Suggestions: 1. GOLD BOX: The new immediate gold box drop is bad because: a) Shafts/big tanks playing defense can never get to the gold box fast enough b ) Campers are starting to appear at typical gold box locations for the entire game. Campers use big tanks and can't be moved or easily killed. c) I always found the gold box was a great way to tie-break stand-offs of battling teams both of which had enemies flag but neither team could manage to get their own flag back from enemy. Once gold box was announced, some people would go for gold box weakening defenses and others gave-up on gold box and instead attempted to get their flag back. This would end 20-40 minute long stand offs in very long games (i.e. Temple map with 10+ flags that last for 4+ hours due to very balanced teams). d) It was enjoyable to fight over gold box, it actually required some skill and timing. Now it is mostly pure luck if you just happen to be where it instantly drops. 2. Crystal Drops a) The no-more crystal drops makes low ranking tankers more difficult to have crystals to upgrade themselves. It throws the game off balance where top ranking tanks in any game will have an even greater advantage over lower ranking poorer equiped tankers. it also increases inequality over time because only already equipment rich tankers will be making most of the money from battle funds. b ) The 10-20-50-100 box drops was a good idea, but the frequency of drops was too high that it became an obvious game distraction and I saw several games where upwards of 1/3 of a team was just collecting crystals. So keep those multi-sized boxes, but reduce the frequency and randomize the drops so you can't camp around certain areas of map. Also I suggest you have greater sized or lower sized boxes dependant on the average rank (or some other formula) of the tankers in a game. Low ranking games should have 10 and maybe 20 crystal boxes only. Mid rank 10-50 crystal boxes, high end rank games with tankers that have extremely expensive gear to purchase should have access to 20-250 sized boxes ... but again not too frequently. c) Keep the 'crystal boxes do not fade out over time" feature. Thanks for your great work and your free game!

Yep, I can report the problem too. Happened 9/10 times I tried to load the page. Whether using Chrome, IE or Firefox. I also tried rebooting computer. I've tried clearing everything (including cookies,cache etc). I'm on Win7x64 Ultimate AMD 8 core processor, NVIDIA gfx card. I'm in Western Canada, but doesn't matter which server I try to connect to. Also if I manage to connect, and I try to change servers by changing the # in the URL (i.e. 36 to 4), it breaks. Been happening allll day long. Very frustrating.

YAY Paypal!!!!!! :D Oh Wait... 1.7 Million complaints can't be a good thing. http://www.screw-paypal.com/ How about TankiOnline start supporting Bitcoin? * Near zero transaction costs (vs 2-4% for Visa, Paypal, Mastercard) * Near zero price volatility risk when using bitpay.com and bips.me. Bitcoins get instantly convrerted to $USD. * Zero Chargebacks for TankiOnline (No more fake/stolen credit cards, users asking for money back 30-90 days later after they go their virtual goods). TankiOnline gets paid immediately, not 30-90 days later. * Young kids can own and spend bitcoins, no need for bank accounts or banks * Privacy - No need to supply all your personal information and shopping habbits to private corporations (Visa, Paypal etc) who then turn around and sell your info to marketing companies or send it over to the IRS... or worse.. shut down your account and keep your funds. It's time for plan B... give Bitcoin a try.

I have the crystals to buy Wasp M2 but am severely under-ranked and am afraid I won't be able to buy it. If I won't be able to buy it can you guys please make a kit special for Sept that includes wasp M2 that I can actually buy? Thanks!

