Chain
Chain follows your faction’s chain on Torn and posts it in Discord.
- Alerts. One live message follows the chain from its first hits to its end and pings your chain role when it’s about to break.
- Scheduling. A leader sets a time, a target and a pay per hit, and members join a roster. At the start time the same message becomes the live chain.
- History. Every finished chain gets a record built from Torn’s own chain report.
The life of a chain
Section titled “The life of a chain”A chain has one message from the moment it’s scheduled, started or detected until its record.
| Stage | What the message shows |
|---|---|
| Scheduled | The start time, the plan and the roster. Reminders go out an hour and ten minutes before the start. |
| Queued | The start time came while another chain was running or the faction was on cooldown. The message starts by itself as soon as it can. |
| Waiting | The chain has started but no hits have landed. If none land within ten minutes, the message becomes a note that the chain didn’t start. |
| Live | The hit count, the timer and the next bonus. |
| Dying | The timer is about to run out. Your chain role is pinged. |
| Broke | The chain ended. The message shows the cooldown. |
| Record | When the cooldown is over, the message becomes the chain’s record. |
Pings are short replies to the message, since Discord doesn’t notify for edits. The buttons are on the chain panel.
Who can do what
Section titled “Who can do what”| Action | Who |
|---|---|
| Join a chain | Verified members of the server’s faction who have given the bot their own Torn key |
| Schedule, start or cancel a chain, manage the roster, change queue mode | Chain leaders and bot admins |
| Get the chain role, browse history | Anyone |
A chain leader is anyone with the leader role you pick in the wizard. Without one, only bot admins can lead.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”| Step | What it sets |
|---|---|
| Roles and channel | The ping role and the Chain channel, both required. The leader role is optional. |
| Alerts | Which of the four alerts are on and what sets off the dying alert. Details. |
| Channels | Which channels the chain commands work in. |
The server key needs access to chains and chain reports. The wizard asks for exactly that. About keys.
The chain ping role
Section titled “The chain ping role”Members get the role in one of two ways. Automatic is the default: your faction’s members get it once they’re verified, guests never do, and anyone can drop it with /chain ping. On request leaves it to members to take it with /chain ping. A button in the same step gives the role to faction members who were verified earlier.
Chain uses Torn’s clock (TCT, the same as UTC). You type times in Torn time. The panel also shows each one as a Discord timestamp, which displays in the viewer’s own timezone.