Skitee: First of all, who are you? PhantomMeat: PhantomMeat S: And which clan are you from? P: ShadowStrikers S: Can you tell us a few sentences about your clan - your age, who you are, etc? P: Well we don't care who you like or who you don't like, if they are good and want to join the clan, we will approve majority of the time(ex: klerik). I personally am 16 years old been playing since 2009, my real name is Dwayne I am from Florida, USA. S: And what about your clan? How old is your clan? P: We are a fun bunch, screaming, threatening to slap each other time and time. ShadowStrikers was opened in 2009 it was named PhantomClan at first, it's been temp closed due to problems, if you subtract the times we've been temp closed it would be around 2yrs and a few months. S: Alright. What has caused you in that time to "temp close"? P: Mostly being inactive, I'm not a big fan of recruiting random people S: Ok. You mentioned earlier that your clan was created in 2009. Were there any English clans before your clan? P: nope, we were the first english clan :) S: Nice! And what is it about your clan which has kept you going over these two and a half years now? P: the members S: What is it about the members? Their loyalty, their friendliness, or what? P: Loyalty and friendliness, yeah, I would say that S: Uhuh. So, going back to your foundation: What was the aim of "PhantomClan" when it was created? Can you still remember? P: well I first created PhantomClan to bring all the english players together. There was very few of us back then. I didn't make it any requirements it was like a home for the english players, I guess you could say. We were a very friendly bunch. S: Ok, and has that aim changed over the months or is it still the same? P: Well, I would say ShadowStrikers is still a home but with requirements because we are very competitive now. S: What has brought on that competitiveness? Do you think being so competitive is what all clans should be like? P: Well being better than the russians was always a goal, and I do believe all clans should have their own little war somewhere going on. S: All right, so in that regard - are there any clans you have a particular rivalry with? P: Yes, with DD good rivals. S: And why is that in particular? Any good reason? P: Well they been open for a while and have good players. Molina was in SS before he created DD and right there and then some rivalry started. But DD was weak at first and then they got stronger, at first I wouldn't have considered them as rivals because to me a rival would be someone who is strong and could put a fight. Back then, they weren't able to. But now they can. S: Ahah, I see what you mean. As a final thing, are there any tips of advice that you'd give to potential clan leaders that you have learned from being a clan leader for so long? P: Communication, motivation: some members must be willing to give there free time for your victory(GT,taught me that) S: Can you explain what you mean by "Communication" and "Motivation"? P: Well if you don't have communication how do you expect to win, how are you going to know what is wrong and needs to be fixed? At the same time motivation to play and win. It's more of a thing that cant be explained but that is how I could explain it. S: Alright, anyway, that's all I've got time for right now... is there anybody over the course of the months who you'd like to thank for their help in SS? P: Well without Koolwalky and cablaz I think I would have a real tough time. So koolwalky and cablaz :D S: Haha, ok. I wish you all luck for the future of SS, and hope you last many more years as a clan! Thanks for the interview! P: (handshake)

First of all, I managed to interview ZMH00, the Leader of Clan Dare Devils, one of the stalwart clans of the English community. Here is what he had to say about his clan. skitee: Good day. Thank you for being able to take the time out to talk with me today. What is your callsign? ZMH00: ZMH00 S: And what is the clan that you represent? Z: Dare Devils S: All right. So, about Dare Devils: What is your history? Were you the founder of Dare Devils, or was it someone else? Z: We have four founders for this clan. One of the founders created the clan and the other three founders made clan to improve. Thus, we have four founders to be strong clan. S: And who were the four founders? Z: Molina, Kozayya, Afghani, phituankiet S: Ok. And why did you guys create your clan? What was the aim of the clan when it was created? Z: When we created our clan, there was not many strong clans in english community. There was only one strong good clan at that time (Shadow Strikers). We dreamed to make another strong clan like SS. And we hoped to get stronger english clan. That was our dream for making our clan. S: So about SS: When DD was created, there was only one clan - Shadow Strikers, which was by far and away the strongest clan around. What would you say to help all the tankmen planning to create new clans but are put off by the strength of the clans at the moment? Z: I want to say that no one can help or no one can put off. Creating clan is good for English clan community. But it is not easy to create clan. As all know, many clans were created and closed just in one or two months. Just very few clans were survive and still stand for long time. So, I want to say that creating clan is not that much easy and you have to rely yourself. No one can help you or no one can force you to die unless yourself. S: So what do you think was it that made your clan succeed when other clans had failed? I remember those times, and I remember all of the other clans which were created to rival SS - none of them managed to succeed and all died fast. What was it, you think, about yourselves that managed you guys to succeed and still be around up till today? Z: We value loyalty more than any other aspect in a player. We prefer to get loyal member since we recruit new members. We got a lot of loyal members. That made our clan improve and stand strong for a long time. We prefer to recruit new players rather than members of other clans. We recruited new players who had not much experience about clans. We took them to our clan. We taught them about clan things and other. So we got their loyalty. For most members, DD was their first and last clan. S: So you say that loyalty is the most important thing about a clan and what gave you success? That's certainly a very good virtue to have in a clan. Would you say that if you had to say one thing that set your clan apart from all the others, that thing would be loyalty, or another aspect of your clan life? If there was one thing different about DD from the other clans - from your perspective - what would it be? Z: Yeah. Loyalty gave us success. Another aspect thing is activity. We prefer active players who play a lot. If we saw strong active players who has loyal to our clan, we took them to clan. If they are really active, we can help them improve. They play and earn crystals to improve their garage. We also help them to earn. So they improve fast and we get strong, loyal members. S: Do you think that clans can survive with disloyal members? Z: Of course not. You need loyal members. The important thing to survive your clan is having loyal members. Your clan can't survive with disloyal members. They may leave your clan one day, and your clan may die that day. When one clan is falling down, a lot of members leave this clan. We already saw some clan members leaving same time. So you need at least some loyal members. Everybody want to stay in strong clan. All want to stay in better place. What thing make them to stick in weak new clan? These things are loyalty, friendship, familiarity. We loved our clan, whether our clan was strong or not. We wanted to make our clan strong when we saw others were stronger than us. We didn't leave this clan and didn't join to better clan. We just tried to make our clan strong like them. If you get some members with this soul, you will surely get strong clan one day. S: Mhmm. Earlier, you said that activity was important as well. How active do you consider "active" members to be? Z: We like active players who usually play four or five hours everyday, who come to chat everyday and play together with others. So we consider active. We got many active players who rank fast and who can earn many crystals in few months. S: Ok - that's certainly a long time for some people, and it's clear that you are a very ambitious clan. Having now been able to have caught up with SS and been equal with them in strength - according to most people in the community, it seems - do you have any further ambitions? Z: I have further ambition to be strong clan in the whole tanki community. Our clan is strong enough for english clan community. But I want more. I want our clan to be strong clan for the whole Tanki community (Both russian and english clans). I want good clan rating in Tanki official league and championship. We even hope to be champions one day. :D S: Ok, those are very big ambitions, and I wish you all luck in fulfilling them. It will certainly be a great thing for the English community if one of "our" clans manages to win a championship! For the short-time, however, do you have any clans which you have a strong rivalry with? Z: Yeah, we have strong rivalry with two clans. One is our good component clan SS and one is our friend clan TTS. They are also strong and they have good experience, skill, and other things like our clan has. So we get them as our good competitors. There are other clans that will surely imrpove in future. They will also be our competitors. But for current situation, we like to compare with those two clans that have same strength with us. S: Uhuh, and I've noticed that when you have fights with TTS or SS, they are always close fights. I wish you all luck in defeating them in the future, and in defeating the Russian clans as well! As a final word, would you like to give any thanks to anybody who has benefitted your clan greatly over the months? Z: I like to give thanks to all my members .Especially my friends Molina, Afghani, phituankiet, New_dude007 and BlackBoomb. We can't get strong clan and we can't surive longer without these guys. We love each other like real family and we stick together for our clan. And thanks to all members who are loyal to our clan and stick together with us long time. S: Thanks a lot for telling us a bit about your clan, and I wish you all luck for the future! Z: Thanks to you too. :)

Updated, sorry.

:roll: http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/73602.page

"Crystal lock" probably means person who earnt the most crystals in May. "Modification lock" probably means the person who spent the most on modifications, or the one who bought the most modifications in May. I doubt they'd be all time because all the others were just May. No idea about the last one though.

Just to let you know, and to keep up the banter - we're doing an internal contest to see which is the best in the clan, and we have 24 entries so far - will be hard to judge the best, for sure. ;)

I think that that happens so rarely that it is a waste of a weapon to use in that circumstance. I also think that a person in a better position can cover both that and other options, maybe later down the line? For example, a camping freeze would be able to take out anybody that comes down that route and it would make very little difference whether or not you destroyed the enemy earlier or later: later may even be better so that there is less people for your attackers to navigate.

Spawn trapping just isn't going to happen in a clan war, unless a clan makes a really bad mistake. Most clans should be able to stop any kind of spawn trapping, however. And it'd take more than 8 shafts to cover every angle in Tribute - and if one angle isn't covered, then a freeze or thunder could come in and take out two or three of the shafts, freeing a few more angles, which would result in more shafts being killed.... you get the picture. It's a nice plan, and, like you said, may work in a ns tribute against an unorganised team with a few noobs, but in a clan war? Not gonna happen.

*sigh* Y all rail-wasp matches at 1am?

@Shady: I'm not going to change. Really? :? I'd often thought about using eight of the same weapon, but the only weapons where I think that would be ok would be thunders or ricochets. Even then, they have some glaring mistakes and flags can easily be caught. It'll be very annoying for the opponents but just the same. The thing about eight shafts is - imagine a tribute 8v8. One Freeze hides behind a building, and can easily take out any shafts that come to get the flag. So there goes any chances of shafts capturing a flag. Shafts also can only kill one person per shot at best - so if a shaft is outnumbered, the shaft will lose. As for defence, even the best defences aren't perfect. Eventually an average team will capture through the shafts - how can a team of shafts return a flag: unless they play like smokys I don't see that happening. And no matter how many opponents they kill, eventually the mixed-up team should be able to capture a flag. Every weapon has weaknesses, so I think it is sensible to try to cover for weaknesses. I think that a team using all the same weapon will be seriously annoying - even playing against five railguns on one team is annoying enough - but at the same time it is weak and just won't be able to capture the flags. It'll be annoying, and quite probably a solid defence. But even the best defences can be breached, and if there is no or little potency in attack, it is asking for defeat. A mixture between all of the same weapon will not be able to attack - a group of shafts can be destroyed by a freeze or two, a group of ricochets can be destroyed by two thunders, a group of freezes can be annihilated by one or two railguns and shafts, a group of thunders can be destroyed by a patient freeze. No, the best attack must have a range of angles to attack via, otherwise they can easily be stopped. In defence, a group of weapons can do it - but there's no point going 100% out for defence when there's no attacking hope. As in any sport, a team playing for 0-0 normally ends up losing 1-0 or 2-0: it is the same in tanki.

@nuclearbom: I didn't say where to find it. @Luyz: Nope.

The flags and spawns are built-in to the Polygon in the Russian TanksTestingTool: http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/45064.page - last time I checked.

Be patient, we're confident. T_T The deadline is not for a long time yet.

Well, we are having an internal contest ourselves, we've had about 10-15 extremely good entries so far - we won't be releasing ours until our entring and voting is finished, which should be about the 15th or so. ;)

http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/120569.page

ιη тнє ℓαѕт ιѕѕυє, ι ωєηт тняσυgн ѕσмє ѕιмρℓє вαѕι¢ѕ αвσυт ωнαт ¢ℓαηѕ αяє αη∂ αηѕωєяє∂ ѕσмє ¢σммση qυєѕтισηѕ αвσυт тнєм. ιη тнιѕ ιѕѕυє αη∂ тнє ηєχт ƒєω, ι ωιℓℓ αттємρт тσ ιηтєяνιєω тнє ¢ℓαη ℓєα∂єяѕ σƒ ѕσмє σƒ тнє ¢ℓαηѕ αвσυт тнєιя ¢ℓαηѕ, ѕσ тнαт тнє ¢σммυηιту ¢αη ƒιη∂ συт мσяє αвσυт тнє ¢ℓαηѕ αη∂ ωнι¢н ¢ℓαη ιѕ ωнι¢н! In this article, I am going to interview the leaders of four/five of the most active English clans - Shadow Strikers, Dare Devils, Try To Stop, Domination Clan, and The IronClads. These clans have all existed for at least three months each, and are well entrenched into the English community. They are also the first stop for most English people who want to join a clan - so maybe you can find out a lot about a potential clan from this series of interviews! ------------- Interview with DD: http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/121366.page#2080896 Interview with SS: http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/121366.page#2080897 Interview with DC: http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/121366.page#2080902 Interview with IC: http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/121366.page#2080903 Interview with TTS: http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/121366.page#2080907 God bless, ~skitee~ Note: The interview with the DC leader was cut short abruptly.

The logic is the same in both instances. It may gain some players more fun, but at the expense of others. Everything needs to be targeted at a certain demographic of people, and leave out the rest - a thing that tries to include all demographics ends up including no demographics.

So basically you think that it is better if tanki decide to focus on a game which everyone will enjoy, and bring in pink horses as tanks - just so that five year old girls will enjoy themselves more as well so that tanki will have "more players, more fun"? :roll:

^Ok. So are you suggesting this to be the default requirement, or an option? I wouldn't mind it being an option, it's good, but I like games as they are.

This script is ok as an option for some players. I, personally, however, think that it is well within my right that if I have made the enemy team ragequit thanks to superior skill/drugs/weaponry that I can capture flags until the enemy returns. Some players may want this, so it could be an option in games, but if this is made as unchangeable option, then think about how annoying it can be if you are one flag away from victory (Maybe 299-75, first to 300) and enemies all leave..?

So do we. ;) That's why I think it'll be 1v1 between us. ;)

:P I suspect this will be two-way between IC and DC, from what we've seen so far.