That is great, Thank you very much, FederalBureauFBI, for explaining for us and providing the reference to the numbers that the original poster might have done for us. It is much appreciated.

CLANS On inception into the organised CLAN system CLAN members TANKS should be BRANDED. Their should be be a limit on how many CLAN members can be in anyone team or in any game. It is true that the huge disparity in Ranks, that where once available for the same game, where responsible for acrimony and spoiled games. That pails into insignificance compared the the abuse and spoiled games caused by organised clans in ordinary games. CLAN warfare should be confined to organised CLAN Wars and practice sessions only! It is totally unfair that ordinary players should be subjected to CLANS. They are far too collectively organised and equipped. Many of them have large data bases of players that can be called into games to make sure of their success. Ordinary Tanki players are subsidizing their weaponry by being presented as gun fodder. It aught to be addressed by Tanki because it is getting worse and is the most blatant disruption of Tanki life.

Auto Aim is the bane of Tanki. Not to be confused with the recent update. Autoaim for Rail gun covers a Cone of 28 degrees. On large maps that covers an absolutely huge area. That is why some guns like rail are so successful it allows unskilled players to make kills without aiming the gun. They only have to casually wave it about and bang you are dead! It should be consigned to the bin

What do you mean? This is real life! Isn't it? :( :( :huh: :wub:

Unfortunately the long games are susceptible for piracy by mercenary Clans. Short games less so and if they are it matter less. I believe that all clan members should have their Tanks Branded and that their should be a restriction on the number of clan members on any side or any battle full stop. Unfortunately Clans are on the increase and are generally encouraged but they spoil the game far more than any mismatch of rank. They shold only be able to meet on mass in organised competitions and special training games.

Wasp is not the most suitable platform for Shaft or any other High recoil weapon. It might have some occasional use but it is very vulnerable. If the developers applied physics, then if what ever gun caused an enemy or friendly tank to flip then the firing tank would also flip. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. That is unless the firing tank had sufficient mass to counter it. So every time small tank fired shaft or high powered rail it would end upside down! ha :D Still this is only a fantasy game in some other dimension. :o Just watch real main battle tanks firing off, they weigh about 60 tons or 60,000 KG + or minus the odd ton. Just look at the amount they shake and move and the amount of dust shock in the near vicinity. Quite awesome. :tank:

I have suggested in Suggestions that Clear varnish paint be available to buy in the garage that is very slippery. It is applied over the normal pain and does not change its appearance. It can be improved, made more effective in the normal way by Micro update. They can have sections to improve against enemy and foe. It could be made to achieve other things but it main function is to stop friendly blue on blue mounting. :angry:

The fastest way to make points / crystals is to play the game with enthusiasm and aggression. Support our team mates. Mount an Isida and do some good!

Extremely frustrating but keep reporting /vote name it does work but not always sometimes one need to do this a few times.

Their are some good people in this World but they are far between. Most just take the easiest course are mainly self interested but not excessively so. they bend to the will of the worst unfortunately. the worst in society are not necessarily just criminals but every day people . They often seek positions of power and influence. We see them in the police in politics anywhere where they can further their own aims. They like to dominate week people or people who are good. They are not necessarily strong in them selves far from it but because of the way the work, they can exercise power.

It usually happens to me when I am being prosperous also or is most likely to happen then! I do not recall ever conversing with them however. Very interesting. I have suggested that I am filming the episode for the administrators and that has had various effects depending on what the offender was actually doing . from just leaving the battle pretty damned sharpish to pleading that they will behave from now on and please do not report them. the latter was in sand box in individual death match and when I arrived all the others colluded together and only shot at me. I told them they where cheating and was filming them. Of course if I was I may not have told them though the threat of it might have deepened the sense of anxiety they where obviously suffering :D

Perhaps Dev is not short for Developer but something from a hot place with forked tail and trident ha :lol: :lol: :D :P :P only yoking! :ph34r:

That is interesting. I can not imagine playing or even reading the Forum with a phone. One must need a magnifying glass or microscope! :D

Smoky used to be very under powered and very cheap. It was a starting weapon and not taken very seriously, especially by me. Then they modified it beyond expectation and belief. It was recently and still is way overpowered and has far more kick that it once had. Those who have it have one of the most cost effective weapons. It is given on joining for free. If playing with shaft would once dismiss it merely irritant and only attend to it after taking several other more damaging combinations out. Only to for it to return sometime later itching like a gnat or midge. Now it is in a different league altogether and not attended to, will be a downfall, particularly if not protected by specific paint or armor. It was retained mainly by those with no or little funds and a few diehards. In its current shape it more than disturbs aim but can prevent attempts hitting it at al just like Ricochet. Considering its rate of steady fire it can deliver a large amount of weighty ordinance over a fairly short time. A modified M2 or standard M3 version is quite devastating to an average M2 hull that might be mated to a stationary shaft.. For some longstanding players it is still a surprise when it starts thud, thud, thuding into ones side and one looks at the life line and sees it diminishing far faster than ones memory thinks it ought. I shall buy a protective paint at some stage to dampen it a little. It either needs a little bleed of power or a reduced rate of fire or massively increase its cost $$. Like nearly all weapons it relies on auto aim heavily particularly at longer ranges. On Long Bridges I was outsniped by one while using Shaft. It was partially hidden yet without taking any effort in aiming on its part due to auto aim it could deflect my aim and score enough hits on me to knock me out and exceed shaft as a sniper weapon. In the past not only could it not have attained the range effectively it could not have shot over the to of the rock either so something else must have changed! Rail gun is the most frequently used gun but Smokey is gaining in use at quite a rate, which is usually a sign that a weapon is overbalanced and under price or available at too low a rank. People soon latch on to what is usefully cost effective,just like Rail gun! :rolleyes: So the little modification it has recently had should leave its owners still feeling rather smug!