C'mon Paypal? Really? you guys like losing 3% + in fees and have to deal with chargebacks? When is tanki going to finally implement bitcoin payments?... PLEASE? :)

I was bored and thinking ... a dangerous combination. Here's 41 new drug ideas I thought of, that could be very cool/funny and awesome to implement..... 1) Grenade you can throw over buildings 2) Smoke screen - blocks all visibility for ~10 to 15 seconds 3) Freezing bomb - you shoot it, everyone gets frozen for 1 or 2 seconds within X radius 4) Martyr - Self destruct by donating all your HP to your friends within X radius of where you self destruct. 5) Wings - Help you fly for 5-10 seconds after you jump off a ramp 6) Laser trip wire - if you cross it you lose 50% of your hit points. To destroy it, you need to shoot either left or right side of laser device. 7) Invisibility cloak - go invisible for ~10 seconds 8) X-ray vision, see all your enemies (& friends) through buildings/walls/mounts 9) Fast reload - speed up your weapon's reload speed by 50% 10) Fat Pipe - Widen the hit area of your weapon by 100% 11) Bubble Gum - drop bubble gum on the ground and slow down anyone's tank chasing you by 20% 12) Cover fire - Drop a plasma gun on the ground at stretegic location and have it shoot 15 shots in a row to a specific location (i.e. provide cover for yourself, or set it up as a defence mechanism to cover specific area) 13) Skating rink - Drop water on ground and freeze it... then watch your enemies zig-zag skate on it like drunken sailors 14) Karmic b itch - For every shot enemy shoots at your, they lose 50% of what they just shot at you. 15) Cement bags - Create a small wall to block off an entrance/exit, lasts 30 seconds or so. 16) Ghost - Walk through walls for up to 10 seconds 17) MkUltra - Turn your enemy into your friend. Cause them to switch teams for 30 seconds. They get extra hit points for killing their previous team mates,and you get one less enemy to deal with temporarily. 18) Group Shield Bubble - Throw a group shield bomb at certain area and any team mates within X radius get protected by the shield bubble so long as they are inside it. Only 50% of damage gets inside bubble for 15-30 seconds. 19) Offence Bubble - Any team mates inside bubble you created get 50% more fire power for 15-30 seconds. 20) Captain Hook - Throw a long chain at a specific destination (i.e. wall or enemy) with a hook. if it's a wall/mount you will get pulled torward it twice as fast as you could drive there. if it's an enemy, it will be dragged towards you at 120% of their hull speed capacity. Limited distance on hook throwing. Could also be used to climb up walls/mounts/buildings. 21) Random Teleport - By using it, you will get teleported to a random location. Useful to exiting an extremely deadly situation, but who knows where the heck you'll end up! 22) Honey I shrank the tank - Shrink your tank by 50% in size. Enemies will have a very hard time shooting you with their rail guns and shafts; however, you will have half the power, defence and speed; however, you might now be able to squeeze through holes where no tank could go before 23) Blow Fish - Expand your tank size by 50% and get 5 seconds of extra defence... except now you're the biggest target on the entire map. 24) Twins - Split your tank in half (and your screen)... now you can control two tanks simultaneously - one with each hand on the keyboard... Only lasts for 30 seconds or until one of the two tanks die. Each tank will have 50% of your single tank's defence capability, but 100% of attack power. Can you multitask?? ;-) 25) LSD trip - Throw a bag of LSD at your enemies and cause them to see the map warp and bend, fake walls appearing, cliffs appear, ghost enemies show up shooting (fake) plasma out of isidas or shafts etc... and everything goes rainbow color and happy accordion music plays an annoying jingle. 26) Hologram Defence - Creates 2 or 3 AI controlled holograms of fake team mates where you execute the hologram. They can shoot too, but will have zero damage. 27) Hall of Mirrors - Replicate yourself in triplicate.... which witch is which ? Only 1 is the real tank, the others move like you beside you with help of AI; however, only 1 can be shot at and cause damage when shooting. 28) Insta Bridge - Select two points within limited distance and activate a self-inflating bridge that anyone can drive over... but it will only last for 60 seconds or until somebody destroys it (300-600 HP required - the shorter the bridge the stronger, the longer the weaker). 