I'm doing just that on another account. Just got promoted to WO1. I have wasp m0, titan. hornet, smoky m0, railgun and twins and have bought nothing with real world money. Problem is, My hulls and weapons always seem to be one rank behind. :huh: But you have a choice: Do you use your hard earned crystals on enhancements ("drugs") or save your crystals for upgrades. You can't do both and enhancements will eat up your savings in a hurry. So, consequently, I'll dive for as many crystals as I can, even if it means dying a horrid death. :(

I have a question: How are you able to out maneuver and be seemingly unaffected by a freeze? Now make a video with you doing the same things without using enhancements ("drugs"). That would be impressive. A lot of players don't use enhancements either by choice or because they can't afford to buy them (which, obviously, you can). Impress me :blush:

Thunder is a very tactical weapon. Consider this: You shoot your Thunder and while it's reloading the other tank rests right up against yours in an effort to kill you. Hopefully, your weapon will reload before you die. Now you have a choice: 1) let him kill you and get the kill point or 2) you shoot, knowing that your life is low and so is his. If you shoot, you will die and so will he and both of you will be sent back to home base. But you have a kill point and he doesn't. Now, for your question (poll). I don't think there should be a penalty for self-destruct. Let me ask you a question. What's the difference between self-destruction by means of the weapon/going over the edge or using a life pack? Either way, you don't get the kill point, because if he uses the life pack his energy is restored and you're a dead man! So, if you penalize for self-destructing, then you will also have to penalize for using a life pack. In TDM, self-destruction is a tactic to keep the other team from making kill points, which can be a critical move if the points are close towards the end of the game and your team is winning by a hair.

What does a white page with an exclaimation point in the middle of it mean? First time it happened, a few days ago, I was chatting with 3 other players about making a 4 man team TDM with us being on the same team. We were trying to decide which arena to use, when I suddenly got the afore mentioned white page. I reloaded and got right back into the lobby. I asked what it meant and another player said that I had gotten blocked for some reason. I didn't say anything that is against the rules (I have read them several times).. Mostly I just either agreed or disagreed and made a couple suggestions about the arenas. Second time it happened, just a few minutes ago, I was logging onto Server 4, which had 935 players, and instead of getting into the lobby, the white screen with the exclaimation point appeared. I wasn't able to reload, so I clicked on the URL again and got onto the homepage and then onto the forum. Anyone know what's going on?

Since the new release, I've had to reload only 3 times (which is a plus), until this afternoon. I was using Firefox when I logged on to Server 4, which had 887 players (I try to log into Servers with less than 1800 playes in an effort to reduce the number of reloads and disconnects). I played for about 30 minutes, which was about half way through the battle when I was killed and respawned with spinning tanks. I tried to reload, but got a "timed out" message. I waited for a minute and tried again...same results. I changed the browser to Chrome. Got to the homepage and logged back onto Server 4 with 904 players. I was able to get back into the battle I had left and on the same side as before. Gameplay was normal (i killed a player on the opposing team) and looked around for any more enemys. I looked towards our flag and saw it was being stolen, the other team player was up against a building. I shot it 3 times, but nothing happened. I went over to nudge the tank and no response. Upon looking around, I noticed there were no spinning tanks, but no one was moving either. By this time, I had been playing for about 3 to 5 minutes. I reloaded again and this time got a message which stated that the connection had reset while reloading and to try again later. I chagned the browser to IE. This time, I couldn't even get onto the homepage. At the bottom of the screen was the message: "waiting for tankionline,com to connect." I have high speed broadband and after 2 minutes it did not connect. (This has nothing to do with the slow loading time of the initial log on after the update). I went back to Firefox and was able to get the homepage. Server 4 now had 924 players. I hit the "Start" button, but it never loaded beyond that. Still got the message "waiting for tankionline.com to connect." Now. it's about 3 hours later and at least I've gotten on to the homepage. I haven't tried to get to the lobby, yet. This is the first time I have had problems like this since I started playing on Day 1. Thank you for allowing us, the players, to report our logging and disconnect problems since the new release.

I live in the USA, my time zone is EST. Time now is 3:34 pm. From what I have read thus far, it sounds like some are already playing. I went to the homepage and it still says "Please wait...servers are unavailable at this time". When will the update begin here?

Thanks for the Hunter m0, though I have already bought it. But 10 crystals won't make or break me, except on my lesser account where 10 crystals meant the difference between life and death when stealing the flag (1 armor and 1 power). :wacko: I will certainly keep looking for the 200 crystal box. Thanks again for both. Happy New Year 2013 to all!! Hope the "13" isn't cursed :o :( :mellow: :D :D

Thank you for clearing that up for me. However, that doesn't explain how that one guy got 1200+ points and most of the crystals. It was a full team and I think it was on one of the Silence maps. So, if he captured the flag, thats 10 x 10 = 100. He had 14 kills...14 x 10 = 140. So, 140 +100 = 240. I can nor cannot swear he was an Isida. What I do know, is that if he was an Isida, he was the only one and no Isida ever healed me during the game. All I remember about the tank was that it was a Dictator with metallac skin. This was before the Re-Balance. Thank you, again.

I was playing CTF, our team won with a score of 1 to 0. I don't know who captured the flag, since I came in a little late. However, the top scorer of our team had 14 wins and 55 loses, the most crystals and had a score of around 1200 (don't remember exact score). Second highest was 684 with a lot more wins and less losses. I was third highest with 654 points. I don't remember all the stats since this was about a month ago. One day, thinking about this, I thought it had something to do with enemy contact. So, on a short battle I put myself purposefully in harms way. I had 9 wins and 24 losses, which gave me more enemy conttact than anyone else on my team. We won the battle, but my score was very low and no crystals. On another battle of CTF, I captured the flag 4 times (the only flags our team got), 20 wins and 5 losses. I got "0" crystals, our team lost. In TDM I had gotten a lot more wins and only a few losses, but no crystals. The player with the most crystals had a lot of losses and few wins. On another CTF, i came in towards the end of the game, but I captured the flag twice, had 6 wins and 5 losses and 2 crystals. Nothing here makes sense. Is there some sort of win:loss ratio at play here with capturing the flag mixed in somehow? Can someone please clear up the scoring for me?

Well, now, let's see if I have this right. When it's daytime in Russia, it's night time in the U.S.A. (wee hours in the morning) and a different day. So, that means I have to stay up all night in order to compete with the Russian, European, Asian, etc. Communities. On top of that, I have to stay posted to that "snow field" until it changes and then click on a link written in Russian. So, let's analyze this a bit further. While this contest is going on, the only ones playing Tankionline are those not participating, because everyone else will have their eyes glued to the "snow field" waiting for it to change with the hopes of being the first to post the message. Which brings another question. The game lags pretty badly at times, so, does that mean that some of the posts will lag getting to the Judges, too?

I noticed that in Crash there are no drops of any kind, not even crystals. Is there a reason for that?

Two strange things happened tonight in Crash. 1)..A Hornet (I think, not sure, could have been a Wasp) on the other team was going back and forth very rapidly. I was trying to hit it with a Ricochet but couldn't, it was going too fast. Thinking it was a lag of some type, I waited until he settled down, then realized he was actually firing and hitting me. He wasn't on "speed" either (or at least his tank wasn't). I have never seen a tank move back and forth so fast. That's why I wasn't sure what type of tank it was. 2)..An enemy tank, only partially materialized, went through me. I turned my turret to shoot him, but he wasn't there. I was getting attacked from the front and turned my turret back. The tank that went through me was now in front of me fully materialized and attacking.

I checked the settings. The volume bar is as far as it will go to the right and there is a check in the sound box. Just to be sure, I unchecked the box, hit the 'save" button, then put a check in the box again and hit the "save" button. Went into battle, but still no sound. Went to settings again and the box is still checked.I have the sound on my speakers up full volume and the speaker setting is at 100%.

For the past few days I haven't had any battle sounds at all. I know it's not my sound system since it works just fine on other websites. I've tried turning the volume up full blast, reloading, changing servers, and dumping cache. I used to have good sound on Tanki. What happened to the battle sounds?

I posted this suggestion here, because the forum says..."General: bugs, suggestion, ideas." This is a suggestion.

I have become painfully aware that if you decide to hold back and protect the flag, you get no points for doing so unless you blow up the opposing team's tank and then you only get points for the kill. I was playing CTF, there were several attempts and successes on stealing our flag, mainly because no one was guarding it. Why? Because, point-wise, it doesn't pay. :x I have a suggestion: If the opposing team member is killed within the proximity of the flag mount while carrying the flag, extra points be awarded for the kill, giving the one guarding the flag a chance at some bonus points. OR give bonus point for every 5 kills of the opposing team carrying the flag. If the kill is made outside of your team's area, no extra points are given, except for the kill. Some play the game strictly for the kill points, others play strictly for stealing the flag and scoring (bonus points awarded for both). But no bonus points for preventing the steal.

All upgrades have their + and -. As the game suggests: "Create your own tank according to your fighting style." The "perfect" tank is the one you develop (create) yourself. If you look at the protective paints, you will see they protect against different weapons at different rates. I vote "no"

Yeah, like when you're carrying the flag in CTF.

Never thought about refreshing. I will remain in battle and not lose my points. Hmmmmm. Nice to know. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the information. I was afraid it was a problem with my computer. I hate it when I lose nearly 1K points.

I'm in the middle of a long battle and have racked up a lot of points. My tank blows up (as it has several times during the battle), but this time I respawn as a "Ghost Tank." I look real enough and so does everyone else. I shoot at the other team and nothing happens...they don't shoot back nor do they blow up. I try to pick up a package, but can't. I can push the other tanks around, too. In one match, where this happened, I pushed three enemy tanks into a ditch. :D I tried the battle chat. The chat box came up, I typed out a message, hit "enter" but the message did not show up on the screen. As I was roaming around, I noticed tanks and turrets going around in circles. After a minute or so, I committed suicide, thinking this would bring me back to solidity, but it did not. I still respawned as a Ghost Tank. I had no other choice but to leave the battle. I clicked on "garage" and went right to it. I was also able to join another battle without any problems. In one battle, I was "booted" out with a message, "Foul play detected. You were removed from the game." There was no foul play on my part. I guess I just didn't leave the battle fast enough. This phenomenon has happened several times. Does anyone knows what causes it and what to do to prevent it from happening again.

I have seen this happen to others and has happened to me. You have the enemy flag, you go to your own flag mount, run over it to score and you can't drop the flag! :( You run over the flag mount a dozen times and it won't drop. Then the enemy comes to capture your team flag, you get shot, loose the flag and no score. Sometimes it's hard enough just to get to the enemy territory. But when you finally capture the flag, against all odds, barely make it back to your own and you can't score :?: That's just NUTS :!: