I lost 95,000 points I had accumulated towards a 99,999 point mission. I was close to a 67,000 crystal reward. I clicked on the "close" button and instead it changed the mission, so I lost the 95,000 points. I would like Tanki to restore that mission with my 95,000 points. If this is not done I am quitting Tanki. This is the SECOND time I have been cheated by glitches in the mission screen, but this time I lost 67,000 crystals, which sickens me. I just cannot play. Please restore the mission with my 95,00 points or I quit.

I had 95,000 points towards a Daily Mission of 99,999, and, when I clicked the "close" button, the mission changed and I lost all the points I had accumulated. Can I please get this mission back, with my 95,000 points, and can you please fix this problem with the Daily Missions screen? Thank you.

The only thing to do is stop playing Tanki and find an ethical game somewhere else. I'm sick of all the drugging and mults, anyway.

so...we all get ripped off and Tanki won't do anything? This stinks. This was no accident. It was a scam for force us to buy more crystals.

I just lost thousands of crystals on the daily missions screen. Every time I clicked on something, I was losing crystals, and I didn't know it. What a scam. Give me my crystals back!

I have M3 freeze and M3 wasp, with all MUs, which is informally called "M4". If you use a short range weapon, like freeze, firebird, or isida, you MUST have a fast hull, either hornet or wasp. Your only chance to score is to get close to the enemy as fast as possible. Hornet is more popular as it has better armor and is almost as fast as wasp, but I like the extra speed of wasp. Speed is weapon. An M4 wasp on nitro is VERY hard to control but it's very exciting to drive when you develop your skills. Here's how I play Tanki. (I only use freeze & wasp, all the time.) (1) I only play CTF games. The other types of games favor large hulls and long range weapons. (2) If the flag is not well-defended, I go after flags. (3) If the flag is well-defended, I cruise around mid-field and try to kill enemies. Having a fast hull allows you to close on them, from the side or rear before they know you are there. (4) If your team gets ahead in the score, you can continue going for flags, or cruising mid-field for kills ....OR .... you can defend the flag. Freeze is great for defense, but you need to defend from a concealed position. Do not sit on the flag. Hide near the flag, and then kill the enemy when they come into get it. (5) Accept the fact that you are going to get killed a lot. But, if you play aggressively, constantly attacking, you will do well in scoring as you will have more kills than players who are cautious. You don't LOSE points for getting killed, so who cares? Even if you get killed, if you damage the enemy, you'll get partial points when the enemy finally does get killed. (6) Accept the fact that you are going to get flipped a lot, and you will have to self-destruct. Sometimes you own teammates will do this, if you have creeps on your team. Often they will do this at the end of the game, when all the enemies have left. In that case, do not self-destruct, as it will lower your score. Just rotate your turret every minute or so to keep from getting kicked out of the game for "inactivity." (7) My favorite maps are kungur and serpuhov...they offer plenty of cover from snipers, and their large size works in your favor if you have a small, fast hull. Good luck, freezoids. By the way, I think Prodigi is the best paint as it has the best protection from railgun, which is the most popular gun. It also has good protection against thunder and shaft, two long-range weapons that a tank with a short-range gun like freeze needs protection from. Prodigi is expensive, so, until you can afford it, use "forester" paint which is very cheap but has good protection against railgun.

I want to report a player with the name "Woman_Hater" This is a sexist name and should not be permitted.

Has anyone noticed that the servers are nearly empty? No one is playing. I just played another game with the "early ending" protocol going .... on and off, on and off, on and off....... FIX THIS !!!!

The new protocol for ending battles early is a poor design. I was just in a battle and the "ending early" protocol kept switching on and off during the whole battle, which never ended early. It was pointless and frustrating. Please return to the old protocol which I thought worked well.

From a "frequently flipped" Wasp driver.... I never got angry when opponents flipped me, but I got VERY angry when it was done by members of my own team who were mults. This happened in about 1/3 of the games that I played. I agree with the previous comments that developers need to reduce Hammer's flipping ability also.

I am getting sick of players on my own team shooting me and flipping me on my back. WHY DOES TANKI ALLOW SOME PLAYERS TO SABOTAGE THEIR OWN TEAMMATES? I have a freeze and I can't freeze them, but they can knock me around? Why does Tanki have this design feature? This happened to me twice today and if it keeps happening I am going to stop playing. Tanki must remove all game features that encourage saboteurs.

Why not call the new turret ... "Who Cares?"

Suggested names for new machine gun turret... "Tommy" or "Tommy Gun" or "Chopper" All are American slang terms for the Thompson Submachine Gun, made infamous by Chicago gangsters in the 1920s.

Excellent update. We will spend more time in battles and less time looking at the battle lists.

Shaft Laser: I am not a sniper but I can understand the anger of Shaft users that is obvious in MANY comments on this forum. One of the biggest challenges for me in Tanki is to locate snipers. I like to sneak up and kill them at close range with my Freeze. This upgrade is really unfair to Shaft users as now they are MUCH easier to find. Imagine spending all those crystals to get an M3 Shaft, and all the MUs, and then have this happen. If you don't get rid of the laser you should give all Shaft users a "REFUND" of all the crystals they spent on their Shaft. Then they can buy a Railgun, Thunder, or Smoky as powerful as their Shaft was.