29) HAARP - Create a Tornado above your enemy's camp area. Wherever it passes by enemies will lose 100 HP damage. 30) TESLA COIL - Setup a Tesla tower and watch it shoot lighting bolts in random directions causing up to 50HP damage each time. 31) Windblows - No it won't cause your computer to crash, it will however blow your enemies back several feet for a couple of seconds. 32) Stinky - Drop the 'bomb' and all tanks are forced around it. it's not nerve gas, but it is gas non the less ;-) 33) One way moving sidewalk - Create a moving sidewalk like those at airports so that any tank standing on it moves in one direction, any tank moving with the sidewalk can move much faster than before, anyone trying to drive over it in opposite direction gets slowed to mamoth speed. Great for turning bridges into one way advantages. Only lasts 90 seconds. 34) Rubber walls - Don't have Ricochet but want your team's shots to bounce around all the walls to increase probability of hitting enemy? or want to stay around a corner and snipe without being seen? Shoot liquid rubber bomb at a wall and turn it into a bouncing zone. Only lasts 90 seconds, and bounced ammo loses 25% distance for each time it hits a rubber wall. 35) Super Mario Star Power - Become invincible for 7 seconds, become super bright and increase speed by 30%... and make your enemies listen to super mario music! 36) Paint the town RED - Throw a red paint granade, and disable the paints of anyone who gets hit. Slowly the red paint will drip off and tank's official paints will be back in full effect. 37) Imagination Land - Shoot this at a wall and watch it create a fake holodeck like extension to the map. Your enemies will think they are driving through it, but eventually (60 seconds) when it dissapears, they realize they've been trying to push against a wall for almost a minute. On the flip side, your team can't see the tanks driving in imagination land until it shuts down and they appear back where they started facing a wall.... unless you followed them into imagination land though. 38) Running Flag - Shoot a spirit ray at your own flag, and watch it grow legs and come to life to walk around randomly around your base. Your enemies will have to do a little extra running around your base to find your flag now. However, your static defence strategy will need some revision. Great trick for when you see enemy approaching your flag. 39) Shrubbery - So you like to garden eh? Plant extra trees or bushes at up to 3 select locations. Great for a bit of extra camo to camp from. Only lasts 2 mins though. 40) Drug Trade - Force an active drugs swap with your enemy or friend. Did they get to the drug you wanted faster than you? No problem, force a drug trade on them... but you must have an active drug for it to work. This could be a cool trick to extend the drug life of one of your team members and yours, cuz after a drug trade, the new drug you and your friend or enemy just got starts from 0, time-wise. 41) Confuzzled - Shoot your enemy with this and watch all their controls swap. Left is right, foward is backwards... but the gun still works. You can almost hear them cursing over your laughter. PS. If any of these ideas are eventually used, please rain down some crystals my way :-D PPS. Bonus drug: 42) The MATRIX - Shoot a Matrix bomb into your enemy camp and all their weapons get slowed 3-10 times... now you can see the bullets coming and dodge them... however you enemies can shoot twice as many bullets, so you'll be doing a LOT of dodging while they spray their base camp.

50 NEW DRUG IDEAS! I was bored and thinking ... a dangerous combination. Here's 50 new drug ideas I thought of, that could be very cool/funny and awesome to implement..... 1) Grenade you can throw over buildings 2) Smoke screen - blocks all visibility for ~10 to 15 seconds 3) Freezing bomb - you shoot it, everyone gets frozen for 1 or 2 seconds within X radius 4) Martyr - Self destruct by donating all your HP to your friends within X radius of where you self destruct. 5) Wings - Help you fly for 5-10 seconds after you jump off a ramp 6) Laser trip wire - if you cross it you lose 50% of your hit points. To destroy it, you need to shoot either left or right side of laser device. 