Review [Issue 38] x5 Battle Funds - It's Raining Golds!

[mcmonkey25 717]

2nd August 2015. A date that will go down in TO history as the first time there were ever x5 battle funds, and what a day it was indeed! Golds were dropping every five minutes in large rank battles, battle funds were soaring over the 100k mark regularly, and a lot of regular Tanki players no-lifed the whole day, but it was worth it.

 

Personally, I think I had a pretty good day. I spent most of my time in Polygon XP/BP CPs as they seemed to be everywhere. The high increasing fund, along with the fact that I am actually good at these battles, meant that even in a first to 100 match, I was getting 4000 to 5000 crystals. My total haul for the day was just over 75k, a personal record, but what I really enjoyed, was of course the gold boxes! In the first hour I played, I managed to catch one, which is a rare occasion for me, but over the succeeding two hours, I added another three to that. And, as if I was happy enough with that, I couldn't resist going on late for an extra hour and a half, in which I caught an additional 4 gold boxes. For those of you who battle with me a lot, you will know I am a calamity when the gold box drops, owing to the fact I haven't yet been able to produce a gold box video for my channel. But that day, the golds were dropping so hard and fast, it was nearly impossible to not catch a few!

 

But what was the day like for everyone else? I spoke to a group of players who gave me there accounts of what happened on this incredible day.

 

Hi guys, so how well did you do on 2nd August?

 

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2nd August; well the start was good, the gold notifications were great, could really feel the x5 funds . They just kept on dropping all the time, 'siren siren siren'  :P

The battles were tougher as everyone had saved supplies up for this day but somehow I managed to win most of them . A little problem I saw was Sabotage and I bet many faced that problem; so that was five times more painful too . But overall if people played short 15 minute battles and they are good, I think they enjoyed the day too, like me ^_^ .

The golds were great too, picked up almost 20 of them in less than 2 hours 

After that just started a 999 minute battle which ended on server update with almost 300 minutes remaining . Around 70 Gold boxes dropped. Got a huge reward of 404k crystals .

 

On the 2nd of August, I was in a game in the map was Arena that was 5 hours long, the enemy team had my good friend . The fund got to 200k and gold boxes where falling every 5 - 10 minutes, I let my friend take them, my friend's team won and he got a nice reward of 40k while I was on the losing team and got 16k. I was in 1st place and would have received 20k however I finished 3rd due to me constantly having to take breaks.

The total amount earned on 02/08/15 was 20,000 I would have earned more however there was a lack of good battles and servers I like were all full and/or full of lag; this resulted in me logging off. The servers where people with my rank are, tend to be full almost every other day, yet server amounts have been reduced this means when large amounts of people come online we have a rather constant lag and sluggish play which ruined the x5 day.

 

@lukey0 - Note: Everything I talk about here is on my @Total_Drama07 account and not my @lukey0 account.

I started to play straight after server restart that day. I equipped my Hunter M2, Thunder M3 and Emerald and I was ready for battle and of course Gold hunting. I joined a Polygon CP as there was plenty of them that day. 15 minutes into that 30 minute game I caught my first gold of the day, and it all began from there. I ended up playing a total of about 10 hours and 15 minutes that day (Yes call me a no-lifer. :P) I managed to catch 9 Gold Boxes (not bad for a small M2 Hunter against giant Dictators everywhere) and made overall 77K crystals, not bad for a Lieutenant General and it definitely gave me the required crystals to buy my next kit purchase. 

Every battle I joined, no matter what mode, Gold Boxes constantly rained down the whole time, lets be honest it was like heaven for most. ;) Every battle also gave ridiculous rewards for small scores/effort put in. An example is I had 574 score and received 3208 crystals, not bad. I would normally only get 400-600. Every battle played you received an excellent reward whether you won or lost, it was more than normal.

 

@greyat

I played far more than usual during that day, earning a total of around 85k, as well as catching 6 gold boxes. Both of these figures stand as a personal high for me, and I will likely never surpass for a long time. A few standout moments for me were: 

• Catching the first gold box of the day
• Playing a series of productive Wasp-Fire battles with friends
• Getting my largest fund ever - 13k

 

It was great fun earning so many crystals and to have battles raining gold boxes, even though I unfortunately didn't get one. I mostly played Polygon XP/BP CP as the whole of the RU1 server was absolutely jam packed with those battles, when I could get onto it of course! Overall, I wouldn't say I did that well. Some of the battles created lasted a very long time, so that a high battle fund could be generated, but I rarely had enough time to finish one. Many people created private battles with friends, especially Fire and Wasp, in order to get high crystals funds and make golds drop.

 

Well, 2nd August was one day that we tankers loved! Everyone will remember it for a very, very long time.

Gold boxes were just raining on us! I collected almost 17+ gold boxes in just ONE DAY (I've never caught that many even in a week :P )
I think we probably all enjoyed it, no matter what rank, everyone had tons of fun, whether that was collecting gold boxes, earning funds, or just playing Wasp & Fire with our best friends. Let us also not forget those who let us take the gold boxes in the battles we played. We are thankful to all of them :P
Semyon told us, " It'll be one HELL OF A DAY!" and you know what, I think it was, in fact, better than that  :D

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Do you think x5 funds will ever come again? And if they did, would you do anything differently to what you did this time around?

 

It was a good day indeed . I hope such a day comes at least once every year even tough I fear that this will not happen again in the current version of TO. 

But if it does come again, then aside all the fun of the variety of battles, I rather play comparatively larger battles with my friends than playing alone in short / long battles as I observed that without playing with friends, every long battle is unsafe and may result unfairly. 

Hope It went great for all of Tanki.

 

Do I think they'll come again? I think so. 

What I'd do differently, would be to play smaller games so that there's less of a risk of wasting a lot of time and losing out big.

 

@lukey0

I believe x5 funds will come again; it was worked for by the players and not given for nothing. So far every Star Series Finals we have had the opportunity to get x5 funds, this time we achieved it.

If I could do something differently I might play a bit more? :lol: Or not waste so much time waiting for a good battle to show up.

Either way, even if this was a one-off thing, or something that happens again, it is certainly not an event to miss!

 

@greyat

x5 funds are the result of a huge event, so are unlikely to occur frequently. I doubt if there'll be one again this year. It's possible that they'll come once a year though. I would probably play less during the x5 funds if it ever happens again; I feel kind of bad, doing non-stop Tanki.

 

I do think x5 funds will come again in the future, although when? I'm not sure. If they did, I would wake up earlier and go and no-life in battles, play the whole day most likely - I was unfortunately quite busy on 2nd August though, which meant I missed out on it this time around  -_-

 

I think we have a 50/50 chance of the x5 funds coming back and even then not until a long time in the future. However, if they do, I'll play for a full 24 hours. Sadly last time, I only played around 8 hours :( . I'll also play with friends only, due to tankers taking my gold boxes :angry: , sometimes you're so close to one, and then someone just jumps on you...When you see someone else's name has taken the gold box, well, you need to rage quit for a time :D
I really enjoyed playing on this day, we tankers, never even dreamt of a day like this to come, but dreams come true.
We will all remember x5 battle funds, and lovely raining gold boxes for a very long time!

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So tankers, that was what a few players thought about the x5 funds day we have earlier this month. In my opinion, it won't be a one-off. Although it will be very rare, I still look forward to our next time with huge funds and constant golds, so that I can no-life once more!

 

And what did you think? Feel free to post your views of the day below and discuss whether we might see another x5 day again...

Edited January 7, 2018 by Hexed

[MrCommando 1,412]

Thanks for interviewing me B)  

Great answers from other tankers!

Edited August 14, 2015 by MrCommando

[magnaboy2 656]

I missed that day D:

But vacation is better then no-lifing anyways d:

[Supernatural 2,053]

I had to play most of the time on RU3 or RU2 because RU1 was full almost all he time. Yet I managed to find Poly CP XP/BPs on RU2, it was an awesome day. I caught... maybe 15-20 golds. And I won't say how much I collected, let's just say I played 25 hours that day :ph34r:

I hope it will happen again.

[shayanshiny 1,925]

Had fun on x5 funds caught 32 golds and collected 310k ))

[1stsuperwhitedragon 408]

It's gonna start raining gold

It's raining gold
Hallejulah
It's raining gold
Amen

[lukey0 27,543]

Was defiantly a day to remember!

 

Enjoy the read. ;)

[kostas604 106]

I played only 30 minutes that day :'(

[Penguin40 1,714]

I got 1 or 2 golds only. Wasn't too good of a day, but was pretty good. But was getting a bit bored too soon.

[Darren4Turbo 4,913]

I just made 10k in that day lol.

 

I wish to have another x5 battle funds day  B)

[BlueDragon_tamki 3,204]

 

 

It's gonna start raining gold

 

It's raining gold

Hallejulah

It's raining gold

Amen

LOL

[duck100101 965]

Lukey :D

[r_Your-Daddy3 605]

Got 10 gold boxes and earned 100k crystals... B) ( I am serious ,duh )

[r_GaIaxy2 8,611]

Nice, It was a marvellous day indeed

[sahl_super 157]

I got 2 days x5 battle funds , but only 1 day i played :( nice andwer by other tankers ;)

Edited August 16, 2015 by sahl_super

[Sewegart 809]

Must have been fascinating!

Too bad I missed it..... :unsure: :(

[sahl_super 157]

I dindt got a gold that time..

[r_GaIaxy2 8,611]

Must have been fascinating!

Too bad I missed it..... :unsure: :(

Guts bruh

[celroti 133]

Unluckiest chap me I had left my home to the capital for admission I could just chat with people on my phone and see their raptureness shine over my dark face

[fightermalikio20115 374]

nice, only played 1 hour on that day, no gold's ,gained just 3k :angry: :angry: :( :mellow: <_<

[blackflag444 256]

only collected 10k that day :(. all my fault tho.... xD. but hey, these past 2 days, i've gotten 5.4k from 2 1 hr. polygon cp's! not including other battles and missions. so glad i bought minotaur :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

[canadarules 1,938]

everyone played fast pace and it made the games so much better... better for once instead of people only camping -.-

[SmexyGiraffe 584]

I missed the x5 funds..  :(

[eminem9870 605]

I missed x5 fund because of windows 10, like u srs?

[LastKingss24 28]

August 2nd was just a fascinating day... I loved when gold boxes kept fallin down like there was no tomorrow..