team will charge a bit extra with the option to obtain harder merits you can get with losses (Kill Streaker 3 for example which is killstreak of 500 without defeat).
The most common goal is 10.000 defends won which will be around $2b-$5b. Again you can go the cheap way, but paying a little extra will get you your goal much quicker and more professional players (sluts is the common term) giving you losses.


How does buying losses work?
Easiest way to get players to sell you losses is make a forum thread in the Attacking forum . You can try out different values, but I recommend you have different tiers of losses. Selling 10 losses for $300k, 50 losses for $325k and 100 losses for $350k.

Avoid having players selling you 1 or 2 losses, since that’s just a headache in paying them. Make that clear by mentioning NOT paying for less then 10 losses.

Another important thing is that you want the ‘sluts’ to get their own supplies. You don’t want to have to send med-kits after their first attack or pay with a Xanax after they did 3. That’s all WORK for you that you try to avoid. Good loss-sellers know how it works and do this efficiently without asking for supplies.
Below a simple message you can put in your loss thread. The amounts are up to you, more $ = quicker.



Title: Buying losses $300k, more for BULK.
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Hello,

I’m looking to buy losses. As long as this post is here I will pay for losses. (minimum of 10).

Payment:
10 losses = $3m ($300k / loss)
50 losses = $16.25m ($325k / loss)
100 losses= $35m ($350k / loss)
You get your OWN supplies and don’t pm me. Wait for payment. I'm busy like any human being, payments will come every 6-12 hours.
Get started now by attacking and be patient with payment please.

Greetings

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That should be your message, not more info needed. Don’t link to a losses guide, since you don’t want unprofessional sluts selling you losses. Copy that whole message and edit the parts needed to your liking.


How to get them to stop selling?
Change the title of your thread and strike through all the text. Then message all people that sold you losses in the last 48 hours. It’s possible they don’t see your forum update, so if they sell you too many, just pay up, don’t be a cheapskate. Especially if you know your set limit is coming up, make sure your regulars know.


What’s the easiest way to pay them?
Go to your events page and type ‘lost’, then you will see how many you’re received. Find a name and search that name ‘slut01’. Count how many losses they have done and calculate what you have to send. Easiest way is to click-hold their name and then send cash with the message ‘For X losses’.
After you’ve paid DELETE their loss-events. And go to the next person. It’s important you delete them else you will get confused on who you paid or not. If you want to keep the reports, you’ll have to find another system, but I don’t recommend.


Can I also just pay someone to do all this for me?
yes you can, but you will have to pay 20-30% more per loss then organising it yourself. It's easily managed by yourself, but if you truely can't be bothered here are some of the premium Slut-Pimps in Town. Rates and service in their thread.
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=59&t=16166075
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=59&t=16164800
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=59&t=16183616
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#p=threads&f=59&t=16151068
Want to be added as Slut-Pimp, pm me and make sure you have at least 40 upvotes and plenty of good reviews.



Merits you can earn and how
Most merits will just come as you get your losses, but my advice is to go for the 'finishing hits' merits by swapping weapon categories every so often. This requires active work, but it will be worth it in the end to get those hits done in categories that can be a pain to gain normally.

NOTE: Images will be added before merits / awards

Defends
Self defense/ Bouncer - Win 50 defends
Brick Wall - Win 250 defends
Turtle - Win 500 defends
007 - Win 1,000 defends (and 1,000 attacks)
Solid as a Rock – Win 2,500 defends
Fortress – Win 10,000 defends

Bullets
Surplus - Fire 1,000 rounds
Two halves make a hole – Fire 10,000 rounds
Lead salad – Fire 100,000 rounds
Peppered – Fire 1,000,000 rounds

Kill streak
Kill streaker 1 – Achieve killstreak of 10
Strike – Achieve kill streak of 25
Barrage – Achieve kill streak of 50
Kill streaker 2 – Achieve killstreak of 100
Skirmish – Achieve killstreak of 100
Blitzkrieg – Achieve killstreak of 250
Kill streaker 3 – Achieve killstreak of 500
Onslaught – Achieve killstreak of 500

Finishing hits
Machinist – 100 finishing hits with Mechanical Weapons
Stumped – 100 finishing hits with Heavy Artillery
Axe Wound – 100 finishing hits with Clubbing Weapons
Pin Puller – 100 finishing hits with Temporary Weapons
Lend a Hand – 100 finishing hits with Machine Guns
Yours Says Replica – 100 finishing hits with Pistols
2800 FT/S – 100 finishing hits with Rifles
Cartridge Packer – 100 finishing hits with Shotguns
Act of Faith – 100 finishing hits with SMG’s
The Stabbist – 100 finishing hits with piercing weapons
Slasher – 100 finishing hits with slashing weapons
Unarmed – 100 finishing hits with fists of kick
War Machine – 1,000 finishing hits in EVERY category

Other
1337 – Deal 1337 damage in a single hit
Specialist – Achieve 100% EXP on 25 different weapons
Pressure Points – Achieve 100 one hit kills
Bare – Win 250 unarmored Fights
Fury – Achieve 10,000 hits
Leaderboard – Achieve top 250 HoF (Defends currently 6,000 defends will get you this)

Crits
Precision – Achieve 25 critical hits
Boom headshot – Deal 500 critical hits
50 Cal – Deal 1,000 Critical hits
Pwned in the Face – Deal 2,500 critical hits
Lee Harvey Oswald – Deal 10,000 critical hits




This guide is still a work in progress, let me know what I can add / remove.

Thanks,
iribuya