Only the crystals earned in battle count (so only the battle fund). Crystals earned through missions, Goldboxes caught or crystals bought in the shop don't matter. However, crystals earned through Premium count in the rating. Premium gives 2x battle fund, 1.5x experience => buyers get a Cry/Ep ratio which is 33% better than that of a non-buyer. So from that side, you need to be a buyer to maintain (or improve to) a top rating. I say "maintain", because in the past crystals earned through missions and Goldboxes caught counted as well, which is why most players now have a falling rating, as can be seen in this topic. If everybody kept playing long enough, eventually there'd only be buyers with a top rating..

Rank is the key driver, up to reaching Legend rank. Further rankups within Legend rank don't play any role. Cry/EP ratio is crucial. Top ranked player has by far the best one, everybody in the top 25 have good ratios > 1.3. K/D matters as well, but to a lesser extent

I think you're exaggerating. Number of players was going down, but at Legend rank I usually had way more than 5 battles to choose from. Anyway, if back then you didn't mind about not playing in English speaking teams, you could just go to Russian servers with tons of battles to choose from. Now there's only Russian servers, great improvement.. Yeah I've used Google translate too, good enough for rudimentary conversations and a misunderstanding here and there. Wouldn't want to use this during a heated battle. And looking at the mess the Devs did in this game for some of the updates, this is probably anything but simple to implement for them..

Well, how do you follow the old system when all battles are full of Russian players?? Again, how to join battles where I have no problem of communicating (and no, I won't learn Russian just for Tanki)..? I'm afraid it wasn't.. :P Maybe immature kids behave like that. Reasonable people wouldn't expect Russian players to speak English, but that's also true the other way round. But no, we're not "lucky to be even playing the game" - the non-Russian community *could* be a very profitable market for this game, if less mistakes were made and the game was actually improved instead of being made worse.. Those translation programs are nowhere near being usable for that (maybe good enough to have a good laugh). Why such a complex solution, when we had a simple system that was working fine?

Thumbs up for this topic. Question has also been asked by many in the original topic on the server merge, but no answer was given (guess there is no good answer), just a lot of hot air about how essential this change is. Server merge seems to fall in line with lots of other recent updates to remove *any* variety/complexity from the game. Especially this one seems like a totally unnecessary change frustrating the non-Russian community . Typical Tanki approach: mess up the game and remove good functionality....then, many months later, maybe some "improvement" comes along to partially clean up the mess.. Don't much like the idea of a country flag. It just seems like a much more complex way to maybe getting something similar to preferred servers for the different communities. And as a non-British / non-German, but fluent in both languages, what flag would I put..

Thanks, I will add him again whenever there's the next full update..

It's about as useful/useless as before that. Previously the rating was also visible to anybody interested. What you still don't get easily is a comparison between players and information on how players evolve over time. Anyway, if people are not interested anymore, they'll stop posting here, and I won't keep it alive artificially..

Ranking list updated in opening post: - Due to whatever mess Tanki made some weeks ago resulting in reset of all rating positions, that stat is not reliable (lots of players improved their rating position despite a decrease in rating value). - Looking at change rating value: 9 players with large increase due to rankup, 13 with an increase, 61 with a decrease. Business as usual.. :P - New players added: @fe4f3, , @Killieman, - We now have the player with highest rating in the game in the list. He's got by far the best Cry/Ep ratio - no surprises there.. - Players removed (either because they changed name or did not login since Tanki reset the rating position): SHOAIB.ZAFAR, Medicago, The.Archenemy, Brave, WeIcome.To.Hell, xXx_J3L4CK_xXx, Spit_Fyre, DESTRUKCO, GeneralJosan, Mistalee, StormChaser, Room418. If you want to be readded, just post in this topic..

Nice increase of rewards. But I doubt this will make people stay in the game. I can just about muster enough motivation to keep my mission chain going - it won't take many more bad updates to stop bothering about that, no matter how high the rewards..

If I continued playing for about 20 more years, my drug count would allow me getting into this hall of fame - easy.. :P

So you have removed the servers for the English, German and Polish communities..? Now that is really "an interesting change in the way servers are organised" :P. Nice touch by the way to call the new "merged" servers RU1/RU2/RU3.. How is removing servers a "first important" step towards the matchmaking system? Really, why not you just say you have reduced the number of servers instead of all this nonsense..? Enjoyed playing in the German and English communities - it's more fun to go against players you know, rather than playing vs some Legend you've never met before. And what about the language barrier? Most RU players don't speak english, and vice versa. All in all, another change that brings nothing to the players..

I don't think it's part of the rating formula - the list maintained in this topic rather shows that this doesn't seem to play a big role. For instance, among the people with good ratings are both very heavy and light supply users. Just an interesting stat I'm getting for free when I retrieve the info from the profile pages. Biggest factor for the rating efficiency seems to be the Cry/EP ratio.

