Wow. OK, thanks, I'll add both maps as they are. :)

The best combination for a certain rank is the one that unlocks at that rank. Then it gradually gets weaker as you rank up because other m1 equipment unlocked later than yours will be superior. E.g. Viking M1 and Freeze M1 unlock at Warrant Officer 1, therefore they should be the most powerful equipment at that rank. However, Twins, Hunter, Dictator, Thunder and Hornet M1 all unlock at higher ranks, so they should be more powerful than your Viking Freeze M1. The best combination for YOU, however is the one you enjoy most and find easiest to use. As long as you are very familiar with your gun, you can use it effectively at any rank, against any tank.

I agree that Shaft in DM is bad. I play CTF and most of the time it's fine. Although I did try DM with Shaft once and even then I didn't see anyone get annoyed with me. Either you are just good with shaft and people are jealous of your skill, or everyone simply hates you... :D

Well, if he can do the parkour tricks and beat the record set by a generalissimo (if there was one), it makes sense. It's like if you see a 8 year old lift a 300 kg barbell and beat the world record set by a 30 year old bodybuilder and you say that the record doesn't count because the 8 year old has less muscles (despite the fact that he still lifted more than anyone). Or, in case of the test server - you see an 8 year old be magical given the EXACT SAME amount of muscle as the current record holder and you reject the record set by the 8 year old, just because he's younger. Basically, on the test server you don't get anything super-powerful that's completely impossible to get in the main game, therefore there's no reason why the records set on the test server are unfair.

I have no idea what matches you play and where you find all the hatred. I played with shaft after the update and I played against them too. Not a single player in chat complained about shaft and for me it wasn't that difficult to get kills with shaft either. Even when I was playing against shaft in the other team, the only time I found them annoying was when I was using a heavy hull with which you can't dodge the fast moving aim. In my opinion the most annoying gun is either Freeze or Ricochet - both are extremely difficult to fight back once they start hitting you...

Yes. Because if that WO 3 managed to beat the record set by a full MU M3 tank Generalissimo, it means that the WO 3 is more skilled at controlling his tank and using the physics of the game.

I highly doubt it. For every player ranked above brigadier there are 10 000 players with a lower rank. All those generalissimos complaining on the forum that the game is ruined and that they're leaving will barely have any effect on the game's reputation.

It doesn't overall. Red is World of Tanks and if you're talking about the little decline in the blue line around the A mark, then that could just be seasonal interest...

We'll see. Shaft was also OP for a while just after release. Then they changed it significantly and returned crystals to those, who bought it. The new Shaft after that was a bit more balanced and now it's not OP at all. Whatever the Magnum and Vulcan look like when added to the game will obviously not be their final form.

Are you sure about that? Google Trends thinks otherwise: Blue - Tanki Online Red - World of Tanks (for comparison).

Not really because it has two big disadvantages - close range (if you aim at a tank far a way, very few or no shots will hit it) and long reload, during which you are defenseless. It's the Vulcan that will be OP - auto aim, infinite fire, barely any warm-up before the shot... If you have a mammoth with Inferno and an isida standing on the base, you will have an infinitely shooting turret. Sounds really OP to me...

One of them didn't rank :P

http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=211476

I don't play polygon, so I don't have any gold locations on it. If you give me a starting point I'll add it.

You can also get Full MU on the normal server. By this logic it's the records from normal servers that shouldn't count because people have different grades of tanks and therefore achieving certain records might me easier for higher ranks. I'm not sure if you get my idea, but what I'm saying is that record achieved on the test server would only be rejected if the gameplay there was A LOT different than what's on the main servers now. However, since you can get the same items in the actual game as you get on the test servers, I see no reason why a parkour record from the test server needs to be rejected.

It should count. The test server doesn't make this feat any easier to achieve.

After this update the time between the siren and the actual gold box was reduced to 30 seconds and in 2018 it was further reduced to 10 seconds. If the gold box falls for another 10 seconds, it means that you have no more than 20 total seconds to find the mark on the floor and defend yourself from others. With the significant increase of the number of gold box drop locations (on Solikamsk the gold falls in over 40 different spots) it has become very difficult to find the spot and catch the gold. Originally this topic was created as a community project to manually mark off the gold locations on the maps after we spot them in battles. But after two years the developers were kind enough to provide us with the completed maps full of all drop locations. These are available on the individual map pages on the wiki, but I listed them all here under spoilers for your convenience. You can use this topic for reference, so that when the siren sounds you'll be able to choose the most efficient path around the map to check most (if not all) of the potential gold box drop locations, increasing your chances of catching the gold. Aleksandrovsk: Arena: Atra Barda: Berlin: Bobruisk: Boombox: Brest: Bridges: Camp: Canyon: Chernobyl Cologne Combe Courage: Cross: Deathtrack: Deck-9: Desert: Duality: Duel: Dusseldorf: Edinburgh: Esplanade Factory Farm: Forest: Fort Knox: Future: Garder: Gravity: Gubakha: Highland: Highways: Hill: Industrial Zone: Iran: Island: Kolhoz: Kungur: Lost Temple: Madness (old version): Magadan: Magistral: Massacre: Molotov: Monte Carlo: Noise: Novel: Opposition: Osa: Parma: Pass: Ping-Pong: Polygon: Red Alert: Rift: Rio: Sandal: Sandbox: Scope: Serpuhov: Short Bridge: Siege: Silence: Skylark Skyscrapers: Solikamsk: Stadium: Station: Subway: Tribute: Valley: Wave: Wolfenstein: Year 2042: Zone Special thanks to @lukey0, @emrakul, @a7x_Pedro48 and @Rico_Viking_9000 for helping with the content. The list will be updated whenever maps are changed and new ones are added, so check this topic every once in a while if you consider yourself to be a professional "gold hunter" :) Map views: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=211476 Gold box drop location symbol (no background): http://s1.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2015/02/0f33fe932653774ed75a657df0e69f43.png

"whats your favorite stuff/combinations?" and "Name your favorite hull and gun" The similarity is obvious. Different wording and the presence of a poll doesn't make this topic original, IMHO.

Whenever I get a server error while in a battle, I just reload the same server and get loaded straight into the battle with my score still there. The only way to get logged out permanently is if you load a different server than the one you were playing on or if you wait longer than 5 minutes.

What I meant was that you have the right to complain and demand whatever you want, but the Tanki Online team doesn't owe you anything and never will. Don't expect any refund - it's solely the developers' choice about whether they want to give you a refund or not (like they did with the re-balance). As Pallidium said - read the terms and conditions.

You play this game voluntarily and you invest real money into it (if you do) also voluntarily. The developers reserve the right to change any aspect of the game without having to give back any refunds to the players. They can even completely shut down the game at any moment and start a different project and you won't get anything back, even if the day before the game was closed you bought crystals for $1000. You are using a free service - you don't have the right to complain.

With the new point distribution system it's really easy to get a high score on your team using shaft. I don't think there's a need for "sniper awarding" anymore.

Repeated topic. Please use the existing one: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=181190

You'll be surprised how obsessed some people get over meaningless goals...

I would do the same, but the presence of battle fund and the fact that you reset your score in the battle and get no prize if you leave before the end, means that even when there are only 3 people left, playing against 10, I can't leave and join the smaller team because I don't want to lose my score and prize, meaning that I have to sit there with nothing to to other that beat up the three poor players, otherwise my teammates will overtake me and get more crystals...