The "real" motivation is money. It's all about crystals and crystals mean everything. Crystals represent real money. There has to be an accurate account of all crystals coming and going in the game. I don't think updates are designed to ruin game play. Updates are designed to increase profit margins and if it improves or ruins game play is secondary. Tanki is not the only game that does this. There are others that have used this same tactic and are now gone and forgotten. You don't force and trick people to pay, you provide things they want to buy freely and of their own will. Well you are partly correct, I do see the worse in all of the latest updates however there used to be good updates. I'm not the only one who sees it.

So now they are taking advantage of young kids that are not smart enough yet to recognize what they are doing.

What are you talking about? I just did exactly that. Both where 1v1 battles. Plus I went from battle to battle just grabbing double damage boxes and leaving. This will be the next problem. Players will start fighting over supply boxes and ignoring the game or taking supplies they don't really need. Why does it take weeks and months for Tanki to come up with ideas and only minutes for many of us to find the flaws or to see the real motivation behind these ideas. Daily missions is just another carefully disguised way for Tanki to save crystals and in some cases even make some from the people that will make the mistakes of changing missions. Players focus will change from playing properly to completing daily missions and forget everybody else. Tanki is inadvertently encouraging even more selfish or dishonest game play.

Well capturing 3 flags will be easy I'll just make a 1v1 with my mult and cap 3 flags, done. Then next I'll kill my mult 30 times. So now the servers will be filled with 1v1 Island battles. The 100 xp one will take a little longer. I may need to use 2 or 3 mults to speed it up. Daily missons was a really good idea but in the real, mult infested, world of Tanki this will just be a fail.

The cost to change missions is too high. Why would I want to give you half of what I might earn just to change a mission. If I change 3 times I'm now paying Tanki. Someone better explain this to the young kids before they give all their crystals back.

Two words .......... Star Ladder

Why would they do that? That would only make too much sense. Well I guess we have another script to write.

Oh great more tools for the cheaters, Awesome. I can hardly wait. Maybe Tanki can just add a "Enable Cheats" button. Well at least the mults now have something they can do while not helping their team. They can be a spy for the opposite team.

Many may wonder why buyers get soo upset with re-balances. Buyers have invested real money into their garage. Many higher rank non-buyers will feel the same way because they have invested a lot of time to earn the crystals, well unless you are one of the new breed of cheater. Well let me explain. Player's make decisions to buy certain equipment and micro upgrades based off of current parameters and their preference. These are big decisions, especially for high ranks because the cost in crystals in huge. When Tanki re-balances the parameters it may, and often does, change the preference for certain items. Many players find it annoying and a little dishonest to nerf something that was already paid for. Think of it like this.You go and buy a new car and one day the car company comes and takes your car back and replaces your engine with one that is less powerful, claiming it was because it was too fast compared to the other cars. Would you be mad? Yes, because you bought that car with that engine. This is kinda the same thing, when you buy something real or virtual it is yours. I understand that to them the game, as a whole, is the product and that these updates are designed to improve the product, but when you remove something that someone has payed for there should be some sort of compensation for that reduction in value. Some games that I have played simply give you back all the game currency, empties your garage (or what ever applies to the game) and allows you to repurchase all you gear based off of the new balance. And by the way the balance is still off, however I'm not referring to the balance of the equipment. I'm referring to the balance between honest and dishonest players. Honest players are getting fewer and fewer and pretty soon there won't be anybody left except for the cheaters. Every city has a nasty place you don't want to go to, especially at night, well Tanki is becoming that place. Is this the image and reputation you want for Tanki ?

I agree 100% and that is why I have not given them a red cent of my money for a very very long time. If they wake up and start to fix the REAL problems and start acting like they give a dam, I MAY start to support them again. I pretty sure they don't care if they have to go out of business because they can simply change the company name and re-open using the Unity version.

Nice way to disrespect the high ranks that have worked to get M4 garages. Whats the point of micro upgrading to M4 you have effectively nerfed M4. This update really doesn't fix anything. The real problem is still being ignored, mults, sabotures and raiders. Why don't you try to find other ways to earn money in this game instead re-balancing all the time. Your re-balances are for only one reason which you yourself hint to. "...equipment statistics and use" simply means if you change the balance again it will force players to buy the currently less popular equipment because it has been boosted and the currently popular stuff got nerfed. Tanki is so transparent. What's funny is you put many of the things back too the way they were before the the last re-balance. Either you can't make up your mind or it is about money.

Lets actually look at the numbers in this topic. These are based off of the EN community only. These are the number at the point of this posting and may change as time goes on. 900 players took the time to vote on this topic. 785 players voted no or down 115 players voted yes or up (many of these are staff and mods) So 87.2 % of the players said no or downvoted only 12.8 % of the players said yes or upvoted So why is this update or experiment still in the game? This is exactly why many players claim that Tanki does not listen to their players. If this was an experiment why didn't they use a poll to find out if players wanted to keep it or not? One can only speculate that this was never an experiment and they never had any plans of removing it. What I find really funny is that this "update" was first discussed 2 years and 2 months ago and yet they still got it wrong. LOL

Tanki will tell you it is because it is summer. However many of us believe it is more likely because many players are just completely fed up with the people running this game. A series of bad updates combined with the problem of mults and the looming possibility that we will not be able to transfer our full accounts over to the unity version are enough to make many players find other, less problematic games to play. Maybe when they learn to listen to what their players are telling them, the players may return.

This is not my topic but if you think you can make a good article for it. I say go for it.

This only adjusts the vertical speed, not the whole issue of this update.

Did you not see the post by where he claims that a decision has not been made? Here is the link >> http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=268988&page=6&do=findComment&comment=4752529

You are probably correct. Anyone have any suggestions as to who to contact? Who would be the best person do to it?

There is not a version for mac. Sorry.

Slightly off topic but Tanki could make a lot of money if they allowed custom paints through the purchase of premium accounts or special passes. Actually they could get rid of all the protective paints in the garage and simply allow you to add your own paint or choose from some defaults. Replace the protections with a separate protective layer of armour which could be adjusted to match what you want to protect yourself from. It would be better then having to scroll through 50+ paints in your garage.

From before or after the "change" to this update? The amount of change to camera speed seems to have a lot to do with your settings and your video card. Maybe see some of the videos to see what has changed. The increased camera speed did not change much for me on this machine but did on our other "better" machine.

Is this update in or out? Once again our community get left in he dark. OK hows going to the RU forum this time to find an answer? KNOCK, KNOCK HELLO, SEMYON ARE YOU THERE? ANYBODY? Why is it I only hear the sound of crickets chirping?

No problem, I'm glad I could burst your bubble. :P This community has been trying to get some respect from the developers for a LONG time. For some reason they don't seem interested in what we have to say. It's sad really, because we have had some great ideas go to waste. Then what happens is the active members of the community get frustrated and start saying things that they normally wouldn't say. Which then just turns into a battle of egos. There are only 2 people from the development team that ever communicate with us, and usually it doesn't go well. One is , one of the game designer/developers. The other is , the EN community manager. I do like you idea though.

You have given me an idea. Do we have a topic with game etiquette listed in a bullet form?

Get used to the idea of being ignored. Tanki developers have no desire to communicate with players no matter how good their ideas are. Some of us have been being ignored for several years. Welcome the world according to Tanki.

I don't understand it either. I don't figure out what they find wrong with some of these ideas. I suspect it has more to do with EGO.