but other than that, great work Tommy :D

About the cheating: Solution: Take a video. Why not? Videos can take up space on your computer, and may not even capture the hacker if you are lagging a lot. Video is generally only used for things such as speed hack, which cann't be taken as a screenshot. Sclam is working with another player to create a chat room that players can go to if they see a hacker. They give my trained team the battle link, and we dispatch one of our members to go and screenshot the hacker. With this quick response, players who do not know how/cannot take video and are bad at taking screenshots, can still get their hackers reported. Sclam hopes that when he figures it all out, tanki will post it as news on their homepage.

ARE WE EVER GOING TO DO ANYTHING????? (srry, but I have waited for weeks)

Although that is later... First, I am working on funny tanki moments. In the form of stories. And I could use help with that too. :P

Do you think "Les" could help me with a few pictures? I am doing a story about thunder. Discovery, sort of like yours ( :D ), Testing, Winning and Upgrading and Crystals Won from Battles. Just an idea, I could use a few pictures.

Hmm true, but shafts can be offensive too. They are "silent but deadly". With viking. How it works is simple. In lets say silence, cover one area where the enemy team comes. Kill everyone with your partner who comes up that way. In Silence, this would be on the RIGHT of the flag for the blue team. Then, when he enemy stops coming there much, kill someone, drug, race to the flag grab it, and race back. You can lay down landmines at key points in your retreat, as well as do decent damage to hornets following you. This is where backwards driving and knowing the map come in handy. Then, capture the flag. This is best if your allies attack only where you are NOT going, so the enemy is always there. With freeze for example, you attack the enemy, and some enemies see it and get you. You want to be fast, with a lot of health and no weapons that you can see the shots. Shaft could be coming from the top on blue team, anyway. Even with isilda, you can see it. Thunder you can damage yourself. Railgun, you can see where it came from. Smoky just sucks. So, shaft. You can have the most points, support your teammates while attacking, and if a isilda in hornet follows a mammoth lets say, your in viking. The ideal tank that can go fast places, and push over hornets and wasps :P Kill them without points, but you don;t have to worry about them. So on some maps, where you want lots of shafts, you also want a mamoth thunder or something with a isilda viking to heal him, 1 freeze hornet to get behind shafts and pwn them, 1 thunder to do splash damage and hit shafts who have just fired, and no one knows where he is, one railgun to take out enemies in base, and the rest shafts. There is one map with 2 bases, and lots of snipers. Fun map, but you get the idea. I put a lot of thought into this :P

Ok 2 questions: First of all, how did you get those pictures??? They go right with the story... wow. Second, I am going to write my first story soon as a reporter... but I believe that smoky XT is a great subject. I was wondering if you would appreciate/accept a partner on this. You may have guessed that I am implying me. If not, I understand, this is your story. Thank you so much, great story so far, Sclam

Sure :D

So... we gonna merge?

Great, our first member! Welcome, HichigoShiro. (I think). You shall shortly receive a badge, and scheduled training. You will be added to our members list. Welcome!

Does this mean we are working together? Also... can you change the name to HSOS (Hacker Special Ops Squad). It actually makes sense, as SOS, which is also what you have :P originally came from ships. It meant "Save Our Ship". This way, the title both means Hacker Special Operations Team, AND it can mean Hacker, Save Our Ship (or tank). Because that's what people say to us :P (if we are indeed working together). Its a double pun, and somewhat more fun! So please confirm that we are working together, and maybe we make yet another page for our combined squad. With the agreed name. If you agree with that one. :D :D :D :D :D

We will be on the lookout for someone like that. And next time you see a hacker, hopefully you can go to a xat.com website and Me and micah can send out a member to take a screenshot for you. But thanks for reporting him. http://forum.tankionline.com//images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif

Many individuals do not see hackers because hackers are in something like, 1 in every 50 battles. And only sometimes. But they are sometimes on.

This idea is already in use in games such as Runescape. You click report, and It shows all the chat from the last past few minutes or so on, and you select the "offensive chat". This is harder though, because many people are not good at taking screenshots, and taking and sending video can be quite hard. It could work for the chatbox, yes, but I do believe its a good idea to just go to a website like xat, where a anti-hacker group has people who have been trained and will screenshot your hacker very well. This way, no one needs to worry about video, or even tankionline having to do much. SHPS and SO are trying to work together on this... http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/15/122823.page Its easier on tanki, and everyone else. Of course, you can still take your own screenshots if you want. Thanks, Sclam

The badges do not do anything. You are focused on the looks. I am focused on actually caching hackers. And whats up with your name? "Special Ops", or special operations normally has to do with well, special things. One single thing (caching hackers) Isn't very special operations, its just important operations. But that aside, would you like to work together to catch hackers? I can supply training to members to take good screenshots of hackers, and you can supply the leadership of the xat.com Player-Response thingy. We can have a joint group, like Special Ops Anti-Hacker Squad or something. And with a double-organized group of twice as many people as we would have individually, we could catch lots more hackers! What do you think? (I do like your idea with the xat.com thing, where we don't just look for hackers but we wait for the players to tell us where they are, because there are MANY more players then there are members of our squads. And If we do this jointly, maybe tankionline will post a message on tankionline.com with our xat website, so that everyone who sees a hacker will go there. I think that this is a great idea, and I would love to hear back from you on this.) Thanks, Sclam (And yes, the badges are sort of fun :P just not practical... but fun :D )

Your in it. And its a rip-off of this. And Its not as good.

This is just a rip-off of SHPS!!! http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/122823.page And Seriously, why do they have to be WO1??? I have known lower ranks that can take better screenshots then majors!!! And How do they get a badge? And why do they need skype??? YOU just made a more complicated rip-off group. Thats not a crime, but I thought someone like you would have more honer. Hmmph.

You just... do it. If Bruce approves it.

And We (I) Hunt hackers so that the rest of you can play better, and mods have a easier time. :D

He could use someone who could get lots of his emails and sum them up so he knows which once are more importaint, etc. Like a secretary. Hmm... maybe il apply.

BRUCE PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE RESPOND (srry for caps but its been like weeks)

Small team. Just me. And me. Wow...

Actually, 1: In my PM I explained what the contest was. 2: I am only fair with losing crystals because it is not right for anyone else to pay, as it is my contest. And in my opinion, that is something tanki is lacking: Every contest they do, they pay. If there could be some player-run contests, and tanki could just transfer crystals as required with the results, there could me more contests. And smaller ones. And ones that lower ranks can actually WIN. 3: EVEY IF I cannot do this, I am fine with tankionline using my idea as a contest, and I think it is a very good idea. I have simply not shared it with you all, because If you all knew and some ppl didn't, you could well, cheat. Or just have an advantage. ~Sclam 8)

Stiiil hasn't responded. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: