Faction upgrades and Organized Crimes

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Starting a faction

Everybody can start a faction, provided you have enough money. Factions are not cheap, so before you make this investment, make sure you understand factions, their benefits and their hazards.

To start a faction, simply go to the city and click the "create a faction"-link in the South West Area. You are then taken to the creation screen. The cost of setting up a faction is dependent on the number of factions already in existence. The price is calculated by a simple formula: # of factions * $ 1000. This means that, with the current amount of factions in Torn City, you will have to pay amounts far over two million to start a faction with 5 men and 250 respect.

Buying a faction

With the high cost of factions comes a lively market in factions. Most people start their own faction by buying an old one. Very often, you will find it more cost effective. Yes, the price may be higher, but you usually get a number of upgrades and a higher respect for your money. Also, you often start with a number of members, saving you the difficulty of finding members.

Upgrading your faction

You can improve your faction with the following upgrades:

Faction Member Upgrades
Upgrade	Cost	Benefit
Barn	$300,000	max. 10 members
Small Warehouse	$700,000	max. 15 members
Large Warehouse	$3,000,000	max. 20 members
Hangar	$8,000,000	max. 30 members
Office Block	$30,000,000	max. 50 members
Underground Bunker	$70,000,000	max. 75 members (unconfirmed)
Abandoned theatre	$115,000,000	max. 100 members (unconfirmed)
Other upgrades
Faction Forums	Free	The ability to use private faction forums
Weapons Armoury	100,000	The ability to donate weapons to the faction, give them out or lend them out to your members
Medical Armoury	100 points	The ability to collect medical items and give them out to your members
Drug Armoury	100 points	The ability to distribute drugs to your members.
Armour Armoury	100 points	The ability to distribute armours to your members.
Faction Laboratory	$200 Million	The ability to build a dirty bomb.

Using respect for upgrades

Starting february 12th, respect can now be used to get extra upgrades. You can access these upgrades through your faction Staff Room --> Upgrades --> Specials.

Upgrade	Cost	Effect
Chaining	250 respect	+30 seconds chain interval
Vigor	150 respect	hospital time +3 minutes
Steadfast	1,000 respect	+1% gym gains
Gallant	500 respect	Nervebar +1
Enormity	300 respect	Increases member crime skill

Please not that these are the data for level one of each upgrade. Cost may be exponential. More info would be appreciated.

Performing Organized Crimes

With your faction you can perform organized crimes. To succeed an organized crime (or OC) you must make sure you have the required number of members joining the crime. Other factors which contribute to the success or failure of an OC are:

Faction respect
Individual members' crime experience
luck...

You can organize the following Organised Crimes:

Crime	Members needed	Income (approximately)	Respect increase	Time needed to prepare
Blackmail	2	$ 750 - $ 1000	1-3	24 hours
Abduction	2	$2750- $ 5000	2-7	48 hours
Bomb Threat	3	$7,500-$ 20,000	7-10	72 hours
Planned Robbery	5	$...-$...	...-...	96 hours
Rob a Money Train	6	$...-$...	...-...	120 hours
Take over a cruise liner	15	$...-$...	...-...	144 hours
Hijack a plane	8	$...-$...	...-...	168 hours
Political Assassination	4	$...-$...	...-...	192 hours