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I don't know about client, but I always play with Standalone Flash and it regularly freezes and gives a critical error. Happens maybe once every 5 games, so it's not too annoying, especially considering that I can reload and be back in battle within 20 seconds.

That's one long vacation :blink: I haven't had this issue at all. Last time I logged in was 6 months ago. The game now uses HTTPS, so maybe devs will eventually do it for the forum too. But the forum is severely neglected in general, so that's unlikely. That's just one of the many, many forum bugs we have around here nowadays.

Yeah, sounds about right.

Long time to vote - have a 10-second limit and if someone doesn't vote, then there will simply be less votes. If there's a tie - the map is selected randomly from the tied maps. Or the map that reached the highest number of votes first gets chosen. The problem with actually letting players choose the map is that it will make MM less effective, since instead of just choosing the game mode, players will also be separated into a bunch of groups by gamemode AND map they choose. AND even with a choice of just 5 maps, it would make waiting times 5 times longer. Not gonna happen.

Already posted by TakeAShower: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=367087

OK, I thought you'd still be able to move a bit like you do when completely frozen from a Freeze. If with Vulcan you become fully immobile, then it might be a balanced option.

Nah, the majority of players either don't have an attention span long enough to play one battle for 20 minutes, or don't have the time to play 20 minutes in a row (according to devs), so the short battle format is more suitable for the target audience. And you said it yourself - long waiting times, which is terrible because due to the way we perceive time, waiting 6 times for 3 seconds feels much shorter than waiting once for 3 minutes.

Interesting. I was just thinking about this as an alteration earlier today. I'm not sure about the balance of this, because sitting frozen at your base on Parma and shooting across the map non-stop doesn't seem particularly fair to the enemy. I feel like there's not no way of removing the overheating effect without either making Vulcan OP, or ruining it to a point where it's almost useless.

A more efficient system would be to give players a list of 3-6 random maps to choose from before the battle starts and let them vote. The battle would then be played on the highest voted map. The game's economy depends on players spending supplies. Alterations shouldn't really be affecting the game in the first place and in theory should be just as powerful as default turrets. I agree that drone users are hard to compete against, but neither drones, nor supplies will be disabled in MM. This is very unlikely. Developers stick to the idea that players should be able to join and leave the game at any moment without penalty, so they won't punish players for leaving a battle. Besides, MM doesn't give players a way to not join a map they dislike or not play against their friends in the enemy team, so it would be illogical to have this inconvenience and then also punish players for dealing with it. Also it would make MM less effective due to less people playing, because some will be sitting in the lobby waiting for the penalty time to end.

PRO battles aren't a particularly great alternative to MM. Yes - you can choose the map to play, but the map variety is very low. You can't do missions there at all, and the battles sometimes have mults and/or raid parties.

4 people sharing 1st place. If we don't count premium, this is just 3 stars short of the current "most stars in a battle" record.

Please don't use automatic translators to answer in this topic.

Well, you can copy and paste words from a translator (like google translate) or type them directly if you add a Russian keyboard in your PC settings. What you can't do is copy any text from the battle chat.

Brest and Highways - yes. Maybe also Massacre. But the rest of the maps are fine, I think. They have quite a lot of cover that allows you to cross the map with a close range turret. However, most of the maps you suggested as replacements are quite small and have confusing multi-level gameplay. They're just not suitable for the style that developers are going for with MM maps. Maps like Novel, Gubakha, Station and Opposition seem like pretty good candidates.

Doesn't change the fact that it's MUCH harder to get to any rank now because of the changed EXP system.

Makes sense. Will move it.

Look who I found just now! :o

What's the point in getting promocodes? It just adds an extra step between opening the container and receiving the reward, because you actually have to type in the code. Also, it would allow players to exchange rewards between accounts, which is bad for the economy.

It's on my bucket list to one day see this thing in person: An-225 Mriya, largest cargo plane in the world, only one was ever built (in the 80s) and it's still flying.

Wow

Carp* No swearing on this christian forum

Not really a tanki record, neither is it particularly interesting.

I'll think about it. But in the end it just boils down to the big question: is it really worth doubling our workload for the sake of giving individual ideas a little bit more exposure?

Well, we don't. It's an English acronym. In fact, writing "lol" with russian letters is actually an insult, and means something completely different, if I understood correctly. To react to something funny we usually just write "xaxaxa" or a smiley face.