Hey there!
I will try to make your torn life easier by putting all information
you need to know together (about training) in your early days.

Take care!

General information:


Each battlestat has to be considered individually. They don't affect each other when training! So, when I say "training under 300k stats", it applies for each of your four stats and is to be considered independently :)

For everything you plan in matters of (battlestats) training u can check the outcome and compare different scenarios with this beautiful tool! Thank u Vladr :)

Balancing:
like everything in torn its a mater of choice in the end - but I will give you some input to think about:

I suggest to think about balancing your stats!
The base balancing would mean you just have the same amount of stats in each category (STR, SPD, DEF, DEX). This seems to be the best way to rush through the missions given from Duke to earn Mission credit points.
I may suggest here that mission credit points are
very important especially to buy books!. Check for Mission information here.
While progressing through your missions and accumulating mission credit points u will be able to buy books (very rare) wich spawns in the mission points marked below the mission page. Most of those books are very very very precious and I would make sure you always have 2500-5000 (sometimes 2 books appear at the same time) mission points available for the day one appears in the marked.

However, I clearly would go for an tactical unbalanced ratio in your early days for those reasons:

• u will have a faster total stat grows resulting in higher win chances to equal days old players.
• u can work forward the End-Goal in gym: unlocking the special Gyms. to unlock those there are special Balancing requirements needed > more info below in Hanks and Baldrs ratio

Here two good guides for unbalanced stat ratios:

• 2020 training guide
• Hank's and Baldr's ratio

Explanation of terms:

Natural Energy (NE), Nat. Stat grows gain:
I consider natural E being maxing out your potential E with Xanax and refill without booster: 24h cycle = 1350E (3 xanax+1 refill + 3x natural regeneration = 1350E)

That is the maximum E you could potentially use when not stacking. I will use the Nat. E as base reference for comparison to the corresponding Natural stat grows gain.

The corresponding Natural stat grows gain
(Corresp. Nat. Stat grows gain / 24h) will be expressed in E and shows how much energy you would have to spend for the same stat grows while natural training / 24h.

Example: Corresp. Nat. Stat grows gain = 1850 / NE (1350)

The corresp. Nat. Stat grows gain is based on the following general requirements:

General Requirements : Donator status, fully upgraded PI for the 5025 happy and good timing. If u are a brand new player and don't know how to match those general criteria check out Baldr's basic advice! There, you will also find the guide about how to make money








Please consider :

There is NOT ONE UNIQUE BEST TRAINING METHOD, you have to consider first of all your state and situation in the game and make the best out of it.



You have to consider:

• How much money you are willing and able to spend without hurting your game play
• how advanced your xx/stat progress already is
  

You have to be aware of the following happy jump (if E Stacking) gain caps vs natural E training:

CAPS / NOT TO DO's:

• At 13k happy: Stacking E for happy jumps above 100k/stat

• At 35k happy: Stacking E for happy jumps above 400k/stat
  

• 60k happy: Stacking E for happy jumps above 1m/stat
  

• 99k happy: Stacking E for happy jumps above 2m/stat,

Over those caps, at the corresponding happy, stacking E becomes a waste of natural regen, money and time because u are litteraly sitting on your E bar for ~36 hours... Sorry :) (check CPrinceC's guide linked below for more information)

Further...

• Pure Xanax training (max Nat. E without happy boost) below 100k/stat: it is not your best option when u don't have money for regular happy jumps! For 1 extasy and 49 big chocolates bars u have much better results.

• Pure (without happy boost) FHC/Can training below 400k/stat is a total waste of money! Check out the math here (CPrinceC's guide). I highly recommand saving your money and make your networth grow until u have a stable income and can afford booster traing without dumping your networth. However, in the end its a matter of choice.

Geneneral critical note:

Why? Short summary of stat grows mechanics:

The stat grows is exponential and always depends on the total amount of a given stat. That means you will have additional stat grows with every E you spend in Gym for a given Stat and progress faster until the exponential mechanic caps and remain flat.
Yes, at 50m of a given stat the exponential stat grows mechanic caps and won't generate more gain while progressing. It stays flat... Forever!

