1) must be noob isidas. Actually I also get often mad with noobs and you have noobs among higher ranks too. And some greedy idiots or saboteurs... But are rarely isidas among them. 2) what you describe are not true isida players. Those are common selfish idiots. But those idiots very rarely can come to "the top". Yes, Isida give oportunity to earn crystals, but has to work twice as hard as others, to get good result. You really have to differentiate between those conceps, otherwise you can insult a lot of good players. (I felt insulted by this poll).

History by players usualy go this steps: 1. newbe & noobs are impressed by isida and think "this is great" 2. newbe & noobs by an isida, but they don't practice enough and don't practice right and most important - they are not right personality for playing isida good! (Isida demand special - unselfish teamplayer - personality) 3. above mationed find playing isida to difficult so they quit and call it boring and noobish - they continue play isier weapon Why? Because killing with isida is incredibile difficult and everybody shoot first on isida (so do I when I play shaft or rail) If people would really read my explanation instead calling it wall of text would perhaps understand (well some todlers have ego problems and they won't understand) ZMH00I bought isida & hornet at rank WO4! I PLAYED WITH RAILI M3 BEFORE I BOUGHT ISIDA & HORNET. I was good at rail, realy good. Later I bought Shaft M2 and now I'm not so good at rail anymore, since I almost don't play rail anymore. (You have to prectice constantly to mantain high pro-level because parts of seconds and feeling are importants). I bought isida & hornet combination when i found out how important is isida for result of complete team in for me was isida most noble "job" - same as medic on a battelfield. SO... There's no things like "Isida is good when player use it for help,not for stealing other fund..." It is only immature, selfish and greedy thinking. here are some ugly thinka, but no particulary weapon involved. People are. (another story) I play 2 complete different combination shaft & viking or isida & hornet. I take the combination which is more suitable for team (yes, I change during the batle if I need) - if there's flood of shaft's I take isida - if there are few Isida and no shaft - I takr shaft. And yes I admit - if I want earn crystals I take isida. What other possibility I have? Watching flag and preventing it to be stollen, that other can think how good they are and that they win a game all alone because they capture all the flags and none were stolen? Or beeing pushed of position from "I'm sure I'm the best" WO4 shaft rail or thunder, who find out that I'm able to find great position for killing and that I earn a lot of ponts with shaft? What is really to hate (and I hate them deep from my heart are those position-steallers, who are not able to find position. When I find good (lucrative :P ) position, they come and bump and disturbe me so long I move from there. BUT TALKING THAT ISIDAS STEALING FUNDS IS UNFAIR AND CHILDISH. Isida only give you possibility to do twice more than other but you have to work twice as hard as other and what you earn, you earn "with sweat and blood"! Assholes who complain about isida forget how many times isida saved their ass and gave them possibility thay capture enemy flag. "... I take over noob battles, they heal me and get to first even though I can win without them..." Yeah, right... :lol: Maybe low rank opponents, without M3 rails and M3 thunders or they are highly outnumberd I literally saved hudreds of flag-carriers and with healing managed them to capture the flag by prevent them be killed by rail or thunder... And I can guarantee you, noone of them is aware that they surwive 3 or even 4 hits of M3 rail because of healing (I know what damage M3 rail causes). I've been killed almost so often covering back of fleeing flag-carriers as well... But I don't only heal. I steal flag too. I often exploat some crush on one site to steal flag from another... Just... I'm able to capture about 10% flags. Other 90% I lose being killed on flee, since noone heal me. If there's another isida, prblem is often solved. Many of this flags also team mates pick up and capture. Othervise... I'm forced mostly to play so... When "wanabeheros" run to steal a flag I have to run behind them. When I provide that our "eagle" has as much health as possible, I have to distract opponent defenders - if I'm not already killed since nobody is healing me. If I meet flag-carrier, I heal him first and I turn and follow him. That bring me no points usually, but I'm able to save flag-carrier, or if he is killed i pick up flag and capture. So again... that Cristals erned with isida are earnd "with blood". 2) All the time it has been spoken like only isidas take drugs. ALL OTHER WEAPONS TAKE DRUGS TOO AND THAT'S REAL PROBLEM - DRUGS! Yes, druged isida is difficult to kill - if you are not druged. But same is with any other weapon & tank combination. At the end of the day - I play often also without isidas (unfortunately). If opponents had isidas - we lost. If one team has isidas ant other does't, alwas team with isidas win (if only isidas arn't complete noobs) Be aware - you still earn much more as second or third in winning team as first in losing one.

You got to be kidding, right ? I really hate to spoil the fun, but everybody can check his/her rating after reaching first ranks, as an example a corporal has rating ca 700,000, meaning ca 700,000 players have reached a rank equal or higher than corporal. ... not 7,000,000 :) Meaning 9,000,000 - 700,000 = 8,300,000 players are privates or corporals :) And to take into account a lot of mults typically on sergeant rank and its masters ... the number of REAL PLAYERS will become even smaller. And for all newbie's, PAY ATTENTION, when you reach higher rank you will see a lot of cheaters and guys with top level tanks/weapons with no honor. Any trick is good to grab the fund. Example: see http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/101354.page -- in short, a high rank player sabotaged the game causing a team to loose a fund of ca 1700 crystals and for that was banned for a day :twisted: Honestly, who wouldn't take a ban for a day for 1700 crystals :D And you cant criticize decisions of administrators ... :roll: You have been warned :) best regards, ... alias Micky Can't agree more, Micky. Have only to add, that sometimes some things looks like organised crime, and with cooperation owners of the game. Other day I was a team we were wonning 3:0 and quite nice amount of crystal was in bonus - suddenly game colapsed and all starts from zero. After that opponents take the lead and we lost. What is strange, our team didn't have russian players, oponents were almost all russian (using cyrilic leters)

Of course you ignore. You are too young and you aren't familiar with reading and writing yet. Stop crying and go to play with your teddy bear and live Tankionline to at least a bit older than you.

:roll: Criticism is how everyone learns. Learn to take criticism properly, what hotwheel was doing was simply disagreeing with you and pointing out where you were wrong. You should thank him for showing you your mistakes, not shout at him to stop criticizing. :roll: Actually, skitee, I see a lot of dictators higher ranks often. I guess mostly Russians, but yes, even marshals. (Well I've seen also marshal with wasp and firebird - people do what they want - also experiments :) ) I agree dictator isn't "goodlooking guy", but it's quite good compromise armour/speed and could be quite usefull (or annoing for oponents). Comparing Dictator M3 and Viking M2 (almost same price and same HP) Viking is a turtle - and you know I have Viking M2

Great! Yea - Really nice work. Applaude to you.

You are such a noob, used to be cofortable (and all who agree with you). Probbably you are just another spoiled and egoistic kid used to everything should be for his benefit. (you must be only child) At first - point factor for healingn is 1,5 (so you would earn with isida for healing 3 points instead 2) Otherwise - There's much more really unfair advantages some have, than isidas. That guy has to work really hard to earn those 2,000 points and have druged a lot!!! It's a complete differet style of thinking (and even life concept) beeing good isida. It's truth some isidas are rotten. (Real good) isida has to have higher concius. Other players are mostly egoistic look only on their selfe. Most are so idiotic, that they are picking up "first aid" in front of their vounded isida teammate during that same isida is healing them. I have a plenty such experiances. How do you mean is feeling healing your teammate trying to keep him alive during getting hits some rico or thunder? TRY IT!!! Isidas do this all the time. You don't need to decide in critical situations. Isida has to - killing or healing - that can be often crushual question in a battle. Right or wrong desidion can be difference between save or lose your flag... I play with smoky, twins, rail (all M3 or acording to rank) and then isida and now with shaft. With any of this weapons I come usually in to first 3 places and usually 1st or 2nd if I only didn't come too late. For rail or (especially) shaft I just need realy good spot and close the door to the enemy and hope they are stupid enough to try come trough and need only wait patiently with finger on a triger. Afrter diferent number of my kills opponents get incredible desire to kill me :P And then I get incredible desire to have an isida near me. And I'm even not able to thanks them for healing me :( - so from this point... THANKS TO ALL ISIDAS EVER HEALED ME!!! Yes, when I play isida I know I can collect and even earn more crystals (and take isida when I need to earn crystals) but I know also I'll have to work at least twice as hard as usualy or other. Moving more, thinking faster, working harder - that's isidas "work". Are you aware how hard is kill anyone with isida?!?! YOU NEED TO CAME REALLY CLOSE - on a distance where even biggest noob and rookie can't miss you! Any other weapon need only to avoid you to distance of 20m and you are dead with isisda. And there much more problems isidas have to score a kill. For instance - beam won't jump on those who you aim but on closest on wery wide angle. Range of isida is 15m but beam wont jump on 15m. Starting jump distanc is somewhere half this distance or less. ctually creators limited isida wery well and is realy hard to play vith isida. That's why like play more with other weapon and thinking of buying rico or freezer. Especialy ricois confortable for most maps. Some "smartass" has writen somewhre that isidas only wait other win game for them. Can't be more stupid statement as that! So when I "locked doors" with shaft and win 1st place despite 2 or 3 isidas and earen more crystal then others, was only waiting other win me a game? What a rubbish! So that opponents couldn't stael our flag mean nothing? It was one flag difference (1:0). And do you know why I managed win first place? BECAUSE ISIDAS SMART ENOUGH HEALING ME! And I know very well I would be helples without isidas support. So is with isidas - yo don't even know how many more kills and steals isidas make you possible with their healing. Healing packs doesnt lie around al the time and costs 15 crystals. If it's not maratonic fight on first place you earn around for 5 health packs.But isida behind your back - you can kill and steal until oponents don't kill your isida. After that you are soon dead meat too. So - to all isida haters - grow up and give me a brake! P.S.: If you think I ofended you - I'm sorry. But sefishness narrow looking raelly makes me angry.

^and this guy has obviously never used the railgun ^ And this guy is a sergeant ^and this guy is a noob :roll: And I used both and say Isida has to do harder. Who hate isida is only a selfish kid.

Why' Because they are asholes. Report them. I did. But those are not only asholes. I mostly hate players, who escape from battle when get worse and then wait opportunity to join winning side. Or join only side which is winning. Many here are prepared to sell their honor for a few crystals. Blyak! :evil: :thumbdown: It seems there are some new isues of cheating (power of weapon or protection), but can't prove. But is strange that Hornet & Isida & regular green color can kill in direct frontal one-on-one fight Hornet M3 & Isida M3 & sandstone color with full HP. (no dopers on any side, no shots from a side, just direct frontal one-on-one /yellow beam/ fight) :? Even if there's same M3 combination, shoud be 5% diference in benifit of sandstone color.

Everything 15% Nope koolwalky! It's 20% 15% has Acid, which is also not buyable. (Or FAQ specification isn't correct)

Until you don't have Railgun M3 or at least M2, Smokey M3 is better. From Rail M0 Smokey M3 is much better. Play with smokey until you upgrade Rail to at least M2 version and then begin to practice with a Rail. You have to practice since Rail has unplesant quality that shot is delayed. When you press a trigger Rail doesn't shoot a once but discharge firs and beam is delayed for several seconds.

Please, send this forward or tell me to whom I send. I have sugestion (at least for 2.0 version) Give button "Y" same funcionalyty as button "Z" Problem is - controls are made for QWERTY keyboard but lot of us has QWERTZ keybord and we are on beginning in disadvantage. We can turn turret right, and center, but "Z" is unconfotrably away. You will say use <,> and ?. But... where QWERTY has <,> and ?, we have comma, dot and minus, so we cant use "C" for turret centration (or it's very unconfortable). If I press minus it wil make my window smaller (as functionality of minus is). Besides that, if you have laptop than and you have fingers of left arm on comma and dot (right are on cursor tasters), than mouspad with buttons is right under your palm. Pressing for fire often can cosses pressing also that buttons and mess is complete. Is it problem to give to "Y" same functionality as "Z" has that we all would have at least here same conditions? Since some commands are already doubbled, I guess that shouldnt be a problem. Thanks.

Dissagree Koolwalky - Dependes of a lot of parameters and - I've met a few M3 Thunders (ant they kick really well) but non of M3 Shafts yet. Too expensive. Otherwise Shaft don't need to be on other side. Only need enough time to charge to full power and then only Mamooth M3 with extra armour (perhaps) survive. If Shaft is on good spot and well covered even M0 Shaft sweep away almost everything it comes in his sight. Truth is, that Shaft demand special people, who are prepare to sacrafize for a team. If you want to be usefull with Shaft, you can't collecting points with runing for flag and playing hero that you can boast yourselfe. With Shaft you are forced to lurk like a pike and never missed a hit. If you miss, flag will be stolen. And often you are dependen on isidas to cure you. However that demands mature calm caracter, not youngster or child. With Shaft also you can't play on all maps. On contrary Thunder is mor or less universal weapon but because of splash efect very sorry on close contact combat. If can't retreat any isida will kill or selfdestruct him (pehaps every weapon wll do the same to him). Only using extra armour can prevent that. Bigest problem which have snipers with Shaft and Rail have in combat are rookies and idiots (sorry the word but is only sutable I find) who climb ower their tanks instead using some way around. Especiali if you have a Rail this is extremly bothering and anoying. So guys DON'T DO THAT TO YOUR SNIPER FELOWS!!! BUT - I admit, with Thuder can be solo-player - Shaft NOT. Solo-player Shaft is useless ant it's a joke. What is interesting is, that we all overlooked two weapons and most of us deaply uderestimate them (at least I did, but see other too) are Smoky M3 and especially Twins M3. Russians are not as stupid as we are (since I meet them a lot with this combination) - those two weapons are cheap and they spend crystals on beter tank (higher upgrade). Because hit-efect you can't come close with isida or freezer, and they run against thunder. High speed of shooting make enogh damage that opponent succumb.

Well i come a litle before 7.000.000 but I agree with you. If they would block all hackers and double accounts it would be only 2.000.000 left :twisted: :P

Hmmm... I hope you work on power of servers too, not just growing members number... :roll:

They think they are smart, but they are only poor asholes :thumbdown:

yonsneg

I have sugestion - controls are made for QWERTY keyboard but lot of us has QWERTZ keybord and we are on beginning in disadvantage. We can turn turret right, and center, but "Z" is unconfotrably away. You will say use <,> and ?. But... where QWERTY has <,> and ?, we have comma, dot and minus, so we cant use "C" for turret centration (or it's very unconfortable). If I press minus it wil make my window smaller (as functionality of minus is). Besides that, if you have laptop than and you have fingers of left arm on comma and dot (right are on cursor tasters), than mouspad with buttons is right under your palm. Pressing for fire often can cosses pressing also that buttons and mess is complete. Is it problem to give to "Y" same functionality as "Z" has that we all would have at least here same conditions? Since some commands are already doubbled, I guess that shouldnt be a problem. Thanks.

Could be that too. Seem to have sense. Once I used drugs a lot and had high score eventhough I didn't have lot of kills. That confused me but I killed a lot of flag-carriers then.

I havent find, how score in combat is calculated. Can anybody explain to me? As far as I see there is some connection betwen kills and lost tanks, but... Does only kills count? What when I hit the oponent - Rail M3 does pretty much damage, but not destroy, then my combat mate finish him befor me? Are points for damage or only for kills and flag? I also often see, some players have more points but less kills than me and more lost tanks than me - what is explanation is that could be legal reason or they cheat? Thanks for answers.

Can someone tell me... On what distance is splash efect by thunder efective?