Hasn't it become more difficult after the rebalance? I mean the second shot of a Railgun kills just about anyone except for the two slowest chassis models. Previously it was possible to discover the camper by his first shot at one's Viking and still do some punishment before he was ready with his third shot...

Fort Knox is pretty much dead (read it in this issue). Time to move on to Kungur, or possibly the new ones, Crash and Gallery, while they haven't got forgotten :-)

Right on the spot! :lol: Brilliant! I'm rolling on the floor, can't play today suddenly! :D

I'm still missing Camp, a very unique map in the history of the game. I think the cause of its demise was not just a sudden forgetfulness of the players, but the introduction of rank limits. The battle lived on all these proud hotshots joining in the game of patience with the more seasoned players. So the moment the rank limits closed this flow of fresh blood, the more seasoned players found themselves locked against each other waiting for mistakes noone was reckless enough to allow anymore. It certainly could make a revival if only it allows the owners of M0 Railgun and/or Smoky to fight side by side with the much higher ranks. Until then Stadium or Monte Carlo allow a lot more chance. :tank:

Well said, Bruce. You certainly do have your talent and style on occasions when you bother :D Season's greetings to you too, man!

Just go enjoy http://www.3dtank.com/ while it still lasts... :ph34r:

The lags are breaking all the records. If this is the best the developers can deliver now, then I'm sorry for the future of the game...

Man, I thought we all have had enought of this everything earlier this year during the elections campaign: the taxes will drop, the prices will drop, the economy will skyrocket, the skies will all be in diamonds... and there will be no more inflation neither ;) ;) ;)

I haven't been impressed by Bruce's deliberate kissing up neither. I mean can't one be not so explicit about paying back with bare daydream enthisiasm for the virtual crystals discreetly transferred to one's account? B)

1- Did I like the Rebalance 114 and why No, I do not like the Rebalance: barely active campers have been given a clear upper hand over really active players. * Railguns practically made 50% more powerful: anything less than Titan and Mammoth is routinely killed with just 2 shots. Mind you that this power does not decrease with distance. * The stronger hulls made considerably slower. Even M3 Viking is practically no faster than M0 Wasp. * As compared to the other chassis Dictator made stronger and faster out of proportions. 2- Did I like the new maps Crash and Gallery? Do I have any problems with these maps? The maps are a pathetic joke. Though with quite good potential in terms of design, their implementation is ridiculous, as compared to even the largest other maps dropping from 20-15 FPS to 5-3. I joined the game because it had good keyboard controls and ran seamlessly right in the browser window. If the developers think that now I must migrate to a standalone Flash Player, or that my 8 GB quad-core is not fast enough to keep up with their newest contraptions... they better think again... 3- Did I like that one can only upgrade to M3 at very high ranks? And what do I think about the prices for M3 I think they'd better introduced M4, M5 and M6 to make the upgrade path more smooth. The price jumps to M3 have been quite debatable even before the rebalance. Now they are even more so. 4- What do I think if Tanki Online before making any definite any changes lets the players make their own choice? I think that the administration has finally demonstrated how little they care about the community. E. g. was anyone given an option to keep playing by the old rules? I mean it would've been a lot more fair if the majority of the players had naturally chosen to move from the old rules game server(s) to the new ones. What we've got instead is a decision of a smal fraction of the community preoccupied with their own agenda. 5- Do I have any problems with how the game is being run? Yes. * If the developers are no longer able to make the new maps as scaleable as the old ones, then the game has reached its dead end and no Rebalance will keep it alive. * The actual game has evolved a big deal away from the Railgun and Dictator clan war format. It is quite possible that the die hard clan wars enthusiasts are the majority of the administration and community councils. It's just I doubt that the majority of the community does or ever will share the same interest in the game.

> 1- did you like the Rebalance 114 ? and why ? No, I do not like the Rebalance: barely active campers have been given a clear upper hand over really active players. * Railguns practically made 50% more powerful: anything less than Titan and Mammoth is routinely killed with just 2 shots. Mind you that this power does not decrease with distance. * The stronger hulls made considerably slower. Even M3 Viking is practically no faster than M0 Wasp. * As compared to the other chassis Dictator made stronger and faster out of proportions. > 2- did you like the changes that happen in the Garage "smoky, isida, e.t.c" ? and why ? "Smoky" and "Firebird": good thinking! "Isida": has become much stronger, as I understand. These have always beeen parasytes by their very definition, I do not expect this to improve the gameplay. > 3- did you like the new maps Crash and Gallary ? do you have a problem with these maps ? how many FB do you get in these maps ? The maps are a pathetic joke. Though with quite good potential in terms of design, their implementation is ridiculous, as compared to even the largest other maps dropping from 20-15 FPS to 5-3. I joined the game because it had good keyboard controls and ran seamlessly right in the browser window. If the developers think that now I must migrate to a standalone Flash Player, or that my 8 GB quad-core is not fast enough for your newest contraption... they better think again. > 4- did you like that you can only upgrade your weapons if you only have High rank ? and what do you think about the high Crystals in every m3 gun or tank ? I think they'd better introduced M4, M5 and M6 to make the upgrade path more smooth. The price jumps to M3 have been quite debatable even before the rebalance. Now they are even more so. > 5- what do you think if Tanki Online before do any changes in the game! let the players try it and test it First and tell them about your Opinion after it ? I think that the administration has finally demonstrated how little they care about the community. E. g. was anyone given an option to keep playing by the old rules? I mean it would've been a lot more fair if the majority of the players had naturally chosen to move from the old rules game server(s) to the new ones. What we've got instead is a decision of a smal fraction of the community preoccupied with their own agenda. > 6- do you have problem with the game ? Yes. * If the developers are no longer able to make the new maps as scaleable as the old ones, then the game has reached its dead end and no rebalance will keep it alive. * The actual game has evolved a big deal away from the Railgun and Dictator clan war format. It is quite possible that the die hard clan wars enthusiasts are the majority of the administration and community councils. It's just I doubt that the majority of the community does or ever will share the same interest in the game. > 7- do you wish is there a Sale in 31 December ? Yes. I'm not in favour of sacrificing months of my playing time just because somebody decided to milk the community a little bit harder than before. I can put my time to other use until the prices become more reasonable... if I still fancy continuing the game after the wait... :tank:

