If you have drugs, it's easy. If you don't, then it takes hours...

Watched the entire playlist in one afternoon... Have you heard of casually explained?

Happy Dragons with most posts of a clan topic...?

Got 1200 kills on my alt @IAmTheOneAndOnly, so liq. metal, 10 golds, 3 days premium. Irony is, I'm now so bloody bored of it, I need a 3 day detox before I can touch it again... :P

I believe the prizes to both helpers have been removed. (Mav & Stanz) To be fair, no matter who CM is, people are always gonna hate... If Cedric left and promoted... say... me (wink wink) (jk of course) then the same people would start saying that Cedric was amazing and that the new guy was to blame for everything. Basically, "nostalgia isn't what is used to be"

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+1 from a crested. At 480 kills so far... Aiming for 700

It started at 21:00 UTC yesterday, actually. Before correcting, fact checking helps...

Sounds like you have a great history teacher... Can we Ask You Anything?

A man of culture, you are :P

What is your name? What is your quest? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Too low rank, and not invited by anyone. Come back at 3rd Lt. or whatever the minimum is now and try again :P

Freeze needs it more than shaft... Seeing the photos of battles you post with shaft, it doesn't look like it needs buffing :P

This is how you guys have a 1-0 headstart, M3s, and just camp for the entire game, apart from LF making a few lucky breaks... "skill"

Well, that was one of the "typos"... It might have looked different if someone else had checked it first... :ph34r:

Thx :* And it wasn't supposed to be totally formal, it was supposed to be a helpful, but light hearted guide... And don't worry, I noticed the "typos" :P

Used to, and was quite good, but then I stopped for exams and never restarted...

Took me years of training to perfect the technique, but i have proved myself worthy... Favourite colour?

AWC Tournament week 2: Let me set the scene So, a while ago, I created an account to play with a friend. I played to about Staff Sergeant, then we gave up. Having named it @IAmTheOneAndOnly (M3M3s for days, I know), I decided to go back to it. This left me with the question of what to do with it besides being badass as usual. Having just got Smoky M2 on my main and loved it (like omihgawd its bæ), I decided to follow the Smoky M1-Wasp M1 10/10 route, to rush some late game M2s. I did have to rush the next three ranks, for which I highly recommend Hornet and Hammer - no Mus needed - a strong, fast combo that is unstoppable with a Double Damage (each full reload gives 3 easy kills). It works for almost any mainstream map, as long as there is decent cover and some twists and turns. ​ My experience with it Well, certainly in the early ranks, it paid off… I had some fantastic early battles, with total, utter destruction in my wake. Having played against people who use it on my main account, I have realised how much of a pain it is to fight against. And let me tell you, using it is fun. Very fun. I chose Hornet instead of the other popular choice of Titan because I personally prefer fast, nippy hulls. I would rather be able to whizz around, capping flags and control points, than to sit in one place and get consistently high D/Ls, but have no fun. Now, to stop me from rambling on too much about all my stupendous victories battles, I will explain my process of buying it, then analyse it and give tips in case anyone wants to follow in my footsteps. Buying it There are two methods of buying Wasp and Smoky M1. Buying the items separately for 13 100 and 11 000 respectively, or buying the Savage kit for 19 640 crystals. There are advantages to both methods: if the kit comes up, then it is cheaper than both items, and you get the Ocelot D-D module (15% against Isida and Hammer, which can be useful early game.) The advantages have now been lessened by the removal of discounts on kits and the loss of the free supplies. The advantage to buying the items is that you can get them at full price whenever you want, or wait for a sale of (I recommend) at least 40% and get them for considerably cheaper. I managed to snag both items in the Christmas/New Year’s 50% sale, because Savage didn’t come up in time in the kit rotation (the kit, not that pro Reporter). As for Mus, thanks to the super cheap, super effective Hornet/Hammer combo, I had a large number of crystals stockpiled, and as soon as the first 50%/70% sale on MUs came around, I got both Smoky and Wasp to 10/50. Next sale, I bought the £2.50/€4 shop kit that gave me 20k crystals I got 15/50 Wasp, and with my newly acquired funds, 25/50 Smoky. In other sales, I got 16/50 wasp, and 36/50 smoky. Thanks to the “10 MUs for M1s” update, I got 4 free steps, taking me to 8/10, which is where I am currently. Analysis and Tips And now the conclusion. The section for lazy nubs who couldn’t be bothered to read the full article. The idea behind the one combo MU M2 meta is interesting. Thanks to the 10 MUs update, it now costs the same to MU as it does to just buy the M2 when it unlocks. (Though with sales, you can get 50% off the unlocked version, but only 25% off when MUing.) For MUing to be viable (and I'm talking about any combo here), there needs to be enough time between finishing the MUing and the items unlocking in kits/alone. This means that you need to choose some late rank M2s, like Smoky, Twins, or maybe Firebird. An M1 combo unlocked around Master-First Sergeant can usually be fully MU’d by around WO5 (I saw a fully MU’d Smoky/Titan at WO5), depending on how high your crystals/xp rate is (yes, I will get to these rates, shuddup and gimme a chance). ​ Pros - mainly related to the Smoky/Wasp combo You unlock it 400k xp early You have some OP late rank M2s, roughly 400k xp before anyone else will have them, and in the case of smoky, it is OP even when you unlock it, let alone 7-8 ranks early. The reason Smoky is so good, is that with a Double Damage, it 2 shots all light hulls which are the most common hull. Also, it can shoot more than twice as fast as a railgun, so it is a highly effective counter for one of the most popular turrets.​Very OP, especially in early game(see previous point)(I find it) funThis is an important point - since you only have one usable combo, you have to be able to tolerate playing with the same combo for all the ranks between unlocking the M1, fully MUing it, and being able to buy something else. Luckily for me, I love the Smoky/Light hull combo, so it is no problem for me ​No worries about what to buyOften one can have the problem of “Should I buy this? That? That in a kit and then that in a sale? With this, you never have to worry because you never have enough money to buy anything else anyway ​​Cons Monotonous gameplay ​As I said, you only have one combo you can use at any point... If you don't like it, then tough luck..Never have any cashConstantly buying the next level of MU means that you never have more that 20k. Though this doesn't really matter, you never get the morale boost and the wonderful feeling of hitting 100k (or even 50k...)Not good for single point CPA problem with going for a light hull (the lightest hull, in fact) is that it is designed to never have to get too close to enemy fire. In CTF, you can nip straight in and straight out of the enemy base and be fine. The problem comes when you have to sit still in the middle of a map capping the one and only point, while everyone else is trying to kill you.​ The vital tips ​if you wanna be a copycat mult ​Choose a good combo to MU As I said, if you are doing this, this is important. There is no point MUing Freeze M1 to M2, as it first unlocks at WO2. Another advantage of choosing Wasp /Smoky, is that there is an M1 and an M3 kit, but no M2 kit, meaning that MUing is the only way to get the combo early. That is a disadvantage of MUing Smoky/Titan, because there are kits for it at all 3 levels, meaning you only really get it about 4 ranks early.Good Options are Viking/Twins - get Corsair early on, but there is Minotaur; Smoky/Wasp or Smoky/Titan; maybe Fire/WaspALWAYS WAIT FOR SALESA point I really cannot stress enough. With six years of Tanki experience, my three main pieces of advice: always wait for a sale, don’t buy pointless items, and only go past the first MU if you are planning to go all the way. ​Don't buy paintsIf you do buy paints, choose a paint that is cheap, and you like the look of. At 1st Lt., I bought the Swash paint in a 50% sale for about 6k crystals, and then used it until Lt. Colonel when I bought the snowflake bundle, and used that paint. The MU rework​I feel this is something I should point out, as it is a somewhat significant change. The update is pretty new, so metas have yet to be dreamt up. So far, sales seem to have been pretty prevalent, though only a low sale. Personally, I'm waiting to see if we get a sale of more than 30% before getting my final two upgrades. ​The increased cost and quite frequent sales are very helpful, by the time you earn the necessary crystals, another sale comes around. ​A new effect of this update is that you should avoid buying speed-ups AT ALL COSTS​​ And now, a tiny little unimportant footnote about rates, as well as a small gallery There are three main rates in Tanki that you need to think about. KD (aka D/L) - How many kills you get for each of your death. To find out, divide your kills, by your deaths. ​On @IAmTheOneAndOnly, I aim to finish battles with a D/L of 3 or higher, whereas on @kaisdf, I aim for 1.5 or higher, as battles without buyers or M3s are almost non-existent...XP/hr - how much XP you get per hour. Pretty simple really. This can be found out on your ratings page. For example, getting 1,000 XP in every 15-minute battle is a rate of 4,000 XP/hr, which is very high.​At low ranks, I aim for 3k-4k xp/hr, which is 800-1000 xp in each 15-minute battle. Generally, you should aim for at least 1k xp/hr. Less than that and you are a mult who would be better off outside need to start drugging and do something about it. Crystals/XP - this is a little less common (in fact I like to think I invented the idea :P). Also quite self-explanatory, basically it is how many crystals you get for the amount of XP you get. Ideally you want to get >1 crystal per experience point. Playing in normal battles without missions you usually get about 0.3 crystals per xp (meaning a 300 score gives 100 crystals). If your crystals/XP is too low, you end up being high rank with no good equipment. At the rank of 2nd Lt, when I was saving up for other M2s, I earnt 45k crystals with only 15k xp. At high ranks, I highly recommend (winning) Poly CP XP/BPs, which usually give 1.5 crystals/xp​ Some good moments on my alt:

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I have had some problems posting topics in moderator-sees-first topics (eg. my posts never appear in ideas and suggestions (the reason I'm posting this here)) Other sections like this include mod app places, so I was wondering if it would be possible to set up some kind of "Your post is being considered" auto-reply just so one would know if it had worked, instead of accidentally flooding because you believe it hasn't worked...?

When it comes to Rubik's cubes, let me just say I struggle with a 1x1x1... @Galaxy and @adriel What's your favourite thing about your country?

Can I be something like the 8th cousin thrice removed?

Why do all reporters have an obsession with trebuchet?