Excellent work Kaisdf! Although this is kind of a major problem. 90% of the money I have isn't even in US currency (which, incidentally, is the country that I live in).

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Hey people, just dropping in and asking you if you have an alt and why. If you don't have an alt, you can just make cool alt account names. Well, I don't have an alt, but if I did, I would use it on the forum once I reach Warrant Officer 1 to restore my slightly bruised reputation. Names that I could think of is: Ozone, ManDaLuke, and Cr0sS.

Hello sir, I regret to inform you that we had died already. Long live our memories.

...to troll my people. I did it...

#NeedsToPutCAPSSoICanSeeTheWordsLOL

Hello there, I guess I might have to try my hand here. It sucks that I have to be a dishonored co-leader thrown into obscurity after the shutdown of Machines of Flight.

Nice! Im starting triune! Also, I just entered in three articles yesterday. Ah, feels amazing to write again! Update: need to get started on my journey part one.

Twisted Twist, Part 2 The slightly more fun part of the twist aka Chapter 4 In case you missed Part One look here. It had been many weeks since school had finished, but there were only mere days before a new year of learning nothing in classrooms began. Since I had the joys of earning money by crafting complex ciphers, I earned an hourly rate of $25 and enjoyed the benefits of rising among the ranks of many adult workers, who often cast me a jealous glance. But with the school year approaching quickly, I would have to work overtime, and sleep in the dormitories in R.T.E. Intelligence. Having bee robbed of a childhood, I missed hanging out with friends on a summer day; I missed talking to people. Instead, I spent my days inventing new codes for myself, keeping them from those who had taken everything from me, enjoying my new hobbies - but it was far from a normal lifestyle. I missed my friend group from school, whom I only saw during lunch and break, and occasionally after school. Even if I wanted to, I would have headed to the Avail Academy bus. But now, with so many complimentary benefits, a classy BMW would arrive at 2:43 precisely, meaning barely, if any, time to socialize, and I would be transported to my office, where I was imprisoned during the work day. After getting home at seven, like my parents, I’d be so tired the only thing I wanted to do was sleep. The work experience was so bad I even found myself yearning for Lzer Lingue’s taunting jeers in the middle of a three-hour meeting. Just about everything I had taken for granted was gone. But mostly, I missed the time spent with friends. Like Jamie, a girl both popular and smart. And him, Pyco Potare. Once known as an underachiever, he "accidentally" ended up in Advanced Math, where I tutored him and brought his test scores up. Then he started working harder in everything to maintain better grades and impress teachers with his hidden ability, which he supposedly used to trick other students. At least, that's what Bryanna said. Instead, he incorporated his eloquence in buttering up even the worst teachers, especially Ms. Yerb, a stout little teacher whose blazing temper could only be calmed by Pyco and another student, who was now in high school. His hardworking personality extended to the point that he even ended up improving in martial arts, a class where the clumsy Pyco broke wooden boards only by tripping on them. But now, he was just about ready to take his black belt test. Out of all that improvement, he hadn’t forgotten about music. While he hadn’t done well enough to make the Advanced Band last year, he had barely secured himself a spot in the 1st Flute section this time around. And I’d be there. With a flawless audition, my teacher enabled me to be first chair clarinet, the best player in the section. I’d be there to impress him, show him my ability and skills in music. Before school started, I dreamed of the many classes with Pyco, of spending time with him. But then, that all changed. On the first day of school, I found out that Pyco and I would only share one class: band, which was slightly disappointing. So I went about my day as normally as possible, trying to forget about the disappointment of the lack of friends in my classes, and even facing the overly talkative yet boring classmate in math for the third year in a row. After several, long hours, the school day was reaching its end - I had reached my last two classes. As I watched a group of sixth-graders head to lunch, I lined up before the door of a portable. “Hi, Jo-Ann!” someone chirped from behind me. Of course, Hanen Hervon, the cousin of Kris, who had attended Avail with me. I had only seen her a handful of times at school, because she’d come from a private school, but I’d never heard her utter more than a few words of small talk. Other than that, she kept to herself and was drier than stale bread. Right after I saw Hanen, my gaze fell on Bryanna, who stared intently at her minuscule iPhone 4S, trying to ignore me. This would be such a good day. No classes with friends, and enemies all around. After entering and being assigned seats, I found myself a great distance away from Hanen and Bryanna, thankfully, because the two of them were seriously annoying me. Even though Hanen barely talked, the lack of interaction between her and others bothered me. And Bryanna kept shooting deadly glances from across the classroom when I raised my head and set my eyes on her. In eight days, the lack of friends, cruel stares, and poisonous looks in one class fortuitously came to an end. “Sorry, class,” my teacher announced, “I need to teach the seventh-graders during your class time. As a result, your schedules will be affected. You will change history classes. Some of you, three to be precise, will be with me in my other class, and others will change classes.” The day after, my homeroom teacher gave me my new schedule. Same history teacher, different time. Everything was just about the same in the other class, except that the few students from my original class were isolated from the others in another table. Still no Pyco. But P.E. changed all that. Once I got there, I headed to the assigned area where my class was to meet. And there he was. Pyco. He waved, but only half-heartedly, then turned his head away from me. Then I saw who he was talking to. Hanen Hervon smiled up at me. “Hi, Jo-Ann!” she exclaimed, though her voice was barely above a whisper. Forcing a neutral expression on my face, I fought the urge to run away from them. And that's a wrap to Chapter 4. Wow, been a really long time since I last touched this series. Dusting off the cobwebs was really fun. If you want to read more, wait for Chapter 5, coming soon! Special note for @thethiefofvictory: Chapter 5 and on is when the cipher comes to use (hint, hint she teaches Pyco). Sorry, but if I only have Jo-Ann talk to herself with the new code, it would be awfully boring.

