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Congratulations to BrotherLucias from War Thunder for receiving first place on our first January Puzzle! The correct answer to the first puzzle was: "T"

We had 17 participants for our first puzzle; 15 people got a good answer:

BrotherLucias (1st), Arical (2nd), Quagon (3rd), Rezzfall (4th), XCDaboyo (5th), Cardnim (6th), Wolvenboy (7th), MrRolandos (8th), Dreamus (9th), Cracklez (10th), Moonbeams (11th), MelonyGranger (12th), WolfSpider (13th), HowlFromtheshadow (14th), PhilvP (15th)

Each week the puzzle's get a little bit harder, so it is anyone's game.

The second round has begun; click the link below to participate. Who will get the answer right this time?

Link to forum: http://taw.net/forums/p/26020/121936.aspx#121936

Happy Puzzling :) 

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Hey everyone,

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year and the holidays that come with it. A new year also comes with a new Forum Event. This month it will be brain teasers from our newest event member: loginner.

The event will last the entire month of January. Each week there will be a new puzzle, so get your puzzle instinct on and let's go. Everyone can join our forum event :)

Link to forum: http://taw.net/forums/p/26020/121936.aspx#121936

Rules:

1. IMPORTANT!: the forum post is open, but don’t post any answer in it, send your answer to loginner@taw.net if you want to join.

2. The correct answer will be put on the forum after the event is over.

3. Every member is welcome to submit an answer.

4. Every week starts a new puzzle, so be sure be on the look out each week!

The winner will be announced at the end of the week.

Happy puzzle times!

Greetings everyone!

We had a great turn out for karaoke night and with a special thanks to HafniumG for coming to help out as a DJ and will be getting a special surprise later for that. Now, let's get going on our tour.

We have a wonderful game night coming soon on January 12th. We will be playing Business tour, the game night will start at 20:00 CET/1:00pm CDT give or take 5 minutes for people to stop singing “Take Me Home Country Roads,” and remember everyone is invited to attend.

Finally, everyone please feel free to tell me how your winter break is going or as gone?

I’ll be waiting to see you all at the game night. 😊

SOCOP now has openings for the positions of…..

• PIA Support (2 NA, 2 EU)
• TAW Radio (DJ)
• Video Development.

If you enjoy working with a great group of motivated and talented individuals, like the prospect of being able to work with members from all over TAW. Maybe this is the Division for you.

SOCOP can offer you flexibility, limited mandatories, as well as, a great way to contribute to TAW. This is not to say that we do not work here, far from it. Many of the positions here in SOCOP require high levels of dedication, attention to details, time management and a clear desire to serve our community behind the scenes.

If you would like a change, and you think you have a skill set to fill one of our available positions, please don't hesitate to contact any of SOCOP'S Command Staff for more information or to set up a personal interview.

Division Commander: COL. albenji 

Division Officer: MGN. FireTAS

SOCOP Battalion

Commanding Officer   Capt.Mrs.Heidebitt 

Executive Officer  1Lt. MrRolandos

Staff Officer TBA 

Radio Battalion

Commanding Officer MGN. VERMGUY

Executive Officer Col. Akai

Welcome

Hello all and  welcome to radios Holiday Newsletter. We ask you to pull up a chair next to the fire and savor our Holiday Newsletter.

New Station New Numbers

Here at TAW Radio we are very happy to see our dedicated fans tune into their favorite radio station. As we have made the transition to a new radio platform, we are happy to report increased listenership and a wide set of programs to cater to a diverse taste of listenership. Here are some quick facts showing your dedication. Since our launch in November 19th 2018, we have had over 500 unique listeners in USA and over 400 in Canada. The most active listeners we've had at one given time is 24 listeners! These numbers show our increased viewership and shows us that TAW radio is booming. As always we would like this number to increase, but we are happy to see your continued support in our station. 

Promotions and Transfers

Being an active radio station means having lots of change to keep up with the demand of our active listenership. It is our pleasure to congratulate the following members on their promotions in [SOCOP 2].

DJVERM [SOCOP 2CO][General Manager]

AKAI [SOCOP 2xO][Station Manager]

QuantumDEF [SOCOP 2SO] [HR Management]

Next we would like to recognize the transfer of members into SOCOP 2 as new DJ's 

Druxus

We would like to welcome Druxus our newest DJ to TAW Radio. Druxus is an NA DJ that specializes in country music. Before he transferred to radio, Druxus was a part of Video Development. Catch his Hot Country Show Wednesday evenings 9-11 EST.
Hoorah to all of our promoted officers and transfers this month. If you see any of these members in channel feel free to congratulate them with a Hoorah or celebratory kick of your own as we welcome them into our ever expanding team.

Donations

Similar to other battalions, TAW radio has operating fees similar to server fees and cannot run on just hard work alone. If you enjoy the services our excellent DJ's provide through their talk shows, prize giveaways, and other services, please consider donating a little to help radio continue to prosper.  

Click here for the link to help us continue to grow
Community Outreach, Let your voice be heard
As of this holiday newsletter radio has one survey out. This survey is designed to improve your TAW radio experience and offer options for the community to utilize Radio to its maximum capabilities
 Our  survey is on the radio website and serves as a feedback form for our loyal listeners to fill out and give us insight on how they believe we can improve radio to best suit their needs. This survey has a large impact on the music that is played and content that is delivered to you.  Every single comment is recorded and taken into consideration by our station managers and other support staff. If there is anything that you would like changed to make radio better suit your needs, be a part of the change you wish to see and fill out the survey today.
The survey link can be found HERE or on the TAW radio Website HERE

In The Works

Below is a list of exciting programing we are planning to release in the New Year!!
1. Interviews with the Core Commanders
2. Corp listener Challenge for prize giveaways
3. Progression to interviews
And much more to come

I Hope you enjoyed our newsletter for this holiday season. We are very thankful for your continued support and viewership. We wish you all a happy holidays and cannot wait to unveil our new year of programing.
Until next time
QuantumDEF [SOCOP 2SO]

                                                                                                                                                                                             

Hey guys!

Social Operations (SOCOP) is currently looking for active members who would be interested in taking over a position as PIA liaison.
We are also still looking for someone to join our Video Development and help IrishPanda out! If you are good with social media and would like to manage our social media pages, you are welcome too!

If you decide to transfer, your duties will include but not be limited to assisting Army divisions with their social media output as well as helping them organize events.

You will be working closely with the divisions (acting) PIA and also help finding a suitable member for this position if a division doesn't have the PIA position filled.

For more detailed information, you can always contact us on Teamspeak, for further questions. Please email MrRolandos@taw.net and MrsHeidebitt@taw.net

Thank you and have a good one!

MrR and MrsS [SOCOP XO & CO]

This holiday season, SOCOP would like to introduce a new event! The catch is… the event will take place on the TAW forums.

So as a warm up for (hopeful) future monthly events, we have decided to run a fishing event over the holidays starting from 12/13/18 until 1/4/19. The goal is to provide members a fun activity to do over the holiday break.

The rules are simple:

1. Play any game in which you can fish (does not have to be a TAW game)

2. Take a screenshot of your fish showing Preferably with the it’s fish’s weight and post it on the event forum - http://taw.net/forums/t/25921.aspx

3. Only one fish may be submitted for your entry

   • If you wish to submit a second better fish, please note such in your post.

If your game does not allow for weight to be shown, we encourage you to participate as well. We will have a second winner decided for those as well.

Also, if you choose to fish in real life, be my guest. Please post this screenshot on the thread, but be warned… they may show up on Facebook later XP.

Winners will be announced the following Saturday, January 5th. The reward is a “great job”, but this is for fun to give people something to do over the break.

Any questions can be directed to me at MelonyGranger@taw.net or come visit contact me in the Events channel of SOCOP. Have fun and I shall be tossing out a fish in the coming weeks.

P.S. We are hoping to turn these types of forum events into a monthly activity, so your feedback is essential!

 The invitation is open to everyone, feel free to invite a friend

                                                                                                                                                                                             

Hey guys!

Social Operations (SOCOP) is currently looking for active members who would be interested in taking over a position as PIA liaison.
We are also still looking for someone to join our Video Development and help IrishPanda out! and if you want to become a Radio DJ, that's always possible, always good to expand our roster! ;)

If you decide to transfer, your duties will include but not be limited to assisting Army divisions with their social media output as well as helping them organize events.

You will be working closely with the divisions (acting) PIA and also help finding a suitable member for this position if a division doesn't have the PIA position filled.

For more detailed information, you can always contact us on Teamspeak, for further questions. Please email MrRolandos@taw.net and MrsHeidebitt@taw.net

Thank you and have a good one!

MrR and MrS [SOCOP XO & CO]

Do you like making gameplay videos, or wish to learn how to play around in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas and/or Adobe After Effects like a pro? Then SOCOP Video Development branch is where you need to run to!

SOCOP is now actively looking for new Experienced  Video Developers to strengthen our ranks and spread the workload, and also increase output to the Taw Gaming Channel on Youtube! We also assist the various content creators of TAW in creating compelling content for their respective Division Youtube channels! Fun right? Yes sir, that is correct!

If you are interested then look below for basic requirements for applying:

• Basic knowledge in Adobe Photoshop or GIMP (free Photoshop)

• Basic knowledge in Adobe Premiere (preferred) or Sony Vegas

• Know or willing to learn basic theory in how to create content for social media & youtube

• Outgoing and friendly and not afraid to spend time to teach & assist members

• Willing and motivated to work hard on projects & learn new techniques to always grow as a video developer

• Age 17+ required

What we can give you:

• A boatload of experience & knowledge in a field growing more and more important in today’s world!

• A fun atmosphere to work in!

• Flexible hours and deadlines to make the creative process stay in the forefront

• A great opportunity to make a lot of new friends in SOCOP and also meet all the PIAs from the different divisions and battalions

If this sounds interesting to you, but you have some questions, then feel free to ask IrishPanda [SOCOP] at IrishPanda@taw.net !

Any applications can be sent to Albenji [SOCOP DC] at Albenji@TAW.net  OR  FireTAS [SOCOP DO] at FireTAS@TAW.net !  Person to person interview in TS required.

