Good Game Good Game Snatched a Gold from a dictator Pro Good game with Pro leet crystal reward and extremely pro ping that came just for the screenshot.

I dont share your thoughts about the last missions update. In my eyes, it was just an oblivious way to additionally lower the rewards, because one of the main points regarding the first missions update was that tankers with less time in their hands would have been able to archieve the missions in any amount of time they wanted. But i agree with you in one point: this topic is not going anywhere.

now i'm definitely happy. to do list: -get to generalissimo -get XT mission -complete XT mission -repeat last 2 points untill every XT is archieved/death . i bet smoky XT will be the last one to be added to the list.

thank you for sharing your story! is not really long but looks your tanki career has been really entertaining. the m1 part was pretty hilarious :P M...m...my potato english was able to keep you glued to the monitor? Thank you! Even if there were some dark times in Tanki history, this game got something special that makes it ... Special! Next issue: TNT tanki history!

How many players here wrote with their mind commanding the fingers, instead of screaming "GREEDY CRYSTALS DISCOUNT SEMYON BAD NOOB 40% RUSSIA BAD EVIL MONEY!!!!111!!!!1" at the top of their lungs... ops fingertips the time they saw the discount percentage? Bah, the 99% toxic community we have is the main reason there is not a stable Players-Developers communication.

i want to zee em! why you say such an evil thing? hoping for different designs like other colors or other animals instead of the boring eagle.

i would like to read one from someone else, some day.

Good luck to queen elizabeth, a quite impressive monarch in my eyes.

In this topic, you can write your experience with tanki online. When did you begin? what did you purchase? How did you react to tanki online updates? I begin! (and sorry if i made any mistakes, english is not my main language!) Well my tanki online history is quite long. I will probably end up writing a poem. I saw this game on a russian ad while browsing russian websites with my nephew during 2009 christmas/new year. Made an account but i dont remember much about the game. The only equipment pieces were Smoky, Firebird, Twins Wasp, Hunter and Titan as "Weak gear"; Railgun, Isida and Dictator as "Advanced gear". No clear memories about paints, but their amount was pretty low. Totally forgot about the game in a few days, and i have no idea what my old account name is. Came back during 2010 winter (i remember because there was a "holiday paint" that looked like an older version of "frost" paint) after i saw an ad on a website, but i had no memories remeining of my old account and i ended up making a new one. This one. I ranked pretty quickly for a newbie and i bought all the "weak" weapons m3: twins, firebird, smoky. those were pretty cheap to buy: 300, 400 and 500 crystals each for the m3 modification. I also got the "medium" gear (railgun isida and dictator) but they remained m0 cause i moved to the "new" tier: i got wicked by hornet after i got the m0 version at sergeant-major. the m0 was stronger, faster, cheaper and more agile than wasp m3! So when i ranked up to warrant officer 1, the rank that thunder and viking unlocked, i did not think twice before buying them. they were a straight upgrade from smoky and hunter (that i nearly never used) and were also cheaper: i got both for around 500 crystals each. Rank up after rankup, i ended up getting also Freeze, Ricochet and Mammoth, and i was happy: i tried every equipment piece in the game. Now that i think again... it was pretty easy to gain crystals those days! if you ended up in the first places in a battle, you were getting like all the battlefund for you, and thank me i was skilled enough to manage doing it. From my memories, the prices were 1/10 of what they are today, like 25.000 crystals instead of 250.000 today for a TOP m3. But the Crystals income was not 1/10 as today, it was probably just half or one third of what we earn today. So yes, stuff was Definitely cheaper and crystals were way easier to stock up. Another thing that helped me getting crystals were gold boxes: those days, there was a costant gold box drop every time the fund reached a multiple of 700! Everyone who knew about it went in frenzy waiting for the magic box (that scaled down was worth 100 "old" crystals) to drop from the sky, and i was able to snatch an incredible amount of them, cause a guide in the old forum told me the zones where they were dropping in the maps i played. Rank up after rank up, reaching the other WO ranks, i figured out that higher modifications of the "powerful" gear (Thunder-freeze-rico-hornet-viking-mammoth) were way pricier than the guns i already got m3. so i had to chose a single combo: Thunder-Viking! i got it to m1 by WO4 thank to the costant stream of crystals i was gaining, and i was pretty close to get the first m2, refraining from upgrading my other gear. Those were the days shaft was relased, and the "new Tanki 2.0" project was planned. But after the failure of Tanki 2.0 relase, i lost interest in the game and i quit for a long time, only logging in for daily gifts and getting involved in other games. One day, after visiting tanki homepage, i saw a sneak-peak of the new graphics and the innovative "Rebalance" project. I got hooked back to the game and reached the Third Lieutenant rank just during the relase of rebalance. This way, i ended up with a really large pool of crystals to spend again on the brand-new and balanced equipment the update brought: Railgun, Twins, Smoky, isida and firebird, coupled with Wasp, Dictator, Hunter and titan were useful again! I made a "deep study" on what was better for me to purchase, and being only M1's avaible for me, i ended up with Hornet, Viking, Railgun, Ricochet and the Corrosion paint i was dreaming during my earlier ranks. I was happy. But after a while, an Infamous update arrived: the "new economy" update, that has been said to multiply everything crystals-related by 10, and nothing would have effectively changed. But what really happened? The prices were decuplied like said, but the battle fund was only multiplied x5! That was an HALVING of our daily income. After a while, another Infamous update hit the game: the "fair Battlefund" update, that ended up cutting top scorer income from battles by another half to give the fund to weaker players who did not fully deserve it. In a month we switched from "i'm the top player and i get half of the big fund" to "i'm the top player and i get... a quarter? of this ridicolously low fund". i could not keep up and i quitted again. My crystals earning was cut by 3/4. Time passed, and playing random battles like once in a week, i ranked from third lieutenant to second lieutenant in... maybe a year? Another thing that drove me away from the game was the fact that my old pc could not play the game anymore: update after update, i went from 40 FPS with full settings, to 10 with everything off. Fast Foward to around 16 months ago. Beginng of 2014 Summer. I wisely saved up money from birthdays, gifts, parties, grandparents, aunts and everything like a little banker. i ended up buying my new gaming Pc for a whopping 1400 euros and i built it myself thank to internet tutorials and school. "How would Tanki run on my new pc? well, 30 FPS at max setting without even the dedicated graphic card? that is awesome! what else could i play while i wait for my gpu to arrive?" I got hooked back to the game, but it was nearly impossible for me to earn crystals. the introduction of kits, supplies discounts and everything related made me get only the crumbs of the battle fund at the end of every battle. What could a second lieutenant with railgun-hornet m1, a cheap paint and no supplies do against peoples roaming around with m2's, paints from 10 ranks ahead and hundreds of supplies? Quit? Of course not, Man up and join them! So tanki won the game agains my wallet. They drove me insane enough to kill my piggy bank and end up getting a 50€ of crystals the next week. With a whopping 50% discound (so i got the 100€ package) and a DDC, i ended up with nothing less than 421.000x2: 842.000 crystals. At second lieutenant. And what was avaible at second lieutenant? And here my journey as an Elite tank player begins. Shortly after Heavy m2, follows Medium M2. A pack of 100 supplies each. Freeze m2. Isida m2. Hornet m2. Railgun m2. What else could i want? A little investment (less than a new game from the shop) changed my game experience from :( to :D Ranks were Flowing like molten butter. First lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel. I join a clan. I Watch Starseries. I'm totally into tanki. I start playing clan wars. Crystals were flowing into my wallet from costant first places thank to the gear i bought. Gold boxes were a joke for me. That summer was the "Golden Age" of tanki from my Point of Wiew. After a while, I reach brigadier, i get my first m3's. Tanker day comes, and my wallet gets another lifting from a gift. Another 50€ ends up in my account, another big discount lets me get the most bang for my buck. Others m3, paints, gear, kits in a costant stream of purchases. Railgun, Hornet, Thunder, Isida, Viking, Twins, Mammoth, Freeze, Shaft. Lots of supplies. My garage is worth many times the average garage of a player my same rank. There is not a battle i cant takeover, there is not a game where i can end up first. My clan gets into starladder, AM series season 2 begins. First stage, Second stage, Third stage, Fourth stage. We get kicked from a minor infraction (too many changes in team composition). Our clan tears apart. Many become inactive, no more in game friends. Schools starts, and i end up logging only for the daily bonuses. Fast foward to 8 months later, beginning of 2015 summer. Summer break again, more time to do funny stuff. I get involved in tanki again, but there is no one i can play with. All my old friends are now inactive, logging once in a while just to say hi. I'm alone. But i have a goal. End up what i have started. Fulfil my dream. Daily missions come, they give me a reson to play again. I fight alone, with my garare holding me up every battle. Daily missions get "corrected" after the first boom, but i did not care. Crystals stock up, thousands after thousand. 100.000, 200.000, half a million. nothing can hold me back. Here i come, Marshall, the rank i was dreaming when i really began my career in the cold 2010 winter. After it, Fieldmarshall. Pizza rank... ahem, no, Commander. Maybe in the future Generalissimo. The future is foggy. Who knows, maybe one day all my archievements will be wiped. My garage deleted. Tanki will close. But what counts, is that i have played this game, and i have archieved those archievements.

Knowing the economical difficulties the game is passing those times, i was prepared for the worst. Happy for a 40% instead of a mere 25% like it could have happened. Also Happy regarding the extra XT stuff, extra shiny stuff is always welcome. Too bad they remain extra shiny stuff because i wont micro-upgrade my garage again.

So you say that changing half the missions to "mini missions" like "capture a reparit kit" or "earn 150 XP" for GENERALISSIMO is not a reduction of the overall reward? Also, i dont see a topic announcing that. the last one was the 50% reduction one.

my only thought: Atleast tell us in the face. But remember, threads like those will only get ignored.

Since the beginning of this summer, the game connection quality has greatly decreased. Everyone got slowdowns, high pings, lags, fatal errors, slow loadings and related stuff frequently. But today, the game is just unplayable. there is some issue related to the tanki servers, because the slowdows are just obscene. every game chat has someone talking about today issue. Tanks teleporting around, shots being delayed and bullets from ricochet and twins effecting you 10's at a time once every few second make the game just unplayable and frustrating. My internet works fine like the other days, no connection issues: skype, browser, other games are all fine. For today i'm not playing anymore, hoping that tomorrow this issue will be fixed. Edit: the issue seems to be related to Extreme amount of Packet-Loss from the servers. pinged from different machines and different connection types and the amount of packet loss is about 25-75%!!!

nice kit choiche, isida m2 is a gamechanger at your rank. My suggestion would be to buy only the Kit, and wait for a future one that containst railgun m2, like mosquito, because the m1 is not really useful. Also avoid wasting crystals on cheap paints that will be useful only for a little and you will totally regreet buying some weeks later.

there were other "Heavy M3" kits before the one above. the first was made up of Dictator/Railgun/Taiga (and other weak paints) and was the ONLY kit that EVER featured dictator M3. The second Took the place of the one above and was the now-common Titan/Smoky+Clay. It had an absurdly high price and few were the ones who could purchase it. Then the last one came, the infamous Mammoth/Twins/Taiga/Prodigi. the ones who could purchase it were able to rule the battlefield. mammoth M3 at nearly Half the score you need to get it and the ceaseless firing twins gave the combo the "noob Op buyer" reputation. you could not join a game without atleast one of the players calling you like that. I was not interested in buying it, but after the developers rolled out the cumulative discounts for product-kits and sales, i could not resist. it was a few days before the kit got permanently removed, if i remember well during the last year halloween celebrations. I think XP with Needle was better. That is the light m3 i bought. Like half of the game brigadiers were buying it cause the affordableness and the ability to play light-format clan battles right after they got it. That kit was probably the bestseller out of all the product kits.

Hey hey, lets remember the unlocking rank. with jackhammer you are able to play with tankers who roam around in m1-m1 combos, while the other 2 kits ranks (marshall and 4gold stars) usually put you with atleast m2-m2 enemies. Anyway i win. My good old Heavy M3 kit will eat both your souls. And was cheaper.

nope. that kit at brigadier rank just eats everything alive.

Happy birthday Semyon! May you produce many little Kirovs like DS said.

as always, potato missions. atleast i got some double armors... better than average.

It has been stated that the kit is avaible only up to Fieldmarshall. the Design Choiche is just a clear Rip-Off to commanders and generalissimos that will have to pay an higher price to buy the equivalent equipment pieces. Tanki is getting darker and darker after every update. i see this as "you look rich, a cup of coffe will cost you 10$ instead of 1!"

the "update" was brought to us in the shadows. no one said anything about it. Officially, the missions have 50% of the original rewards and are better than daily gifts, while on reality they barely scratch the 20% of the initial values and are Far worse than daily gifts.

the kits is avable only up to fieldmarshall, and not avaible for commanders and generalissimos

kit last avaible rank is messed up. i qualify to buy it but the kit does not show at Commander. Also, ridicolously low crystals on missions like always. Shame on you, Tanki.

Hey hey *screaming at the top of my lungs* i wont buy anything unless Dictator/Ricochet/Clay Kit appears! i try.