The game will come to a complete standstill while everyone scrambles for a drop zone. A small tank (wasp, hornet, viking) can easily be pushed out of the way by a larger tank (mammoth, titan, dictator). The only tanks that can push a large tank out of the way is another large tank or two large tanks in tandem. "Now Gold boxes appear at any point where usual crystal boxes do (previously there were 1 to 3 drop zones). Gold boxes are dropped as often as they did before the update." Silence maps have 5 drop zones: 3 on the blue team with one being on the ledge and 2 on the red team...one on the long ramp and one on the ground by the long ramp. Of the 5 drop zones, 3 drop crystals (the one on the ground by the long ramp and the one on the upper tier by the blue flag drops power and armor only). Blue team can easily control all 3 zones. l know it has always been that way, but now that there is advance notification, Blue team can band together to gain control easier. Now, for the maps that have Friendly Fire enabled. Need i say more?

Naw, I don't think there should be a change. A freeze can kill a firebird, but the freeze is still burning long after the firebird is dead.

I have seen it mentioned several times to contact tanki by using the email: claims@tankionline.com I tried that email address twice and both times it came back undeliverable, permanent error. Now what?

Thanks for the words of encouragement, guys/gals.

In the chat room a few days ago, a player asked a Marshal if he ever bought crystals with real world money. His answer was "No." I made up this account to see how difficult a task this would be. So far, I don't see how that can be done. Most of the crystals I have gotten where from Tanki at log in and those I have managed to pick up from drops in game. My rank is Sargeant, I have Smoky M1, Twins M0, Wasp M1, Titan M0 and 6 crystal in the bank. In battle, I'm easily killed so I become a prime target...I'm a one shot wonder (dead in one shot). My weapons aren't strong enough to kill anyone, unless they don't have any life left. Even if I use consumables, I'm still easy to kill. Because my weapons and tanks are so under rated for my rank, I'm not a very good asset to my team. A team member in game asked me why I never leveled up my weapons and tank. I told him because this Tankman is poor. Then my Team mates started picking on me by turning my tank over. And why not? I was costing them points and by turning my tank over I had to blow myself up, which does not cost the team points. That's when I bought the Titan M0 which isn't much better than the Wasp M1. In one game, I had 4 kills and 26 deaths... No bonus points there! That has become pretty consistant. So, how can one go from Recruit to Marshal without buying crystals with real world money for upgrades? I know crystals have nothing directly to do with XP, but in order to get XP, you have to blow up other tanks, which I'm finding very difficult to do as I go up in rank. At the beginning, I ranked up fast, because with experience with my other much higher ranked account, I knew how the game was played and already knew strategy.