Tanki Online - My Journey

[Lose 881]

I've noticed a lot of people are doing these "Road to Legend" stories, but since I'll never get to Legend I'll just post this.

 

Lose's Journey Through Tanki Online

 

Alright. So it starts a really long time ago. Probably about 6 years ago...? I don't know, I'm bad with dates. Anyways, this was before the major graphics update. I had found Tanki through my friend who played it, and my brother and I made our first account. We though we were hilarious, and we named it something along the lines of:

 

Chicken-Butt

 

I know. Comedy. Anyways, we made this account and I mostly played on it as he was about 5. Eventually we forgot the password, so we made another account. Wanna guess what this one was called?

 

Something along the lines of:

Cow_Butt

 

We were comedians. Freaking comedians. Anyways, eventually that account flopped too and I gave up on having a shared account. At the time, I was playing this fun game on miniclip.com called "Monster Trucks 3D". This will become useful later on. So I created my first account, and I got to the whopping rank of Sergeant-Major; then my brother gained access to my account, somehow changed the password, and it got lost forever. I was crushed. But my spirit wasn't completely gone.

 

I later on created my highest-ranking account to date. I loved saying the word "the" like a baby, A.K.A "da". My favorite god was Zeus. My favorite game was Monster Trucks 360. Here comes the holy account, . If you look it up now, you can see it's been long abandoned. My K/D was abysmal. I wasn't a mult; I was just inexperienced. You might be thinking:

 

You said this is your highest ranking account? And it's only Warrant Officer 5?

 

Yep, you read that right. My highest ranking account on this game is Warrant Officer 5. It embarrasses me slightly. Anyways, I had some really good friends. Some of which were @elong1212, @bluetornado101, and . I played with them up the ranks, until I fell inactive. Then I forgot the password. No sadness for a game had compared to this.

 

I still persisted, and I made the account with this name, dead serious: . This account was planned to go to the highest rank in the game at the time, Generalissimo. I kept on playing, and I even hooked up the account to my mom's email. I went inactive again; something I seem to do a lot. I forgot the password. Another thing I do a lot. At first, I forgot I had hooked it up to my mom's email. I was devastated again. This game was, and is, like a rollercoaster of emotions. 

 

This next part I like to call

The Me-Being-Not-Smart-For-A-Whole-Year-Part

 

You thought 8 accounts was a lot? Hah. Amateur.

 

I believed my mom would remember that I had an account password saved. While I was "waiting", I decided to start a new account. I created it, wrote down the name and password on a piece of paper, made it to Master Corporal, and then gave up on it for "taking too long." This process would take about half an hour only. So I'd make another new account, and another, and another, and another. Some of them I would remember, such as , an account dedicated to Hornet and Railgun. Again, another completely "serious" name. Anyways, I did this cycle a LOT. I didn't create just 10 accounts. Not 20. Not even 50 accounts. I did not even create 100 accounts. I created more. I created over TWO HUNDRED accounts over the course of a year and a bit, all with different names and passwords. All written on 2 pieces of paper. 

 

But then guess what? Yep. I lost BOTH of the papers. But it wasn't my fault! My mom threw them away whilst cleaning up. I actually cried this time. You might think I stopped playing? Nope! I kept on playing. I started my new "project" account, , where I used only the hunter hull. This was before all the new overdrives and changes to hulls, but still fairly recent. When I went inactive on Tanki for personal reasons, I just left that account. I needed something new.

 

The Forum

 

This was when the craze of simple names was a thing. I was typing in random names and I discovered "Lose" wasn't taken. This account was born. I decided to only use my favorite combo, Wasp and Railgun. A bad choice, but it worked well at first. I was actually managing to keep my K/D over 1.00. I was having fun, and making new friends. Then I looked at the forum.

 

I had been reading the forum while I was bored ever since my daZEUS360 account. It was time to make my own. So I set up my account and my first post was me being mad that I was close to ranking up but then the server restart. I read some stories in the Amateur Writing Section, and was shocked when the feedback wasn't completely all negative. Around this time, multiple people asked me if I wanted to sell my name. My answer was, and always will be no. Back to the forum, I kept on writing stories, getting better and better. I fell inactive on the actual game, focusing on the forum. Eventually I wrote the poem Drown, which was my most emotional piece to date. Now I am here writing this.

 

This has been my journey through Tanki Online. I hope you enjoyed reading this, stay tuned for more stories.

 

I know this is a different writing style than I usually write in, I am experimenting at the moment. Tell me what you think!

 

 

-Lose

 

[Tidebreaker 1,669]

Edits:

This is your story - editing it would be a crime (for me, at least).

 

Approved.

 

Let's be honest, how many of us go down that same road of accounts? I know I did for sure, but my rookie numbers don't even come close to the amount you pulled off in that year. 200 is an insane amount.

I really liked your approach to this kind of story - you kept it simple and sweet, whereas I would've just hit you with a text wall.  The revelation at the end that talks about how you came to the forum was very satisfying for me as well. Thanks to this mini-essay, I feel like I know you a lot better now than previously.

And yes, I do like the style that you adopted! Can't wait to see what you produce next!

[Person_Random 4,991]

Lovely story!  I enjoyed it thoroughly and loved all the humor inside there.  The piece has a great, light-hearted tone that I find hilarious.  Just a quick question though, are there any details that you remember about your previous accounts, like equipment and game modes you like?  You could add those in to lengthen your story.  I enjoyed your version of your discovery of the forum.  Each person's story has unique and hilarious bits which I yearn to hear.  Overall, nice work, can't wait for another piece!

[Lose 881]

 

Edits:

This is your story - editing it would be a crime (for me, at least).

 

Approved.

 

Let's be honest, how many of us go down that same road of accounts? I know I did for sure, but my rookie numbers don't even come close to the amount you pulled off in that year. 200 is an insane amount.

I really liked your approach to this kind of story - you kept it simple and sweet, whereas I would've just hit you with a text wall.  The revelation at the end that talks about how you came to the forum was very satisfying for me as well. Thanks to this mini-essay, I feel like I know you a lot better now than previously.

And yes, I do like the style that you adopted! Can't wait to see what you produce next!

 

Thanks for the feedback! I'll try experimenting with this style of writing more. And yep, 200 accounts is quite a few.

 

 

Lovely story!  I enjoyed it thoroughly and loved all the humor inside there.  The piece has a great, light-hearted tone that I find hilarious.  Just a quick question though, are there any details that you remember about your previous accounts, like equipment and game modes you like?  You could add those in to lengthen your story.  I enjoyed your version of your discovery of the forum.  Each person's story has unique and hilarious bits which I yearn to hear.  Overall, nice work, can't wait for another piece!

One thing I remember was that on thE-TaNkI-OnLiNe_pRo, I was trying to get all the achievements, first by getting 10,000 exp on each turret. It didn't work out in the end. Thanks for feedback!