Idk man, I play quite a few different games and as far as mechanics go, Tanki is definitely on the simpler side. In terms of technical skill and tactics - sure, maybe there's quite a bit of depth there. But in terms of the game mechanics themselves it's pretty damn straightforward. If you want an example of complex game mechanics, look at Minecraft. I'm serious.

On the contrary, the current supplies mechanic itself is dumb. Everyone just spawns and does 2-3-4 in some order, every time. There's no strategy here, and one might think - what is even the point of having armour and damage boost if everyone uses both and they just cancel each other out. I think the primary motivation for adding Oracle drone is to make the supplies mechanic more tactical, while simplifying the game for newbies is a nice side effect. Yeah, that's a good point. Sounds concerning. I think this might be a temporary thing that will change in the near future. This drone is supposed to encourage picking up supply boxes by making them more valuable, so it will probably be changed so that you get a second supply activated when you pick up a box. Not only that, but box supplies might even have increased power, similar to the current bonus from using drones.

I'm not sure what kind of advice you're asking for. If you mean advice for how to suggest features for Tanki Classic, then I recommend waiting for a relevant announcement in the News section and sharing your ideas in the replies there. He's just saying that you should put all your quotes and responses into one post, otherwise it looks messy and takes up a lot of space. The MultiQuote tool helps with that (and it's what I'm using to make this post): The purpose is to point out, in the most riduculous manner possible, that taking bits of someone else's post and removing important context is misleading and disingenious. Especially in this case, since both of my posts from your cropped screenshots were joke posts, yet here you are taking small parts of them literally like some dishonest lawyer with no sense of humour.

Wow, I didn't know you're such an avid proponent of supporting developers' income! Good effort!

But... the title though ?

Yeah, I'm also confused. When you say "that's considered cheating", do you mean that you get self-destructed? Or is it just that you don't deal damage?

Speak for yourself! #re-old-hopper

I agree. A simple solution is to give bot tanks highly reduced hull mass, so that they can't push real players, but real players can easily push the bots. Worth noting that it would likely cause other issues, like bot tanks breakdancing from the slightest enemy impact force. But it would be funny tho.

Not quite. Square 1 is being able to create 999-flag battles without limit that last 24 hours

Well, I'm not interested in having long arguments about any of those points, so... agree to disagree.

Lol you're just overthinking it. In my first post I made a summary of basel's text wall. In my second post I clarified that it's just a summary, because the guy I quoted (who responded over a month later) seemed to think that it's some kind of "official stance". But since we're here again, I might as well comment my actual personal opinion on each bullet point.

Idk what they mean by the event "lasting until the 23rd of Jan", but in the contracts section on the event page it also says that all contracts will no longer be available after 22nd of Jan, 2 AM UTC. I guess an extra day (today) is given to finish any moves. Plus you might still be able to catch event currency from gold boxes today.

Eh, you lost me at "eSport"...

Ok, you do realise that there's an intentional cooldown on supply switching, right? It's not meant to be instant.

I've been maining crisis for 4 years lol

UAE here. Around 150 ping on my end and the game is entirely playable. Sub-100 would be nice, but this isn't that big of a deal IMO.

No clue man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On a side note, the idea is to create dedicated servers for the Middle East, right? But is as simple as you guys think? Creating a dedicated forum/wiki and translating the game into Arabic is one thing (again, I have no clue why they haven't already done it), but building a dedicated server hub sounds far more complicated. Do we even know if Tanki uses a global server network? As far as I know, the servers were always in a single hub. Many years ago they were moved to the Netherlands, and regardless of whether they're still there now, I think they've always been together in one spot.

That's exactly what I was thinking about when I wrote my reply. For whatever reason, adding languages and locales isn't driven by existing player counts in those communities. Why the Japanese, Iranian and Brazilian locales got added is still a mystery to me, but it implies that MENA players being (allegedly) high in number doesn't mean that adding local servers in the area is a no-brainer decision for devs. I guess it's influenced by a number of other factors as well.

Seems like it's a lot more complicated than just adding servers and communities to wherever there's a lot of players. For example, I believe that the location of servers affects the laws that the game needs to follow, and the Middle East is infamous for having heavily censored internet. Though I'm not an expert on this, so it's just speculation on my part. Where'd you get this from? ?

I feel like this should have been fixed years ago, but a very welcome change nonetheless. Interesting, so the ricochet ability is meant to be a disadvantage? Kinda feels like a buff.

Hammer already has two augments that make it almost long range. I don't think it needs more. But hey, if it sells... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm assuming you're playing with Gauss? Sounds like you're locking onto one player and another enemy player blocks the view. Since the lock-on for Gauss doesn't work through obstacles (unlike Scorpion), the lock-on loses its target if it's obscured for at least 0.7s, and since another enemy is in the way, it resets the aim and immediately starts aiming at the new enemy. The fast lock-on resetting time was done intentionally, as it contributes to game balance.

Oh, that makes a lot more sense now. These containers do have a "pity system" where you're guaranteed to get at least one exotic reward from every 300 containers, but it can take a hell of a long time to get 300 containers as a free player. In fact, assuming you get 5 epic keys every week from event missions, that's over a year of playing to get one guaranteed exotic.

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