Sure, you'll wake up one morning in a few weeks and find I've tied you up, and nicked everything useful. #3vil

That is brilliant, epic work!

"Look what I found on my hard drive" doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it? :lol:

All the articles written by the new guys was what they wrote or sent to apply. The only exception was Archangel, who's app article was out of date by now, so he did another one.

No, they take backgrounds from the internet, just like you do. And then do a better job of editing. You need add shadows, blur the edges and add effects etc. From what I can see, in most of your pics, you just added a single filter...

The winners were as follows: 65536g hithere1 canadarules jagsingh Suryansh5000 manishsethi90

Full versions of newspaper pics:

All part of the secret 3vil plan :ph34r:

Er, no. We both wrote funny lines :P Extremely.

Yay, we're out. I went with an old theme for this issue, now I need to think of another one for next issue!

This part is pre rebalance. The prots were changed to the current ones at the rebalance.

I didn't think of that, but I'll give it a go later!

The adventure continues... (Had nothing else to do this morning)

Needed to just sit and relax, so made this:

Great vid, and nice to see things explained and plans for the future!

You can get tankviewer ones, just open tankviewer, get it to the angle you want, then screenshot, paste into paint, save, then open in PS/GIMP and crop it. Thats what I do.

Bruce gave it to me a few months ago.

Nice event, but there will be loads of Moon Silence maps for the next week, I won't miss it when it gone!

When i have time, once the newspaper is out, I'll give it a go. Thanks! :blush:

Wait, you complain about other peoples pics, then make that?

Look what I found in the attic!

I'm attempting to continue GoldRock's brilliant series looking at the breaking news, with the help of hog. I will try to do it justice, but it will be quite hard to reach the high standards set in previous articles. There doesn't seem to be much breaking news this month, it appears the writers have finally realised how to glue the news together! - Do not take this article seriously; it is very difficult to do so anyway. - Any apparent reference to any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintentional. 27th August – Rules for Clans and Teams have changed. I do hope we all looked away while they did this, or they may feel a bit embarrassed. Ah well, I guess its their fault for not using a changing room! Prof Mike K. K.'s protégé, a certain 99 year old flae, was on hand to offer his opinions: “hhhh now we get guns and we go beat dem crazy ruski people at their own game xaxaxaxa” 30th August – Changes to the forum A new category called 'Pub' appeared, prompting rumours that Tanki was expanding its shop and selling items such as beer glasses, and its own brand of beverage, called “Real Viking Ale” with recommendations that it be chilled by a freeze for 10 seconds before consumption. A new forum for Creativity appeared too, with the devs saying it was to get the creative juices flowing, although the cleaners aren't too happy about the sticky mess it leaves on the floor. 1st September – Issue 15 is out Finally, some news in September! Our worries that the Breaking News Team had broken up is relieved with some things to read about on our pages. In this issue the humour contest results were out, and a certain 19-year old member who likes jamming music (don't know how I worked that out), who is part of the breaking news team (of the confusing titles fame) managed to win first place (yup, they did something right for once!), with the 'Biggest Groan Award' going to gazatron30. Uhhh, we've ran out of breaking news... Lets take a look at some of the things that have happened, but haven't been carelessly broken! Discount on Tankmen's Day Discount, discount.. happy days for some, but this of course led to many people whacking their computer screens yelling "WAT TO GET", or the regular wail of "Waaaahhhh I don't have enough crystals". If you've had a harrowing experience at a sale that wasn't your fault, you could claim compensation! Please write to us at imuselessatsaving@gimmecrystals.com and we'll send you a free envelope with nothing inside! Unfortunately, there have been no reported cases of us having to do this, due to the reason that the sale experience is always your fault. Ah well. It was worth a try. International Video Blog is out! This was a great success, with the players enjoying seeing Semyon "The Arm Waver" Kirov presenting his first video blog, and the devs relishing the chance to practice their 'inglish'. One player (or animal, depends on what your opinion of him is), who will remain anonymous, summed it up perfectly, saying: Open testing of new physics for hulls Well, clearly the hull's new physics teacher must be a pretty wacky guy, considering the utter craziness of the hulls now. It looks like the first lesson was an experiement on how hyperactive the hulls could get, with the new teacher grabbing one of the Wasps, stuffing sugar down its throat, and wheelie-ing it round the classroom to drive home his point that Einstein was wrong about e=mc2. Ah well, maybe the sugar rush will have ended by the time of the release. Or our Wasps might actually transform into literal wasps - flying about and everything. Product Kits for all ranks So I checked the Developers news topic, just to check out what the news is. Product Kits were released for all ranks. Reaction: NIce! Prodigi is now available in a kit at Second Lieutenant. Reaction: Uh, not so nice. A 99-year-old flea gets 137 likes on one of his posts. Reaction: WHAT DA, IS DIS FOR REAL, MY EYES BETRAY ME!!! Ah well, at least there's equality now. I mean, having 50% off kits only for the low ranks is just plain segregation, right? Lucky Seven Tournament is back! It's bigger, its greater, its faster.. its generally just, you know, better. Hopefully, we're one of the seven lucky clans to take part...or not. Ah, its the "Fail Title Syndrome" again, and its even spread over to the official news. There are no lucky seven clans, not even seven lucky games or even seven lucky crystals. Its just called Lucky Seven, because 7 players play for each team, and as seven is a lucky number, both teams have luck! Err just as a side-note, if both teams have luck, then neither team is lucky because the other team has luck too, which means that the luck doesn't actually count as luck... You followed that, right? Well, at least it means that the equality spreads here too, as now, UNLIMITED clans can join the tournament! Farewell to Moon Silence! I must admit, I can't say I'll miss this map. The best thing I (Hog) ever did in this map is when I drove Lham off the side of the map when he was about to capture the flag. Problem was, he was on my team... oh well. It was stlil awesome! :lol: I (Lham) promptly got my revenge, using items from my 3vil armoury such as "Mammoth", "Twins" and "Drugs". And with this farewell, we get a triple gold box in the map, with a 150% chance for it to drop, and even 50 of each supply if we get one! Woohoo. But still not enough mtivation to make me play in Moon Silence. I would say good riddance to this awful map that somehow always manages to flip me onto my backside, but this is an official article so, my final words will be: "Bye Moon Silence. I'll miss you. NOT." and

Thanks to the US Government shutdown, the dollar has fallen, so if they hadn't fixed prices, you'd be getting even less crystals for your dollars, this is exactly why they did it...

No, I know what you're thinking, but I haven't written a story for the first time ever, this is by Vikingsrall, who is one of our new reporter candidates! Everyone’s a suspect. No evidence and no motive. In northwestern Ohio, in the beautiful town of Lima, partial production of the “Freeze” has been moved to the Lima Army Tank Plant facility from the Zhukov Research Institute, after themselves taking on other projects leaving them no room to produce small to medium size parts that are essential for the gun. Lima residences were shocked by this odd move and are weary. Workers don’t seem to mind, other than the Russian foreman sent to keep track of production. Taking pride in his heritage, claiming to have ancestors that were Cossacks, frequently bringing it up during department meetings to motivate when things are going good, and reference it when they screw up. Production has been going for just over a month and at a steady pace. Parts are made, packaged, and shipped to the factory in Russia to be assembled in the gun. Head Security officer of the facility, Jared Belle, has been on his toes. He is one of the many weary people of the town. “Why would production of something for Russians end up here?” he thought, sensing it would bring unwelcome attention. He liked working there with the staff, fellow officers, and workers; but he was not certain if he would remain working there. His senses had proven him right only a few days after he starting contemplating his future at the plant. At 2 a.m. Friday morning, Jared gets a call that the factory had been broken into. He stood up rather quickly leaving him rather woozy. Once he got his baring’s he got dressing in uniform and in less than a minute was in his car backing out of his driveway. Arriving at the factory in record time, Jared pulls up next to a fellow officer’s truck where the foremen and the officer were exchanging heated words. “Are you sure you locked the gate?!?” the foreman says in an agitated tone. “I am sure” replied the officer. Jared walks up to them and said “What happened?” in a dreary tone. The foremen open the door that had been appeared to be kicked in. Boxes, tools, and parts had been thrown on the ground everywhere. Majority of the damage was done near the freeze parts department. Several boxes of parts and workshop tools had gone missing. At Jared’s first stunned glance, he saw no obvious evidence.

Actually, IK exactly what it's like, I've played for over 3 years. (and not been staff for most of it) I also have an alt acc that obvs doesn't get paid. I bought rank at the expense of not having much stuff for a while, I knew in the long run it would be better to get the rank first and be able to buy stuff, and then save for it. Nor did I know at that point how much I'd be paid or how many jobs I'd have. I do not choose how much I get paid. Nor do I work for the crystals. I have worked my butt off for the last year to make this community better, and have gone above and beyond the call of duty many times, and endured mountains of rubbish that you haven't got a clue about it. So don't even start having a go at me for being paid virtual money for my efforts. I earnt every single crystal and I'd do it again without being paid.