Thunder is the ultimate weapon sometimes, you have to get used to, focus in the guys with no thunder protection paints (those emeralds should be forbiden always) and light tanks. Also check the maps you play, thunder doesn't fit in all maps. Follow noob rails, and steal their kills. The gameplay of thunder and freeze is quite different, just check how a pro plays thunder. In general is an amazing weapon, is just sometimes there are to many picassos, emeralds, rustle and prodigi to play with thunder. In a drug game, big ranks, is very common inferno/zeus/rock and with thunder you get such a huge advantage :D

Skills have limits, maybe you can survive with one "m" below your enemy. but i invite you to play me with any m1 against my m3 or m2 vs m4 and you will se the results. I don't see why call someone noob is a bad thing, is just a word to denote certains players who lacks the minimum understanding on how this game should be playing, beyond the rank they possess. I like you mentioned the joy of the game, that's exactly what usually you can't have with those guys under equiped playing with or against you.

No it is not. Not a single m1 or m2 weapons are good in top ranking battles. You can't fight m4 tanks/weapons with a simple m2, it is not possible. Forget about skills, luck or the virgin Mary. The other day i quit a battle simply beacause with a single drug charge i killed almost the entire enemy team, they were using m1/m2 combos. Boring as hell. Isida, smoky, freeze are useless m2 against m4 hulls.

The system can be abused? the answer is yes, for sure. But what it's most costly? because without kick system mults/crystal farmers/noobs under equiped became multitude again. D/L close to 30? You were playing with what weapon, shaft? a lot of people hate shaft users and kick them as fast as possible. Supplies or NS game?

And what do you do with normal isidas? Ban the weapon? In Pro NS battles, attacking wasps can have D/L way lower than 0.75, they are not designed to kill, just to run with the flag, distract defenders, slow down flag carriers. D/L is not a good way to kick.

No way, have you see the videos? The guy received serious punishment from M3 weapons constantly. It' likely between 80%-90%. Can't be 98%, with that amount of protection would be immortal, since he use medipacs every minute.

Really? So the rules are always correct because humm, are the rules. Where do you live? North Korea?

Power level is illegal only because the administration wants to be that way. They want you to try earn crystals, and then, if you are not in the 10 percentil top players, you will realize that to improve you have to buy crystals or get beated often by better equiped players. In that point, a lot of guys just quit or buy, simple as that. TO is a business, they need money to survive (which is correct, of course). There are some side effects of power leveling, like inflated ratings but the main reason is what i mentioned. Perse, power leveling it's not totally bad if you don't affect other players (who cares if you spend hours shooting mults? is your time anyway), but if no one buy, TO dies and we all lose, so yes, it's illegal. Don't try to level up fast, you'll face stronger/more skilled opponents. That's not a good idea if you are under equiped.

Hey Semyon, have you see the ranks of the guys who were kicked/want the system removed? Almost all of them are low ranks and probably totally noobs. it is not a coincidence! They are noobs, crystal farmers or/and mults!!!!

This is the type of naive thinking won't let you go any further in TO. What are you going to do after spend 3 hours playing, have a nice reward waiting for you and a clan came and put mults in your side, takeover your game and take all the funds? Call the completely useless "/vote"? The game won't be balanced kid, almost sure you will be in the wrong side of takeovers/mults. The kick system was implemented for something, and the reason remains the same

The mods are humans, so by nature are flawed. We need an automatic system, but ..wait, we already have one!! And the ultra-super-hyper-incredible genious from tanki HQ are going to deactivate it. Sad day indeed.

Really? REALLY tanki? Are you kidding with us? Huge mistake. It's hard enough already kick the mults/noobs in the real games and you want to remove the best feature have ever been invented? And now the result is back to the old times, mults and more mults. And of course, specimens like this: who obviously has some brain issues. You have the post "Need moods" permanently up in the forum, we know is impossible have moods available when required. Yes, the system has flaws and so what? You can abuse the system in any case!! Every single player knows the deal, a couple of guys came into the game, quietly start to put "players" in the opposite team meanwhile have their own on click, after sometimes, the real game start and you won't stand a chance with those mults in your side. Pretty sure a high percentage of complains came from crystals farmers who said they were playing. The reasons the system were implemented remains the same, so please, don't think that hard, just tweak the current system a little bit. But anyway tanki, thank you very much, that's another reason to play only NS battles, were is less likely being multed and the crystals farmers won't enter due the cost of pro passes. I'm sure other gens like me will realized that, and your regular income from top players buying drugs will vanish (sadly, won't be soon enough)

Easy one, reload. I'm to lazy to redo the math for damage vs reaload, but is more efficient do reload since as you shoot faster, can put damage faster due the already high damage base number. And forgetting math, in the gameplay, have an advantage over other thunders is invaluable, usually is not about damage per shoot, it's about who make the last shoot faster. On any given game, it's more about shoot in the precise momment, not have the supreme damage. Anyway, since the first MU's are the cheaper and the most profitable ones, just do one reload and then one damage, when you feel both categories became a little bit expensive for you, do some range and impact force mu's.

Freeze is a lot better than fire these days. Even with the dps fire can put, is still worst than freeze because those pesky isidas around. Freeze have a good chance to beat those isidas or left them behind, fire don't have such a luxury unless they use a faster tank. Another factor is with the raise of freeze and smoky, in small maps zeus is a very popular paint (on my rank, of course), wich makes firebird useless.

D/L don't say anything in a battle. 5 kills and 1 death give you 5 D/L, the same as 500 kills and 100 death. So, the question is, how many useful things you made in those 10 mins? 5 kills 1 death in 10 mins is completely useless, 50 and 10 is a monster score. Anyway, they probably kick you because not to many people like shafts, is considered weak. Sorry for you, to many noobs shafts out there, the preception is horrible for that weapon.

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Not greedy, stupids. CTF is a team effort, the only reason to take duplicate supplies are to deny them to the enemy. But is a lost battle, even at generalissimo battles you can see those noobs.

"decided it"? The decision was already taken or they are still deciding? I don't care about grammar, is just to know if they are still thinking about it.

You can't be kicked being first nor playing small maps or after spend some time on the battle. And yes, maybe should be modified a little, but the reasons because the feature was created remain intact, it's just change one problem for other. The same way they pursuit any violations should be used to punish those fund hunters. The solution can't be remove everything.

Yeah, i wasn't too inspired that day :D

Mainly Java, python and javascript. What can i say, friday afternoon, can't wait to leave! <--- guilty

Software development can be exhausting at times, so i came here to chill.

Agree. But it won't last, have been playing long time and history says that every turret/hull OP is nerfed eventually. You may have heard about shaft after his second rebalance, rico before 123, mammoth before physics. Just wait and see. My advice for new players, plan carefully your investments on isida, it will be nerfed and maybe won't be as "desirable" after. And if you pay attention to the news, a new weapons rebalance is comming sooner than later.

Without drugs? No unless you make your life as a camper. Freeze is more efective on fast tanks with no supplies or medium tanks with supplies.

No they don't. Please, verify viking M3 for protection and you will see, the table shows fully rounded numbers like 7,5,2 and in game some increments have decimals values. Just check, the table is outdated.