Freeze wins. And Contaminated? I see your hate/troll and raise you a gravedigging. Happy?

You're nice.

I have no mines at all. Not a single one. I'm a WO3 btw. Again, people fail to realize that things are different for lower ranked players. Sure, druggers might not be too bad at higher ranks, but of the millions of people playing the game, only a tiny, tiny fraction are at the top. The vast majority have to face druggers (and hackers, but that's a whole other issue) without any good way of stopping them.

Everyone out there who is higher ranked (most of the people reading this) must think I'm a total ***** by posting this stuff. But let me tell you, druggers are hated in lower rank battles, and Tanki Online is surely losing some of the player base to druggers dominating and destroying games. I was only trying to be helpful by posting here, but I guess people think that if I don't agree with them I'm a ******ed noob who deserves to be shot down. Forum? Not so much...

From all us normal players, who keep the player base large, we declare you an asshole. :thumbdown: Take away all the lower ranked players to leave your elite "pros" and Tanki Online shinks from millions of players to a few thousand. Is that what you want? Also, you clearly missed everything I said about things being different for higher ranked players. Just because you have a bad memory and don't remember being a lower ranked "noob," doesn't mean those people don't exist and deserve to be dumped on. But seriously, what's the point of a forum if suggestions are so rudely shot down like this? You're such a hotshot prick, aren't you? You think you're above everyone else just because your rank in an online game is higher than most? Give me a break. :roll:

Well why not try to be better than other games? Why not make it fun for higher ranked players and lower ranked players? If you do that I believe the game will become more popular, and there will be a bigger player base, as less people will quit early due to frustration. As with skitee, you could say "It is what it is," or you could say "Let's make this better!"

You missed an option -developers make (part of) the game more english friendly, more english people join, and Tanki Online expands If Tanki wants more players, why would they not do this? Too much work? Too expensive?

Of course druggers are a part of the game, but they're a bad part. Many people, myself included, have quit games due to druggers. And if druggers are everywhere, as is true at lower ranks, many will quit Tanki altogether. The problem with druggers that is separate from your other examples (skilled players, campers) is that drugs give players an unfair advantage, which is very frustrating. People who have seen me playing Tanki have commented on how they hate it when people in games (often buyers) abuse advantages like this. One of my friends even said he would never play Tanki because of the druggers. So by all means, keep in it in the game as it is if you want, but I'm telling you less people will play Tanki, and that's not exactly what game developers normally desire. What I'm suggesting is to make drugs a little less dominating, as it's kind of insane right now. It's called improving the game, instead of saying, "It is what it is".

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So you admit there's a problem, but you don't seem to realize that to every problem there's a solution. Finding that solution is why I started this thread, tough guy. I've just offered you a solution; buy a no supplies battle pass... That's not a viable solution, it's impossible to find any no supply battles at lower ranks.

Thanks for the advice, it is helpful. However, you seem to be saying that the game only gets nice at high ranks. Doesn't this seem like a bad strategy for Tanki Online in general? Perhaps it's why only a fraction of the people who have joined the game ever get to higher ranks, or even WO3 like me.

+1

So you admit there's a problem, but you don't seem to realize that to every problem there's a solution. Finding that solution is why I started this thread, tough guy.

1 - Leave battle, no crystals. 2 - Unless you're a buyer, run out of drugs, lose, no crystals. 3 - Be dominated, no crystals. So you're right, we do have options. But no options that reward skill, and no options that give crystals when crystals are due.

This is a good idea (in my opinion). Why is something like this not implemented?

this^ And also, if you want really to test your skills, do a high rank no supply sandbox, just with dictator rail and no paints. And there you can test your skills ;) I think you admins are too high leveled to see the problem. Sure, there might be some no supply battles at high ranks, but at lower ranks there are practically none, and if you do happen to find one, it's never filled. This means that all the battles have the potential to be ruined by some drugger hotshot.

What's the use of no supply battles if NOBODY USES THEM Perhaps you should promote them more? Or give perks to people who use them? Or create separate servers just for no supply battles? Or make entrance a flat rate charge (I agree that you can't make them free)? But the point is, right now no supply battles definitely do not solve the problem.

A hunter should not be able to survive a full round from an m1 freeze. Said hunter should then not be able to take a flag, run past several other tanks, and score the flag while being pounded by attacks. Yet, that is what a WO1 just did in an average Iran CTF battle. How, you ask? D-R-U-G-S No amount of skill can beat a player that is using all 4 drugs at once. No amount. Period. That means that this game, that somehow 13 million people have played, is a game of drugs, and not a game of skill. It's so infuriating when you know you should be beating someone, but then *POP*, there go the drugs, and that's going to determine the game. PLEASE FIX THIS TANKI! Because right now, I have determined this game, a game that COULD be soooo awesome, sucks.

Yeah I had known about the vote feature, but it never seems to work.. :( I think I'm the only one who ever uses it, even when i spam ./vote [hackingplayername] into chat.

Ok thanks! But how soon do they respond? It seems like the damage would already be done by the time all that could happen?

So I was wondering if there's any actual way of reporting hackers... The vote feature is laughably ineffective, but the hacker threat is still as horrible as ever. Is there a more direct way of dealing with the issue, some way of telling a moderator via a pm perhaps? Also, I know from having multiple accounts that the hacker threat drops a ton once you get to WO1, so many of you guys on the forum may not have seen a hacker in a while. But I can assure you that at lower ranks hackers are often more of an enemy than entire opposing teams. It's an issue that's been plaguing tanki for quite some time.