For me, I think that one of the sole reasons why the game is is losing a lot of players is because the devs did not consider the in-game economy while adding the new updates. It all started when the paint seperation update was introduced, where all paints lost its value and became purely cosmetic. I don't disagree with this update because it did give players the opportunity to mix up the protection modules with different paints, but the update also ruined the game economy. The paints lost all of its value, as players saw no reason to buy them. Therefore, virtually all the garage paints were disregarded by the players, and as a result what was once one of the most useful things in the game became nothing at all. Another update which may seem to have little impact to the game was the xt update. By that, I mean removing the ability to obtain XT turrets from the garage and daily missions, and only making it purchasable inside the shop, using real money. Maybe it seemed to the devs that they could make extra money from this, but instead it made the game economy much worse. A rare item is an object that seems to be easily obtainable through normal means, but is instead very difficult to get. The original XT system worked really well, because you were able to obtain the XTs through saving up crystals, or doing one of the hard missions, without spending a single penny. However, when the XT update came along, the XTs lost its value, because it was no longer obtainable by non-buyers (A majority of the game), therefore it became another useless thing that only buyers could get. XTs used to be a symbol of hardwork, but is instead now a symbol of a buyer. Then there is all the new challenges and waves of new paints. Players used to be able to memorise all the paint names, and even all their protections. Now, this is literally an impossible feat, because new paints are literally added every week. Many, many paints lost its uniqueness, not only because there is another paint that looks extremely similar, but also because there are too many paints to choose from. This made each paint become 'unique' itself, which made it lose its meaning as a paint. I don't think the devs knew that in order to have rarity, most things have to be common, and only very few can be rare. With all the new paints that were added, every paint became unique, because there simply isnt enough players for a specific paint to become common. Therefore, paints no longer show status and rarity, completely ruining this whole aspect of the game. The Mk7 update was also extremely ill-planned. There were only 4 modification skins for each turret and hull, but since it was updated to 7, the different looks lost its meaning. 2 Mods now share the same skin, making it not special anymore to have a higher Modification in battle. The same goes with shot colours. It may seem fun to have all the different shot colours, but it would have been much better if the devs just left it alone, since it used to make each modification of the turret look unique. TL&DR: The devs really ruined the game through poorly managing the game economy. Having a lot of something not only makes it all depreciate in value, but it also makes it less meaningful.

None of our moderators had abused their powers. The screenshots posted above are from an unfortunate incident from last year, where a moderator account from one of the community locales was unlawfully accessed (i.e. hacked) and abused to issue false chat warnings and bans to unsuspecting players and the game staff. The hacked account with authorized chat powers was quickly regained back (within a matter of minutes), and all of the collateral mess (false chat warnings and bans) was cleaned up immediately afterwards — so everything in relation to the incident was properly investigated and taken care of with a rapid response. As a side note, I can personally assure you that all of our moderation guys are nothing less than professional and lovely. ?

Wow, this sentence really opened my eyes...

I know what happened to you: you have the the 'dont show who dropped the gold' setting enabled, and sometimes, you accidentally press 6, but you don't realize it because it onoy shows gold box will be dropped soon.

If Ares can be pushed so easily being a heavy hull then a light hull might as well get blown off with the wind ???

Funny you can use the word KILL in describing how you stopped a hornet from say getting away with your flag, but use a word that might be funny and illicit a smile from players who appreciate my fine and noble efforts at wiping out EVERY hornet player that crosses my path in battle,and the mods take offence and delete my pics. Never mind i will just continue my destruction of all hornet players ..............cause it's easy. Watch out for the hornet fire coming after me, wiped out every time. I just stayed at base and chilled really, even had a sarnie and a cup of tea as i wasn't even tested beyond say 25% of my hornet wiping out abilities. To all you hornet players out there, if you see me in battle i welcome you to try and get the better of me. Good luck because your gonna need lots of it, along with a minor miracle to achieve what i no none of you can do.

Good luck everyone, nice to see parkour survival back. Btw, if you are searching for a teammate for your second, low rank team, or you are a mid rank player - message me, I need a team for my low rank account.

Hello Parkourists! After seven long weeks, Parkour Survival 2020 has come to an end, and we had many interesting teams with skilled players competing against each other, fighting the odds and pulling new tricks to get to the finals and win! And only the best of the best was able to survive and win the finals! Check out the full list of players who came out victorious and received the Grand Prize, Blaze Paint! List of the new Blaze paint owners: Original Topic:

#TeamDup since I think I’m more venerable than venerable : D

some RU players made this in test server (bad position but you can see it well)

and i had something like 16/17 golds in this main acc for over 3 years. nothing happened to me too ?

I assume most players bought themselves a low grade and tried it in battles in the first days after its release, but are now waiting for a 50% sale to upgrade it fully before using it in battles. But also it's definitely different, so perhaps not as many players will prefer it over other hulls. I personally love it, despite only using light hulls for the past 3-4 years. Can't wait for the light hover hull to be made.

No point posting any more screens they just remove every single one. how very sad and boring it must be to follow me around and delete every pic i post. Wonder what excuse they can think up to delete this one. All the mods must be hornet players.

Not much has changed. Magnum can still one shot medium hulls with DD.

Forum Updates [July - August] Following is a list of all the forum-related updates that took place during the months of July and August: Quick Mention: This is a small but handy feature that enhances forum user experience. By clicking on the "@" under any users post, you will be able to mention them in your post. This feature makes it easier to tag those members which have long nicknames. Did we mention that it also saves you time? Additionally, now you are able to tag users who have duplicate accounts due to the forum bug. Previously, it was a difficult choice to choose between Sacrifice and Sacrifice while tagging Sacrifice (YIKEESS!). Now, you can simply overcome that difficulty by using this feature. Disabled Dual Topic Submission: One of the most common forum errors include dual submission of topics due to forum gateways. Most of you would be familiar with this error, where when you click "Submit Topic" button more than once by mistake, you end up with multiple topics of the same content. This new feature will prevent this from happening. However, this only works for "topics" and not "posts". Helpers' Profile Table: On the right side of the forum page, you will find a table containing profiles of different helpers online. This table shows "Community Management, Administration and Helpers" that are online at the time. This is very useful for quickly being able to contact the relevant helpers in case you need any assistance. This saves you the trouble of going in to the List of Helpers each time you encounter a problem. Some interesting facts about this table: It does not show candidates that are online. It only shows a maximum of ten helpers at a time ("Helpers Online"). It only shows the first listed position of the helpers. It takes longer to update than the "Online Users List". Mark Message as Unread: Mark message as unread feature is very convenient when you read a DM and decide that you would like to answer it at a later time of the day. You can simply click on this option and the message will be listed as "unread" in your inbox so you can come back to it later. Note: The other user would still be able to see the last time you read the message. This feature has no effect for the user who is on the other end of the conversation. Answer Voters: Just like you could see the names of users who reacted to your post/topic, you can now see those users who upvoted your answer in the Questions & Answers section. Previously, we didn't have this feature and all the upvotes were anonymous. Click on the option "Answer Voters" and a list of all the users who voted for the answer will be shown. Thread created by Sacrifice What do you guys think of these features? We would love to know your thoughts on it in the replies down below!

You know Nives, the former Community Manager that also played the game as a free player as a way to get a feel of what the game was like for us mortals, the one that didn't bull soiled us as much... yeah that Nives. Well, when he left almost 2 years ago, Tanki didn't secure the nickname Nives to Nives' account, and that's why his account became r_Nives1, r_Nives2... and now @r_Nives5 So, I think Tanki should rename Nives' account from r_Nives5 back to Nives. Now, a few days ago I decided to see if someone was using the nickname Nives, and to my surprised it wasn't. I opened an account with Nives to see if it was really free. I have it now and I think Tanki should use it for Nives' account, if possible. Thanks.

Just a couple of missions i had to do, met a few old friends so i stopped to say hi. 2ND battle not so many friends in this one but i found one hiding so went over and said hello cause i'm nice. This was the final score, now i no what your gonna say, i didn't get top 3 like i always say i do but i was busy saying hi to lots of friends, so top 4 will have to do. Average but that's the sacrifice i'm willing to pay for meeting up with old friends.

From what I've gleaned over the last couple of years, I'm pretty sure Tanki has been making more money than they ever did in the first 7 or 8 years. For awhile, while paints and bundles were a relatively new thing and Tanki still had 40,000 players at peak times, I think they were rolling in dough. But now, as numbers die off and the bundles are just another old bundle, I think they must be starting to feel the pain of bleeding the golden goose too quickly. Maybe they knew they couldn't make an HTML game that could come up to the standards of Flash and they have timed their demise to the termination of Flash...who knows other than them. I'm pretty sure the big money days are done for Tanki and it's all downhill from here unless they can adequately fix HTML or pull off some magic stunt with the mobile market. My hope is someone will buy them out and start to improve the game instead of this constant downgrading in the name of abject greed. Offer a good product and the money will come. Tanki had it, but squandered it in a few short years in a frenzy of greed without concern for the future. Well the future is knocking on their door now.

team already decided lol get rekt

@Bydo I am so delighted that developers have added the refresh button as well. I have noticed that this button was added some two days ago. That is beneficial for players who does not want to battle due to school or work days, so we get free crystals everyday by clicking the refresh button in the shop's showcase. That means that players that does not have the time to battle to earn crystals, they can at least enjoy 700 crystals per week. That's a really nice addition to the shop's showcase. Everyday, I use the refresh button to earn 100 crystals. Why not also add a free Tankions bundle like this every day in the shop where players could earn a daily amount of Tankions for free. How about 10 Tankions per day in the shop. That would be amazing. Tankions are hard to earn for free (except weekly containers), but it would be a kind addition from the developers if players could earn 10 Tankions for free in the shop. I am not asking for much, but that would please players that are at work, or school, so they would be able to earn a little something with just 10 Tankions. That would be a weekly amount of 70 Tankions per week if the players collect 10 Tankions every day.

Also, ya should not use any website which says that they give free crys, etc, as they can steal your information

Nope, that is strictly not allowed! it can get you a permanent block!

fps = get better pc ping = get better internet none of the above works?

Am I right in assuming that such a hull is definitely planned? Your statement has an element of surety...

Honestly, on HTML5, it's too time-consuming to check the gear score of a tank that has been annoying you... We have to press TAB and check all the high GS players, and then match the OP players nick with the GS. All that takes away precious seconds in a 7 min battle, which is essentially 5-6 min for players like me who don't have a great internet connection. Not to mention that pressing TAB opens a window that obstructs view.

dont forget to invite meeeeee

#CommunityShoutout

I barely see anyone use Ares nowadays. Guess that's a good thing.

People complaining about how they cant see names of the maps in battle list on html5 --> Alternativa fixes that If thats not listening, what is?

Correct, correct, correct, correct and correct. This is the truth. They won't fix all these little issues that add up to make HTML5 bad and I don't understand why. I never realised how faded the colours are on HTML5. It's so dull. Hopefully they fix some of these issues before December/January. I won't be able to play much anymore. I'm slowly quitting the game. Even though I'm going, I still want a better game. I want the players to be happy. After many horrible updates, the players deserve some good.

Dictator is the best for low ranks because of overdrive. Paired with fast killing turrets like vulcan for maximizing the overdrive.

Getting MK6s at say colonel are brig are worth maxing out for 2 reasons-1 better protection and 2- free MK7s at marshal. I never max out any protection until MK5 and then only a certain few.

Hornet is not overpowered. That's insane.

Are those advices suppose to be jokes? Oh I guess I should laugh then.

Same here. I went from playing a lot to playing almost not at all. I log in once every two or three days just to play a few battles. I'm just becoming really busy as you all are.

Winners haven't been announced yet. If they aren't announced later today, then I believe they'll be announced next Friday. And I'm not surprised that nothing is mentioned about the results in the main topic.... Nice one, Sacrifice! ?

In my opinion the rail with scout on a hornet is a very formidable tank when OD is engaged...the rate of fire coupled with DD equals lots of kills. The negative on rail is that you will face a lot of protections...a bit fewer with thunder. I have found that on most maps the Thunder (and I equip Sledgehammer all the time) is a solid choice. Since you like using a hornet, however, the splash damage will really, really hammer your tank too much. You will never harm yourself with a railgun...so the scout would be my call.

Yet another gem by Illenium.

https://imgur.com/gallery/GaJ2D67 (sry i cant figure out how to post the image directly i tried what u said but it did not work tho..?

people who really want to play the game will switch to html5 after flash is gone those who are playing just because the last few weeks remaining now of flash will leave for good after its gone, nothing you can do to get these players back right now the stupid popup and missions thing is only making players who still use flash leave... i dont know of a single one who has switched to html5 after these useless updates

Player numbers plummeting again. Hands up if u remember 50K players ? Here are some things that cause players to leave .... First up these - do you realise how simple the coding would be to check before these were issued ? Paint prizes that are 'flags' of some strange country. Batteries for drones for players who don't play drones. Augment prizes for hulls / turrets you don't own. and then ... Magnum... it was intended as a long range artillery. Do something about the muppets who drive around dropping the worlds biggest drug bomb right in front of themselves. How about some self serious damage. Titan shield- well thats just useless. Make it really 'shield' or find another super power for Titan. Sort out spawn killing. Work out a way to get 'even' team numbers in MM (can't tell you how to do anything ... have a think for yourself.). Maybe 'nerf' the team with more players till things even out. ? Close up the rank range in MM to get rid of the 'unkillables' and just to really show you care ... Start posting info on system/server outages so players know what is going on or maybe explain your strategy to drive away players. Update: another day, less players and more crappy games. 8 onto 5 - there is simply no point to this game anymore. How low do player numbers have to get b4 you pull finger Tanki ? What is the point of asking for complaints if you have no intention of explaining or fixing ? What is the point of games with unequal player numbers ? Is there some magical dimension that tanki staff live in where the crapi game magically fixes itself ? Update: Wow cool gameplay in MM Tanki. 1 team of 8 spawn killing and 1 shoting (6 shafts sitting in the open unkillable all game and 2 wasps roaming ) as other team (max 5) either hide or 'pause' Pointless crap. Lets not even mention the rank gap. What a waste of time. Just out of interest - at what point to you actually accept a 'complaint', i mean, just how 'complaining' do i need to be ?

Nice paints. Btw Sonar kinda looks like Gladiator. And Campfire looks lit in more ways than one. Time to bring out the tankoins, premium, snacks and Coca-Cola. Jk I got school ?

Bro spectators are humans. You can't expect them to be in every battle. There are a limited number of spectators, and one spectator can only join one battle at a time. When you play, let's say for 5 hours, do you get to play with every Tanki player? No! It's pure chance that you'll find an Erudite spectator or Erudite work account in any given battle. No spectator is deliberately avoiding you. Hope you understand.

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freeze needs a buff to the turret slowdown rate

What a rip and a completely unwelcome bit of news. Horrible. I was looking forward to playing my main account but there is no way I'm going to play with 3X XP. I will continue to play Tanki but it will be with my throw-away alt account. At least previously it was 2X XP and 3X battle fund. Now it is reversed (you didn't think we would notice?) 3X XP is ridiculous.. What villains.

Segment 02 : Strange But Theoretical: There are many weird things in Tanki Online that neither an admin nor a developer bothers to explain. However, be it something in the depth of oceans or in the darkness of space, Guest writers and reporters never stop looking for answers. Behold as I, Sacrifice, the person who still thinks that admins get incinerated after retirement (long story!), presents you with theoretical answers to some of the questions that you guys never asked and probably don't even care about! Episode one of podcast presents you with: Decoy tanks: It is not strange that the brown rusty dead tanks found in some maps have made it to this list. Most people don't even know its name. That majority included me too. We see these rusty objects everyday but don't even know what they are called, nevertheless know about its history. (Just to clarify, The right one in blue is me) So, I knew I had to disclose the secret and find out its true name. I searched everywhere, looked on the wiki, scrolled through the forum, poked Kaisdf, explored google, poked Kaisdf again, hunt through the help site, poked Kaisdf again for the third time and even looked under my bed to find out the answer to this question. Unfortunately, no luck! But then, my brain cells came up with an idea. I thought of asking my friends. The first one was Mr.Nibbles. Mr.Nibbles enlightened me with the right answer. He told me that the brown rusty dead Titan and Firebird we see every day during our battles are called DECOY Tanks. (Cheers for Mr.Nibbles!). But what is its history? This is where theoretical work kicks in. I used all of my resources and gathered up a couple of observations, some bits and pieces, that when joined together revealed the true history of these decoy tanks. Long, long ago, when TO verse came in to existence, Tanks were made out of cardboard. Strange but true. As the economy strengthened, the developers decided to use plastic instead. When the economy further strengthened, they decided to use iron. Iron was both, a cheap and a reliable option. It not only replaced plastic tanks effectively, but also made room for further additions to their performance. However, a problem rose. Iron when in contact with water molecules (I.e. moisture from the atmosphere that slides upon tanks) undergoes corrosion and as a result rust is formed. Fe ------------> Fe+2 + 2e- (I put a chemical equation just to look cool. Don't mind it though) At first, the problem seemed minor, but later on when many tanks were found abandoned on the maps, developers new that they had to do something. They talked with the best chemists of the century and offered a high amount of one million crystals to anyone who could come up with an economical solution. The whole TO verse was at stake. Failure in finding a solution would result in the TO verse taking a step back towards plastic tanks, which seemed an unreasonable step as it would greatly and negatively influence the national progress of the game. It was a very worrisome situation until a tanker by the name of "He who should not be named" came up with a solution. This young tanker, proposed a solution that not only would solve the problem of tanks corroding, but also speed up the economic development by 20 percent. He came up with the concept of "paints". Paints covered the iron tank and prevented its exposure to moisture. Paints not only then gave a visual appeal to the tanks but solved the problem of corrosion. Hence the very first standard paints; Green, Orange and red etc were made. The problem was solved but as a symbol of remembrance, many rusty tanks known as decoy tanks were specially made and placed on maps that symbolize not only that our ancestors probably had brains and we don't, but also gave us a message that when intelligence is brought to thorough and concise thinking, man finds a solution to his dire needs.