We all look forward to hearing from you great folks in TAW !

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year and as everyone loves Christmas music, our next TeamSpeak event will be a Christmas Karaoke on Saturday, 8 December at 9:00 PM GMT or 3:00 PM CT.

Let it go and hear the angels sing or enact a silent night? Either way be sure to relax by the digital fire and enjoy some hot chocolate! The invitation is open to everyone, feel free to invite a friend.😊

To request a song early so we have things ready when the time comes to hear the bells ring and you sing along with TAW radio.

All TAW wants for Christmas is you!

Joyful SOCOP Team

SOCOP is pleased to reopen the doors to the Video Development Dept. once more. This Dept. has been reorganized and at it's head a very talented individual named IrishPanda and he is ready get started. IrishPanda has already started on the new 2019 TAW video intro and outro  and we look forward to seeing this after the holidays.

Please do not hesitate to contact him at IrishPanda@taw.net. or Visit him in Teamspeak SOCOP DIV./Video Development channel.

For Video submissions and other requests click HERE

For Video Dept. introduction and guide please click HERE

Things we can make for you

- Divisional/battalion wide intros

- Gameplay videos

- Gameplay videos w/commentary

- Live stream setups

- Personal TAW intros (Will not be made if intended for personal profit)

- Promotional TAW Division Videos

- Promotional TAW Battalion Videos

- Useful effects

- GIF's

- Animated Name effects

- General all purpose effects

- Small outro segments

- Main promotional TAW videos

What you will not be allowed to do

- Content made for profit

- Content against TAW's Policies & Code of Ethics

- Self promoting videos (videos for personal channels monetized or not)

- Rude/disturbing videos

- Copyright infringement (this includes using copyrighted material)

- Unofficial TAW Videos (as in videos of moonlighting with other gaming communities or groups)

- Immature and/or swearing in commentary content

Ah Black Friday, the time of year where people go absolutely insane over buying gifts for Christmas at amazing sale prices.

This coming weekend, the TAW Shop is happy to bring you some safer shopping.  The only thing you need to arm yourself with is your credit card because we're about to bring you a dangerously great deal that you won't want to miss out on.

PROMO:15% Off Everything In The Shop

WHEN: November 23 - 25th

PROMO CODE: CYBER18

Ok, so here's what you gotta do. Fill in our Verification Form and give us the details of your order. Once we can verify your order, we'll issue you a pretty sweet looking Swagster Tab on your TAW dossier!

Now You're not done yet.  We have a special event going on this year again.  If you purchase from the TAW Shop from November 23rd - 26th, fill out the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Form and you'll receive the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Tab for your dossier aswell once your order has been confirmed.

So get ready to save & shop at the TAW Shop this weekend!  And yes, we do have Ugly Christmas Sweaters Available on both NA and EU.

What's TAW 3.0?  This is the tag line we call our new website platform.  Some of you may remember the old brown and black pages.  That, in theory, was 1.0.  Our current website is 2.0.  The next platform is 3.0.

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Currently working to document features of the current development version.

Client side has a base for the whole system done, but it's missing all features for user and unit management. Currently inergy is trying to finish UI designs for missing pages and we'll most likely do a small rewrite on UI layer when those designs are done. Client side development could be started before designs, it would mostly mean we'll just have to do slight rewrite later on UI components.

On the server side, we have most of the required features done for MVP version if not all. Current task for me has been to document server features properly and to test those so we would know exact state of this side but this is not finished yet, actually there is still quite a lot to document and test. I'm progressing quite slowly due to not finding a proper way to do this, and also as I'm more of a person who prefers on doing stuff instead of writing documents(yes, document are quite important but I'm overall terrible in writing anything else than code). 

We have few other members in DEVOP and another member came to me few days ago asking if he could help, but I'm finding tasking this right now quite difficult. We have few members with a will to help but I can't come up with anything, mostly due to their experience with used languages/libraries are not that good. We could give them some smaller tasks when we continue development but for now it would be quite difficult for them to read code they might not understand and document it.

To summary, next on client side is creating missing UI designs, and finishing documenting on server side. After these are done, we would need to start implementing features on client side and make possible fixes on server features as those show up during documenting and/or client development.

Hey Everyone

Social Operations (SOCOP) is currently looking for active members who would be interested in taking over a position as PIA liaison.

If you decide to transfer, your duties will include but not be limited to assisting Army divisions with their social media output as well as helping them organize events.

You will be working closely with the divisions (acting) PIA and also help finding a suitable member for this position if a division doesn't have the PIA position filled.

For more detailed information, please feel free to speak to us on teamspeak or an email: MrsHeidebitt@taw.net

Thank you and have a good one!

Social Operations

So much talk about recruiting and getting new members but I believe a wildly UNDERUSED resource is the PIA/SOCOP system.  PIA's now have complete and unfettered access to post on ALL of TAW's social media platforms to bring new members in.

Posting in our blogs and forums are important too but our public reach is much more substantial on our social media platforms.  Please feel free to contact SOCOP if directions or information is needed to accomplish this. 

PIA's can and should be using all media platforms for our community.  We're here to support your growth.