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Your forum commitement is commendable. You have intelegence, knowledge, and you arent afraid to stand up for what you believe in. This post cracked me up.... http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=163564&page=18&do=findComment&comment=2782934 Curious, did that ever come true???? May we all see a day when what we believe in and what the game offers is the same :)

I used to buy almost every month, 100k in crystals, sometimes more, playing in team battles and then in clans, It was fun building the garage and taking the new equipment into battles against other clans, our clan always needed a diverse compliment of equipment and paints to compete, in the beginning all turrets and hulls were fair game in wars, then limits were imposed to make gameplay faster. every clan member wanted to have a full garage with enough good paints to go one on one with any tanker. then came balancing of hulls and turrets, my mammoth got nerfed to the point that I haven't used it since that day, 3 months of purchases for that one, I got smoky only 2 days before they killed that one, played day and night for 3 weeks straight to get that one and got to use it once, I still use smoky a bit, but it hurt at the time. Freeze is another one, I really didn't like freeze, but after a while seeing how powerful it was I finally broke down and got that too, only to have it nerfed as well, after all of these updates I still was willing to keep going, then Starladder and the end of clans as we knew it ended, now the pros just use rail and almost any good battle is for railers only, and I think why did I get all this equipment. Now another flurry of updates that make my previous decisions obsolete again, hammer and Vulcan, and paints as far as the eye can see. Then the lie, not a single existing paint to protect from Vulcan.That made me furious, to top it off a handful of extreme buyers now own the game for high ranks, it will take a yr for a non buyer to get enough protection for this update, and for average buyers like myself 3 to 6 months to once again be back on a level playing field, sort of, MUs were already out of reach for me, and I was just about to get into that buying period, but with the onslaught of nerfing updates and redirection of the game created solely to make players previous goals obsolete in order to make me pay more and more for what I already enjoyed has made me lose confidence in pursuing any further investment into the game. The game used to be a challenge, now its just fun at best. When I started this game I embraced the challenge and envisioned the top rank of generalissimo to be the start of fantastic wars and daily battles with the strongest players in the game with a strong vibrant clan at my back and the dream is just that, a dream :(

It only helps low ranks for about 4000 kills OR a total increase of +/- 2330 crystals for the average player from recruit to warrant officer one over about 50 hrs of gameplay. I wouldn't really consider that to be much of an increase, about 10% off the cost of one M1 item. Or $0.79 with DCC card or $1.58 at full price to purchase

You missed a a poll, I WAS a buyer! but I will just take the fun I can get now.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Give more and more need for players to buy more and more through updates that make players poorer and poorer, but sour water will always be sour water no matter what it is served in. What goes around, comes around. Provide generosity, appreciation , and acknowledgement, recieve loyalty, respect, and good fortune.

only kids 8-14 love it, Huge buyers, and Gmos that have everything. Rank has nothing to do with it. Why should anyone like something that will almost guarantee that you will earn you less than before and force you work for it at the same time, we will have to see if Tanki has suddenly become generous. Oh right, its not about the prize. It's about the fun you will have doing It. If the prizes weren't' consuming our every action, we would be doing it already.

Some interesting updates, some interesting ideas to bust the Myth. No, Myth still stronger than ever. Leaving and rejoining battle is questionable, I see many possible ways players can abuse this feature for multing or sabotaging and collecting part of losing teams fund. For many players this will be another decrease in there funds, many are not allowed to play certain days and only log in to collect for the day, others do not have much time to play and may not be able to complete tasks, they may only have time to play an organized game scheduled with friends. Why does Tanki always give something that ends up costing the players more in the long run in time or crystals. This could be great as an extra bonus to players on top of daily bonuses, but no, its more like players bonuses are treated like welfare checks, and now they must work for their checks instead. Next, I suppose you will charge a fee to players every day that they don't log in, and if there account gets down to 0 then just delete the account like they do with some gift cards. sarcasm intended

Hazels next hand mutation posted on RU forum :D

The player or the pic

This is one that I would love to believe, unfortunately there are strong cases to the contrary. 1- Negative feedback has increased exponentially including feedback from buyers who support the game. 2- Server load continues to fall week after week. 3- My friends list "online" in game at peak time has dropped from 80-90 at peak time to 5-10 in last 10 months since system was implemented 4- Hacking and sabotaging is again becoming an occurrence in almost every battle 5- 90% of all games are No lSupply Xp, Xp/Bp, and polygon Cp battles. 6- The imbalance in the game is getting greater and greater as new weapons, MUs, and protections have become available to the 3-5% of players with unlimited funds. 7- Focus is on number of registered players, instead of number of happy players. Please, Please BUST this MYTH, every Tanker wants to be happy.

Please get "Ideas" section for English version too

Impersonating a Community manager :angry:

None really since recently added turrets and paints costs far exceed the microscopic increase in funds.In reality, its another decrease in funds.

Tribute to FBI

to me it looks like the rail helped him up looks almost like the two are a parcour team

Updated list :P http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=182700&page=42&do=findComment&comment=3258800

OK, you got me, I was possibly a little melodramatic, but the need for more detail would make your case understood better. Could you whip up some visual ideas, on how we would see it in a battle pic. The thing with having them on the tank is you have to be in visual range, if you are at other side of map or behind a building no one will see your message.

I think he wants to do something like this

Personally I'm not a fan of emoticons popping up over everyones tanks. There is only so much info you take in visually as it is, I find the notification " kills, /flag/point cap/loss" at the top and side of active window are annoying occasionally, and can disrupt my focus on the battle, but the info can be good at the same time. I am trying to see where all other tanks are, friend/foe on map, as well as health of team mates. Battle chat is where I want my important info all in one place in a language I can understand. I do however want to know if a team mate is in garage or paused by a visual aid. The whole idea is to communicate with players in their native language, right now that's, English, German, and Russian. I want all my info in battle chat, with as few other distractions as possible. A quick list with 1 click posting is to me the most important feature, to get the message out as fast as possible, and get back to battle. Any good player can read the battle situation visually and fulfill the required role just with common sense. You can't have 6 or 10 players trying to lead battle. I think emoticons would only be a novelty item and used for fun, like Happy, Mad, ROFL, Charge!, and Danger. Just another way for nubs to fool around and not concentrate on the battle. As it is, if I see 2 or 3 just chatting away in the chat, I find another game.

This is a chart I found on RU forum, hard to make sense of it :wacko: as the 4 columns have no headings, maybe someone can give more info on this. I believe first column is rank, second is new rise in fund per kill, third is old rise in fund per kill, and forth is increase

To follow up on this idea, game chat is quite unobtrusive, familiar, and easy to use building on that theme would make the most sense. existing options include team chat, all player chat, chat command, and spectator chat. spectator chat is the one that my idea comes from using the tab, creating a 3rd and 4th option translated chat Translated chat would work like this, 3rd tab stroke team translate chat A list of chat post options, 12 or so commands that will be displayed in red Example: "Defend" in EN would post as Defend in chat window and red glow would emit from tank that posted command for a few seconds, visible to teammates, In RU it would post as защищать In DE it would post as Verteidigen If you wish to direct post to one player , you can click on player and copy name and paste before clicking on 3rd or 4th tab command, just like you would tab 1st and 2nd chat option. 4th chat option would have a similar list posting in Green "Defend" in EN would post as Stop in chat window and no glow would emit from tank in this chat option In RU it would post as стоп In DE it would post as Stopp all 12 commands would show in players language in list form, just click on the command you wish to post, and command window closes. anti flood control can be added to stop abuse of system, and abusers can get chat bans. Damn_Slows idea of showing team mates status of inactive tanks, showing pause or in garage would be useful as well, but each team should only be able to see there own team mates status.

Well congrats on your 2M achievement, that's dedication, paying to celebrate for your own party. :(

Can you give me a reason why Generalissimo's have score multiplier passes available for purchase :unsure: It's just a sad reminder of the 100k in crystals we spent to get where we are today :( If it is possible to remove them from Gmos purchase options, that would be nice ;) Unless there are incredibly vain Gmos out there that want to show off a higher game score by purchasing it, tell me that isn't so :blink:

Jade has gotten real boost with protections, it was one of the least owned paints before the economic remodel, hard to warrant the purchase with so many other new paints. Thunder has always been a golden child of the game, it is one of the turrets with the fewest protection paint option. twins has similar qualities, its no wonder it has been the two favorites of Godmode_On.