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No, I think it may be that they don't want anyone to know that they know you.

A step in the right direction BUT! game economics have to be figured out to make this all work, as it is currently BROKEN http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=232930&page=34&do=findComment&comment=4102466

Been hearing about a shotgun type weapon for ages, looks like a tier one gun at best, I was hoping for a little more creativity. If you need a name, I would call it Buckshot. I would much prefer to see a more imaginative weapon with tier 3 abilities to combat weapons like Shaft. My idea is called Airstike, it is a shaft like weapon that has a standard cannon type close combat and a heads up display mode, that can deliver an air strike to any position of the map, it would take more time the further away from the players location. the bomb would give a mortar like explosion that would have varied damage over a small area, no enemy are visible in the heads up display, so a direct hit would be difficult without support from a team-mate, but a direct hit would be devastating.

Tanki is an amazing multi player online game, however it has been plagued by inadequate in-game currency causing many players to exploit vulnerabilities in the game, be it farming crystals, camping for gold, multing battles, hacking, and power leveling. No MMO game will ever be completely free of these problems, but without action from the developers to address these issues and take action, the game would inevitably lose its market and be no more. It is a shame that the exploitation of the crystal boxes made it necessary to remove them from the game, a new economic model will have to be created to give players incentive to play the game and recommend it to others in order to continue to make Tanki Online one of the hottest MMO games available. Exploiting flaws in the game is the number one killer of MMO games,hacking has been addressed quite successfully. Crystal boxes is just one aspect of game exploits that is being addressed. Other issues include investing in policing the game from exploits like multing and power leveling. More Mods are required, and Mods must have the tools and power to remove these players who exploit these flaws from having the ability to manipulate the game. The whole problem goes right back to game economics, it's the foundation of a successful game, till this issue is addressed more and more exploits will arise.

That is not the intention of Tanki, and I am sure they are actively watching earning statistics over this period of change and discussing options to maintain reasonable earnings by all players.

Try and think of something fun to replace it that doesn't impede the battle, like every time your shot hits an enemy you have a random chance of getting a prize of crystals, or supplies added to your garage and you see a blue gift box for a couple seconds

Have you forgotten about Unity, the Devs need to look to the future and work out some of the big controversies that have been around the game for ages, I am sure this experiment will help shape the future Tanki and hopefuly it will be an even greater game ready for another 4 yrs and beyond!

LOL How about a map where it just rains crystal boxes and the side who gets the most wins the game, and if one team kills another teams tank, they lose a box each on the team :o

These experiments are far overdue, these issues have been around for far too long, Tanki has been increasing players ability to earn good funds for several months now from rank rewards to increased percentage of daily crystal bonus, VK crystal bonuses, Double fund days, The Devs are working hard to make the game enjoyable for all players, these changes are changing the economics of the game, once enough data is reviewed, they will make changes to make sure players have the ability to earn good funds from daily gameplay, for all ranks.

I am really pleased with your new approach to a more open and collaborative effort to make the game better, I welcome your initiative to actively listen and respond to the players ideas and suggestions. Continue the great work.

Well... I wrote this article to present my point of view to Tanki Devs and concerned players, and encouraged others with suggestions and ideas to combat this problem. When players quote a post I've made, I try to respond to them, also, I have had other concerns to deal with in the last few months, mainly the transition of clans and the implementation of StarLadder. I am not a member of staff nor a representative of Tanki, although over the years they have implemented many of my Ideas and always listened to my concerns. If anyone should be responding to topics like this, it should be Devs who should make the occasional post, in these topics to let players know they are on top of it. Unless they would like to hire me to do that ;) and report directly to the Devs with all the great Ideas from its players. I can tell you first hand that the Devs do read these articles and work on making positive changes to the game based on the feedback from it players.

I hear a lot of sadness from players who feel they don't have the skills to win battles, and can only gain game currency through farming games of skilled players, put yourself in the skilled players shoes for a minute, these skilled players are working like crazy to win a battle, someone lags out or has to leave and a farmer is clicking like crazy just to get at the masses of crystal boxes falling in the game, and after an hour of intense fighting the other team all of a sudden has a huge advantage and the game is over in minutes. This is an intense, fast paced, team based tank battle game and the object of the game is to win the battle, using strategy and teamwork, not capturing the most presents falling from the sky, Miniclips has hundreds of games with that goal for those who just want to run around and catch falling presents, or similar types of objects. One solution would to take 75% of the fund and disperse to the winners and losers as currently dispersed, and the remaining 25% of the fund is dispersed solely by points regardless of which team they are on, it would encourage all players to stick it out till the end and fight hard to have the highest points thus building the fund even more and making it worthwhile even for a team that gets skunked. The gold box is still an interesting concept, I miss the drop without notifications, it was crazy, although the problem then was limited drop locations so it was easy for farmers to camp at the drop points and wait endlessly for the drop. The notification makes it possible for those players in slower heavy tanks a chance to battle for it now, this is also a problem, because Gold hunters bring fully modded titans with one goal in mind "Catch the Gold", so making the drops truly random with a quick drop time, it could drop right in your base or out in a sniping spot, if it falls in a spot where it cannot be reached it will disappear after a few minutes and be added to the fund. The battle fund needs to be higher and/or daily rewards, I have felt that since I started this game that the rewards were drastically less than the cost to be competitive. the double fund days have helped in that respect, but it brings out the greed in players and promotes the use of mults by players looking at any way of being victorious, luckily double fund days don't happen that often, so I just resign myself to not play those days or find friends to battle with for fun.

Personally I have fairly decent skills and am able to win battles and earn more than I would collecting crystal boxes, I tried it as an experiment once for a day and was unable to come anywhere close to the fund I would get focusing on the battle. For the most part, Tanki is a TEAM sport, making friends and alliances with other players players is a big part of the game, clans and groups of friends playing together have a big advantage over random players in this game, the team is only as strong as the weakest link, and should decide the victor, not how many non-combatants are on the opposing side. I select battles carefully, most maps have a favoured side that has better cover and drops, or harder escape routes etc... Then there are the 100 flag battles and/or 3 hr battles, always open to the widest range of ranks, they are almost always a crap shoot, they always bring out the mult accounts " the other scourge of Tanki" and the farmers, you have to play along with those scammers in order to be successful in those and after a very short while you recognise the players who set the game up for victory and join their side and follow them into victory, almost exclusively if you are on the winning side early in the game, you are a goner by flag 60. The unwritten code of the farmer and the scammer " camp all you want, just don't impede the game and we won't kill you " These games are a beacon to the farmers, they co-exist with the scammers. Meanwhile the No Supply Battles are exploding, some servers are running well over 150 active games almost every day, 6 months ago I could only count 5 to 10 at the most. So the game can be played now by everyone without blowing 100's of supplies, just for a few hundred crystals. End of the day, everyone needs crystals, without interfering with gameplay, and with the organization of clans and StarLadder teams flourishing, the skill level of battles has become very good and much harder for individual players without alliances to compete.

Well, many players are kids, the game must be kept exciting for everyone to play, currently for younger players or players who only play a few hrs a week, crystal farming has been the only way for them to acquire mods and paints, they could just play DM matches to guaranty getting a piece of the pie, but that would become boring, and its much easier for them to feed off crystals from the kills of the players engaged in the battle, tanks have to die for crystals to drop! We become the welfare system for the inexperienced and short attention spanned players. this update forces all players to engage in the battle to advance, so the team that failed to win needs some way of getting currency to be able to enjoy the game and in return become more skilled, as everyone gets what they put into it.

I have enjoyed the last few days without crystal drops, it has been nice to see those players who generally just farmed and just fooled around to actively try and battle, it takes time to acquire skills, I can understand that it may be difficult to earn in battles for those with no alliances in team battles and or get players with little skill on your team, I would suggest that the crystal pot be divvied up to all in the battle equally to all the combatants based on points earned regardless of flags, control points, or team kills, so that even if it is a total d3s game with no caps for one team they still share equally in the crystal box pot.

the post was written by you, you should have just edited the post. too late now everyone knows :P

:fire_r: Fixed lag.... Reciently I have been experiencing lag, low frames per second, and wild changes in ping, dropping flags, unable to do damage to other tanks, etc..... I run windows 7 64 bit, Nvidia 610m 1 gig dedicated memory dual gpu second being intel. use Firefox and Chrome for browsers. and latest flashplayer I have always created guest account in windows to run my everyday gaming, thus fire-walling all administration rights from any possible damage. Glad to have done that now. I have been triing everything to fix the issue to no avail. I decided to run in my admin acc and see if there was a difference and low and behold no lag. Currently checking everything out. Finding the cause: 1. found Google Chrome to be using 600000k memory in lagging guest account, and only 200000k when using my main account. 2.Verified Nvidia option and game settings identical on both antialiasing only checked in game settings and use Nvidia high performance processor for Chrome with optimal setting I have adjusted to my liking. it seems the Nvidia processor is not functioning properly in my guest account, as changing to lower or higher performance does absolutely no change to the running conditions of the game. Guest account FPS 10-20, Ping 70 - 400 Admin account FPS 60+/-, Ping 60 - 80 FOR NOW THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED, CONTINUING TO TRACK DOWN THE PROBLEM AND REPAIR THE ISSUE. Found issue with Nvidia 610M 1 gig dedicated memory GPU recent update, physx 3d did not install on clean install, windows update was taking over and messing up the installation. These helped greatly http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/327414-nvidia-drivers-avoid-problems.html http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=59429 Hope this fixes the issues I have been experiencing. Second issue I found, 2 instances of chrome app launcher running on Nvidia when opening chrome. this has to do with google plus and was using huge amounts of memory. WARNING: fixing these problems and making changes to your system are not for novice users

Ok, here goes, lag is getting worse and worse, ping fluctuating all over the place. low FPS warnings, games showing as not available at your rank, false foul play discovered, players getting kicked from battles, going to garage gives error message when trying to re-enter battle , you must click re-enter game. Possible hacking issues, flying tanks, invisible tanks, ghost tanks, games run on after time runs out, also map glitches.3 I amsure these are only a few of the current issues. Many players received well over 200k in the DST glitch where they logged in repeatedly for an hr and collected each time.

All I have to say about Isida "RAINBOWS" :blink:

isida effect is too solid and wide, it blocks your whole view in certain instances, and rail was just fine before, to me it doesn't look more realistic than before and also is more distracting when several are going off around you

Just have Tanki remove the 4k of crystals, problem solved ;)

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Currently, or "once upon a time" :D Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Artificial intelligence is a wonderful thing. I told my computer that today is your birthday, and it said that you needed an update.

how about a story on Comedians, IE; the players above me on the preceding posts ;) :P