You complain about fire continuing to burn and then you die. What about the instant kills from shaft and rail. Would you prefer those? You have not told us what combo you use. I suspect it is shaft and wasp or hornet. If so, that explains why you feel those close range guns are a problem. If I'm playing a map with shafts in battle on the other team, I like to use wasp twins, sneak up on the blind shaft and kill him. I wait until point blank range and by the time he/she figures out what happened he/she is dead. I do the same thing with fire bird and hammer. It's part of the game, deal with it. In fact players that use these weapons like to hunt shafts. As for your personal attitude, you are rather rude to players that came hear to offer suggestions to help you. You treat them like they insulted you when you are the one being insulting. Try showing some respect next time.

Don't be fooled. This is nothing more then a smoke screen to distract you from the truth that they actually increased the cost for those countries that have more disposable income. It is also to make it easier to hide the fact that Russians get to play this game for half the price. When they said they where making small changes to the payment system, I assumed they meant they where making adjustments to the price. Well that was a rather stupid assumption. I should know better.

I usually only ever have one on at a time but my accounts span a few rank groups with different friends. So that day I just left them open.

I'll explain a little bit more. There is a big difference between the number of players and the number of accounts. Almost every player has many accounts. I played 5 myself on the day in question and some where logged in simultaneously. Lets assume 50% of the players had at least 1 extra account logged in simultaneously. That accounts for 25% of the extra accounts. We don't know what the real numbers are, we can only speculate. My point is only that the the numbers of actual bodies playing is a lot less then the number of accounts.

Well the question is, why did they go so high?. Before the event, the max was around 60,000. During the event the max was around 100,000. So, to me, that means 40,000 mults. I highly doubt the word of the x5 event could have gotten out to 40,000 extra players in a few days. Tanki is just not that popular. I strongly believe that the max server load (of actual distinctly individual players) is more like 30,000 - 40,000. The rest are multiple accounts and we all know what those are for.

I just want to know what kind of "patty" ? I personally like Jamaican patties. :P But seriously, I think this is a great idea. I had exactly that very thing happen to me, I ranked before the camera was ready because somebody rolled on my mine too soon.

The same reason people put big chrome wheels on their car. Neither of these provide any improvement other then cosmetics but people still want them.

And this why we can play it in a browser instead of having to down load a client. I don't think the graphics are that bad.

Nothing wrong with that. Now using supplies when you don't really need them is wrong and I consider someone like that a mindless drugger. But not a noob. To me a noob is a player who doesn't know any better due too being "new".

Instead of calling players that don't understand how to play "noobs", why don't we try teaching them what is the correct thing to do? Everybody was a "noob" at one point. We need more topics about tips and tricks of this game. Maybe some more videos for new players.

How can anyone think the old blocky graphics are better? Adding options to use old graphics is not possible without a massive amount of programming and even then it may not be possible.

Railgun XT is no different then an M3 rail. Only the look is different so why would you want that removed? There is no Vulcan XT

So what your saying is: "Something of something is something, something of nothing is nothing"

All I can say is that I hope they take some time to consult those players that have been here for a long time, and not just in the RU side, to get their opinions about some of the major unresolved issues in this game. All the cool graphics and a new game engine won't be enough to save them if they don't address the big problems. This game is still a little tiny speck compared to some of the giants in the MMO game world. The top games, like League of Legends and World of Tanks, have millions of players on line per day. Not less then 100,000. If you go to any of the gaming websites TO doesn't even make to the lists. TO only exists to those that where lucky enough to stumble across it by accident. Why? They need to fix the monetization model they are currently supporting. You don't sell huge in game advantages to your players, it only chases off the core of your player base, the non-buyer. They need to start respecting their players. Their customer service is some of the worst I've ever dealt with. They need to start paying attention to what the players are telling them. Players have been telling them about problems for years but they chose to ignore them in favor of their own agenda. Which appears to be based off of money. They need to start offering more then just the game. What happened to the Tanki store? Players from all parts of the world would love to buy T-shirts, key chains, and coffee mugs. They need to start taking control of the sign-up procedure. People shouldn't just be able to create as many accounts as they like. They need to be able to track who owns these accounts. I assume they do it this way to artificially inflate the player numbers. They claim they have millions of players. There may be millions of accounts but when you take into account that most players have around 10 accounts, the reality is more like less then 100,000. The server loads may be 60 - 70,000 at present but again, I would estimate that more then half are multiple accounts. These are just a couple things to think about. We all know there are a lot more issues that need to be fixed and when they get their heads out of the clouds maybe they will see that.

