It takes more time than we originally planned. The problem is a bug in the collision model of new tanks, so physics are delayed, with them micro-upgrades.

Wow, thanks for the feedback, guys. Glad everyone's happy.

Dear players, After a long discussion and analysis of your feedback, it was decided not to join all 3 communities in the same leagues. Instead of that, there will be separate 4 leagues in each community. 2 or 4 times a year we will held a major tournament in each league where clans from all 3 communities will fight together. Information for current clans: The Winter Qualifying Tournament will start this month. According to results shown in it, EN clans will be divided into Top League and League 2. Moreover, best 16 clans from all 3 communities according to the results of the tournament will take part in Clan Championship 8. Once the tournament is over, new forum section will be created. Clans will be moved to Top League and League 2. Teams will go to League 3 and League 4, depending on their ranks and equipment in garages. A major revision of the cybersport system will take place in December. What will be changed: clan licenses are cancelled: from now on each newly created group will be a clan registration procedure will be simpler clans will be divided into 4 leagues a new standard of clan battles will be introduced: more shorter rounds and a different procedure of defining a winner official solo and tandem tournaments will be cancelled but players will be able to make their own tournaments. Divide into 4 leagues: Now both teams and clans are called clans and are divided into 4 leagues: League 4 — for novice clans that consist of medium-ranked players using M2 weapons and hulls. League 3 — for novice clans that consist of high-ranked players using M3 weapons and hulls. League 2 — 32 strong clans that use M3 only and have nearly full garages (a wide range of turrets, hulls and paints is required for battles in this league), use advanced tactics and have experienced leaders/coordinators. Top League — best 16 clans of the game, with truly skillful players and famous leaders. They are the ones who fight for the name of the champion of Tanki Online. Here is how it will look: Clans will soon be divided into leagues: Top league is currently unavailable for our clans All the current clans will go to League 2. They will play in a special tournament with Russian and German clans. 16 best clans will take part in the Clan Championship. Clans that will finish below place 32 will be moved to League 3. All registered teams that have at least 6 high-ranked players with M3 weapons and hulls will go to League 3.​ All the other teams will go to League 4.​ Creating a new clan: Creating clans will be free in League 3 and League 4 and will depend on ranks of players: if the majority of players can afford M3 weapons and hulls, then the clan takes part in League 3 tournaments if ranks are low and garages mostly consist of M2 items, such a clan will have to start from League 4 if a clan from League 4 gets to higher ranks and buys M3 weapons and hulls, it can move to League 3, no matter what its results in tournaments are Players:In the near future we are planning to cancel the clans registration process. But as long as it's all done in the forum (in the future it will all be done automatically and outside of the forum), we don't have any options to improve. That is why monthly transfer windows stay. On the other hand, the 3 months rule will be removed, players will be able to move from one league to another once a month. Clans of League 3 and League 4 can have an unlimited number of players. By doing so, season tournaments will let clans try newcomers and see who of them is worthy of taking part in the Clan Championship and other major events. Changes in timing of battles and way of defining the winner: The old tradition of having 20 minutes rounds has outlived its usefulness. Clans spend to much time entering the battle knowing that they have a lot of time to play: no one is attacking at the beginning and even after losing a flag a clan often continues to play in a relaxed way as there is plenty of time left till the end of round. We want every round to be a show, so that every round would decide something and clans would want to win it. On the other hand, even a lost round shouldn't decide anything. That is why the timing of battles will be changed, here is what it will look like: 4 rounds, 10 minutes each (timing stays the same if we compare it to old 2 rounds, 20 minutes each). Winner is defined not by the number of captured flags but by rounds won (this suggests that a clan can have different tactics for different bases of the same map. Depending on the situation, clan can attack or defend, based on their result in previous round(s). This will be interesting). If after 3 rounds the score is 2:0 or 3:0, the battle is over. If it is a tie after 4 rounds in play-off, penalty is played. Solo and Tandem tournaments are cancelled. Tanki Online administration temporarily cancels official Solo and Tandem tournaments. However, from now on players can organize their own tournaments: Official cybersport will meanwhile concentrate on developing clan tournaments and streams of battles. After a minor check by organizers, any player can create his or her own tournament. Organizers of best tournaments that attracted a big number of participants and positive feedback, will be supported with crystal funds for the tournament and personal reward. Best organizers that will join the official cybersport teams and will take part in organizing official tournaments. Thanks to this system, solo and tandem tournaments will be held all the time, not 3-4 times a year. What will also change: Top league and League 2 will play in seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn. Each season there will be a tournament. Twice a year 16 clans of Top League and 16 best clans of League 2 will take part in the Clan Championship, winner of it will become the champion and get a big money prize. Besides, after each CC all the clans that got to play-off will stay in Top League regardless of previous achievements. A new paragraph about unacceptable behavior will be added to rules: a player can be punished for disrespect shown to the enemy during the tournament, whether it happens in battle or when using Skype. When registering a clan, you no longer need to collect confirmation messages from players (however, players still need to leave them when joining the clan). Other small things that we will mention later.

Sent today. Should be delivered in 1-2 weeks depending on how good your local delivery service is.

Hello everyone! Today we are happy to tell you about Update 196. It’s fully dedicated to a single feature: being able to invite your friends to battles. From now on asking one of your friends to fight with you is dead easy. Here is how it works. You can only invite those of your friends who are online. In order to send an invitation, you need to be in that specific battle or select it in the list of battles. After that, a new option called “Invite to battle” will appear in a friend’s context menu. Click on it to send an invite to the friend. The invitation will consist of nickname of the player who sent an invite, map, battle mode, server, whether there are free places in the battle or not and whether it is available at your rank. You’ll receive a special notification that will let know whether a friend accepted your invite or declined it. If the friend couldn't receive the invite, you will also be told about it, including the reason for that. Of course you can always disable the display of notifications. There is a special checkbox for that in settings. Thanks for attention. Feel free to discuss the update in this thread, share your opinions, ask questions and invite friends to battles! Ah yes, we've also made other several improvements to the friend system. First, you can see if your friend is online in a context menu. Second, the system shows a number of server next to each battle in the friends menu.

There is no old or new staff, people come and go, it's a natural process. Some awesome staff members left, a lot of awesome new guys came, it is always like that, what stays the same is that staff are doing their best to help the game, that is why we value them so much.

Please accept our apologies for the fact that discount was enabled today, it was a glitch and it required us around 2 hours to remove it. Don't worry, the discount will still take place on Sunday!

Dear players, Tanki Online has just reached another milestone, we are the best game of Russian Internet according to Runet Prize award. And to mark this occasion, we've prepared something special for you! Enter the game on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and get free crystals alongside with usual daily gifts. Battle funds grow twice as fast so you'll be getting more crystals while fighting as well. And finally, make sure you enter your garage on Sunday as absolutely all the guns will be available at a 50% discount! Increased funds are enabled for 3 days, from 1 am (UTC+0) on Friday, November 22, to 1 am (UTC+0) on Monday, November 25. The discount on all guns is on for 24 hours, from 1 am (UTC+0) on Sunday, November 24, to 1 am (UTC+0) on Monday, November 25. Spend the weekend with the maximum benefit!

As it's said in the main post, you get 3 times more than your usual crystal daily gift. And you get it 3 times if you enter the game on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sooo it's a total of 9 daily gifts in crystals.

Yes, you get usual daily bonuses AND free crystals.

Correct, you'll be getting x 3 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, together with usual daily gifts. So if you enter the game on all 3 days, you get a total of x 9.

Dear players! Our game has just won in the Game of Runet category of a well-known Russian award called Runet Prize. We were in the lead from the first day and the gap between us and our competitors was growing bigger and bigger. This victory is yours. Thank you for being with us, supporting us and helping the game to develop. And you can be sure that we will mark this occasion in the game. Each of you will get a crystal gift equal to three daily crystal bonuses at your current rank when entering the game on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (it means that by entering the game on each of these 3 days you will get a sum of crystals equal to 9 daily bonuses!). In addition to that battle funds will be doubled for the whole weekend, in other words you will be getting twice as many crystals after each battle. Make sure you enter the game and earn some crystals. You will certainly need them as this Sunday absolutely all turrets in the game will be available at a 50% discount! Increased funds will be enabled for 3 days, from 1 am (UTC+0) on Friday, November 22, to 1 am (UTC+0) on Monday, November 25. The discount on all guns will be on for 24 hours, from 1 am (UTC+0) on Sunday, November 24, to 1 am (UTC+0) on Monday, November 25. Don't miss this epic weekend!

There was a special local server for the tournament with accounts made specially for it, all of them were Generalissimos.

