I left this game quite some time ago. Best thing I ever did BTW. Yes I miss my friends but not the stress and BS. I do come and read the forum from time to time, on the hopes things have gotten better but all I ever see is more ways to spend more money for less product. :huh: As many have said, we continue to make negative predictions. The problem is, they always come true. :( I know that the DEVS would prefer that the many of us that can see whats wrong with most of their decisions(and usually only minutes after they announce them) would just leave. It would make it so much easier for them to continue to take advantage of the young or weak minded. Their preferred cycle of players would be start playing, get hooked, spend real money, and then leave quietly once they realize whats really going on here. The game has majors flaws and they continue to ignore them in the name of profits. Well here's another prediction. Continue to choose profit over quality and the day will come where you will not have enough loyal players to maintain your game. I am @Canadian_Eh and I was a Tanki addict. It has been 5 months since I last played. :D I even received an invite to test out TankiX but can't be bothered. I'm just not interested into falling back into their trap of broken promises and deceptions.

and to get the codes it was a contest.

Your only missing 1 very important thing. Mods. /vote never worked due to a lack of mods, so should this be any different? Is this just more "lip service"? lip service n. Verbal expression of agreement or allegiance, unsupported by real conviction or action; hypocritical respect:

As usual, it's all about Facebook. How about posting some of those codes up here. Not everyone has or wants a Facebook account. Here's an idea, trying inviting players how have the ability to give honest and constructive feedback during testing. Look in the forums and pick from the list of active members who actually have something intelligent to say and who aren't just going to be mesmerized by the pretty graphics. Ask the players what they want and for their opinion. Don't just get a bunch of "yes" men and women do give you the feedback.

"Common sense" tells me that Admins and long time Mods are not spending 50+ hours a week (as claimed by some) for free. They have to be getting something for their time. There is a much bigger reason that there are such double standards about who gets banned and who doesn't, but I'll just leave it up to everyone else to figure out. I once knew a player who became a mod and later an admin. It was very sad to see the changes in the point of view of this person. They used to be about the players, now it's all about defending Tanki. I wonder what changed?

"WARNING" This update has created a DANGER for many younger players, it only makes it easier for people to take advantage of them. I can't count how many times people have been saved from scammers, pedophiles and other dishonest activites by the other users in the chat. Now those that troll the chats looking for victims, can do all this in private. We all know there are not anywhere close to enough mods to watch all the conversations and we don't even know if they can see the private ones. This is where the the rest of the community stepped in. How can we help protect others now? I know that many MODS relied on help from regular players to draw their attention to such activities, now this is gone. Come on MODS speak up, you know this to be true. We have people trying to scam others into trading accounts or giving up their password and other personal information. We have people looking to recruit new member for things like cults and religious / political groups. Again very bad. Even worse, we have people looking for little boys and girls to lure into dangerous situations. There is an endless list of things that can go wrong in chat rooms and you just gave these criminals the tools they needed. Anyone that has children will see how dangerous this is and will want it removed ASAP. Remove this update before something bad happens.

We should have the option of sending it private or public. Sometimes it makes sense for other players to be able to read a comment made to somebody else. How can we help players? I may want to answer a players question BUT still want everyone else to see the answer AND others may want to see it as well and learn from the answer.

Well it's become perfectly clear who this game's target audience is. It is little naive kids who will realize too late that they should have spent their crystals on equipment instead of these useless gifts. Who in their right mind is going to spend 100500 crystals on a useless "blue sphere" ? The only thing I'll buy is and send it to Tanki.

@AbsoluteZero is a personnel friend of mine and we have worked on a few AHK projects together. Many hours have been spent discussing "how" to solve any number of issues. Playing the game, especially in it's current state, has almost become secondary lately and have completely given up on the forums and only came to this topic because AZ mentioned it. Yeah, Tanki should do a lot of things but they are more interested in adding more useless things then in going back and fixing the underling issues. Here is some free advice, "finish your current task before moving on to something new"

Here is a link to a topic about an AHK script I wrote awhile back called EZ Slash Vote. http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=259573 There is a demo video and part way down that post is some links to a better description. I hardly ever use it any more as /vote does not work anyway. I wrote it during a time when I assumed it would make a difference.

Well that pretty much sums it all up. It now takes me a week to earn enough crystals to do 1 upgrade. Where as before I could do several of the important ones per week. Well I guess it's like most companies that offer a package deal, you may get a few good things but have to take the crap nobody buys too. Tanki will just price themselves right out of the market, and then out of business. As for the lag cheaters, I agree 100% that they are used a lot more then people realize. The lag always seems to occur at the most convenient times. They always seems to be used by the same kinds of players. Everyone has seen them, they are the ones that must win at all costs. They usually start with the mindless drugging, cap all the flags even when the teams are extremely unbalanced, travel in packs, use mults, use sabotage, and when all that doesn't work out come the cheats. Well I guess it would be safe to assume that they have not been raised with any sense of morals or honour and we shouldn't expect anything more from them.

Wow, I have shoes older them most of you. Knowing that most of the moderators are just kids explains a whole lot.

This type of attitude has been the destruction of so many things. They should always consider what the people that actually play their game want. It may be their game do do with as they want but if they chase off all the players, then what do they have? Anybody that knows anything about business knows the customer always comes first. Well unless your goals as a business are only short term profits.

The game is unbalanced on purpose. Whether you are talking about mults or turrets and hulls doesn't matter. The unbalanced nature of this this game encourages people to spend money. Some will buy supplies, some will buy better equipment. So don't expect them to do anything about any of these issues.

That is the funniest thing I've read all week.