7) Invisibility cloak - go invisible for ~10 seconds 8) X-ray vision, see all your enemies (& friends) through buildings/walls/mounts 9) Fast reload - speed up your weapon's reload speed by 50% 10) Fat Pipe - Widen the hit area of your weapon by 100% 11) Bubble Gum - drop bubble gum on the ground and slow down anyone's tank chasing you by 20% 12) Cover fire - Drop a plasma gun on the ground at stretegic location and have it shoot 15 shots in a row to a specific location (i.e. provide cover for yourself, or set it up as a defence mechanism to cover specific area) 13) Skating rink - Drop water on ground and freeze it... then watch your enemies zig-zag skate on it like drunken sailors. Especially fun to put around corners near cliffs... where people try to turn, but slide on the ice right off the cliff. 14) Karmic b itch - For every shot enemy shoots at your, they lose 50% of what they just shot at you. 15) Cement bags - Create a small wall to block off an entrance/exit, lasts 30 seconds or so. 16) Ghost - Walk through walls for up to 10 seconds 17) MkUltra - Turn your enemy into your friend. Cause them to switch teams for 30 seconds. They get extra hit points for killing their previous team mates,and you get one less enemy to deal with temporarily. 18) Group Shield Bubble - Throw a group shield bomb at certain area and any team mates within X radius get protected by the shield bubble so long as they are inside it. Only 50% of damage gets inside bubble for 15-30 seconds. 19) Offence Bubble - Any team mates inside bubble you created get 50% more fire power for 15-30 seconds. 20) Captain Hook - Throw a long chain at a specific destination (i.e. wall or enemy) with a hook. if it's a wall/mount you will get pulled torward it twice as fast as you could drive there. if it's an enemy, it will be dragged towards you at 120% of their hull speed capacity. Limited distance on hook throwing. Could also be used to climb up walls/mounts/buildings. 21) Random Teleport - By using it, you will get teleported to a random location. Useful to exiting an extremely deadly situation, but who knows where the heck you'll end up! Teleporter doesn't work for the first 30 seconds of any game (prevent getting enemy flag faster), and if you are carrying the flag, you teleport but your flag remains behind. 22) Honey I shrank the tank - Shrink your tank by 50% in size. Enemies will have a very hard time shooting you with their rail guns and shafts; however, you will have half the power, defence and speed; however, you might now be able to squeeze through holes where no tank could go before 23) Blow Fish - Expand your tank size by 50% and get 5 seconds of extra defence... except now you're the biggest target on the entire map. 24) Twins - Split your tank in half (and your screen)... now you can control two tanks simultaneously - one with each hand on the keyboard... Only lasts for 30 seconds or until one of the two tanks die. Each tank will have 50% of your single tank's defence capability, but 100% of attack power. Can you multitask?? ;-) 25) LSD trip - Throw a bag of LSD at your enemies and cause them to see the map warp and bend, fake walls appearing, cliffs appear, ghost enemies show up shooting (fake) plasma out of isidas or shafts etc... and everything goes rainbow color and happy accordion music plays an annoying jingle. 26) Hologram Defence - Creates 2 or 3 AI controlled holograms of fake team mates where you execute the hologram. They can shoot too, but will have zero damage. 27) Hall of Mirrors - Replicate yourself in triplicate.... which witch is which ? Only 1 is the real tank, the others move like you beside you with help of AI; however, only 1 can be shot at and cause damage when shooting. 28) Insta Bridge - Select two points within limited distance and activate a self-inflating bridge that anyone can drive over... but it will only last for 60 seconds or until somebody destroys it (300-600 HP required - the shorter the bridge the stronger, the longer the weaker). 29) HAARP - Create a Tornado above your enemy's camp area. Wherever it passes by enemies will lose 100 HP damage. 30) TESLA COIL - Setup a Tesla tower and watch it shoot lighting bolts in random directions causing up to 50HP damage each time. 31) Windblows - No it won't cause your computer to crash, it will however blow your enemies back several feet for a couple of seconds. 32) Stinky - Drop the 'bomb' and all tanks are forced around it. it's not nerve gas, but it is gas non the less ;-) 33) One way moving sidewalk - Create a moving sidewalk like those at airports so that any tank standing on it moves in one direction, any tank moving with the sidewalk can move much faster than before, anyone trying to drive over it in opposite direction gets slowed to mamoth speed. Great for turning bridges into one way advantages. Only lasts 90 seconds. 34) Rubber walls - Don't have Ricochet but want your team's shots to bounce around all the walls to increase probability of hitting enemy? or want to stay around a corner and snipe without being seen? Shoot liquid rubber bomb at a wall and turn it into a bouncing zone. Only lasts 90 seconds, and bounced ammo loses 25% distance for each time it hits a rubber wall. 35) Super Mario Star Power - Become invincible for 7 seconds, become super bright and increase speed by 30%... and make your enemies listen to super mario music! 36) Paint the town RED - Throw a red paint granade, and disable the paints of anyone who gets hit. Slowly the red paint will drip off and tank's official paints will be back in full effect. 37) Imagination Land - Shoot this at a wall and watch it create a fake holodeck like extension to the map. Your enemies will think they are driving through it, but eventually (60 seconds) when it dissapears, they realize they've been trying to push against a wall for almost a minute. On the flip side, your team can't see the tanks driving in imagination land until it shuts down and they appear back where they started facing a wall.... unless you followed them into imagination land though. 38) Running Flag - Shoot a spirit ray at your own flag, and watch it grow legs and come to life to walk around randomly around your base. Your enemies will have to do a little extra running around your base to find your flag now. However, your static defence strategy will need some revision. Great trick for when you see enemy approaching your flag. 39) Shrubbery - So you like to garden eh? Plant extra trees or bushes at up to 3 select locations. Great for a bit of extra camo to camp from. Only lasts 2 mins though. 40) Drug Trade - Force an active drugs swap with your enemy or friend. Did they get to the drug you wanted faster than you? No problem, force a drug trade on them... but you must have an active drug for it to work. This could be a cool trick to extend the drug life of one of your team members and yours, cuz after a drug trade, the new drug you and your friend or enemy just got starts from 0, time-wise. 41) Confuzzled - Shoot your enemy with this and watch all their controls swap. Left is right, foward is backwards... but the gun still works. You can almost hear them cursing over your laughter. Lasts until the enemy tank dies... or commits suicide. 42) Flare - Shoot a flare straight up above you the color of your team (i.e. red or blue) into the air to signal you need help (i.e you have flag and are almost dead). Side effect of flare is that it also illuminates large area in dark maps, and makes it almost blindingly bright to your enemies if it's a day map. 43) Rainbow Shot - There won't be a pot of gold (aka. crystals) at the end of this rainbow gun, unless of course you just shot it at the gold box as it was dropping from the air... in that case the gold box will come sliding down the rainbow towards you at a fast speed (ideally before you get shot and die). This can also be used to collect drugs that are far away and dropping from the air. 44) The Stacker - Touch your team mates while this drug is active, and they will get teleported on top of you. You will drive and control direction; however, they still control their own gun. Stack up to 5 friends. Only the top most player stacked can drive off if they choose (must try to move forward for 3 seconds before you can drive off)... so useful for getting a friend to climb to the top of a good camping spot... Also useful to overwhelm the enemy with lots of fire power from single location... or to shoot from above a wall they were not expecting. Any enemy fire hitting your team's stack of tanks gets divided amongst all tanks so it won't be easy to kill the stacker. Some things are shared, like crystals collected, points for killing enemy, capturing flag etc... Only the second tank from bottom can activate new drugs - all tanks in stack get the same drug, but how long it lasts is divided by all tanks in stack. Pro tip: Put fastest tank on bottom. Put shafts & railguns on top, so you can drop them off at camping areas. 45) The Crazy Crazy Ice-Cream Tank - Shoot your enemy with a vanilla cone and their tank turns into a crazy ice-cream truck. It will play those happy ice-cream truck melodies and drive around randomly for 10 seconds, completely out of control and unable to shoot at anyone. HP double though to prevent major damage. After 10 seconds are up, the crazy ice-cream truck turns back into your tank but with tripple the speed for 20 seconds! So you better hope it doesn't come back to "serve" you. 46) Mini-me's - Activate this drug, and you get 3 eggs that you can place on the ground. Each egg takes 3 seconds to hatch, but then a mini-you will be born (AI controlled) that will be 1/3 of your size with 1/3 of your firepower & defence. It will survive for 45 seconds. Ideal for turning 2 defenders at a base camp into a total of 8 tanks (2 + 3 + 3). 