History of the Newspaper
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The English Newspaper had its start in late February of 2012, when Tommy60, the main 创建者 of the paper, found a well-known Russian Newspaper administrator, Les_Alterman, in a 疯狂思维空间互夺军旗战斗. After discussing the possibility and his willingness to start a newspaper in the game's second most popular 语言, Tommy made an article about how some 玩家 had come to find 3D坦克 over the past few years. He sent the article to Bruce Lunga, the English community manager of the time, who approved it and found assigned conanthedestroyer to the role of editor. The two were joined by a now inactive 玩家, who went by the name of cablaz. A few weeks of collaborative planning, and a few days of writing later, and the first Newspaper was written, designed, and published, with contests and everything.
Strangely, if it really came down to it, the actual creation of Newspaper sprouted most probably from envy. Just a couple of glances from the members of the English Community at the Russians would see the activity of the Russian Newspaper and its popularity amongst the community. Of course, if you had asked them six months before when Bruce had barely started his immense work in the community, not many people would have seen a newspaper forthcoming. But, indeed, with the new community manager keen to get as much as he could started, the newspaper was quickly planned, and put into action.
The first issue of the Newspaper was a great hit. The avid readers of the community delved into some fantastic pieces of writing, including a couple of interesting interviews with two top English 玩家 of the time, Koolwalky and Contaminated. With a top-notch design from Les_Alterman covering the very first MT, the newspaper had well and truly begun.
Bruce soon realized the importance of getting a couple more writers involved. Four had too much brunt to carry. After a discussion in their Skype 聊天, the well-known faces of chriswu and Lhamster were suggested and unanimously voted in to join the 团队 of reporters. Chriswu immediately rose to one of the greatest reporters with some absolutely top-quality writings in his first two issues, including a couple of world-class stories such as his "Secret of the 失落神庙". The readers of the newspaper were becoming more and more impressed, with fondness in particular growing for Les's fantastic designs.
In case the newspaper was turning too much into a "弹匣", skitee decided to start up a 每周 update on the progress of the 3D坦克 World Cup, which was going on at the time. Some 其他 interactive 活动 started up including the Editorials and the well-received 军团 Logo Contest, which got almost all of the 军团 in the English Community involved - obviously bringing up the interest of the paper. Another contest of 史诗 proportions, the "Designer of 3D坦克", posted in Issue 4, brought in a staggering 高等级 of quality entries and was won by dimmmmy who came in to join the 3D坦克 Designer's 团队 for a very short time.
不久，报纸的一个重大活动就要发生。Les_Alterman逐渐将权力从他早期的管理角色中交接出去，他回去与俄罗斯人合作，让Conan接管老板职位；这种状态持续了过去的几年。出色的设计师Chris接手了主要主题的创作，他也做得相当出色。
Another addition would be joining to seriously bolster content in a couple of issues, after cablaz had to quit his Reporter when he quit. An avid worker, Ranger7 would sometimes write nearly half of the articles in one issue - that's how much he wrote. In fact, the Reporter 团队 had to limit content published by each writer because he sometimes wrote so much that it was a bit of Ranger overkill!
一些较为长久的系列较早开始，其中包括受欢迎的 "如果英语社区是......" 以及受欢迎的比赛 "什么地图？"。过了两个问题，随着读者的增长和报纸文章数量的增加，柯南雇用了几名记者。熟练且细致的 ShadowVisions 以及... 嗯... 对，hogree 加入了团队。虽然我自己这么说，但那是做记者的好时光。报纸进展顺利，即使当时正在进行忙乱的平衡。在 skitee 一直覆盖的军团持续进行的情况下，报道了军团锦标赛决赛的评论，以及总是娱乐性十足的 2013 年预测，文章的产出不错，气氛也很好。
接下来的几个月中有几篇出色的文章，ShadowVisions 的《重新平衡购物指南》以风格展现了重新平衡后的 3D 坦克的全部内幕，而 skitee 的《曾经的地图》在第 9 期中赢得了赞誉，详细而愉快地展示了古代的地图！与此同时，团队中不断出现新成员，已经退役的记者已经为几个期刊报道，还有一位新的优秀设计师雾-LIGHT 接手了主要话题，因为 chriswu 离开了团队。与此同时，ShadowVisions 推荐的新的勤奋记者 loktinho 也加入了进来。
接下来一个月对团队来说稍微有些多事。首先，它是四月。因此，Lham决定为这个场合尝试一个愚人节的恶作剧。声称英语和德国社区即将关闭，连同报社也停业，结果意外顺利，主要是因为Bruce加入了关于此事的“确认”信息。在一个不那么轻松的消息上，Visi病得很严重，传奇记者Skitee辞职，而Tommy60因现实生活冲突暂时被移除。随着记者的急剧短缺，Conan发布了招募新记者的呼吁。他的确被听到了，下一个月就有5名新记者被接受加入团队。
These five reporters were the smart jokjinari, the always-entertaining GoldRock, the light-hearted character of SwagBoy11, the consistent Valletta, and the meticulous Selena12121, bringing a new dimension to the writing of the newspaper. They didn't take long to warm up with GoldRock producing one of the most humorous articles of all time in "The 10 Commandments of 3D坦克" among the entertaining works that the new Reporters would produce over the next few months.
Little would change in the next couple of months. Stand-out moments included the beginning of the series of "In the Beginning, 3D坦克" which would eventually become the longest series to date, the first "Ultimate Guide" - to 磁力炮 and the addition of Raphael2 as a writer for the French readers. Soon, he would become a famous English reporter who was known for always providing an entertaining article, no matter what. On top of this, Lhamster was "promoted" to a Designer's 职务 and took over doing the Main Topics after 雾-Light had to quit.
A number of well-known new faces were soon to bumper up the 团队 once again. After a few less welcome 活动 which culminated in GoldRock and Selena12121 being removed from the 团队 - at least, temporarily - the search for new reporters began again and 5 new faces of differing influence were added. The five new ones, this time, were the artistic ArchangeI, the diligent Vikingsrall, the humorous Fjelstad1678, the helpful hithere1, and the receptive aojsd. Each would take on different degrees of roles in the 未来世界 of the Newspaper, with Vikingsrall's interviews, Fjelstad's stories and ArchangeI's creations catching the eye in particular.
It was around this time that the Arabic newspaper started as well, with MisterGeneral and 6B6B (now JL6H) taking main responsibility for the running of Arabic articles for the vast Arabic playerbase. There were more stand-out articles as both sets of new reporters settled in in different degrees. Especially eye-catching were Valletta's last episode of "The 危机", which got great feedback, hogree's "Mastering the 3D坦克键盘" detailing different set of available 键盘控制 for 玩家, and the ending of Jokjinari's long series detailing the life of a young boy who got involved with the 3D坦克 developers in real life!
It was now March 2014. The Newspaper was moving along nicely, but a change was set to happen. As a test, 3D坦克 moved the newspaper onto the homepage, and Monthly issues ended. The articles would be published separately at any time and posted on the front page. It was risky - a risk that didn't pay off. Although some great articles were published on the front page, such as the returned GoldRock's detailed guide on 经验值战斗 and hogree's guide on the same subject. But there were just not enough articles, and to say it didn't succeed is an understatement.
Thankfully, the newspaper moved back to the Press 论坛 to happy faces in June on one of its most well-viewed issues. Soon after came the 公告 of four new reporters to 帮助 move it back along. After many applications were sent through for the job, the four chosen were the extremely experienced MadDog21, the "turns-out-he-was-a-good-cherry" (inside joke) kirby2008, the 跑酷-mad williew and the procrastinator Fen-Harel. Nonetheless, he is still a good writer. :P Along with these four came along the face of MrAngel (now Law-Enforcer) to 帮助 with the Arabic newspaper.
The next few months were golden months for the newspaper. With possibly one of the most successful series of all time in the newspaper, Kirby's Comparison Series beginning, along with GoldRock's "What to Mount on" Series and the always-funny "The 独裁者" - it meant that the readers were definitely not going to be let down with the articles!
Three more reporters would be added soon to keep the fresh writing coming in - the precise Remaine, the sprightly Kevred, and the knowledgeable Thekillerpenguin adding to the bunch of reporters writing. And so, the newspaper continues on. Conan's still here, Lham's still here, we're all still here - and we'll try to be here producing entertaining and useful articles for as long as we can!
Amateur Writing was introduced in 2015/2016
In Fall of 2018: The Newspaper introduced Guest Writers, some shining stars that had performed particularly well in writing endeavors such as writing contests, including the mega contest "Write for the 3D坦克 Newspaper引入这里以及在Hippin_in_Hawaii中作为Tankiverse的故事大师.
Between Jan - Feb 2019: The Newspaper grew dormant and teased some large changes coming to the Newspaper. Such changes were announced in 2019 January on the论坛主题and视频周报 202这包括普通每周文章相较于特殊和报纸问题的优先级安排。不幸的是，在这个时候，报纸关闭了其他语言的报纸。
In March through the Summer of 2019: Was a lot quieter - the Newspaper released two hot contests, the Ultimate Guide Maker and the 每周 Question series, but after that, it was much quieter. If I recall correctly, Vikingsrallentando left sometime during the summer, and then Hex himself became administrator alongside Flexoo
Between Summer - Winter 2019: Following that time, some rising stars from the AWS (no self plugging intended) Tidebreaker, pythor20000 (Pythor), and Person_Random, gradually joined the 等级 of the reporters during the course of that time. This new blood led to a revival for the Newspaper, allowing them to create a Halloween and NY 2020 Issue. Towards the end of the year, Hex retired, allowing kaisdf to step up as administrator.
在2020年1月至3月期间：尽管Flexoo在年初离开，报纸再次迎来了复兴——团队获得了一位富有成效和创新的记者Sacrifice，并重新推出了法国报纸，这是一份由记者老兵Regency运营的新视角和蓬勃发展的报纸。
2020年4月至夏季：随着COVID-19疫情的全面爆发，报纸的生产力显著提升——一支年轻的团队不断推出文章，进行改革，最终在3D坦克11岁生日之际出版了一期特别刊。
从2020年秋季到冬季：报纸继续借助疫情带来的强大潮汐势头，推出万圣节和新年特刊。
在2021年：新的一年为报纸的领导层带来了新面孔，Person_Random，以及两位新记者——EN队的Venerable和法国记者brother_of_pro。
截至2021年春季：随着Random的创新以及新的法国报纸经理Creative 队长的加入，该报纸在3月份与Competitor initiative的Contests 团队进行了合作。接下来的一个月，他们在早期成功的基础上推出了一期幽默的愚人节特刊。随着新人增强了团队的实力，以及众多项目和其他在建设中的努力，该报纸将继续创新，带来新鲜出炉的娱乐文章！
Unfortunately today, the Newspaper has been discontinued. No new issues are being written, but 玩家 can still read archives and old issues.