In addition to our video report (make sure you watch it if you haven't done it yet) from the first real Tanki Online tournament that took place in Perm, Russia, here are some pics made by our guys. All players that came to take part in the tournament and fight for the real cash prizes were divided into two game zones. Here is the blue zone. And the red one. All the laptops were checked by our programmers several hours before the tournament. Here is one of them, Dmitriy Pobegaev. Hosts are getting ready. Kasim is talking to @Alexss-s, one of our cybersport commentators. Mariya is listening to our editor Irakly who's obviously giving her some advice. Free zone where all the players not taking part in the tournament could see how it feels to be a Generalissimo with a full garage and tons of supplies. One of our assistants (the girl wearing a pink T-shirt) was responsible for issuing special gift cards to winners of battles. After collecting several cards, a player could go to our souvenir shop and get some Tanki Online merchandise for free. Our Russian community manager Mikhail suddenly received a gift from players. Nikolay is shooting videos for our video reports (as usual). And again our hosts Kasim and Mariya. In breaks between battles we were organizing some mini-contests for our visitors. Anton Volkov, our technical director and producer of Tanki Online. Not all of those who left applications for the tournament managed to come. So we decided to compensate for that with random guys who came to watch others playing. The tournament has started! Red zone. Blue zone. People were giving advice to participants (and disturbing them all the time =D). was one of the commentators. He was even interviewed by one of main Russian TV channels. Anton Volkov is answering questions from players. And giving an interview after that. Aaaand again our hosts. Surprisingly, the game is popular with people of all ages! Mariya is holding a contest where players were to make a tank of Lego bricks. One more pic from the blue zone. View from above. The main organizer of the tournament — . And here are the winners of the tournament. And for dessert — the contest of gold hunters! Several lucky visitors received special coupons for 100,000 crystals, while the luckiest of them all got a whopping 1 million crystals. All in all, we were happy with how the event went and plan to continue meeting our players not only on the battlefield but in real life as well.

If it's not a joke ( not a bad one if it is ) nobody's asking you to take a pic of your living place, it can be anything in your city/town/whateveritis.

Thank you for that, it actually made us recheck all the chat messages, they will be in the game with the next update.

This has really gone off-topic. Please continue your discussion in PM.

It depends on your intentions, if you use that server just to be able to enter battles, it's ok. If you use it for reasons that violate the rules of the game, for example using mults, you will be blocked. Please PM me for further discussion of this matter.

TOF Dream Team is finally over! According to the results of the tournament, the best team of our community is "ARAB KNIGHTS" As the recognition of their skill and ability to work as a team, Arab Khights are awarded with a clan license and 10 Gladiator paints! Congratulations! As for TOF Dream Team Junior, each of the following teams gets 100,000 crystals! "Counter Strike" "Made in Portugal" "Baby Boys" "The Electrons" "The Emperors of Death" Not bad for the first time guys! Well done, and once again, congratulations to Arab Knights!

Dear players! Today you can enter the test server to see for yourself how micro-upgrades and the new physics model work together. To take part in the open testing, simply click on the link and register a new account. After that you will get some crystals to do the testing as well as a sufficient rank. We believe that everyone has already heard about these updates that we've been working on for such a long time. It was decided to remove the chance of failure in micro-upgrades. Now each upgrade will always be successful and improve some parameter of a turret, a hull or a paint. Moreover, you don't need to wait till the update indicator gives you the server's response, all steps of MUs are done instantly now. Total prices and waiting time will not increase. Another thing you can notice is "Pro Battles" marked with a star on the test server. They work like no-supplies battles that you all got used to. The difference is that these battles can be played without micro-upgrades, while the supplies can be enabled or disabled. Please note that parameters that you can see on the test server are not final, they can be changed many times before the release so there is no need or point in discussing them in this topic. That is all. Let the test begin! Link to the test server: http://test.tankionline.com/battle-en1.html

They didn't. There were several tours, then finals.

Exactly. We need real photos that you took specially for the contest, not something from the internet with a nickname written on it usint Paint or similar software. Just go somewhere, find something that looks like an object from the game and take a pic of it showing a piece of paper with your nickname. If it's difficult to undestand what I mean, check the old Deja Vu contest in Contests section in the forum.

Ranks of current kits won't be changed. Our intention now is to get rid of permanently available kits and start using temporary ones instead. Basically it will work like a discount, a kit available to you at a limited amount of time. However, these are just plans at the moment, but you can certainly expect things like that in the future.

Yes, 30 000, 20 000 and 10 000 rubles for first, second and third place respectively. It's around $1000, $700 and 350$.

Correct, watch the video till the end and you will know why it was posted in our forum.