Thanks! First time this happened to me in 4.5 years of Tanki.. ;)

This morning my team won a CTF battle 6:4, yet players in the team got 0 crystals (!). Reward for the other team seems OK.. Known problem? Any chance I can get those crystals back from support?

Thanks, that explanation makes sense. But there must have been several resets, also between the last full update of the list on 29/04 and today. In my case: - On 29/04/2017, my account was at position 848 with a rating efficiency of 92185.05 - Now, it's at position 648 with a rating efficiency of 92181.74 => again, position improves despite decrease of efficiency..

You're right, something strange must have happened since 1 month ago. I misinterpreted the new table compiled some days ago. In this latest issue, most players had a significant decrease in rating value / efficiency (no surprise there), but the position decreased, i.e. they got better in comparison to others. Let's see how it looks next time around..

It's not quicker, and I didn't miss your point. As I explained, I will come along in maybe 1 month or so and update the complete list. If I mixed ratings posted 1 month ago with others fully up to date (or older ones), it would not be possible to build a consistent ranking list. For the same reason (and to save some work), I'm not adding individual entries to the existing list.

Actually it doesn't really matter, since I anyway retrieve the latest stats by script from the ratings page next time I update the full list (probably in a few weeks earliest). So just posting here with the account to be added is sufficient..

ZERO supply feature: my experience with this feature's been mostly negative. This rewards heavy supply users and teams which are already dominating the opponent (in both cases, progress bar gets full faster), hence battles are more one-sided. In general, players who already have great equipment and lots of supplies get rewarded - not something that helps game balance. It's true that when used cleverly, this feature rewards good teamwork and playing with some brains, but both is anyway rare in the random teams playing normal battles (unless embedded in a clan).

Based on popular demand, opening post updated with latest stats. 96 players now in the list, 4 were removed (have changed names, and I can't be bothered to search for their new ones) and 5 were added (, @Musa, @OKDad70, @splitterpoint, @M.O.N.O.X.Y.D.E) For existing players in the list, downward slide in the ratings continues: 77 lost positions, 14 gained positions..

I agree with the basic premise of what you're saying. However, my impression (from seeing a big increase of low rankers in Legend battles, and from comments in this topic) is that many lower ranked players currently don't have the choice to join a normal battle at their rank with a more adequate rank bracket. This is because the battle button doesn't allow specifying that (before that, everybody could create their own battle, excluding higher ranks). This needs to be addressed - give lower ranked players the possibility to only join battles using the battle button (or have them created) which have a limited rank bracket..

My take on this is that when the battle button was introduced, they were surprised by how few players kept playing non-PRO battles, with a big increase in the number of PRO battles from that point onwards. With this latest move, the intention is obviously to revive standard battles. Not necessarily a bad thing, but from what I've seen today with tons of low ranked players ruining Legend battles, I'm not thrilled (no clue what the effects are on your rank..)

Yes, but it's rare. When they introduced crystal drops worth more than 10 crystals (late 2014 I think), it was a total disaster (everybody only hunting for those drops) and they quickly changed, removing crystals drops altogether. Fun times.. :D

Typical non-PRO battle today at Legend rank was as shown in the spoiler below: full of low ranks getting slaughtered, with about half of the players having no clue what's going on. Quality of non-PRO battles has taken a huge hit. Guess it's a combination of increasing the rank brackets (why?), and low rankers forced to join Legend battles because they don't find battles only going up to their rank (mentioned a lot in the comments in this topic). THIS MAKES NO SENSE, it ruins battles both for high rankers (low quality battles) and for low rankers (no chance with their level of equipment). I think every player should be able to only join battles where they're the highest rank (or not far from it). Of course this was possible before removing the non-PRO battle creation option / introducing the battle button (still think that was a bad idea). To allow this, there could for instance be an option to select the max rank for a battle entered (or created if no suitable battle available) with the battle button. Apart from the above, I'm personally not suffering from the update, but I can imagine what it's like when players don't have (near-)M4 equipment and lots of supplies..

Full list updated in opening post. 95 players are now in the list (players @Winner_Of_Turkey, @smokeyh2, @78190-facebook78, , @SHOAIB.ZAFAR added). Comparing the status to the last full update 1 week ago on 19/03/2017: - 5 entries are new - 16 didn't play, i.e. no change in rating value - 8 had an increase of their rating value (@Oufa is obviously boosting the rating with a large increase, the other seven had an average increase of +3.8) - 66 had a decrease of their rating value (in average by -14.3) Changes in rating position: not counting new entries, 3 players improved their rating position, while 87 lost positions.