Vulcan or at least it's OP punch. It tosses light hulls around like leafs in the wind. It should also have an effective range, it shouldn't be unlimited. The same goes for rail.

It might be better to buy the fuel and go for a drive in the country. B) And for more clarification you are referring to 98 RON (Research Octane Number) which is the same as 87 AKI (Anti-Knock Index) which is how we rate our fuel in Canada. See the wiki for more information. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

Today's price ranges from 107.9 - 116.9 per liter of 89 octane, where I live. The gasoline market here is very volatile and prices change daily. 107.9 = 107.9 cents or 1 dollar and 7.9 cents. Also for clarity 1 dollar = 100 cents.

Funny how there seems to be a lot of adults commenting in this topic. I bet Tanki HQ wishes that all of us adults would just go away so the could continue to fool all the kids with wonderful stories in peace. The must really hate being exposed all the time. I can't help but wonder if we would even be having this conversation right now if it wasn't for the fact this double standard was exposed by @swede1 back on May24/2015. "Double Standard, is it fair?"

Actually, looking at the numbers again and if memory serves me correctly, we are now paying more then before this 44% reduction. So was that just a way to hide an actual increase in prices? Sort of a virtual slight of hand. Gasoline(petrol) companies here in Ontario due this all the time. As an example, a few days before a long weekend they will lower the cost by 3 cents per liter. People think great the price is down. Then the day the long weekend starts it goes back up 5 cents per liter. The funny thing is that the price of oil didn't change much during the week prior to the long weekend. So why the 2 cent increase before a long weekend? Simple, greed. Sound familiar?

I sometimes think, they think that we are all a bunch of kids and think they can just fool us. :( We all agree with what you are saying but by "yelling" and swearing, you only discredit yourself. No disrespect to you because we have all lost our cool over this game, which only proves it is worth the effort. If it wasn't we would just leave and find fun else where. :) You reaction only goes to support what I have explained in my response to .The relationship between the EN community and Tanki HQ has been destroyed, mainly by their lack of interest and involvement in what we are saying. They will need to do a lot of damage control if they want Unity to be a success because, as it stands, I don't think too many players have any trust in the people making the decisions. I truly poor way to launch a new platform.

Well thank-you for taking your time to explain all of this to us in better detail. I know many of us appreciate this more open dialogue. All the vague answers we usually get only lead to frustration, anger, and mistrust. Many of us love this game and what you have been able to accomplish up till this point and only wish to help Tanki progress even further. Unfortunately because of the past lack of good communication between Tanki HQ and our forum, we have arrived a point in time where tensions are very high and conversations turn nasty far to quickly. I hope with the addition of to your team, you and your team will have more time to discuss hot topics with us and be able to but all this mistrust behind us. There are some great minds and ideas in this forum and if you take the time to discuss them you will see what we see. :)

So here is some more disturbing information. The amount of "free" crystals you receive in a package is different depending whether you are on a EN sever or RU server. Even before we get to price they get an advantage and this completely wrong. I would like to hear the explanation for just this, never mind the difference in cost. RU - if you buy 15000 you get 7500 for free. = 22500 EN - if you buy 15000 you get 4000 for free. = 19000 So that is 3500 more crystals just for buying on the RU servers. Pictures to prove this are in the spoiler. RU is first and EN second. So now lets look at the difference in cost. The 15000 pack on the RU server costs 299 Rubles. The 15000 pack on the EN server costs 630.16 Rubles. Picture in the spoiler as proof. Don't forget they also get more free crystals. So lets break it down a little further. RU - 22500 / 299 = 75.25 Which means they get 75.25 crystals per ruble. EN - 19000 / 630.16 = 30.15 Which means we get 30.15 crystals per ruble. That is approximately 60% more crystals just for buying on the RU server. Another unfair advantage. What I can't understand is why there is such a unfair advantage given to the Russians. The exchange rate should be the only deciding factor in the cost to players from different countries. Solution: The simplest thing would to sell all crystals in Rubles and let the exchange rate determine the cost to the player. You can't get any fairer then that.

The new prices are the same as the old ones. The 120000 package is replaced with the 200000 one. Such morons. I'm sure glad I stopped paying a long time ago. I sure hope they pay their programmers well because they are the only one saving Tanki from disaster because their management and people skills are some of the worst I've seen.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Right on schedule, I was waiting for this to happen. "However, we must consider the long-term consequences of our decisions. If we allow the system to remain as it is, the game economy will lose stability, ultimately ruining the game for players" <<< This is the funniest thing I have read today. Since when did they start caring about game play being ruined?

AHH I see. Well then yes, that is bad news. :(