Topic merged Developers are actively collecting players' feedback and the problem with kit prices being too high due to paints is definitely something they are aware of. It might be changed in the near future, since they probably didn't have time to replace all paints with modules in kits.

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If you can't afford to buy the expensive paints - don't buy them. They are only for decoration and you should only buy them if you have crystals to waste. Zeus is a very pretty paint (as are the other expensive ones), so giving it such a high price increases its value and makes it more exclusive. Exactly like an XT item. Please keep the discussion of the recent update in the official topic only. Closed.

Yeah, I wish I could also just "decide" and get a bunch of special paints in my garage :D

Mostafa's answer when we were making the FAQ for the new update yesterday :lol: Yeah! There's no way Zeus will ever cost 500k, right? Right?!?!?

As far as I know, the EULA clearly states that administrators reserve the right to change anything in the game without prior notice or explanation, so you spend your money on the game completely at your own risk. So yeah, nothing to complain about here. Good, so this update solves the problem of Premium paint being OP on low ranks :)

That's not how this update works. You don't visually combine paints, you can only use protections from paints with any other paint.

I don't know why this seems like such big of a deal. The paint protection was only a tiny part of what players get Premium accounts. They still have: The special Premium paint texture (now usable with any strong modules and not just some lame 15%) The red rank icon The 50% EXP bonus The double crystal rewards Ability to purchase XT items I doubt that many real Premium players will care much about the protections being removed. Most buyers with premium have a ton of better paints anyway, so for them this will actually be a good update since they can use the paint combined with more relevant protections for the particular battle. Pretty sure that most players complaining are those who get Premium for free from missions or as a compensation for the 11th July disaster.

Welcome back :) You have a lot to catch up on, so I suggest you follow the link above and check out the information about all of the updates from the past 3 years. As for your particular question - everyone still gets rewards, which are shown in the second column from the right, while the "Bonus" column is just what the Premium players get, i.e. bonus crystals which are not part of the fund. Also you will find it useful to read some articles on the Wiki and the Help site. Creating topics for asking questions is not allowed, so if there is anything else you need to know - feel free to PM me or any other helper. Closed.

I might be able to find a quote from Hazel or something, but I definitely remember the devs explaining that the only reason Premium has to have protection is so that it won't be completely useless and players would be able to actually use it in battles without sacrificing protection from turrets. Sure, it was useful to have basic protection from all turrets, but that was never the intent. It was quite obvious that if there was ever a time when protections and paints would be separate, Premium would lose the 15%. And the time has come.

They did. Anyone with logic would know that the Premium paint would lose protection after this update, and the update itself was being discussed for about 9 months now.

You should see the Russian one. Last time I checked it was 16 likes on the first post and 27 full pages of angry players :D

The point of the paints is to have status and respect. To have a unique paint that everyone can recognise and see what you have achieved in the game. The protection is just an extra bonus. Read about "Legacy" modules in first post. They won't be worthless. You can still upgrade them and use them to have decent protection against certain weapons. It's too complicated. Better if all paints and modules follow the same pattern with no exceptions.

Read first post (and my posts about this). All-turret protection will be removed from all special paints for now, but developers might add it back later.

No. 4-tier modules will not be available for purchase tomorrow. The only way you can get a 4-tier module is if you buy a paint with 4 protections today. You will not be able to combine whatever protections you want, but it's quite likely that Fire, Isida and Rail will be one of the combinations.

I think that was the initial idea, but they probably couldn't work out a way to add the ability to make a custom module, so we'll just have a selection of combinations to chose from. What you suggest will probably happen in Tanki X, but it might be impossible or really difficult to do in Flash game engine.

No. Premium was never meant to have protection, so the 15% will be removed from it forever. It will be just a normal paint that you can combine with the normal modules. Other special paints will love their protections too, but devs say that special "Universal modules" might be added for them later. Not for Premium though.

Well, at least one person here is happy about this part of the update :D

1. You can still buy them now. If you really want one of the existing 4-protection sets, you still have a few hours left before they disappear from the shop :) 2. You will get those exact MUs in a separate Legacy module. If the paint is fully MUd, you'll get a module with 50/23/50 % protections from the same turrets. It will not be upgradable to 50/50/50. 3. I don't know how this update will affect kits, but that's how they always worked - if you want something from the kit you have to pay the full price for it, even if you already have some of the items. It doesn't. Premium paint was never meant to have protections, so tomorrow the 15% will be gone from that paint forever. Again, I'm not sure how this will affect kits, so let's wait and see.

New modules available in the shop from tomorrow will have a maximum of 3 protections. You can have as many as possible. So basically modules from all current paints with protections (if you buy them all before the update) + new modules which will be added tomorrow. There will probably be over 100 in total. Test server was open yesterday. Just wait until the update gets released.

You don't combine a module with a paint at all. It's just like switching your turret and hull - if you want to change your hull you don't have to "remove" the hull from a turret and "add" another hull to the turret. You just choose whatever hull you want to use next and press "equip", so the hull will be changed while the rest of the items will stay the same. Exactly the same with modules. You will have a Hull, Turret, Paint and Module and if you want to change the paint you select another paint and click "equip", while the module, hull and turret stay the same. If you want to change the module you select another one and equip it, so it replaces the previous module and the paint, turret and hull stays the same. Trust me - it will be a lot easier to use than you think.

You can combine any module with any paint as many times as you like. They will be completely independent from one another.

I'm pretty sure that the people making this update are not also responsible for improving lags. So it's not like these guys should have been sitting and doing nothing until the others "fix lags".

Why do XTs exist and why do people buy them? Obviously too look cool and stand out and show how much money they have. And if you don't care how your tank looks, you don't need to buy any paints at all. Just use whatever paints you have and spend all your crystals on buying and upgrading modules. Besides, you said "buy the cheapest paints and fill them with modules". There is no such thing as "fill a paint with a module". You can combine any paint with any module and switch them around as much as you like. You can have just one paint and 30 modules and you will be able to use many of those 30 modules as you want with the same paint.

Who said you need to buy Zeus? If you want the Fire/Freeze/Smoky protections - just buy the module. If you want to look fancy in Zeus paint and you have crystals to waste - buy the paint. Nobody is forcing you to buy both.