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Hello Please report game violations in the corresponding section on the Russian forum. Closed

This is exactly right.

I already explained all this above. Tanki Online needs to maintain its economy and this is the only way. Please read the article I linked if you want to learn more details.

New Vulcan mechanics have been applied to all Vulcans of all players. The Ultra skin changes nothing but looks. I didn't talk about it because most of it is incoherent and makes little sense. Are you saying that it's unfair that buyers can complete challenges quickly and get all rewards?

The only things I bought in the past 5 years were battle passes, back when I played a lot in the first half of 2019. But that's not important since my whole situation is different when it comes to competing against "buyers". Yes, it's a contest for Premium players, but the rewards are no different than buying a bunch of stuff from the Shop directly. There's nothing special about a few thousand crystals, some containers and TK. As a non-premium player you are not expected to participate without buying Premium, so just ignore the contest and keep playing the game normally. How it's fair to other players? The rewards are unlimited. You can submit any screenshot and get 2000 bonus crystals with minimal effort. Not to mention that any valid entry is entered into the giveaway with massive prizes. Because 10-15 tankoins is an affordable price for a bonus feature like a "war" event, and because it was deemed economically viable for the game. Anyway, the bottom line is that Tanki Online is a free to play game, which needs to somehow raise funds for its development and maintenance. The "friendly" way of doing this by selling only fancy cosmetic items is not effective enough, which is why we have things like supplies, drones, and micro-upgrades, which give buyers an advantage by making it easier to obtain them earlier in the game if you pay real money. Notice how I say "easier", because a free player is also able to obtain every gameplay-affecting item in the game*, albeit with much greater difficulty and through restrictive gameplay. Things like paints and skins do not affect gameplay, therefore it's fair to lock them behind a paywall as they are not necessary for enjoyment of the game. But everything else (turrets, hulls, supplies, drones, modules, alterations, MUs) can be bought by a free player, given enough time. Real "Pay-to-win" would be if Tanki had an extremely powerful turret/hull/module that could only be bought for real money, which free players would not be able to compete against without spending money. Tanki does not have this. *I realise the new Vulcan special offer kit has a gameplay-affecting alteration, but it does not give a significant advantage with the exception of some very specific situations. Not to mention that the same effect can be achieved using Ricochet.

Yes, but it's possible. Which is why I always say - by spending money you're paying for convenience, rather than raw power.

You mentioned poor optimisation and P2W. Any more? I can tell you for a fact that the absolute main reason for player counts dropping is the fact that the game's USP and the Flash game engine have become outdated years ago, and therefore very few new players are staying in. No amount of perfect balancing or removal of P2W will fix that. You completely ignored: Daily missions Containers (normal and weekly) Gold boxes Double fund weekends (every weekend, plus sometimes lasting the whole week too) Challenges Special events (wars, increased gold drops, contests, etc.) These items seriously boost free players' ability to purchase items and bring down the gap between free and P2W. The days when battle rewards were the only source of crystals are long gone. So please recalculate taking the things above into account. A kit on its own doesn't do that. But even if it did, it doesn't matter because kits can be purchased for both crystals and TKs, therefore being available to free players. In fact, with the modifications update even the 4-rank advantage was removed, and now both crystal and TK kits can be bought just 1 rank before the actual equipment in them becomes available separately. With careful planning and smart spending, a free player is able to earn enough crystals to purchase almost the same items someone who buys crystals with money. This is especially true for high ranks, where rewards are greater and the pressure from earning enough before the next equipment Mk unlocks is no longer present. Yes, a free player will never have the same variety of equipment as a buyer, but that's the nature of a F2P game, and it cannot be changed without creating a whole new separate game with a different economic model. Since you're bringing up the same points that we covered in many other discussion topics, I invite you to read the Livestream summary, where things like P2W and decreasing player counts are explained in great detail.

Valid Obviously won't be a free feature. If implemented, I'm guessing at least one of the players would have to pay 20-50% of the skin's price in order to trade it for another.

As @DieselPlatinum said above, drones lack visual indication. For someone who only just came back to the game or doesn't play much, things like being suddenly one-shot by a turret that normally takes off 25% of your health, dealing 3000+ damage to a light hull and seeing them survive, seeing someone spawn with all three supplies, definitely looks like cheats. So it's hardly surprising that people accuse drone users of cheating.

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We're just talking about a text channel where it's just you and your group members. Not necessarily voice chat.

Please post suggestions on how to improve the game in the Ideas and Suggestions section. In this case, check out this topic where the exact same idea was already posted and a reply was given. Closed.

Repost from valentines contest topic

I reckon that's gonna be pretty easy considering we're not participating ? Also there's no winners - everyone gets the basic reward and a few lucky ones get the big bonus.

My pic with @Hate Big thanks to professional photographers @Cyborg and @Defender ?

Relevant answers have already been given, so there's no point continuing this discussion. If you have any more questions about battle moderation or gameplay violations, please use the topic Ask a Battle Mod. Closed.

The rule for sabotage was always present, and enforcement of it used to be a lot more severe. Read the replies again — you will NOT be punished for using weak equipment if your intention isn't to explicitly sabotage your team. That's besides the fact that the chance of you being reported by teammates AND a battle mod coming to check the report is extremely low.

Nope Australia is on the "bottom" of the globe, so Australians always live "upside down" because that's the right way up for them. So when they come to Europe they are still upside-down because that's what they're used to.

Here we see a group of tourists from Australia visiting Europe: @Regency

Valid Great idea - makes perfect sense. Kinda like playing Microsoft Minesweeper, love it! ? I never really considered it a serious problem, but now that I think about it — so many times I found an enemy mine and went around it, but a teammate following me would go right on it. Typing in chat takes too long and is rarely effective, so this is a perfect solution.

Out of context - yes. But that's exactly the reason why battle mods go through such extensive training and background checks, and the reason why game violation reports have so many strict requirements. Because if a battle mod saw me in that battle, they would check the score, check tab, and see that I am in no way a liability to my team. While technically it does break the rules, but once again - battle mods are trained to correctly evaluate whether a player is unskilled, just messing around without harm, or actively trying to sabotage the team. As far as I know, actual false punishments are virtually non-existent. Anyway, I'm not really qualified to talk about this subject, so I'll get someone from the battle mod team to clear things up here.

You'll probably still be fine because a LOT of conditions need to be met for any kind of punishment, but I would still recommend you change to a better combo if you see that you're letting your team down by using Mk3.

Ideally you shouldn't. But if the Mk6 is very high for your rank and most people you play with have lower modifications, then Mk1-Mk2 is fine. In the end it all depends on whether using a low modification impacts your ability to contribute to the battle, so if you use Mk1 but still stay near the top of the score table, then you're fine.