Nice one sir... 'could be improved' hahahahahahaha

Awesome! I just add new spellings to words.

Dont deny it...

Cool!

I need to go to chapter 5 and 8 and then I might be able to solve something like that. Chapter 5 is in a few days!

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Requiem, Chapter Zero Pyco's Backstory I still don’t understand how this year flew by so quickly. But most of all, how it went so well. I guess it all started when Mom wanted me to run for our band’s Music Council. Knowing that a lot of people would run, I seemed nervous. But on speech day, I was set. A single pep talk from my mom had done wonders. I told everyone about all my experiences in photography, elaborating on every little detail. By the time I finished, everyone was clapping their hands, cheering me on. I knew I was going to win. Everything else happened and the floodgates opened, enabling me to surpass all others. My once-mediocre studies rapidly transformed into pristine assignments, earning me all A’s in my classes. And as for PE, I started out behind with torpid thirteen minute miles, then shaved seconds off every time so that I emerged out as a new man, with a speedy six-minute sprint. Before I only had a couple of friends; now everyone wanted to hang out with me. And all that started with a simple election for music council, which I now ruled as the top of the class, a talented second chair flute as well. Just because my mom pushed me to accomplish something small, now I have it all. She told me to fake it till I made it, but that’s wrong. You make it only if you fake it. And that's Pyco! Enjoy and leave your feedback below!

