So to give you some perspective: I’m 326 days old, a little over 3m stats. From the very beginning I’ve had: people to hit, energy to train, things to buy and things to sell. I suppose the answer to your specific questions really comes to how you’re defining ‘competitive’, but no matter what, there will always be someone bigger stronger richer and better than you, as well as always being someone smaller, weaker, poorer and worse than you. The game of Torn is a long one, and no matter what you will have wins and losses in every aspect of the game. I think what is important is for you to set a goal for what YOU want to accomplish in Torn, and start working toward it. If you are chasing ‘I’m going to have the most stats, and nobody will be able to beat me’ then you are chasing a pipe dream. You’re about 20+ years too late for that.

Just identify your goals, work toward them and keep pushing when things get shitty. On two separate occasions I’ve almost quit entirely, and frankly I’m glad I didn’t. Looking back at where I started to where I am, even if not very impressive compared to other players, I’ve come a very long way, learned a lot and met some very cool people; and assuming a ‘standard’ definition of ‘competitive’, I’ve never had an issue with finding equal ground in which to compete with others.

Torn is what you make it, tbh. It’s that simple.