Yes, Tanki is a business, and, at first I thought that they were just trying to force people to buy more crystals with the experiment. However, now that they have made substantial modifications in the final upgrade, it is clear that they have tried to provide for everyone, even players who don't buy crystals, like me. (OK, I bought a few ONCE when I just had to have hull upgrade.) As much as I hate "druggers" they do provide ALL of the money that allows the rest of us to play for free. And now TANKI has allowed them to create Pro battles where they can use all of their drugs all the time ... and I hope they all go there and leave the rest of us "skill players" alone. Tanki's actions in this upgrade are what I would consider to be "ethical business behavior." *** By the way, for all of you who don't buy crystals, yes you can get promoted all the way to GM. It takes longer, but you get there by building your skills, so that when you do become a GM, you can survive in all-GM battles.

I have read all the comments in this forum and a small majority approve of the changes. There are many specific complaints but the most frequent is about the removal of crystals from the field of battle. I understand why some players liked those "free" crystals .... I drive a wasp and I got LOTS of crystals that way. However ... what people must realize is that mults would reward themselves by only picking up crystals and not fighting, sabotaging their team. This was VERY common. Now, if you want to mult, you'll probably be on the losing team and won't get many crystals. I'm not sure if most players realize how much multing is going on. They lose but they don't know why. Anything that can be done to reduce the appeal of multing is a VERY good thing, and this latest update does that very well. There are many other reasons to approve of these changes but I thought I would comment specifically on the removal of crystals from the field and why this is a good thing.

As one of the harshest critics of the "experiment" I must say that the changes in this update address all my complaints and the result is a much better Tanki. I think that those who say "go back to the way it was before" are wrong. Too many players in team games were just going around collecting crystals off the battlefield and not helping their teammates to win. Players who were multing would do this. The most important improvement is the more equal division of crystals between the winning and losing teams. By giving a higher percentage to the losing team you have reduced the incentive for raiders to invade a game and steal the win, by drugging and multing. They can still do this, of course, but now the rewards are not as great and the losing team is not totally cheated. The shorter time limits on games is also excellent, as very long games were being used by druggers to run up the score before they raided it. The modified gold box system is good also, although I don't think gold boxes are very important. I think most players get no more than 5% of their crystals from gold boxes. Many players have complained "what if I have to leave a game before the end?" Yes, this can be a problem, but forcing players to remain until the end of a game actually makes if harder for raiders to operate. In the past, many people on the losing team would leave early and this would create an opening for a group of druggers to enter and steal the game. I feel the most frustrating thing in Tanki is having a game stolen by raider-druggers and their mult allies. This latest update will reduce raiding, and that's the most important improvement, in my opinion. Thank you developers. I think you got it right.

Oh...don't bother to complain to Kirby2008. He doesn't really respond to the specifics of your criticisms. All he says is that you don't really understand the update and you need to develop more skills. If you don't believe me just go back and look at every response he has posted to someone's complaint on this forum.

Thanks to the "experiment," Tanki is now TOTALLY dominated by druggers using mults. The only way to "win" is to watch a game and, when a pack of druggers and mults enter, you join them. The whole strategy of the game has changed and the only way to win is to team up with the cheaters. Try to play an honest, non-drugging game and you will get few crystals or no crystals.

The bottom line? Tanki made this change in order to increase the sale of crystals, because now you can't win unless you are a drugger. Face it, folks. They don't CARE whether you like the change or not. They just want your money,

Here's a cheat I am seeing in almost every CTF game now.... A group of players, either clan members or just friends set up a CTF game, and then get on opposing teams. They take turns drugging and multing. Who gets cheated? The non-group players who join these games. They lose and most of the time they have no idea why. They leave and are replaced by other naïve players, and the cycle goes on and on..... Yes, this used to happen in the past but it is happening more often because .... THE LATEST UPDATE FAVORS CHEATERS!!!! Organized cheaters now get most of the crystals and honest players get almost nothing. Why even bother to play any more? Tanki has become a sewer where the rats rule.

Kirby 2008 says players' complaints lack specifics.... Oh? Have you actually READ any of these comments? I have. There are plenty of specific complaints, with many of the same complaints listed multiple times. Druggers are dominating most games now, and winning most of the crystals. I suggest changing the name of "Tanki" to "Druggie".

Congratulations, Tanki developers. You have finally given cheaters the best gift ever. EVERY game I play now goes like this ... if my team is ahead, raiders swarm in on the other side and plant mults on my side, and the raiders win, getting most of the crystals. This used to happen once in a while, but now it is EVERY SINGLE GAME. That's because the new crystal system rewards this behavior. This has happened over and over again to me today, and I've been playing for hours. If you don't put crystal drops back in the game ... I quit. Only an ***** would keep playing this crap, where the only way to win is to cheat.

I approve of the new gold box "instant drop" system. Before, bigger tanks would camp out on a drop zone and push smaller hulls away. Now, everyone has an equal chance at a gold box.