Disclaimer: This is just in theory, it has not been proven as scientific law. Please do not take this as your holy text of writing! (I hope you can see this, as I put it in Yellow.) HEY! YOU THERE! Tired of writing articles that only the news team sees? It’s everyone’s struggle, unless, of course, you have been an editorial writer. Then, everyone is dying to read what you have said. And if you can achieve a higher status, you would be a reporter and then usually everyone will like what you write. Unfortunately, that isn’t all of us. All of us began here, where we were dying for someone to read our work and critique us. Fortunately, it’s not an unattainable height. Even the most “unskilled” of writers can eventually climb to the top. But wouldn’t you like it if the process was sped up? After looking over some of the most viewed posts, I might know how to help you - an average, normal writer like me - gain more audience. I realized that the three most important things (assuming that you have some form of high quality writing already) are: 1.Title 2.Genre 3.Pictures With this guide, I will hopefully guide you through the process of improving your writing and these aspects. 1. Title The objective of a title is to inform your readers about the topic, but briefly. Nobody wants to see a title that turns out to be as long as the summary of the article, but a boring title can repel readers. You can name your topic anything from A Review of Smoky to Zero Ways I’ve Lost in Deathmatch. Even if the article is not the best, an interesting title will make people read your article. It’s not one of my talents, but if you’ve got time to be creative, then go for it. Meanwhile, I’ll just suffer, as I write more and see article after article going unread. But before you try to come up with the most interesting titles, make sure you don’t mislead the reader into thinking that you are going to talk about the science of making popsicles when you really wanted to do a guide on Freeze. It would be slightly confusing. Thankfully, there are no examples of this, so that’s good news. 2. Genre Just like finding your own unique playing style in Tanki, aspiring writers should find their own unique writing style and genre. Choosing one genre to stick with for your whole AWS career would seem daunting, so select several that you feel comfortable with. And with each genre comes a certain style that most people generally stick to. While it may be for the best to copy what everyone else is doing, it’s always okay to think outside the box and come up with an unorthodox idea, just as long as you don’t get negative reviews. In that case, you may walk around in shame for a moment. Guide Hey now that you know that I like to play with Rubik's cubes, will you buy me a MoYu WeiLong GTS 3 M? Just kidding. Objective: To teach readers how to do/use something, whether it be equipment, or surviving in Matchmaking battles. Try this if: You enjoy giving instructions to people or teach people well. Being able to elaborate where necessary and explain clearly is a must! Beginner’s Tip: Start simple. Write about the aspects of Tanki you are familiar with. Don’t write about Parkour if you’ve only done 3 PRO Battles in your whole career, and the only trick you know in parkour is slipping off a ramp and landing upside-down. And when giving instructions on equipment, please don’t teach your readers to be good at a turret/hull you’ve never played on because the information you will give is likely to be totally wrong and they might be very, very mad at you. Always stay on topic. Don’t begin to tell jokes in the middle or tell people stories (unless they are related or you are moving on to another section and that is the perfect transition). I know it may be hard. Sometimes, you read an article and feel like you should also add [insert material here] in. Then you read about thirty more articles and do the same thing. In the end, everything comes out as a useless jumble or a reader’s commentary about everything in Tanki. If that is what is happening when you are writing a guide, then maybe you should switch your writing style and write something new. Or, do what I do. I write random columns in my notebook whenever I’m bored in class. Well, that’s all for guides. I’m not a guide writer much so I’m going to have to move on. If you’re asking, “But wait, aren’t you writing a guide?”, I’d have to tell you that I’m writing a guide in a guide, and that isn’t exactly an easy task. A Great Writer of Guides: @C.O.N.Q.U.E.R.O.R TO News Contest Entry: The Art of Shaft Editorial Issue 74: A Professional's Guide to Hammer Opinion Articles (which includes Reviews) Top 7 Random Opinion Articles So I’ve read a few reviews, and I’m not ready to write one. However, you might be, so I decided to be a helpful person and give you a hint on which one to write. Wait a second, I just wrote one. Amazing. See, you’ve helped me learn how to write a review by being such a great audience. Thanks, I owe you one. Rating Scale for writing a guide: Creativity: How creative/original is the idea? (Is it overused?) Difficulty: How easy/hard is it to write, which means 10 is the easiest. Relatability: Will people likely relate to it? (i.e. People with M1s will probably not relate to M2 Alterations) Overall: The overall rating of how likely your new article will be popular*, not an average. *That is, if you put in the time and effort! 