This Matchmaking system is fundamentally flawed. We can leave a battle early if we don't like the map or for any reason such as being on the losing side or because it isn't appropriate to our missions. There's no team development over a series of games or loyalty to friends because you can't choose to play battles with friends. Also one can't choose a favourite map or stay in a game because one likes the map. Because of this people are leaving in droves the battles simply become totally unbalanced or are collapsing. It's a complete disaster. It doesn't achieve what it sets out to achieve and makes the game considerably less attractive.

Not being able to join specific battles makes team games mostly pointless you can't choose a team or a map you can't use any kind of strategy. If this is a permanent change I'm likely to lose interest in Tanki.

I have now deleted the gift. Nothing seems to have happened to my crystals. There needs to be clear information about this feature I'm just feeling freaked out by it I'm really not enjoying this feature. I don't get it.

It's awkward because I don't know why someone who I don't really know would send me a gift in this way Perhaps they sent it by mistake? I don't know. But I don't want anyone to lose out. I don't understand this gift feature or why anyone would send me a gift.

I just received a gift with a message wishing me Happy New Year. Obviously this seems a nice gesture. But I don't really know what to do. I don't want the person to lose out if it cost them crystals and it would seem best to return the gesture. Problem is though it's going to cost 10K crystals, in which case surely the gift seems pointless. I also have the option to delete the gift but I don't know what happens if I delete the gift. Will the person get their crystals back? Obviously this feature is very confusing and if I'm honest a bit upsetting, the person is one of my friends although I don't know them in real life. However I don't want anyone to lose out I don't know what to do. Obviously this feature of Tanki is a little bit awkward.

Actually I've changed my mind on these missions. I soon made back all the crystals I spent by accident by changing missions and even managed to save up to buy a 100x supplies kit and generally seem able to save crystals easier, rather than spend them all on supplies which was the case before. So I generally like this new feature. It also sometimes gives an incentive to stay in a battle even if one's team is losing badly because the battle experience or coming first on a losing side can still count toward a mission. Which is good because unbalanced battles don't totally collapse so much as before. So I've decided I like the missions now :)

Lost nearly half my chrystals just changing the missions. didn't realise I would be robbed like that. I've now spent all my existing chrystals on supplies so I can't be robbed like this again. Don't like these mult missions. I'm quickly getting fed up with Tanki. At this point there aren't enough free supplies to keep playing the game let alone save up for upgrades.

Not very happy with this new update the 100 crystal boxes are a big distraction in CTF games and since everyone fights for them it tends to undermine the team spirit. Might as well call it Capture the Crystals it's ruining the game. :(

I didn't know what XP was. Probably explains why I was sometimes getting kicked out of battles with my Thunder/Viking M3 combo lol. Well now I know to avoid those :)

But it's even worse now because if you go on a server with plenty of players and battles, it's most likely going to be a Russian server in which case whilst the chat languages are pretty much the same mixture of languages, all the game dialogues are in Russian. I also noticed on the English servers there were quite a few German players chatting in German. Which is fine and actually no problem for me since I know enough German to know what's being said anyway. But obviously if you're expecting English chat and game dialogues in English these changes don't seem to provide that and actually make to game even less intelligible. Which to me seems crazy because it's a flash game so why can't they just deliver the language of dialogues according to global preferences of the user? It's a flash app and the dialogues are fixed so there's no complex translation involved and presumably all the language options must exist within the app in any case. The way things are set up at present makes no sense and it seems generally people are ignoring the changes and simply going to the servers with the most players and battles as always. These changes just seem pointless, don't achieve anything and actually make the language differences an even bigger problem.

Sorry don't know how I ended up posting twice.

Don't like this much. There aren't really enough players and games on the English servers and the German one's are even worse. Of course if you go on the Russian servers where most of the players seem to be, as one might expect everything is in Russian. Which is great if you're Russian or speak Russian but not ideal if you don't. I liked things as they were I was never big on chatting in any case, but I liked the fact it was a big mixed community with different languages and a bit kind of mad and chaotic lol. I don't like it as it is now. I think this change has ruined Tanki. Of course languages are always going to be a problem and I think it would be better if there was some kind of auto-translation system, but I don't think dividing the servers like this is the answer.

Don't like this much. There aren't really enough players and games on the English servers and the German one's are even worse. Of course if you go on the Russian servers where most of the players seem to be, as one might expect everything is in Russian. Which is great if you're Russian or speak Russian but not ideal if you don't. I liked things as they were I was never big on chatting in any case, but I liked the fact it was a big mixed community with different languages and a bit kind of mad and chaotic lol. I don't like it as it is now. I think this change has ruined Tanki. Of course languages are always going to be a problem and I think it would be better if there was some kind of auto-translation system, but I don't think dividing the servers like this is the answer.

Same complaint here. Although I usually use Thunder It happens from time to time and for no apparent reason. On some occasions I've been quite low on the board, but on other occasions further up about half way so certainly pulling my weight in the team. I don't normally use the chat feature, so it wouldn't be anything I'd said. Unless people think I'm ignorant for not replying to messages. Either because I don't understand the language or because I've not been paying much attention to the the chat thing. The only other thing I can think of is I have quite a good Cherry MX Red gaming keyboard and large monitor. Obviously that gives me a bit of an advantage, and I suppose if people have lesser equipment the manoeuvrability of my tank might seem a bit shocking and maybe some people misinterpret that as cheating? Even though it clearly isn't. Ideally everyone should get a gaming keyboard. But even so it does seem a bit unfair to be kicked for no apparent reason and I have lost crystals because of this and sometimes it's very disappointing in a good game when you are doing quite well. I would suggest the system could be improved by charging crystals to request the removal of a team mate (for any reason aside from misconduct which should require the attention of a moderator) The amount could vary according to how high up the player is in the game board ranking and could be used to compensate the kicked player. Clearly this would deter malicious removal requests, deter crystal theft, but also allow teams to kick weaker players if they want a stronger player to join. I think this solution would be fairer and of course help weaker players to afford better armour. :)

It may be worth logging in everyday to get the supplies and crystals. But I've lost interest in this game since the re-balance. I've lost most of my existing tanks, guns, armor which I had achieved through playing. What's the point in earning crystals to purchase new stuff or worst paying real money, if all these things are going to be, in effect, stolen from you at any time? The re-balance doesn't make any sense it completely undermines one's trust and negates one's achievements, there's no point in playing a game in which the goal posts are likely to be moved at any time. What is this Sisyphus Online? Roll a stone up an hill and watch it roll back down again. Oh what fun! lol