Ice cubes...I load up my coffee mug with ice cubes and slowly eat them one by one....its keeps my head cool and focused

never....i think its all about the type of turret you choose....you cannot be a close combat player and expect to win without getting killed....shaft, railgun...more likely to happen

Quite often for a number of reasons....like most recently, I saw a lower ranked player on my team being a saboteur at the last minute in a 10v10 Serpuhov CTF game...flags were tied at 9-9 for a 10 flag limit game when one of my team mates tank got destroyed and dropped the flag, he picked it up, activated all drugs and ran....to the other camp....obviously the other side got the lion's share of the 5k battle fund and we couldn't even take a video because we never expected him to do this in the last minute of the battle

There is a positive change...the lags begin about 30 or 40 mins later...

Training to get M2 Firebird at the next rank....I say its going well considering Hill is usually dominated by Freezes, Isidas, Rails and Thunders....this was with my M1 Firebird

I already mentioned on Page 1 that I do feel safe using my main account in the forum because I don't intend to break rules. Having said that, I do not feel safe using battle chat on the servers....I am sure you have all been harassed by some players who want your account or want to give you free crystals or start abusing you...I do use the snapshot function to report such players but they still do exist...especially in the early hours after server restart. I cannot even chat with my friends without fear of coming in the eyes of some hacker silently waiting to steal high ranked accounts. I wish there was some way to block players on battle chat similar to how this can be done in the forum. Oh and....during lags and slow connections, I sometimes press some keys and they hold much longer than intended resulting in unintentional flooding and warnings....sometimes, if you are unlucky and the lag happens when you key in certain alphabets, they come out as unintended abbreviations....which obviously can result in bans....so i try to avoid chatting on the battle servers but the forum is ok

In my opinion, there should be some more additional constraints placed around this capability to prevent misuse (similar to the scenario with team kick right now). I hope the developers keep some of the following scenarios in mind to make sure that the game still remains fair and fun to play. a. Its a 1-1 CTF or TDM battle with a big battle fund and a time limit of like 60 minutes and a cap limit of 100. Both players are neck and neck with scores at 98:99. The player with the 99 score leaves to the garage with just 1 minute left in the game. If the player had stayed, scores could have leveled or the other player might have won. By strategically moving to the garage and preserving the score with this capability, the player exploits this feature to win the game....I don't think this would be fair to the other player. One solution to this: don't let players go to the garage if the cap limit will be reached in 15 caps or 5 minutes in case of a timed battle. b. High ranked Player A starts a 60 minute CTF or TDM game with a M1/M1 combo. Soon other players join and player A's team is losing. All players now have a score in excess of 150. Player A moves to the garage and brings a M3/M3 combo and begins drugging. By preserving place in the battle, Player A suddenly swings the battle around and takes advantage of the battle fund that has now increased. Players who don't have a high combo or don't have drugs have been unfairly tricked into losing their share of the fund because 1 player exploits this capability. One solution to this: don't let players bring higher ranked combos to an existing game. So, for example, if a player is playing M1/M1, he can go to the garage and get another M1/M1 but not a M3/M3.

This is my main account. I dont have an alt....I dont intend to violate rules or perform malicious behaviour which might result in bans....so therefore, I feel safe right now. If for some reason, this main account gets banned or becomes unusable, I think I would just stop playing rather than starting all over again with an alt....I mean it is a game after all....a good game, but still, a game...I think we will all move on to something else after some point of time...so no point being scared to use the main account as long as you stick to the rules...why would you want to break a rule here if you wouldn't break a law in real world...you are still playing against real people right...not AI...?

top of the winning CTF team playing Serpuhov just now with M1 Firebird M1 hornet + Corossion. So, Serpuhov is not all about long and mid range turrets...

India, Sri Lanka, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, USA, Bahamas, Singapore Transit through UK, Germany, UAE, Qatar

China, my good friend, isn't south east Asia. In fact, South east Asia includes countries geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia

what does this mean? i am not that tech savvy....i couldn't understand what this meant for the current players or the current game.....is this about a new game? if someone would elaborate, it would be very helpful for a lot of folks like me

South East Asia

I wish the timing for these type of events was a little time friendly for the rest of the world....5 pm UTC+0 is 1 am where I live....I know Tanki is a Russian game....just voicing my opinion

I thought moving to the new data center was for the end of feb...did it get pre-poned? tanki is completely inaccessible for me right now....how do i get to play on those maps that are going to be removed and even try for the 2000 gold box....:-(

actually the game title and the hulls/turrets/paints used inside vary a lot when random players join who do not understand english/russian or both....i have seen battles set as wasp + fire and players enter with hunter/twins and inferno paint....i think the update which tanki will release in the distant future which will allow us to search/set which type of turrets/hulls we need to join a game will make these XP battles more effective....otherwise don't be surprised if a XP hornet/rail battle is interrupted by a freeze/isida

I dont use either of these hulls or turrets but I have certainly met some very effective M1 Freeze M1 Viking players....Freeze is way too OP....Forget M1, even if M0 Freeze without drugs can get close enough to a M3 drugger, he can still be frozen for a few seconds which is invaluable during team battles At my rank, I have seen some battles where a team full of freezes and 1 or 2 isidas can completely dominate a battle.....can't say I have seen that with ricochet....actually, that's one weapon that is becoming rare at lower upcoming player levels....you cannot do parkour with it, twins have a faster rate of fire and with some skill, you can dodge the ric....

I won the T-shirt...woohoo!!! 17 snapshots

done....i posted 17 snapshots as 17 different tweets....not too many rusty tanks left in the maps at my rank nice contest.....enjoying it....wish the reward was higher ;) :D i couldn't find my entries in the #tankionline but I am guessing they must be in the process of being linked by twitter....twitter must be getting swamped....good publicity for tanki if someone sees avimin entries for this contest on twitter, would be nice if you could please pm me and confirm....tx

I am not an expert...but I would love to chip in with my 2 cents since I have been using this almost exclusively as my main gun ever since I got M1 at Master Sergeant along with M1 wasp....the 'dragon ninja' combo... What I am going to mention below may not make sense to all the top ranks and experts but it might be helpful for those of you who are using this from Master Sergeant. 1. I think the best combo for this is wasp....I dont think the focus should be on maintaining high d/l íf you are using this combo but you can take a turret and hull's disadvantage and use it as a strength...so for instance, firebird...its reload and wasp = protection are its weaknesses....so, you have to sacrifice life for kills and to fight for your team in team battles....so for instance, spray a full load and die...if your afterburn doesn't kill...dont worry...you are a wasp, as soon as re-spawn, you have the speed to find the guy you were fighting with and you can kill him fast.... 2. Just stay away from head to head battles with freezes and isidas in that order....the reason being that they usually have an upgraded weapon combo that will turn you into mincemeat. 3. Use the Q and E camera angle buttons a lot more than Z and X....your hull has a very short life span and your turret has a very long reload time....by the time you begin making all those swinging turret moves, you will be dead...instead use the camera angles to look ahead or with a 360 degree view 4. For paints, use forester in the beginning till you can afford corrosion....lava might work with freeze but again by the time a little bit hits you, you are stuck or dead...as for forester, as soon as you see a rail gun...either hide or if you are in the open...rush towards it even if he is firing at you....the 10% protection will be good enough to survive his 1 shot and that you can spray your full load and watch him die just as that annoying blue light appears at his turret....why this will work....there are lots of rails at that stage of the game...all the big ranks have alternate rail accounts 5. So, how do you fight freezes and isidas....freeze....stay out of range and get around and try to get the after burn to work for you...spray a little back off....approach from another angle...it needs a little practice but it works....Isidas....again get around and if not...use mines...drop it right in front of you as he approaches or fire your load and back off at the half way mark....the afterburn will do the trick + wasp will get you out of his weapon range 6. Micro-upgrades....you should use this especially because of the time it takes for you to get the next upgraded weapon....increase damage and burn damage first....then protection and speed for wasp....I know the main guide suggests that you upgrade the parameter that works for you best but the performance of the tank as a unit improves as you chip in to improve....its real fun when some tanks approach you thinking you are an easy picking and then when you release a microupgraded spray of fire.... 7. If you see a tank diving from a height, speed up and ram them just as they are about to hit the ground...they will flip and you can easily destroy them with your burn without any damage to your tank....you just need to practice this a bit....the timing is critical....remember not to hang around the tank though....release from a distance and get out of there...if its tank with recoil, they can get back on their feet and hunt you...however, if you are not in the area, the afterburn will still do the job 8. If you see a tank approaching from below, wait till he is about half way and again rush straight at him, they will flip once again....lots of folks wait to get into position before hitting space bar...those critical seconds and timing will get you the kill 9. In CTF games....use your tank as a decoy....let your main attackers approach from another angle....you go from the other end...lots of folks will move from there position so that they can get an easy kill from you....as they approach, spray as many of them as possible....at this point, your main attackers can quickly get into the camp and steal the flag...even if the others try to defend and get into position, the afterburn would have added a competitive advantage for your team...your team might even let you cap the flag if you see them fight for you....alternatively, you can also act as the alternative....usually, when the main tank attacks and steals the flag, everyone from the base will move/get distracted to get the flag back into their base....use this opportunity to sneak into the enemy camp and as soon as the flag is returned...grab it and get back into base to either cap the flag or offer it to the main attacker 10. Practice, Practice, Practice...the more time you spend on this combo, the more skill you will get....you will get familiar with using some strategies like dive bombing, using a thunder's splash damage against it, calculating a smoky's shots to determine whether the next shot will be critical or not etc, where would a viking get stuck while turning...etc If anyone is interested to know more, I would be glad to add. Once again....these are perspectives from a low rank firebirder to help low rankers....I joined tanki in October 2013 and this combo has taken me to where I am now and where I will be later....I hope to join the league of the dragon ninjas

albie....you are speaking my mind today...I have never played Doom....how is a Doom Cheat Code relevant to Tanki, especially when Tanki strictly forbids cheating? How can you have a cheat code as a keyword???So, is Godmode_on a cheater? If he/she is, then Tanki seems to be supporting him and cheating with all this publicity from THE GAME....and what on earth is XEELQMA and how does that relate to Tanki????

for free??? Semyon....I think Tanki team has underestimated the collective value of our time and effort spent over the last 7 days and I am really hurt ....If so many people spent so much time on THE GAME, its because we love Tanki and we know what supplies mean in the Tanki world but this sort of a response from you makes us feel that you don't realize the value of real world time Either cancel the game altogether or reward all players with a 1000 supplies....if Tanki places so much emphasis on rules, isn't trial and error method adopted to enter the game early, a form of cheating??

if it was fair...yes...which was the point of taking part in the game. I dont like the fact that a 100 players get a 1000/500 supplies simply because they read the answers on the russian forum before me

How many hours did all of us put in searching from one crazy place to another, fighting with each other, taking screenshots and ultimately....it turns out that the game can be won through trial and error....plus you only end up with 100 supplies...not fair....tanki should compensate with 1000 supplies for everyone.....how else can you explain that the last answer is known even before the video is out? I dont think I will participate next year....it seems biased towards the russian community