Not a Tanki record as it has nothing to do with the game.

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Unfortunately there will always be ways to scam people on the internet, so you just have to learn to avoid them and be safe. Not much we can do about this here. Topic title changed.

I think the answer is quite obvious. Most players go look for the gold and a minority use this time to steal some flags. If you want to discuss gold boxes, you can do that in the main topic: Gold Boxes! Closed.

The main reason why Shaft's stealth was taken away is because this isn't the game where such stealth fits in. Yes, Shaft is a sniper, but that doesn't mean that you have to stay hidden in one spot throughout the whole game. You need to move around and look for appropriate enemies, use your fast shot ability if you need to. But only go into sniper mode if you actually see enemies advancing far away and you want to pick them off. You say that Railgun, Smoky and Thunder have an element of surprise. For Railgun it's not true - Railgun's turret lights up for 1 second before the shot, which allows you take appropriate action (shoot back and knock his aim off, hide, activate DA, etc.). Notice how many Railgun players use the "rollout" tactic, where they hide behind the wall, press space when they see the enemy and expose themselves only when the shot is warmed up. Well, fun fact: you can do that with Shaft too. Just aim at a wall or tree in front of you and when an enemy appears on your screen - move your aim and shoot them. They won't suspect a thing! Smoky and Thunder may have surprise on their side, but that is one of their advantages, while on the other hand they have many different disadvantages, which Shaft does not have. One of these is the fact that both of these guns lose damage potential over long distances, which is not the case for Shaft. This gives Shaft a massive advantage over Smoky and Thunder on large maps, despite having the laser. Either way Shaft's laser is completely fair because it makes the gameplay more dynamic. Before the update, there was no interaction between the Shaft and the enemies he shoots, whereas now it takes skill to hide your laser and trick players into coming into your line of sight. The laser has turned Shaft from a basic "point and kill" gun into a weapon that has great potential if you get the skill to use it.

There will be less paint visible. Look at the pictures on the first page - all the areas with green on them are the bits where the paint is visible. Imagine your paint of choice in place of the green and you get what the paint looks like with XT equipment.

It's not. The chance of getting XT was revealed to you: it's less than 1%. It's your own fault thinking that you might get lucky, but you didn't realise that getting XT is a 1 in 10000 chance, meaning that you have to spend an average of around 80 000 000 on mission changing to get each XT item. With 300 000 crystals you only switched the missions less than 350 times, so you had a 375/10000 (3.75%) chance of getting XT The only thing the developers did not tell us is that "less than 1%" actually means 0.01%

Current one. The gold box time was carefully adjusted to be fair for all players. As I said many times before - with the 30 seconds delay (and 10 seconds falling time) the chances of catching a gold box are balanced: Players with heavy hulls won't be able to go around the whole map in 30 seconds, but if they do find the gold drop location they are very likely to catch the gold box as they won't be killed or pushed from underneath it. Players with light hulls will almost always have enough time to find the gold box drop location due to high speed, but are unlikely to catch the gold as they can be easily killed/pushed. Inexperienced players have a better chance of catching a gold box than before, because sometimes the gold drops in a remote locations where any player can find it and take it, regardless of their skill. Although their gold boxes will be rare because there are more drop locations near the centre. If you don't have much luck catching golds in the middle of a large pile-up, then you are better of playing on large maps and when a gold box drops - go around the outside. You might be lucky to be the only one to discover the gold box in the corner of a map. Experienced gold box hunters can try their luck by going in the centre in the middle of a pile-up, as they know how to catch golds and are likely to get them, but they won't always get gold boxes due to a large number of drop locations. Players, who are defending the base, are still able to catch golds in case the gold box drops on the base, so they don't have to leave the base and abandon defense

M2 Hornet Rail is planned, apparently, but I'm not sure if it will definitely be added.

They're doing most popular items first, so I think it will be Dictator, Isida and Rico.

Well, if you want to look at it that way... Inspiration for FireWasp XT was, in fact, a dragon (see the latest videoblog), so any fire-breathing dragon you can think of can fit the description here.

When Loam and Clay were added to the game, their names somehow got mixed up, so in Russian the Loam paint is called "Глина" (clay), while Clay is called "Тина" (loam). When the wallpapers were made, the links were translated from Russian into English, so the name for Loam ended up being "clay". In the future if you want to ask a question about the game, please refrain from creating new topics and use the official http://help.tankionline.com Q&A site. Closed.

In theory - yes. But if you consider the actual amount of time it will take you to earn the required amount of crystals to buy thousands of supplies and M4 equipment (using only legal methods), then you'll realise that free players have almost no chance at being equally matched to players, who put a lot of money into the game.

It doesn't, but buying helps your get superior equipment so that you can win battles easier. Yes, you can get the same equipment, while paying nothing, but it will be a lot more difficult and requires huge commitment and time, which many non-buying players don't have. So although you can spend hours and hours playing long battles to buy thousands of supplies and fully MU'd equipment, in reality there are very few players who actually do that, so buying crystals at low ranks and investing them into supplies and equipment does generally make you more powerful than the average player.

Proof: "Gradually the whole set of equipment will have an XT version available from missions. By the way, for lower ranks we are considering adding Hornet and Railgun XT of M2 modification." Edited the first post.

You sure? It looks more like this guy:

*massive facepalm* It's physically impossible to get 9999 kills or 99999 xp in the time since the new XT items were released. This is a technical account and it's controlled by developers or testers. Obviously the XT item was just added there.

You see a beautiful tank. I see this:

You see a beautiful tank. I see this:

There's a 1% chance of getting a "super mission" (such as 9999 kills). Out of those, there is another 1% chance of getting and XT item. The chance of getting XT is shared between all items, so if you specifically want Railgun XT (and not any other XT item), then the chance of you getting it is 1% x 1% x 16% = 0.000016 = 0.0016%. This means that out of a million missions on average only 16 will be the ones you want. I really hope I'm wrong :wacko:

No, I'm not saying it and yes - there was never an announcement for it since developers thought it was too small of a change to announce.

Second option seems more likely, considering the chance of an XT mission coming up now :D