You will create a thread called an update thread. In a separate tab, go to THIS PAGE

Click New Topic in the upper right hand corner.



Fill it out as follows


*please write something in the box. It will not let you post if it is blank. You can edit it later!

Scroll down to the bottom and press post.



You have created your update page!!

Over the course of each week, you will put the links to all the TPE you earn into one single post in that thread (as you earn more TPE, you can keep editing and updating the same post for the week). Under the links, you will indicate how you want to "spend" that TPE and how you want to improve your player with those points. At the end of the week, an updater will come into the thread and verify that the links are valid, and they will transfer the updates that you have written for your player onto your player page for it to be put into the sim engine. At that point, they'll make a post in the thread saying "Updated!" and you'll start a new post as a reply to your Update Thread for the next week of TPE earning.

We highly suggest you use this tool to help you with your updates. It will walk you through the process.

Here is an example of a good update.

If you prefer to do it manually or if you have to edit your post, see here how to do that:

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Example Video
As shown in the written example, there are a few components of an update post:

First, the links themselves! Each time you earn TPE on the site, you will need to link to it in your update post for it to count. The updaters will check these links to ensure that all the earnings you're registering are valid and correct. In order to obtain the link to a specific post, you'll do as follows: right click the number in the top right-hand of the post (as shown here) and copy the link address.



You should be using the link to the specific post that earned you TPE. If it's an Activity Check or training, the direct links to your posts in those threads suffice. If it's from a point task, you'll need to wait for a claim thread such as this one to go up after it's been graded. Once the specific post for that PT has been created, you'll link to that particular post in your update thread.


The code to create a hyperlink like the ones in the example is as follows:




Otherwise, you can create the hyperlink by clicking this button on the text editor and filling out the prompt boxes.

Using hyperlinks will keep your updates clean and easy to follow.

As in the example post, each instance of TPE earned should have a hyperlink to the post where you earned it, the label of what that post was, and next to it, an indicator of how much TPE was earned.

The next part of the update post is the total!

As shown, always make sure to add up how much you've earned in that update post (so, for that whole week). You'll also want to add that to your current total to show what your new total for the end of the week will be.

The last part of the update post is the fun part - improving your player!

As shown in the example, you want to show a few things each time that you're improving an attribute: how much TPE you're putting into it, which attribute it is, and how it changes the attribute value (before and after). Remember, after your attributes pass a certain value (depending on your update scale), 1 TPE no longer equals an increase of 1 for your attributes! Make sure to follow your update scale in Step 1 when you're improving your attributes.

If you don't have enough TPE to raise an attribute to the next level, you can just bank any unused TPE. Just keep track of banked TPE somewhere in your update post.