Obtaining The Kill Streak Awards/Medals

Torn City Tip #11 - Obtaining the Kill Streak Merits
(Updated 12/16/14)

The key take-away here is: successful defends count towards your kill streak.  There are 8 potential merits directly associated with a kill streak of 500. Obtaining a kill streak of 500+ may be a challenge for players with relatively low defense/dexterity; however, here are a few general tips to guide you through the process:

- A full energy bar with donator status = 6 attacks. Add in a daily point refill and you're looking at an additional 6 attacks. Couple this with the 300 energy McSmoogle stock energy bonus and/or the 250 energy boost from Xanax and your # of attacks grows massively.

- Your attack targets should include only those who you know you can win against 100% of the time.  Players often get lured into combining the accumulation of these kill streak merits with the bounty hunting merits.  Be warned that some players with a bounty on them intentionally hold their level to trick higher level players into attacking them for easy wins/experience. (You gain experience for successful defends, especially from attackers who are a higher level)  Attack the wrong player and you'll find your kill streak reset back to zero.

- As noted in the first sentence of this post, pay players to lose purposefully to you. At the time of this post, the going price for a "slut" attack is about $300,000.  Take note that paying players to lose to you will inevitably increase your number of critical hits and defends. (You will make progress on critical hit & defend merits as a side effect of working on your kill streak merits.)

- Leave your faction temporarily if you often find yourself subject to random hospitalizations.

- Stay in Torn as opposed to traveling. Traveling to other countries increases the likelihood of getting attacked by players looking to expel their remaining energy prior to flying home.