This "guide" (if you can even call it that) is so low in quality it's not even funny. To be honest it looks like you wrote it the night before your article was due. The guide is full of mistakes as Ostrica has pointed out. You have barely presented any information at all, and your article is full of "no really" and "i never knew that" facts. From the article: "You will get at least a kill assist for every enemy that drives over your mine." "If you zap an enemy you will get points, if you zap a damaged teammate you will receive at least a few points." "The leader of your team achieved that position because he got lots of points." Seriously? We aren't idiots. We know you get points when you destroy a tank. We know that the reason someone is topping the leaderboards is because they obtained lots of points. It really seems like you're just adding fluff and arbitrary facts to something that's supposed to be a guide. Telling us that you get points when someone drives over your mine doesn't make you a better pocket isida. It is completely irrelevant to the topic. And then there is the underlying question: Why did you write a guide on a turret that has been covered so many times, especially since you didn't add any helpful information at all? Overall this "guide" was full of crap and utterly useless information. Honestly, I liked your articles a long time ago, but recently the quality has just deteriorated so much. Please actually put effort into these articles.

Dang, the newspaper used to actually be good. Now it's become a trash can, filled to the brim with rubbish.

Hunter's road may be bloody, but if I could redo my purchases, I would still go down that same road. No regrets.

That's M1 Twins M2 Wasp.

Yes you build on it and you make it grow and adapt it to the needs of the community. Does the community need buyers getting even more of an advantage? Does the community need random pointless updates and "experiments"? No. The economy in tanki is really sensitive right now. And you know what, they're only making it worse. Allowing premium users to get 50% more crystals will cause inflation and make crystals less valuable, hurting the economy even more. Everyone hated premium when they announced it, and everyone still does. Know the reason why they're not complaining now? Because nothing is going to change even if they complain. Yeah constructive criticism works wonders, but only if the devs actually make the changes that we suggest. Give ideas on how to make an update work? Why the hell should I give ideas on an update and try to make it work when it is inherently flawed from the very begininng?

Crystal boxes worked out well? Lower ranks hardly know how to turn their turret and there is no way without crystal boxes that they are going to save up for M1s. Taking away crystal boxes was arguably one of the worst updates ever, now people who don't have the time to play in long battles or use lots of supplies are having a hard time earning crystals. The thing about goldboxes wasn't an experiment, it was a very obvious and simple solution. Tanki actually listened to our feedback. Crystal boxes and the taking away of SMPs are true experiments, because tanki never asked us about what we thought of it. The faster camera thing was horrible, I basically quit tanki for a week because I would just get headaches whenever I tried to aim with rail. Yeah everyone eventually got used to it but the update was basically pointless, afaik. No cry boxes forced you to play a battle to the end to get crystals, but people still did that before the update, they would fight in the battle and perhaps on the way to capping a flag they'd just pick up a few cry boxes here and there, it didn't really dramatically affect gameplay, there are still many mults in battles even after the update. Yeah sure the fund becomes bigger but nothing can really match the satisfication of your tank driving through a cluster of crystal boxes, and to be honest, these days getting first place in a 15 minute battle only gets you like 600 - 700 crystals, whereas back in the day, playing in a 15 minute battle collecting cry boxes whilst still playing your hardest could get you basically 500 guaranteed crystals, with very little skill involved and you don't even have to be first place on your team. It was much easier for a less skilled player or someone who had weaker equipment to earn crystals.

Yes they own the game and they can do anything they want with it, but taking away SMPs is just stupid, it literally has no advantages, besides giving buyers even more of an advantage because now earning 50% more xp is exclusive to them. Buying xp also means that if there's a sale around the corner and you have some extra crystals to spare but you're just that 10,000 xp from ranking up, you can spedn 10000 crys to rank up, get the rank up crystal bonus and get something nice on the sale. If you're a recruit and you decide to buy your rank to generalissimo, it's completely your decision and honestly, only a really hardcore buyer or someone that's just really stupid would do that (note I'm not saying buyers are stupid). "it's just an experiment" you and I both know that this is not an experiment. Crystal boxes were experiments. The super fast turning camera that gave everyone a headache for 2 days was also an experiment. In the history of tanki, experiments have never been good. The SMP will be gone on november 6, and I'll bet the bank that it won't come back.

Tanki we're not your lab rats stop experimenting with us You took away buying xp, you took away all the good sales, you took away crystal boxes and now you're taking away SMPs

Epic stats Right after ratings reset edit: even better

Garage: Hunter M3, Hornet M3, Smoky M3, Freeze M3, Rail M3 Maps I like to play on: Noise, Rio, Polygon, Silence Question: What paint should I buy?

The reason why the good sales have disappeared is because now we don't have to buy from M2 to M3, we can buy from M0 to M3, and now there are test drives as well as personal and wholesale discounts so there is less need for big discounts.

Smoky + Hunter :wub:

10x golds? If it really was 10x golds then golds should be dropping every 2-3 minutes. Not 2 golds in one 60 minute match. Fix the lag. I could have gotten 2 golds, my tank literally went straight through the goldbox but I didn't get it. The hackers are everywhere also, jump hackers who just jump onto the top of the pile and take the gold. The sale was okay though, but this halloween was just trash. Tanki, stop giving buyers such a huge advantage and actually fix the problems that are everywhere like hacks and lag. And also stop telling us lies, this was definitely not 10x, probably like 5x or 6x.

Yay I ranked up :D Now I can get Hunter M3 for Halloween!

Definitely firebird.