Another sappy initiative for gullible teens to suck up to the daddy? :wub: Suddenly you're so human, it's just making me cry pals... Tell me more about this fit of sappy love. Is it from the local river or something more infectious?

Hello there, the improvement though welcome is long-long overdue. Ages ago was it proposed to share the points for every kill by the damage inflicted. Already time to find a solution for modes other than TDM, where Isidas are also allowed to earn points for healing the wounded. At least in TDM the healing boxes still do heal, so a tank collecting these boxes can end up killed by all the other playes jointly. On the other hand, for all the fixed damage weapons (Smoky, Railgun, Thunder) is it quite fair that for knocking off just the last remaining hitpoint they earn only a small fraction of the kill points? Firebird, Isida, Freeze, Ricochet, even Shaft all can save a good deal of their time and charge while killing the enemy with only a few remaining hitpoints. None of the fixed damage weapons have this advantage, as they still have to wait the full recharge cycle no matter what. Cheers :tank:

Hello tanker community, once again I'm not quite getting the point guys and gals :huh: The shadows sure may look prettier, I'm prepared to give you that much. But in the name of common sense who in his right mind will voluntarily and unilaterally agree to make his personal gameplay more difficult by allowing the enemies to hide better than before? By the same token while one is fooling oneself with hopes that he is almost out of sight the enemy with shadows disabled on his computer still retains a perfectly clear view of all his targets on the battlefield. TIA :tank:

Arabic Tanki did not quite pan out? How about 3dtank.com in simplified Mandarin instead? :) And though we don't have the whole 1000 game servers yet, the already impressive list must've doubled over the year anyway and meeting the same player by mere chance again while one still remembers his name is very-very uncommon... It was a rare pleasure reading this article for the first time when the year was still young. Now it's old but gold still. As far as I am concerned you're one brilliant genious! You're my hero :fire_r: :fire_l: Thank you for that truly hilarious work back then, thank you again for revisiting the topic one more time now. :tank:

The tower commentator gag was awesome! :thumbup: As for the rest: * No further progress with the image. You either create a robust image, or grow equally alien to both the Russian and the English culture players, like Arnold in Red Heat * Perm is in the middle of nowhere. No point in stressing the geographical location every now and then because it's not going to become Vegas in our lifetime :-) * I'd better stick to the original English words, rather than try littering the language with dubious adaptations from Russian like jaba. Frankly, at best we simply don't care that the game originates from Russia. Come to think of it many even brighter guys from the communist block have escaped to the States and made good money not because they have been promoting ideas of cultural diversity among the American consumers :-) :tank:

A very gratifying experience to see one's hard earned loyalty appreciated :-) :tank:

Well done Bruce, really well done this time! :thumbup: Particularly brilliant is that you didn't show too much of the developers and also kept changing the cameras while they were just sitting there talking on and on in their habitually listless manner! :-) I'm sure it wasn't easy to make sense from their technobabble :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: I'm wondering if they could add to your image a helmet with stars and a tunic with decorations? Anyway your shirt looks a lot more formidable than the plain T-shirt with the Tanki logo

The war? Which war? Do I misunderstand something fundamental in the wording, or are you selling Victory bonds here? :-)

Thank goodness 2.0 has been cancelled! I wouldn't give this Tanki 1.x atmosphere for better effects or any other hype. It feels like a community here, not glitter and glamour for passers by :tank: Also, Bruce, if you intend to continue showing up in the videos, you need a bolder look and feel. We are not boyscouts here and you won't be held responsible if some sissy's foot gets shot :D

Good luck with those teens challenged in real life so adversely that they haven't got anything better to do for 2 hours but to sit glued to the screens in exchange for a promise of some imaginary crystals! You've made my day gentlemen! :tank:

It really is a crying shame that the popularity of the battlemaps has shifted so dramatically towards just a mere handful: Silence, Madness, Island, Deck-9, Highland, Polygon, Fort Knoxes, Farm, Hill, Iran, Tribute, Molotov, Massacre, Kungur, Serpuhov, Monte Carlo... Barda, Bobruisk, Brests, Stadium, Lost Temple, Red Alert, Scope or 2042 from time to time. Camp is almost forgotten; Courage, Chernobyl, Desert, Esplanade, Highways, Industrial Zone, Siege, Kolhoz, Novel, Opposition, Rift, Skylark, Valley or Subway appear once in a blue moon only; Berlin, Forest, Wolfenstein, Parma, Bridges, Cross, Deathtrack, Magistral, Magadan are almost like from another world already. Not a day ago I've come across a marshal who never heard of Dusseldorf! :thumbdown: :tank:

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I can't wait till this gold rush is over for good and the gamers become their usual selves again. If you quest was to determine how low some people are ready to go for a handful of crystals, then you must have your answer by now. Personally I wouldn't call the experience enjoyful however. :tank: