Believe me, somehow I can imagine. A tiny bit of how I feel sometimes is in that short movie also. Thx for supporting this. :thumbup:

Wow... nice people do exist around here! Thank you, hogree. :thumbup:

Thank you for the kind words skitee :thumbup: That's the spirit :)

I thought it's time for me to pay a small tribute to the developers of this game. Here's a little video that reflects the day to day life of a developer from any part of the world, I think. Many of you might already seen it, it's quite old. I always like it and I thought it's worth sharing with you. This way, maybe some of you will think twice before starting the flame and the accusations towards the developers of a FREE game that I have played for many months. Thx Alternativa! :) Tanki 2.5 on Molehill looks awesome. Keep up the good work. So, without further ado here it is, enjoy: P.S. I am not an Alternativa official, employee, moderator, administrator or contributor of this game. I'm just a player who enjoy this game. And no, I do not wish to argue on this post with any of you, meany and rude players out there. :) However, I am always glad to speak with nice people about anything. Peace :)

:) I know what you mean. But trust me, in a Highland full of marshals with freeze and rik a thunder is a small mouse in a cage full of cats )... and about camping, there are 2 known camping sites in that map, the rest of them don't count here. Problem is, that when the madness starts, you won't get the chance to get there and if you do, you won't last for long. :)

It's a bug but it's not new. I had that many times. It's harmless if you leave garage and enter it again. Of course, refresh can do magic and cleaning the FP cache it's a miracle.

Between those two, thunder obviously. Imho there's no such thing as an universal weapon. There are only weapons and maps. Each map has it's own must-have weapon. Try to imagine an isida or freeze on a map like Madness. Thunder in a map like Highland won't get you anywhere unless you are camping. Freeze and rik rule that map. Can you picture a thunder in a map like Island? Freeze rule that map and maybe rik with Python. Of course, I can think of thunder as being the most universal weapon meaning that you can go in any map with it without to much thoughts, but that won't always win you the battle. As for railgun, well... there was a time when I enjoyed playing with it. But that was long ago )..now it belongs in those everlasting dik+rail+no paint battles, and sometimes it's fun). Still, it's only a tier 1 weapon and the game has evolved. Please note that I'm talking about battles for high rank players and donors here. I don't know how the things are for mid-range ranks and entry-level ranks.

I also lost 200 000 xp points back from when I was downgraded from marshal to a low rank. I still miss those, you know.. :( Never got them back and probably never will.

Realism. Got it. I can understand that although sometimes it's practically an invitation to abuse. While realism could be a strong point for f-fire games, it could also reveal the personality of a player. Meaning that some might stick to the "we loose together" line while others might turn against their weakest players saying "at least we get to kill the one/ones who caused this" ). Of course, there is a more refined kind of players who choose to turn against their team for some reason at some point in the battle by shooting them in such a way that it can be proven, like shooting in the crowd but aiming at team mates and pretending to shoot at the enemy. It's hard to prove that they are not actually fighting for their own team especially when they choose to do this only at crucial moments in battles. Thx for the info king_beast88 :thumbup:

Generally speaking, I don't understand the sense of friendly fire games, honestly. :mrgreen: I'm Sorry, but I don't. Obviously, I don't play much, but f-fire battles/games are as old as the gaming industry ). I mean, what's the purpose here? To make a battle more exciting because you can also kill your team mates if you're shooting like "pro" therefore leading to a much more quicker defeat/victory? Or maybe to give some people the chance to kill the weakest player in their team at some point, out of personal frustration? Or maybe it's just for mass-slaughter party ? It's not an irony, it's a honest question. I'm just curious about the possible answers. Maybe some hard-core gamers can enlighten me about this :) P.S. I'm not disagreeing with dingus here. Those are the game rules by my knowledge.

More about this here: Non-disclosure agreement. Not much of a Google fan, isn't it? ;)

Because they can :D)) If it can be pressed, people will press it! +1 ))

despite the joke, it was an obvious assumption... That might be so, but I'm not talking about a logical assumption, that's easy, I'm more concerned about the conspiracy theory here :mrgreen: :D

:mrgreen: :D :mrgreen: :D You are all funny )) Nope, it's not a secret rank )) In computer programming languages, the keyword "null" is a special value that can be assigned to variables, or returned by a function if no data was provided. It can be used to represent values that are missing or do not have a defined data type. In your case, for some reason, something did not loaded properly. That was delicious )) ..secret rank... ))

Can you be more specific ?

http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/31345.page Did somebody said "As of today, there aren't still even talks about v3.0 that may come with GPU" here ? And someone else said "Maybe, just maybe...Alternativa will do some updates...uh...maybe somewhere in summer of 2011? I really would like to see tanki rendered in GPU" Have a little faith man! :mrgreen: Yes, you have an alibi with "As of today.." but still ! Now that might not be 2.0 but i'll settle with 2.3 or maybe 2.6, whatever... the main thing is ..well ...that it's here to stay !! Finally, a major face-lift for this game. Can you picture it? Dozens and dozens of FPS displayed in that tiny little counter on the left side of our screen ???!!! Two words: outstanding job !!!

First of all, you are waaaaay off topic here :mrgreen:, ...and second...as I have told you before... I can't join any clan/group of players simply because I don't have time. But in this case, I would want to participate in the "League of Sandbox" tournament but unfortunately, "somebody" forgot that not all of us can play tanki at any hour/day of the week... In other words, in this case I can't join because I can't be in tanki at those specific dates/hours. Yes, I know..the hours of the battles can be set by the teams..but that doesn't help me much..nobody wants to play with me at 00:00 or even 01:00 AM, not to mention that you and I have a big time gap between us speaking in terms of local time zones.. Tournaments should be in weekends only if you ask me..and for crying out loud ... can someone make the official topics/rules on the english forum so that we all can have a little equity here?? :mrgreen: Years have passed and there were many competitions on the russian side but nothing on the english side. Yes I know...english community is much smaller..but still... Do I need to remind all of you that "I have a dream.... " ? )

This is a Massively Multiplayer Online Action Game (MMOG) and you are talking about a different type of game. My guess is that what you want is far from being introduced in Tanki simply because it does not suit the game. If I would want to play with a Tiger II or a T-34 I would go buy a simulator or find one on-line... But I don't want. There are many things that can be done with this game and there are many improvements in 2.0. I can't wait to see this http://tankionline.com/en/plans/ become a reality :)

Yoda wannabe. That's a good one! Noted )))

I'm not a Mac user )) I hate Mac's ..all day long...day and night ...forever and forever..until the end of time )) But I am pretty sure there's got to be a dozen of apps for OSx that do just that ... somebody forgot to google ?? )

You're not serious, are you ? )) How do you expect us to help you when you give us nothing and more, you know nothing about your computer? Try at a local computer service near you )) Tell they that you have a big sticker on your computer that says "Compaq" and a nasty logo on the screen with a looot of colors and the "Windows" text beneath it and that you don't know what to do with them. That should solve the problem.

How do you open ports.... Ive been trying to find out for a really long time I have vista home premium Trough OS firewall if you have one (OS bundled) or a stand-alone firewall app or maybe even an anti-virus software with firewall freatures. And second trough the router web-based setup interface if there is such a case.

"Au contraire mes amis" :) Have a look at this. And there is more: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=2310 and tell me what do you think ? :) This is the future of Flash/Flex/Air platform. It's called Molehill and it's a new set of low-level, GPU-accelerated 3D APIs that will provide the power needed for delivering advanced 3D experiences. It will be introduced with the release of Flash Player 11 I think in Q2 of 2011. In other words, FINNALY real(almost) 3D is coming to Flash. Alternativa already implemented in a demo that was screened at Adobe MAX 2010 in LA, California. It looks AMAZING! And let's not forget the other arcade developed by Alternativa called Ostrova Online. You can find a trailer in the link above. Maybe, just maybe...Alternativa will do some updates...uh...maybe somewhere in summer of 2011? I really would like to see tanki rendered in GPU :)