But maybe it's intentional? What if many people actually prefer quick games? Personally, I often find myself looking for a quick game (win or loss - doesn't matter), because "finish 3 battles" is the one daily mission that usually takes the longest for me.

Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo, I've got a puzzling riddle for you. Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-dee, Why miss a prize that's meant to be? What do you get when you sign on the line, Complete the task, and feel so fine? Forget to claim your due reward, And now you're left feeling ignored!

This is nice. The sudden camera rotation was really annoying and I always thought it's because of my own PC or mouse. I hope the fix works. This is also helpful.

Contracts in tanki???

Tesla Cybertank? ?

Topic merged Protection from Wasp and Blaster is not happening, since those items were intentionally given Chaos damage so that they can't be counteracted by any protection items. But general blast damage protection seems like an interesting concept.

Yeah, that's why I said "typically". The reinforcements system is really stupid sometimes.

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Actually, this is a very valid point. It's the reason why the info above players is limited to nickname, supplies and 1 protection indicator. There's more useful stuff that could be added there, but it's important to not clutter up the interface.

Agreed. I played with Isida for a few days and it was extremely annoying to get blown up randomly when I'm getting a kill.

With great difficulty... (I built another small platform of snow to use as scaffold)

Alright, and for the pièce de résistance, behold - the snowbatman! (me for scale) 18/12/2023 Alright I'm done here... ...unless I go to Russia and make a better one next winter ?

First time ranking up on this account since 2015... ...and last, since that's where I'll be leaving it.

Hello. It's possible that you accidentally spent the tankoins, for example on a pop-up message, or on garage equipment upgrades when you ran out of crystals while upgrading. In any case, please send an email to the help desk at help@tankionline.com and explain your problem to them. Closed

Well, I can't see your profile, but it sounds like your situation is even worse than what I have on my own alt acc. If it's as bad as you say it is, then you're probably better off either starting a new account or looking for a different game to play. I don't know how it is for others with your level of experience, but I'd imagine that daily and weekly missions were actually designed to be possible to complete in a reasonable amount of time for a typical player (1-2 hours daily gameplay), so the struggle you're describing surprises me.

Yeah, that's just standard power and feature creep. I'd be better off if I kept playing through the years, as I'd be able to take advantage of things like increase battle rewards, tanki funds, even the Token of Apology. I'm not saying power creep is good or correct, but it does mean that the game is not kind to old returning players.

Interesting. I'm not offended or anything, but it's interesting that this is your opinion on it, especially since I created this account specifically with the intention of making it an "OP F2P account", taking advantage of what I learned while playing on my main acc and not repeating the same mistakes. And it was indeed very OP at around 2015, because that's when I saved up for the Wasp Isida M3 kit to buy it at Brigadier, which was a huge advantage at the time. I'm actually on the upper end of GS at that rank, so again I'm not sure what makes you think the account is weak (other than lack of options, I suppose). That being said, so far around 70% of battles I end up in are up to Legend rank, so in that sense my gear is barely good enough to stay competitive. I still sometimes manage to get first place in those battles even with my "weak" account, so I guess it goes to show that it's not all P2W and skill still matters in Tanki, eh?

Nobody here is claiming that the game is better now. In fact, I'll just update the original statement that you all apparently got so worked up about: It's 500k crystals with a 50% sale. Maybe I'm just out of touch, but 500k doesn't seem too hard to save up for a high rank player these days. Especially since you can pay step by step. https://ratings.tankionline.com/en/user/MAFFIOZA You're welcome to watch my progress as I work my way up to Marshal rank. I only have one decently upgraded combo, a fully upgraded Brutus drone, one decent set of 3 protection modules, and about 3k of each supply. Well, yeah. I agree that the tankoin fee for upgrading to the next modifiction is rather... bizarre. Like, it's not a large amount (one piece of equipment Mk1-Mk7 is just over 1 set of weekly missions in tk amount), but devs still decided to add it for some reason, even though the effect on their revenue would probably be miniscule. I don't know why you and Gabe are so adamant about this, but ok. P2P, P2W, F2P, P2F... call it whatever you want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I created my account in mid-2011 and became a helper in early 2015, so I've had 3.5 years of F2P experience. I do remember how rough it was. Funny you should say this, because this week I'm doing exactly that on my old F2P alt. I got the 15 year loyalty gift on it and decided to take advantage of the free Premium to grind some exp and finally rank up. I don't have any augments or fancy drones, so it's quite difficult, especially when I get thrown into Legend battles (the acc is General). Yeah, the augments are rather ridiculous these days. I think the biggest problem is actually the amount of augments that give you insanely high burst damage and huge damage increase with little penalty. So things like Vacuum augments (Striker, Magnum, Thunder), Hyperspeed augments (Gauss, Railgun, Thunder, Smoky), as well as Helios, Duplet, Faust, etc. Free player or not, most people playing since 2011 already have all their equipment upgraded to Mk7 and haven't needed to pay tankoins since that update came out.

Oh yeah, I forgot they did that. Why did they do it again?

First of all, neither of us have the actual data for Tanki's revenue and number of buyers. I agree that the number almost certainly increased, but not because people were "forced" to start spending money due to increase of P2W, but rather because devs added more attractive monetisation features, such as containers. Making it to Legend without using supplies or money has always been possible, back then as well as now, so I'm not sure what your point is here. It's just a question of how long it will take. Yes, but don't forget that supplies are now very easy to get for F2P players, so I wouldn't consider them a P2W feature anymore. Drones are not that expensive either. The biggest thing is augments, which are P2W indeed. Not sure what you mean by "extra equipment". You don't need tankoins to upgrade anything besides number of module slots. Tankoins are only given as an alternative currency when you run out of crystals. It's not P2P until you have to pay a fee to join battles. This isn't even a matter of opinion, just definitions.

Yeah, those product kits were a whole other story. And remind me, weren't they totally P2W? Like, if I remember correctly, they were sold only in the Shop for actual money, some for as much as $75, so there was absolutely no way to get them at the earliest rank without paying. So there you go — buyer-exclusive OP equipment in Tanki, added more than 7 years ago.