Happy will always impact your stat grows at any point of total amount of a given stat BUT the exponential mechanic will make it not worth stacking E (to jump) above the (previously) listed amounts of stat progress. Stacking E becomes worthless BECAUSE u will loose many energy while sitting on your E-bar for 32-35h and even more potential energy on your booster CD u could have used for can's or fhc's.

Here is the math:

To be fair we have to set the total amount of E on a full stack + refill in a 35h cycle to the corresponding amount of E you could use in a 24h cycle with NE.

1150E/35h ÷ 1,45 = 793E/24h. (excluding booster CD)

The NE (natural energy) gain in a 24h cycle is 1350.
So what actually happens aproching the xx/stat at Y happy cap is that the exponential stat grows allows u to gain more from the supplemental E on your NE than the E/24h you could use when stacking for a jump for 35h.











Training options:


I will sort the training options by investment needed per training cycle.
This way you can easily get an idea what your best option could look like.

• Investment: ~4m per cycle
• Cycle time: 28h
• Items needed: 49 big box of chocolates, 3 Xanax, 25 points (refill) and 1 Ecstasy.
• Corresp. Nat. Stat grows gain / 24h: ~1.850 instead of / 1.350 (NE)

How to proceed :

Take 1st Xanax upon a full E bar (150E), stack 2nd Xanax after cooldown, take 3rd Xanax after CD, after cooldown times out [*HOLD*] max out your booster eating big box of chocolate bars, take an Ecstasy and train! :)

While extisy cools down let your natural E bar regenerate totally and start again :)

*hold* because u need to check the timer! The happy bar resets to property Standart happy lvl every quarter at xx:15, xx:30, xx:45 and xx:00. You don't want that when jumping!

Please note:

>>> when jumping with big box of chocolate bars, don't stack 4 Xanax, it's less effective! there is only 100 e more to be spend but the cycle will last ~35 hours instead of 24h + in a 35h cycle u miss 1 refill while stacking! (that should be said too, don't refill while u have more than 0 E, it resets it at 150e but doesn't stack!) <

After 100k, either beginn with Xanax train (without happy boost) or do the bigger jumps if you have money to spend.
Above 100k stats the chocojumps are not worth the natural maxed E in a 24h cycle!

• Investment : ~27m
• Cycle: min 32h, more realistic : 35h
• Items needed: 5 edvd's, 4 xanax and 1 ecstasy.
• Corresp. Nat. Stat grows gain / 24h : ~4.600 instead of / 1.350 (NE)

There are soooo many guides about the regular and the super happy jumps (maxed at 99.9k).
Check this pretty guides for information :

Iribuya's happy jump visual guide


There are many possibilities to stack up to 99.9 happy for Super jumps! >skip to "methods to go over 35k happy - super jumps" below please.

If you choose to invest tons of cash to push your battle stats please note:

It can be reeeaaaly tricky to find your best option because it depends on sooo many factors.
I'd like to insist here: simulate several scenarios to find your best option with this beautiful tool! Thank u again Vladr :)

Hypothetically u can jump up to 2m/stat at 99k happy.
The issue here again is the required money to invest: we are talking about half a billion+ to be invested for that procedure.
I wouldn't advice that for the supplemental gains become not worth the investment the more u climb up the stats until it caps.

Check the caps in the introduction of this guide :)





(Common) Methods to stack happy up to 99,9k:

• Investment : 27m (60khappy) / 41m (99k happy) to far more. varies upon method
• Cycle: varies upon method
• Items needed: varies upon method
• Corresp. Nat. Stat grows gain / 24h: ~8100/Ne (At 99.9k happy without E from booster or jp)

There are many methods to stack over 35k happy to do even more effective jumps. The mothods are quite different and use either job points, job perks or/and the 48h booster cooldown faction special.


This guide explains the common methods to max out your happy stack up to 99,9k happy.

Sky's 99,9k happy stacking guide


Especially the 10* Adult novelty job perk is interesting for it allows to push regular jumps to 60k happy and allows the *cheapest 99,9k jump in-game (at 41m) if u have the 48h booster cool down from Faction!
*cheap: even counting job points vs happy buys there is no better ratio. 9 edvd's are worth 225 jp! BUT when using jp vs happy u can use your booster for cans/FHC to max out your E used on the jump wich is clearly something to be overthought!






Poison Mistletoe picking (uncommon) :

• Investment : 25,5 (or 58,5m if 99k HJ) - prices are very volatile on this item
• Cycle: 35h
• Items needed: 1 poison mistletoe (+1 more p. mistletoe and 3 edvds if 99k HJ), 1 ecstasy
• Corresp. Nat. Stat grows gain / 24h : varies upon method. ~8100/NE at 99.9k happy without E from booster or jp.

Item explanation :

The poison mistletoe is an item wich permits to steal 25% of the current total happy of a target.
It has to be selected in your items. When u click it u can use it and select a target.
The item costs about 22m and can be found during the Christmas Town event.
The use of a p. Mistletoe is only worth its marked value when you are sure the target has an ~99k happy stack!


The poison mistletoe happy picking is an uncommon method wich can be very interesting though for those reasons:

• Poison mistletoe does not use your booster cooldown!
• If u jump with only 1 poison Mistletoe it will allow u to do a pretty cheap happy jump at ~56k total happy (if u use an ecstasy)

It is a complicated and uncomfortable procedure for other reasons though:

• You will have to find someone doing a 99k happy jump willing to let u pick his Happy when he is done with his business (used all his E).
• You will have to time it with this person very well because you will have to coordinate your jumps consecutively in the same quarter.

Procedure:

1. Find someone, usually a friend, willing to let u pick his happy once he is done with his 99k HJ (probably for a return of money). *Read critical note below if u want to pick happy of someone reading the book "ignorance is bliss".

2. Make up a date with him or her for the perfect timing. You need to meet at a specific day and an exact quarter in an specific hour: DD/MM/JJJJ at xx:xx TCT

3a. At the exact time of start of the procedure make sure u have no running drug cooldown and eventually no booster CD if u want to use cans/FHC.
Then you wait for the "go" of the target and use the p. Mistletoe to pick his/her left happy. Be sure to have enough time (minimum 5 minutes) left before the quarter ends to do your business as well!

3b. If u want to reach 99k happy (using partially booster cool down): use enother poison mistletoe on the target (will grand u less happy for 25% of the ~75k happy left would be around 17k happy to pick). Now use up to 3 edvds until u reach minimum 50k happy.

3c. *look at "hint" below.

4. Take an extasy (pray u don't overdose)

5. And jump! : using all E stack + refill + evt. Jp vs E + evt. Booster CD




*Critical note :
Picking happy on someone who is reading the book "ignorance is bliss" is a little tricky for the following reasons :

The target (wich should have agreed on the procedure before) will loose up to 41k happy on his current stack (if using 2 poison mistletoes in a row). Contrary to a normal HJ the happy left after the target used his E won't reset at the next quarter while reading the book. That means that the person is unlikely to want his/her happy stack broken by the happy stealing for it can be used later. The stack could be easily be restored by taking an ecstasy but that would mean loosing 250E on training for the ecstasy drug CD won't allow taking a 3rd Xanax in the same day. The target should think about it and do the math of what stat gain she/he is trading for the potential money return agreed for the picking.


This method implicates a good amount of trust. You will have difficulties finding people willing to tell you they are reading "ignorance is bliss" for very understandable reasons! Everyone could steal them happy if they would share this information to the wrong people.



*Hint:
Instead of step 3b u can also proceed with 2 targets at the same time (3c.). I need to find 2 targets doing their happy jump at 99k in the same quarter. This allows u to pick 2x ~24,5k happy and avoids using booster cooldown for happy.
Works especially good if at least 1 of the target reads the book "ignorance is bliss" because it will be easier to coordinate.







Geneneral critical note repeated: