When Do Gold Boxes Really Fall?

[r_whyl0 9]

Everyone Wants to catch a Gold Box Every Now And Then

 

For some players, there's no other reason to play.  They study how the Gold works, tactics to give them an advantage, and where they drop most frequently.  Then they play for hours, waiting for that Thirty-second event that stops All the Killing of every tanker on the battlefield.

 

And, often, after hours of fruitless goldhunting, they got to the battle chat and start typing...

 

"THAT PHRASE".

 

I must be very careful what and how I write concerning "THAT PHRASE".  It is my biggest Tanki Pet Hate, without question.  I get so irritated when some Tanker types it, I often leave for the sake of politeness.

 

GOLD PLS ADMIN.

 

Honestly,  With all the resources that Tanki has provided to give information about the Gold Box and what makes it drop, there really isn't a reason to be typing "THAT PHRASE".

 

In case you didn't know, "THAT PHRASE" is typed by tanks requesting that the administrator manually drop the Gold Box.

 

Experienced goldhunters are scratching their heads.

 

Tanki has been writing and releasing entire articles and videos screaming THE GOLD BOX CANNOT BE DROPPED MANUALLY for quite some time now, yet many still beg the mythical administrator to manually drop the Gold.

 

I remember when I used to type "THAT PHRASE".

 

I was enlightened by a neighbour and fellow tanker, my good friend Karamf, who told me bluntly to step back and use the ol' noggin for a second.  "At any given moment," He said, "there are about fifty thousand players on Tanki, playing an average of six thousand battles.  Tanki online needs to make money to stay in business, so they must limit the number of employees they have in order to turn a profit.  Hire too many workers, pay to much in wages, make no money."  He then gave me this weird grin and asked, "Do you honestly think that Tanki has six thousand people whose jobs are simply to drop the Gold Box?"

 

My cheeks been as red as a beet, because hE was laughing, when he makes sense.

 

The very idea of the "gold pls admin" thing is a tad on the silly side.  I suppose some envision an unseen being floating in the clouds over their map with nothing better to do than wait for someone to request the Gold Box, prompting him/her/whatever it is to mash a button labelled DROP THE GOLD BOX.

 

I realize that the tankers who type this simply don't understand how the Gold Box works, and that's why I'm writing this.  I am certainly not judging you to be a Bad Person for thinking that an administrator, a hacker, or any other tanker can drop a Gold.  It's easy to think, "The people are in charge of the game, so they must be able to drop them manually!"  Remember, I used to think the same thing.

 

Back in the olden days, Golds were dropped when battle funds reached 700 crystals.  Now they can drop at any battle fund size, and the odds of a drop are 1 in 7000.  That means the odds of a Gold dropping are pretty high when your battle's fund reaches 7000 crystals.  That, of course, does not mean that it will drop immediately at the 7000 crystals mark, just as you don't have to buy 10 million tickets to win the lottery.  But it sure helps.

 

I also want to mention that the YouTube videos of tankers who appear to manually drop Golds are very, very fake.  They were carefully crafted by animators who had quite a bit of time on their hands.

 

 

If you, the reader, happen to be an administrator, feel free to jump in and back me up on this.  All the rest of you, please keep I mind that the penalty for impersonating an administrator is massive.

 

Edited July 8, 2015 by r_whyl0

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