Many people are suggesting it is because of the overcrowded servers.

I have the same issue and use the number pad arrows when in sniper mode.

You may be right on the "trap" part. I personally don't do parkour, so never payed attention. But I have noticed Parkourists coming into battles that are actual battles expecting to do parkour. That is very inconsiderate.

It all depends what the rest of your team is doing...If they are still trying and you are the only one that is hiding, then yes, you are a mult. If the whole team is hiding, thats different and I suggest, if there is still a long time left on the timer, then leave, you would be better off earning crystals somewhere else. Losing teams get very few crystals anyway. You stand a better chance of earning more crystals in another match, in the same amount of time you would be wasting in an already lost game waiting for a few crystals. And on a side note, Thank-you for taking time to learn about what is right and wrong in this game. You will no doubt become a good team player as you rank. Well done. There are lots of good people in this forum willing to help new players. B) Sadly there are a lot of idiots too. :( :angry:

I don't know about the rest of you but I feel cheaters useing hacks are at a high right now. It is getting very difficult to find battles that do not have someone cheating or ruining game play in some way or another. I think the players using cheats have gotten smarter, they do just enough to gain an edge but not enough to be obvious. The game is losing it fun factor and it's appeal because of this. Hopefully Tanki developers move dealing with this issue to the top of the "TODO" list.

Instead of removing servers, reduce the max number of players per server. What is it now, 2500 per server? Reduce it to 1500 each. It will reduce lag for everyone and make all servers more populated. Same result but less lag. I'm I wrong about this? What causes less lag, less servers or less people per server? Maybe Tanki needs to reduce the number of servers to save money, and if that is the case my questions are irrelevant.

Well, sadly raiders are not breaking any rules. It is not very nice to have happen, but this is what strong players do. Saboteurs are breaking the rules and do receive bans. I do think the penalties should be more severe, but that is not up to me.

Thank-you for the compliments.

I assume things are getting better for some since the "smart cool downs" release. Raiders do not seem to be having as easy of a time. The only thing I see increasing is the amount of smart cheaters. They cheat just enough to gain an advantage but not so much as to make it too obvious. I feel confident that the Developers are working on a solution to this problem. A little bird told me that there are some big changes coming with the switch to Unity. There are so many more things they can do with Unity. I can't wait.

Maybe that is why, but it is sometimes to run the battle fund up even higher. Greed is ultimately the top motivator here.

I learned something today. Thank-you

You may be on to something here. Right around the same time as the update our clan had to switch to using a different sever for MUMBLE. Our guys in Europe had no issue with each other but we couldn't hear them. Really high ping. After switching to different location all has been fine for MUMBLE. How did you find out about a broken cable?

Well Thank-you very much for letting us know and for not closing this topic. Yesterday was not as bad here in Canada and in the UK, but my US friend could barely even play. He said his ping went as high as 600 at times and fps was 3. He usually has no problems. I'm sure if that helps or makes any sense.

This issue just started after the last update. I now have the same issue. Very unstable ping. I get 10 - 400+ and it fluctuates all over the place and very rapidly. Before the update it was always below 50. Nothing on my end has changed at all. I'm not the only one having this problem. My whole clan is suffering from it. The game is almost unplayable at times, it lags so bad. The game freezes, sometimes as much as a second at a time, and suddenly the tanks appear on the other end of the map. I play right next to my wife and last night we where playing with our clan and on her screen she was being healed by our mate and on mine that same mate was off killing someone else. LOL Now that's is a problem.

It always amazes me how many people don't listen or read. The "rating system" was removed so it can be updated, to make it better, give it time to be fixed. It will be coming back. To those who say they now have no reason to play, how about just having "PRIDE" in knowing you did your best all the time. That's assuming that most of you even know what "PRIDE" is. The "server switcher" is a great idea, along with separate RU,EN, and DE severs. It is nice to know that the majority of the players on EN servers will be speaking English. If you can't find a battle on EN1 then switch to RU1. Unless that is to difficult to figure out.

Love the new switcher, but the lag is really bad sense the update. Ping is really unstable, and FPS is all over the place. I use google chrome 34 with pepperflash 13 on linux. nothing has changed on my system, so the problem came in the update.

Thanks for the support. I would say that was a raid. I didn't think raids where that common in the lower ranks. I don't remember or didn't recognize them. LOL Now how organized and deliberate it was, I don't know. I suspect it was just random.

LOL If you think you need lots of crystals now, wait till you get to my rank and up. M3's are a lot of crystals and the micro upgrades are even more. The problem is that the battlefund doesn't really get bigger with higher ranks, and blue boxes are still only 10 crystals each. It just costs a lot more. At low ranks you play a few good days and you can get enough to buy something new. At the high ranks it is more like play a couple of good weeks or even a month or more to earn enough crystals. Everyone assumes that Generalissimos have all M3 with all the upgrades you would be surprised how many do not. All M3's and upgrades costs millions of crystals.

Those are all ideas for other topics. We do have the support of a few of the "staff" members I have discussed this with, and some of those are pretty important people. However this particular topic is only about what players can do, on our own, to improve game play. Tanki really has nothing to do with what we do as long as the supporters of this campaign follow the rules.

Once again, if you read the first post, you would know I'm not asking the devs for anything, and I'm not telling them something new. You must think I'm some kind of moron or something. I'll write it nice and big and simple for you. This is about what PLAYERS can do. Not what Tanki can do. There are 59 supporters and 69 votes for "yes" , so it is not a waste of time to then or me. You must be in support of mults and cheaters, if you spend this much time trying to discredit what we are doing. Now run along and go bother someone else. I'm sure that won't be to difficult for you.

I only got 834 crystals.

Another positive effect story for you. I got dragged into a 100 CTF , stadium battle yesterday. I know against my own advice, but this one had a happy ending. We won. :) Anyway about half way through the battle I started to see the signs. The 3 guys on our side that had been running flags suddenly stopped and the opposite side started grabbing flags. Then the team swapping started. I was about to leave and thought "lets see what happens". I posted in chat "So is this when the raid begins?" Right after that the raid stopped. The 3 guys on our side started grabbing flags again and the mults left. Coincidence or not, I don't know but the timing was strange and a lot of players left after that. "Making a Difference One Report at a Time"

Funny that you mention camouflage. I don't feel any of the paints do a very good job at camouflaging any tank. Camouflage is a massive part of real tank warfare, but sadly not in Tanki. Sometimes the best camouflage is don't move. :ph34r: So many players just drive right on by, only looking straight ahead.

Nice plug. :rolleyes: And how did you find all those boxes, was everyone else asleep? I count 12 :blink: