Because shafts are being incrementally edged out of Tanki.  Look at the maps.  Range is becoming removed from Tanki, over and over.  Long range maps are being constantly nerfed.  The new maps and everything they do on redos is to allow medium range and melee units to easily traverse without fear of long range units, especially shafts.   Hazel took over dev years ago, and ever since, it has been turned into a brawl.   Ask why.  It's simple. Drugs.  Supplies are the bane of Tanki.  Rather than creating other money earning opportunities, they turned the game into an addicts paradise.  You have to get close to really be effective, AND damage and health are so tweaked now that without using supplies, you'll barely get by 30 seconds in an engagement.  Shafts were great ways to keep druggers in check.  They kept hard charging brutes from getting around maps with impunity.  So, damage nerfed, reload nerfed, site radius in scope narrowed (effectively nerfed, keeps campers from effective over watch of a wider area.  It was never to make precise shots).  Why can Magnums move and fire but shafts cannot?  Same. If they could, they'd get rid of shafts.  Too many players dumped tons of money into them to just nix them.   This was the biggest thread in the forums for years.  People spent countless hours talking about effective game play, how to counter in close fighters, etc.  Nothing now.  there is a reason for that.  Tanki is no longer, in any way, any fashion, the great game it once was.  It is now a ceaseless drug addled knock down drag them out.  No real strategy, no real sense of a fight, just who has "more buff drone" with drugs.   Don't even bother asking why anymore about anything related to shaft.  Love the game play, try hard, ignoree everyone else, and know that when you play shaft, you're on your own, always, even on a team.

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Declined Hey, according to the rules, we don't accept suggestions regarding changes to the values or drop rates of Gold Boxes.

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Right now many players are simply ignoring goldbox drops because it's not worth going for  1000 crystals. Increasing the value to 10.000 crys for goldboxes and 25-50.000crys for mega gold would bring back the excitement of going for the gold