Turning ten years old next year, the tsikot community has evolved from a simple, free-script forum composed only of hundreds of members to be the largest online community of Filipino car enthusiasts here and abroad. It has become more than a forum, but a breathing and growing community which serve as a comfotable vehicle for car reviews, car-maintenance tips and troubleshooting, buy and sell classifieds and maybe just a venue to talk about anyhting under the sun.

It has weathered a lot of difficulties ranging from frequent downtimes and unstable servers to near extinction. However, mid-May 2011, Tsikot.com finally migrated to its own servers under its own domain, tsikot.com. A new dawn has broken with faster speed, better uptime and new features.

With renewed vigor, tsikot.com is rolling out a series of features and functions to further improve the Tsikot Experience. A community is more than just a bunch of posts threaded together, it is more. It is composed of its members who come in and go, who post or just lurk around. Each member is different and does different activities within the forums - asking around, giving help and tips, explaining automotive concepts, tagging threads, linking to valuable resources, posting informative images, etc.

Introducing Tsikot Cash (TCash) - the Tsikot.com's internal system of rewarding active members with each and everything they do in and for the community. TCash is a virtual point system that rewards members for their worthwhile activity like posting threads and how much they are read or liked, social groups they formed or joined, number of threads they have tagged, how many days they have been online, etc. Aside from the TCash that these active members accumulate, they will also earn different awards and achievements highlighting their contributions to the community. These activities, awards and achievements are all summarized here.

In short, the more a member contributes to the well-being of the community the more he will be rewarded with TCash which he can spend on the Tsikot market.

Announcing the opening of Tsikot Market (TMarket).

The Tsikot Market (TMarket) simply stated is the virtual market where members can use the Tcash they earned for additional features and functions like signatures, avatars, colored usernames and titles, and other priveleges. This in effect will be rewarding active members with distinction and individuality. Aside from these, they can also use the TCash for fun activities like betting on certain TBookie events, gifitng each other with virtual gifts, etc.

The Tsikot Peso (TPeso) on the other hand is Tsikot.com's virtual currency that will be used to procure advertising privileges within the active community like sticky threads, commercial signatures, premium banner space, etc. It will also be used for the eventually opening of Tsikot.com Merchandise Market where various tsikot items will be sold.