One thing that will be different is that other "raiding teams" have pools of accounts for players to use, which is against the rules.

I sent a PM to and the response was rushed due to his busy schedule, but he confirmed that they have considered the effects of this re-balance on Wasp and Hornet. If I understand correctly the re-balance may only be part of a bigger plan. I feel a little more at ease after seeing that, so I will wait and see before passing any further judgment. I just hope my previous prediction are proven wrong.

Here is how it could work. Hopefully they don't consider this against the rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVnF1QhTkkc Yes I know the word "player" was missing out of the first pop-up. It has been fixed and now reads "Click on the name of the player you want to report"

By the sounds of what was said in V-blog 42, the anti-cheat system does not work very well. It can't tell the difference between lag and a hack. Hacker and cheaters will only use this to their advantage. They will realize that there is no really punishment for using hacks and will use them on alternate accounts to boost battle funds for their mains. Hackers will not care about self-destructs. Reporting them is the only way to get them removed and banned and videos are not an option for many players. So we need a better reporting system. How about an improved /vote system?

That glitch has been around for over a year, so apparently it most be lag or they would have fixed it. Right? :huh:

What do you mean unreachable? That was a lame excuse for them to use. If the enemy could put it there then you can retrieve it as well, or simply shoot the flag holder and it will return in a minute. If a shaft player could get to these spots, then it is not unreachable, is it?

Well at the risk of sounding disrespectful, but as a person who deals with many different cultures, in business for many years, that does not come as a surprise. Iranians and Russians, as well as many others, believe in a business motto of "hear is what I offer, take it or leave it" Their focus is on money not customer satisfaction. If a company fails they just change the name and start over. Sorry if I offended anyone, this is just my observation and experience over the years.

Prime.... 1 example is on Serpuhov, they added barriers to prevent players from going around behind the blue base and they added some to prevent access to the area to the far left of the red base. Many shaft players know the ones I refer to. They claim it was to prevent shaft players from camping in those spots. Well shaft is Tanki's equivalent of a sniper, and snipers camp and certainly don't use laser sights to reveal their hidden location. My logic is fix it or remove it, because it sucks the way it is now.

If you don't mind me asking, what country?

I do notice that a lot of players do not understand the proper way to report violators. I would suggest that you ask to do a piece in one of his v-blogs. It would also be very helpful to know what it is you are looking for in these reports. Very sorry to waste your time but it's better to go straight to the source. You are the ones on the "front line".

To address the Title, Tanki should favor buyers. After all we pay their wages. Our money is what makes this game possible. Without buyers this game would be gone in a month or two. So guess what, buyers should get an advantage. Welcome to real life, money buys privilege, get used to it.

But they make the game for us. We are the ones supporting them. They need us, we do not need them. There are lots of other games. Buyers like me pay their wages and they need to remember that.

I bet if you did a survey, you would find out the opposite. Players don't want to die before they can get anywhere, they want to play a game not spend all their time re-spawning. You can't really use any kind of strategy if you die every few seconds. Capture the Flag games will become harder, maybe even pointless because no one will ever be able to capture a flag. We will all be dead. As an example just look at any game where a team comes in with 2 vulcans, the opposite team usually just leaves, because the game is lost. Vulcan has become a game spoiler. Why? because it is WAY too strong. SO HOW is making all the other turrets stronger going to make this any better?

Maybe instead of introducing something, finding what it was not what players wanted and then having to change it again, why don't they simply ask us what we want instead of assuming? Delay this re-balance and take some time to do the research. Strengthening all the turrets is the wrong approach. They are going in the wrong direction. Light hulls will become useless. Most of the turrets are already too overpowered.

I actually have a different question. Why do they only ever answer questions from Facebook? HELLO, the forum users have questions too.

yes the turrets will be balanced compared to each other but still over powered. You are correct about players choosing light hulls for the speed, but when you can't last longer then a few seconds without being killed by turrets that are too strong, that extra speed is pointless.

This is exactly my point. Why has viking so popular now? People are willing to sacrifice speed for protection because they are tired of dying before they even have a chance to do anything with light hulls, and after this new proposed re-re-balance (or is it re-re-re-balance, I've lost count) light hulls will be basically useless. PLAYERS WE NEED TO STOP THIS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. (yes I'm yelling)

It almost seems like "someone" does like shaft and is crippling it on propose. First they add lasers, then they blocked access to prime sniping location on some maps, and now messed up the controls. Why don't they just remove already be done with it? This is like ripping off a band-aid in slow motion.

Please for the love of Tanki. Make sure you get this update correct. Personally I think you are going in the wrong direction. The problem that lead to this re-re- balance is that Hammer and Vulcan are considered over powered. So you chose to add more damage to all the other turrets to balance things, but the 2 turrets mentioned will still be overpowered. Wouldn't it make more sense to turn up the protection of the hulls instead?After this re-balance Wasp will become obsolete and Hornet will just be too weak to be of much use. Have you thought about that? The biggest reason people complain about turrets being over powered is because people hate dying so frequently. You take this into consideration. Maybe now would be a good time to take a real survey of what players actually think instead of assuming what they want. It may save you a lot of grief and wasted time. But what do I know, I've only been playing video games for about 35 years, probably longer then many of you have been alive.

I 'm not sure who is taking care of quality control of updates at Tanki HQ, in my opinion that person needs to be fired. They have messed the forum up to the point of it being almost useless, and before this they majorly screwed up the last update. The mouse controls did not work and still do not, and actually introduced too many other negative issues into the game. Now they are planning another re-balance, in which they are going in the wrong direction. Tanki you really need to get your act together, before the only players you have left are kids that don't know that they should expect better and have no money to spend. Now let's see if I can even post this. I only have 5 mins before I need to leave.

Great idea, it should make a big improvement. However I'm not sure if it is just me but the forum seems laggy today, and I'm having trouble getting my notifications list to load.

And you never will.

Yeah, good luck with that. Tanki couldn't care less how much their players spend. NO REFUNDS EVER.

Thanks for the compliment, but I'm nobody special. It isn't that they need me or someone like me running the Dev team, they just need to listen to the many voices that are trying to tell them that their current process for testing and release is not working. It has failed them too many times in the last few updates. There are a lot of really smart people in this game and many suggest ideas for things other than new feature for the game. Ones that will help with testing, and dealing with violators for example, but for some reason they are only interested in ideas for new stuff.

Well yes and no. It is a direct result of improper testing and some crazy desire to release updates too quickly. Mouse controls sounds like a good idea but The Devs are having a real hard time getting it to work correctly. My issue is they knew it didn't work but released it anyway. If you can't make it work, scrap it. It is destroying Tanki the way it is and I'd rather not have mouse controls at all, than sacrifice what we had before.