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Crimes 2.0

First mention

Crimes 2.0 was first mentioned by Chedburn in the old forums, on the 21st September 2012. You can find this in the announcement of RESPO / "Torn 2.0" here.

Crimes 1.0 was described in this post as too simple in base and design, with 8 (at the time) year old code, and unrealistic crime order. It is also not database driven; all of these limitations to be addressed with a full Crimes update.

Plans included infinitely expandable crimes, subcrimes and outcomes - including Racketeering, Pimping and Card Skimming. Additionally unique crime effects such as "police response time", "building client bases" and "area notoriety" were planned.

At the time of this first mention it was claimed 2 of the planned 19 crimes were fully designed, with the rest loosely designed, and that construction programming-wise would begin a month later.

Timeline

  • October 29th 2013: In the RESPO Round Up #2 announcement, Chedburn linked a Google sheet with the development progress of RESPO. In it, a note is found next to the /crimes.php row stating that this page is not necessary to update yet since it is part of a future update, expected to be complete after 6-12 months.
  • June 2nd 2015: In this General Discussion thread, Chedburn posted a sneak preview image of the "Bootlegging" crime. You can view this image here.
  • February 22nd 2016: In an announcement thread Chedburn gave an "off the top of his head" guess of the progress on several big projects. This included Crimes 2.0, which he estimated the initial release was about 55% toward completion.
  • May 26th 2016: In this announcement Chedburn states that a creative writer has just been hired (Alice).
  • Autumn 2016: In the Autumn newsletter of 2016, a progress chart was sent to players detailing the status of many upcoming features. In this chart, Crimes 2.0 is estimated to be at 60% - having been "on hold" but now "in full swing". See this chart here.
  • Spring 2017: In the Spring newsletter of 2017, another progress chart was included. In this chart, Crimes 2.0 is estimated to be at 70%, and "in full swing". View this chart here.
  • Summer 2017: In the Summer newsletter of 2017, the writer Alice wrote a snippet regarding Crimes 2.0. She also included an image of the "Search for cash" crime, which you can view here.
  • Autumn 2017: In the Autumn newsletter of 2017, another progress chart was included. In this chart, Crimes 2.0 was estimated to be at 70% completion. This chart can be viewed here.
  • Spring 2018: In the Spring newsletter of 2018, another progress chart was sent to players. In this chart, Crimes 2.0 is still expected to be at roughly 70% completion. This chart can be seen here.
  • December 1st 2018: In an announcement regarding the accidental opening of Christmas Town in winter 2018, Chedburn ended the thread with an update on the progress on a number of additional projects. He stated that he was approximately two weeks from being able to open the first phase of the closed beta, and that a full release would require at least 10 completed crimes of the 19 planned.
  • November 26th 2019: In this General Discussion thread, Chedburn addresses a developer focus being listed as "Crimes 2.0 back-end" in the weekly patch list. Chedburn states that Crimes 2.0 is still not "soon", and that when it is ready, he will just release it.

Warring

First mention

Brand new plans for warring, so called "Warring 2.0" , were first mentioned in the Spring newsletter of 2017. In this newsletter, three types of warring were detailed: Chaining 2.0, Competitive Warring 2.0 and Destructive Warring. Together with Territorial Warfare these would complete the warring overhaul.

  • Chaining will be any attacks on any player, instead of just hospitalising a player in your faction warbase. Additionally there will be respect bonuses at 13 increments up to 100,000.
  • Destructive warring will be a type of warfare designed specifically to allow factions to remove respect from enemy factions, and even destroy them in rare circumstances.
  • Competitive warring will be a ranked warring system. The newsletter claims that there will be 5-7 faction "tiers", on a similar scale to bronze, silver, gold and diamond.

Chaining 2.0

As of November 2019 "Chaining 2.0" is still only partially released. 50,000 and 100,000 chains (for which there is a scheduled honor bar) have not been pushed.

Timeline

  • 19th November 2018: In response to a suggestion from Hank, Chedburn stated that the next (50,000) chaining upgrade could be released with "Raiding". Raiding however, was released in January of 2019, without the 50,000 chain upgrade.

Competitive Warring 2.0

Timeline

  • June 20th 2017: In the very first Patch list, "Competitive Warring Tiers" were mentioned being worked on by Jane and Lena.
  • Autumn 2017: In the autumn newsletter of 2017 a progress (estimation) chart was sent round to players, detailing the status of all expected upcoming updates and releases. Competitive warring was thought to be at 25%, scheduled to be released after "regular" warring. This chart can be viewed here.
  • Spring 2018: In the spring newsletter of 2018 another progress chart was sent to players. In this one, Competitive Warring was again stated to be at 25%, waiting for the release of "regular" warring. This chart can be viewed here.
  • January 15th 2019: Patch list #77 details for the first time that Chedburn is working on the "Competitive Warring Doc", a Google document that Chedburn utilises to discuss plans for updates with developers and committee members.

Weapons and Armour

First Mention

Timeline

  • February 22nd 2016: In this announcement Weapons and Armor Caches is estimated to be at 30% completion.

Drugs 2.0

First mention

"Drugs 2.0" was a concept first mentioned in the Attacking 2.0 announcement thread, October 28th 2014. After mentioning that all attacks cost 25e, rather than only while under the influence of Vicodin, Chedburn states that all drug effects will likely be revisited with Drugs 2.0.

Timeline

  • October 28th 2014: First mention.
  • December 2nd 2014: Chedburn states in an announcement that Ecstasy will now give more addiction, as part of a "pre-Drugs 2.0 patch".
  • February 22nd 2016: Drugs 2.0 is estimated to be at around 20% completion in this announcement thread.
  • May 26th 2016: The status of many ongoing projects is described in an announcement thread. Chedburn claims that with Drugs 2.0, some plans include being able to take more than one drug at a time - creating "cocktails", and that drugs such as Xanax and Vicodin will be renamed with illegal drug names rather than pharmaceuticals.

Travel 2.0

First mention

"Travel 2.0" was first mentioned in an announcement in which Chedburn discussed the status of numerous ongoing projects. Travel 2.0 is estimated to be at 35% completion at this point, February 22nd 2016.

Timeline

  • February 22nd 2016: First mention.
  • May 26th 2016: Chedburn suggests in this announcement that the entire travelling system is likely to be rebuilt from scratch.
  • June 10th 2017: Chedburn responds to a suggestion thread by Beens, requesting an additional travel destination - Russia. Chedburn states that Russia will be next, but that we must wait for the new travel system.
  • Autumn 2017: In the Autumn newsletter, the progress chart for upcoming releases detailed Travel 2.0 as "on hold" at around 35% completion. This chart can be viewed here.
  • November 16th 2018: In this suggestion by Antichrist, Chedburn briefly describes some details for Travel 2.0 - including the ability to change your destination while traveling, and the concept of "fuel".
  • November 16th 2019: In response to a suggestion from CritGal, Chedburn commented that new travel destinations such as Russia, Australia and possibly Columbia would be made available in the future.

Mission Agents

First mention

On the December 15th 2015 Chedburn announced the release of the missions system. It was in this post that an additional five agents were spoken of for the future, including an "endurance-challenge style agent", a "courier agent" and a "weapons specialist".

Timeline

  • December 15th 2015: First mention.
  • May 26th 2016: Chedburn mentions in this announcement that the second mission agent, Amanda, is all planned out. Amanda will provide all missions that are non-attacking and non-courier related - since there will be a courier agent in the future. Additionally the Crimes system and Drugs system had to be avoided entirely, since both have major updates scheduled.