7. Alterations It’s a pretty untouched category, probably since only a few alterations are used. Maybe if you write one, you can convince some fellow tankers to use some crystals on an alteration you consider useful. Actually, with the introduction of new alterations, it could be a pretty good business to write alteration guides. It should be easy to get some viewers looking at your articles, except that you might notice that you have a lot less crystals. Creativity: 7 Difficulty: 7 Relatability: 6 Overall: 6.5 6. Product Kits It used to be in almost every issue of the newspaper. (Ahem @Hexed) At least M3 Kit Reviews are. Which means that you should probably read the recent reviews to make sure you don’t review one that a reporter already did. They are pretty useful, but keep in mind what ranks the readers are. And please write a review on a kit you have. Creativity: 4.5 Difficulty: 8 Relatability: 6 Overall: 7.5 5. Maps These are hardly done, so go ahead and try one. I don’t know about the other readers, but I only know the MMS maps because I don’t have a Pro Pass. Okay, just kidding, I can enter Pro Battles without a Pro Pass, but I don’t usually do anything anyways. However, everyone who has played several times on a map would be familiar with it. The visual aids help, right? These are quite hard to pull off well, as you need to try and provide some insight into strategy on the map, instead of just saying, "The buildings look pretty!" Creativity: 7 Difficulty: 6 Relatability: 7 Overall: 7.5 4. Garage Review Rather personal review. In this situation, you have two choices: review your current garage or review your garage as it grew. Readers get to see what type of tanker you are. One thing: Don’t defend your judgments. There’s at least one person who won’t agree that a certain M1 is worth a 3/10, especially after the update when it was buffed and everyone hates it because it’s now so OP. Creativity: 8 Difficulty: 6 Relatability: 3 Overall: 7.5 3. Hulls/Turrets This one’s in the archives – the old time news reporters did some of those. Doing a remake of those is totally fine, but don’t copy their entries and post them as yours. Most people should find this pretty normal, so add a creative spin and it will become awesome. However, the equipment balance at different ranks varies, which produces unique reviews at different ranks of the writer. So you can quite easily survive without copying. Creativity: 6 Difficulty: 7.5 Relatability: 8 Overall: 8.25 2. Comparison Article VS A comparison article is where you compare Tanki to something else, like another video game. I can’t really provide many examples, but I hope you get the point. This topic is broader, so you will have an easier time coming up with your own individualized idea. I would recommend choosing a game vaguely related - you will find it easier to compare Tanki to World of Tanks than you would to Candy Crush, for example. Creativity: 8.75 Difficulty: 8.5 Relatability: 6.5 Overall: 8.75 1. Guide-Review A hybrid. Since you could have a lot of space left after a review, you should totally kill two birds with one stone and do a guide as well. The advice will also inform readers and allow them to make a better decision before buying equipment. Creativity: 7 Difficulty: 7.5 Relatability: 7.75 Overall: 9 A Great Writer of Opinion Articles: @GrandExecutioner Well, that’s my opinion. TO News Contest Winner: 10 Maps In Real Life Editorial: 10 Reasons Why Tanki Is Becoming a Sport Interviews I think it’s easier if I just show you. @Person_Random:Well, hi. It’s me! @Person_Random: Hey! It’s me! Not you. (random chatter continues for fifteen more minutes) @Person_Random: What were we even doing anyway? @Person_Random: Oh right, I was supposed to be interviewed! @Person_Random: Alrighty, let’s get started. So what even is an interview? @Person_Random: You ask questions and I answer. @Person_Random: Gee, that’s easy. Well, any tips? We got done through this so fast I didn’t think of anything else. @Person_Random: Here’s one: plan! Here’s another that I learned in AP Chinese: you interview people, but you can’t just take their answers and put them on the paper (or Web, if you are so picky). You want to write well, so you should definitely make the responses cool, but make sure not to stray from the original meaning. @Person_Random: Oh, alright. That makes some sense. But I still don’t get some things. Like who should I interview? @Person_Random: Important people, of course. Not really, you can also interview someone you consider a role model, or just a friend. @Person_Random: Okay, but then do you have any examples? I’m not sure where to start. @Person_Random: Sigh, you’re such a typical yourself. I guess so, check out @Magenta’s work and @P.4.R.K.O.U.R’s interview. Those were pretty popular. @Person_Random: Thanks! @Person_Random: I’ll see you around! Wait… You’re me. Stories I once was a poor writer of stories. Then it all changed. When I started, I often found myself going off topic when writing essays, so I learned about something called a ‘thesis’ when my parents saw the C I got in fourth grade. It never helped. Instead, my parents sent me out to tutoring over the Summer. While the teacher was fairly strict, she taught everyone about five quadrillion rules on writing, grammar, sentence starts, and the like, but never actually got to story and essay writing, which is what everyone was there for. So I had the tools and materials, but I didn’t know how to use them to build a house. And so it went on. In sixth grade, I entered a school-year program in which there were writing contests, but they didn’t teach anyone how to write a story. So we were left clueless, even though they had shown us the plot figure thingy with the rising action, climax, falling action and banned cliff-hangers. Still, I never knew how. A few years flew by, and I learned how to write for fun, the first part of a chain reaction. At first it was just satire articles with a sentence or two of real content ballooned up into a totally useless page of writing, then I actually started to get into it. I was still writing junk, but at least it was getting better. At the perfect time, I read the newspaper. While it may seem like a small change in lifestyle, my eyes wandered and saw the “Contests” section. And who wouldn’t like to win for a change? Being the loser of the class in my, well, class, maybe I could smoke the competition out for once. Taking my chances on the “Continue the Story”, I entered the world’s worst entry and somehow won third. But that’s not where it stops. Since my dad likes watching action shows, the whole family watched reruns of MacGyver. And that’s when it hit me on the head: I knew how to write stories. Plot lines are in everyday life, so any small problem would make a story. I thought about the plot. I wrote. I won. Writers of stories: Practically Everyone, so I’m not going to insert names here. Well, if you insist, I’ll first tell a bit about people. If you don’t have your name here, comment below and tell me your writing specialty because I only got to a few names: @P.4.R.K.O.U.R: the comedy guy, though actually I wonder when he will blow us all out of the water and get us cracking up with some good jokes. @thethiefofvictory: Writes way faster than I can read them (but I somehow got through all of them) He’s more of an in real life writer. While he has a Tankiverse, it’s still got some work before it’s going to be the caliber of the next guy. @Hippin_in_Hawaii: The Tankiverse fanfic master as we know it, mostly because we all suck at Tanki writing when compared to his. (Note: Tankiverse is a term only to be used by Hippin so STAY FAR FAR FAR AWAY from it) @GrandExecutioner: I haven’t read all of The Medic yet, but he seems to be of a very high caliber of writing, if that is even a saying. Well, he’s coming out of retirement soon, so we’ll be reading about his works. @Magenta: The ultimate jack of all trades. @TankiNoob2000:He’s fairly new compared to the above, and he’s making great progress. Many of his stories are focused on Tanki. @pythor20000: Another writer who mainly focuses in on Tanki. Nice weather channel though. @Lose: Inspired me to write again. Oh wait, almost all those people are moving up! Guess it’s time to say goodbye to them as they are all promoted. Congratulate them when you can! And finally… @Person_Random aka Yours truly: Well, I have to say I write both comedy and tragedy. While I now prefer tragedy, you’ll notice a few bits of light humor sprinkled in my writing. I can’t get rid of my old personality. Because I’m not as good as everyone else, I’m more of the amateur amateur writer, as they all are moving (or moved) up. Sigh... 3. Images Save us from the text walls! To elaborate more, well, as I’ve already said, people get tired of reading text walls. They are unattractive, and make reading less comfortable. The real thing is: we never read the words in picture books. That’s why there are pictures, so you can actually understand the story without reading it. Now, how we’ve all progressed to reading chapter books is a mystery to me, since I still can’t really read a book. That’s why we have comic books. However, while the pictures are there to keep you from reading text walls (and possibly skipping lines randomly), they are not the main focus. I repeat, the pictures are not the main focus. Images are great, but focus on the article. Another point to add is colour. You can use colour to highlight key points, or (as demonstrated in the reviews) to quantify pros/cons. Be careful not to overuse colours, as it can make your article appear tacky - just think, "If I were to make notes from this, what would I highlight as my key points?" The colour I recommend is light white, #FFFFFF 3.5: The Evolution of Karma So, well, um, yeah, er, I must stop stuttering. That’s not really what I was going to say. I’m kind of not really good at following this rule, but you should try being polite (even if you do feel like a searing hot five-thousand degree volcano is about to explode from your cranium. Yes, even in those circumstances, we have to keep calm. I know this might not be hard for you, but for me, it’s not really the easiest thing. Next, try to give feedback and be helpful, and people will like you. Therefore, they will be easier to work with, and you won’t be walking on eggshells when you want to talk to people and they might not hate you as much after you threw like thirty million temper tantrums because things didn’t really quite go your way. If you avoid all those bad examples (cough myself), then you should be on your way to popularity faster than the competition! 4. Just Saying Effort equals excellence. At least, that is what my writing teacher tells me. Which means that you all should treat these stories like you would if you were to enter it into a contest with tough competition. This way, your work turns out great and there are less people hunting you down and telling you that you have too many grammar errors. For more information, please see an upcoming guide on stories. But if you have already skipped to the bottom, you know that it will probably take another five months. That’s all I have for now. So I shall leave. But not with a little advertising about my articles. Oh wait, I actually have something else. Here we are… For all who are not sure if they want to write. And inspiration to our fellow writers. Oh wait, we have more people now! Then again, I think even more people will be better! But now, I seriously must leave. - P.R. Five months of work finally published! Wow. Please leave your feedback and don't hesitate to give constructive criticism that I desperately need. As long as you are not part of the YWA. Also, time to read... Other Awesome-ish Works By P.R. Tanki Personalities - One of my most popular works, come check it out. Cremate - Ashes, and my best work in my opinion TBWLP 2: Requiem (Ch. Negative 1) - The thrilling conclusion to TBWLP One, which, unfortunately, I have not finished. Requiem, though, is underway and I think you'll truly enjoy it, especially the upcoming backstories. Characters to be featured (in order of appearance): Pyco, Lzer, Jo-Ann (whom I think you would recognize from the Untreated Series), and Jason. Until Next Time, Fellow Writers!

I can't wait for TOWC ft. me! Thanks, and you've been improving a lot too! Thanks very much. Means a lot to me. So should I try sentimental writing or history next?

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That was totally unfair though should have let me say a bit now where I gonna go?

One year later...

Cg on rank and excellent work! Sorry for late but was unable to access internet this past week.

Wait, how do you play a project? Actually, never mind. It sounds cool!

I must know what this means....

Did I really? *Grabs a pole and starts whacking self* Eh, should have gone with Grammarly but was late on that. Hehe... published on Christmas.