:D Exactly, wins by automated default. Its not the only one but is the most visible. :rolleyes:

When creating a new game the rank setting by default has the setting players rank as the bottom of the range. Many juniors do not realize it can be changed. Even if one has changed the Rank Range setting it often reverts back to its original setting if one makes addition corrections , this is often not noticed. I know that the breadth and start of the rank can be changed just as you but so do many cynical players. As far as entrapment is concerned it does go on and is a ploy by clan members. I have been caught out myself. Of coarse if they all join at once in the beginning of a game, one notices and clears off, well I do but often it a filtering effect. Clans even load up a team with low ranks and then each player concedes a few at a time uni ll eventually the whole opponents team is nothing as it was. In long battles when one looks as though you have a fair chance of winning or at least of doing well, it is difficult to give up if one has invested a lot of time and effort and crystals if you like for extra supplies. It is obvious eventually that it is a clan because firstly all of them are well set up with micro updates and are usually all bristling to a man with supplies and the scoring rate changes dramatically. A game that was just going one way then the other for half or three quarters of an hour suddenly explodes with a killing fest and you are the team that is being slaughtered, soon people start getting fed up frightens off and the effect is multiplied. The opposite happens in some games, MULTS, low-ranking players are deliberately put into opposing teams to hinder them. Sometimes they get caught and reported often it is too late, in either case the damage is done and can be difficult to make good. Sometimes the MULT just does not score and gets taken out too easily at other times they resort to sabotage. That is blocking the flag carrier or deliberately balking shaft players jumping on their turrets standing closely in front of them deliberately refusing to move and so on. Each account does not need an email account. I only have an email address for this one and they wont accept multiple accounts with one address for some reason.

People have been complaining for a very long time that games are spoiled by a disparity of rank. Mainly the senior ranks are most vocal. They say the juniors are holding hem back but also the lower ranks see higher ranks as just taking over their game. I specifically asked for this very change quite some time ago because of the huge amount of acrimony across the board. Some higher ranks deliberately set games with low ratings to make gun fodder of opposing teams. Most junior players just do not realize that the game could be set to their advantage instead of by default discriminating against them. Some clans set up traps this way by leaving a lone low rank in an empty game that has a high setting, unsuspecting victims are shocked when a large number of mercenary clan members join in and slaughter them. I still say to you, make another account to play with him, use your present rank for serious game. By the way as an aside that is how I started, my daughter started this off and I took over. :) Some of the language and behavior is unsuitable for young unsupervised players. :(

Why not start a new account so that you can play with him. Surely it would not be OK for others or for him at 6 and low ranked to play other much higher experienced ranks.

The verbal instructions where once quite clear but now they are not. The written code has always been difficult. I even have had my wife and daughter trying for me but also to fail. Usually it takes me a few attempts but yesterday I just could not get in at all no matter how many times or who was trying for me. Mafioza121 thank you for your advice but at present It is not practical or possible for me to use different browsers . perhaps in the future , I plan to buy 27inch Apple Mac with Retina display and not rely on works equipment. That might make things easier to read However I am security conscience also and do not store cookies and disc clean very regularly. I guess I shall just have to live with it. I just wondered if others had experienced frustrations also and if so, perhaps a chance might be possible if enough people thought it necessary.

Thank you, yes I already do that.

Long Range shots with Shaft require very careful and meticulous aim and repeated corrections. This is particularly the case with targets that move in an unpredictable way. Other turrets such as Smoky, Thunder and Rail gun, just wave the gun about without much attention to accuracy and are rewarded with success. Even on very long range maps this is very evident. It is a little like watching a Hollywood film where the guy with the sniper riffle misses and the chap with a hand gun takes every one else down while firing from the hip. All a bit John Wayne or Clint Eastwood taking out machine guns and snipers with hand guns. The Auto Aim does far too much for the majority of turrets. I appreciate that turrets other than shaft can not be elevated by control and that their operators like the assistance this gives not wanting to bother with elevation but it should not be assisting and compensating laterally left and right also for poor aim. It is possible for shaft to be out sniped at long range by any of the mentioned turrets which is just ridiculous. Now it is even worse because shaft emits it search light beacon to all a sundry saying exactly where it is, with its come and get me neon sign illuminating it perfectly!

It is annoying when team mates take a medical supply for absolutely no reason. :o This is especially the case when they see another player desperately requiring it, particularly so when carrying the flag :angry: . It is often junior players but their are a fair number of seniors who also take medical supplies when not needed :angry: . Of course medical supplies have to be denied to the enemy, no Geneva Convention here! :D

Can the format for logging into the forum be changed slightly. I realize that precautions to prevent bots and other automatic rogue invaders are necessary. However the log in format for copying the code is very, very difficult to read and results in countless attempts to pass. I used to use the speaker version for duplicating the code but this has now been changed and is impossible to hear the very confused commands. On this occasion it took me almost 2 days repeatedly trying to log on before gaining access. Only to be cut off, un-logged, not by my own action which is not unusual, in fact it is frequent. It then took me several more repeated attempts before success Can either the verbal commands be more clear or the visual commands. Do other users suffer this also?

The latest modification will help bring to an end the acrimony concerning problems of mixing High and Low Ranks. No more of, Low Ranks slowing us down and no more High Rank Take Overs. :D

It takes slightly less time to come into scope mode. So less waiting around to be slaughtered, once someone has inevitably traced your position due to its now unwanted search light look at me trace. The main befit now is in closer range fighting