Ultimate Guide for New Players - Part 2 Progression

By: Wardon98
Last update: Fri 26-09-2025

Part 2;
I will be talking about Levelling, Consumables, Drugs, Companies, Battle stats training/ Happy Jumping, Crimes and OCs.

Level and Levelling

When you beat someone or train in gym, you gain level experience. If you beat someone and leave them you gain experience related to their level. If you mug or hospitilize them instead of leave, you gain around 50% of exp compared to just leaving them. So if you trying to level up as fast as possible, you should just leave your victims.
You can find targets by either sites like https://ffscouter.com/target-finder but first you need to sign up to here. Website is made by our faction member Glasnost, so you can trust them.
About level holding; when you reach level 15, many new things gets unlocked but leveling up further only benefits to getting level medals and increasing your max health. However, if you get to high levels without strong stats, other players may target you for level farming. Everybody suggests that your Level Ranking shouldnt surpass to much of your Battlestats Ranking in Hall of Fame rankings. Another thing I may suggest is that… baiting people to attack you >:D Why not train until you have like total 190k stats and put like 100-200k bounty on you to make unsuspecting new players to attack you? :D Thats what I did and it gave me quite a lot of, almost free defends winnings. This is legal but a scummy tactic… And it works perfectly lol

Consumables & Booster Cooldown

There is a limit on how much candy you can eat or how much beer you can drink. If you not have plans of training then you should always drink beer. If you gonna train then you gotta wait for your Booster Cooldown to lower so shouldnt drink beer. Every candy eaten increases Booster Cooldown by 30 minutes and every beer drank increases Booster Cooldown by 1 hour.

Earning Money via Travelling
Its called smuggling and drug trafficking but we just call it travelling 😏 This is why it is important for you to be level 15. At level 15, you unlock Travel Agency, which you can travel to 11 different countries. Each country may sell different things or give different special services (like drug rehabilitation, stating level progression or hunting). If you are gonna earn money by travelling then Private Island with Airplane upgrade is a must!! If you dont have access to Airplane then every time you travel it takes 25% more time, you will hugely eat away from your profits with travel cost and travel time.
If you wish to learn more detailed guide about "Earning Money via Travelling" you can check this guide dives deeper into:
https://aquarius.cosiso.nl/index.php/guides/view/15

Drugs

Golden rule of using drugs is using all your nerve before taking drugs. Complex stuff so I think I have to extremely simplify and be direct:
Xanax: gives 250 energy, 6-8 hours of cooldown, lowers yours stats 25-35% while in cooldown. High chances of overdose. Take it if you want to attack someone for levelling, or gonna Happy Train in gym.
LSD: gives 50 energy, 5 nerve. 4-6 hours of cooldown. High-Mid chances of overdose. Take it if Xanax too expensive, you can also use extra nerve for 1-2 crime.
Ecstasy: doubles your happy, 3-4 hours of cooldown, high chances of overdose. Take it before Happy Jump. Cannabis: Usually not suggested as other 2 is used for attacking/levelling and training but maybe after reaching level 15, you may wanna experiment around a little bit. Only gives you 8-12 nerve. Lowest chances of overdose (2500 in 1), 45 to 75 minutes of cooldown. I think this is a great drug if you like doing crimes. You get a honour if you use 50 of them too, which is pretty dope.

Battle Stats Training / Happy Jumping

More happy you have more stats you gain from training in gym. Thats why its important to have PI besides airstrip. Since you are a starter what I suggest you to do is lollipops jumps:
Buy 100 lollipops/Chocolate Kisses from sweet shop or market (or check armory if any avaliable)
Wait for drug cooldown (if you used any) Wait for booster cooldown (if you used any)
Wait for your natural energy to be filled fully
Take Xanax after your energy reaches max (now you have total 400e)
Wait for drug cooldown (xanax you used)
When drug cooldown finishes, wait for the xx:15 xx:30 xx:45 xx:00 minutes remarks (happy resets at that time)
When TCT cloak shows reset timer, go to boosters and start pigging on that choco/lollipop like you are on an eating contest
After you reach max Booster cooldown, take an ecstasy
Go to gym get your gains, most likely you wanna do single stat we boosting that month. You can check it from faction upgrade or main faction page callender.
You can also do Edvd jump (Erotic DVD Jump):
-Take 4 xanax without overdose to maximum energy of 1000,
-Wait for drug and booster cooldowns
-Wait for happy reset time (xx:15, xx:30, xx:45, xx:00)
-Use all Edvds
-Use one ecstasy and not overdose
- Ideally train all your 1000 energy on that months boosted battlestat. You can also ask on faction chat for suggestions on which stat to train.

A detailed but beautifully arranged Happy Jumping Guide:
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=61&t=16369722&b=0&a=0

Job

Just because its a crime simulation doesnt mean you can escape from… J Word. You have to get a… j word, and you get many good things from it. Every… Company! We can use this word instead of other one… Every company have specials that you can use to exchange of job points. You get job points each day depending on rating/stars of your company. More stars = more job points.
For new players, usually those companies suggested for training related:
Music Store (3 star or higher to faster unlock better gyms),
Fitness Center (1 star and higher to speed up education),
Adult Novalties (5 star and higher to get Edvds which very valuable to sell too),
Sweets Shop (5 star and higher for 1000 happy boost to get training).
You can contact me for a job placement in highiest star companies but I would like to be paid handsomely for assisting you on this topic. DM me if interested.

Crimes

You use nerve to do crimes… But which crimes best? Or better questions would be “Which crime is easiest/ will improve me to do?” and “Which crime is highest earner?”
Which crime easiest/improving?
You can level up these crimes fast, without much fail: Search for Cash, Bootlegging and Graffiti. If you level up crimes and do them without fails your maximum nerve increases, more so your pass rate at related OC crime positions increases. Among these three Bootlegging and Graffiti gives little to money. Because of that I suggest you to level 100 search for cash first.

Which crime is highest earner?
Currently, I say these three: Shoplifting, Burglary, Pickpocket, Cracking and high levels of Disposals. Firstly I must warn, if your natural nerve is low, you havent done like 1000 starter crimes then your chances of failing these crimes are much higher. And if you fail or critically fail, this means you not only wasted nerve to gain money from these jobs but also you lost chance to gain money from starter crimes by wasting that nerve. My suggestion for earning money is, at least do Search for Cash until its level 30 then move to Shoplifting and do it until level 30. Especially Pharmacy pays well to rob. You will notice that the further go down at any list, the harder it gets, but also the more rewarding it becomes (except a few).

OCs (Organized Crimes)

Organized Crimes are a faction event system. An important extra source of income, I think it was supposed to be used as stealing highest levels of items, equipments and cars… Stuff like that but you can just directly turn your loot into cash too. Important things to know:
All members are always expected to be in an OC.
Be logical and try choose lower difficulty and positions that will allow you to complete the task comfortably. If your chances are all low, then try not to take important roles.
Have the required item. If you don't have it you can ask from the faction, np.
Do not leave the OCs. It takes 1 day for a role to be prepared for person. If you wanna switch roles you can do it without leaving and not increasing preparation time.
A more detailed and beautifully articulated guide for OCs made by GIB is here:
https://aquarius.cosiso.nl/index.php/guides/view/9 OC rules and role priority order guide made by Lyzetta:
https://aquarius.cosiso.nl/index.php/guides/view/4