47) The Nightmare - Shoot this in an area, and everyone entering that area will experience 300% darkness. Fog rolls in the ground, trees and shrubs will grab at you and slow you down, walls become extremely sticky and large pot holes appear. Haunting sounds are heard for up to 45 seconds. 48) The Anal probe - (feel free to rename it ;-). Aim this at an enemy, and a large UFO will be witnessed by all materializing out of thin air in the sky. A bright light beam will shine on your target and levitate the tank half way in the air while it remains paralyzed. The UFO carries you 25% across the map in random direction as 50% of its HP will be taken, then you get dropped to the ground like a used lab rat... the entire event lasts about 7 seconds. 49) Elastic Fantastic - Shoot this at a group of enemies, and all enemy tanks will become attached via an elastic band. This forces them to all drive in the same direction. If they don't, they will push into the opposite direction and eventually snap back towards the other attached tanks. Last for 15 seconds of chaos. PS. If any of these ideas are eventually used, please rain down some crystals my way :-D PPS. Bonus drug: 50) The MATRIX - Shoot a Matrix bomb into your enemy camp and all their weapons get slowed 3-10 times... now you can see the bullets coming and dodge them... however you enemies can shoot twice as many bullets, so you'll be doing a LOT of dodging while they spray their base camp.

How about a granade you can lob over buildings ;-) ;-) ;-) That could come in very useful when you're about to enter the enemy's nest.... GRANADE!... then give it 2 seconds after it hits the ground before exploding... will force everyone to run around like chickens with heads cut off. Likewise, it can act as a defence mechanism... you defending your flag and you see enemy approaching but can't get line of sight to them... lob granade over building and you bought yourself a few more seconds of defence.

HP Visibility - HP visibility of opponents isn't that esoteric a request. Heck the code already exists to see your team mate's, so it's probably even less code to remove the restriction to see your opponents. In a real battle, you pick off the weakest guys first, or the guys who pose the biggest threat. Right now there's no way to tell who's at what health. Better yet, put a number of HP beside the health bar. Cuz just because 2 guys are at a 100% health doesn't mean they are equally easy/hard to destroy - depends on which hull they have. Also, it would enable everyone to keep an eye on cheaters. If you are concerned with FOV being too busy, then just shrink the health bars by 50% and as I said put HP remaining number beside it. Problem solved. FAST SUICIDE - No, Fast suicide is in reference to self-destruct mode when you flip over. I guess by fast I didn't mean instant, I meant like maybe 3 seconds instead of 10 (you should still get 'punished' for being an ***** and flipping your tank), and restrict it to that. If you hit delete and you aren't flipped over, then yeah wait 10 seconds. Auto-Balance - "It's just teams" ?? Nothing gets people more frustrated than playing on a completely overwhelmed team. Everyone just starts leaving if they perceive the battle is too unfair, so enable auto-rebalance after every new battle (excluding clan battles) makes perfect sense. Everyone appreciates the game much more when they feel they have a fair chance, even if they lost the battle... like when score is 8:10 or whatever... but if its 0:15 then, why bother continue playing? Ok I'll conceed the self made kits ... but give me the other features :P !!!

FEATURES WE ACTUALLY WANT: Requests for next version: 1) Keyboard keys - PLEASE let us configure our own keys. The ZX or >< thing is so freggin annoying, I always miss hitting the right key at the critical moment. Also, please seriously consider us to use our mouse for shooting and aiming. Using arrow keys is so 1980's. 2) Opponent health visiblity - I want to see my opponent's health level. In real world battle you can see if the guy is wounded and roughly how much. For humans and especially tanks/cars/planes. I also want to see my opponent's Mx status for tank/paint/weapon 3) Speed up the tanks! - Every tank is too damn slow. Can we speed up the entire game about 2x? (I know, probably wishful thinking) 4) FAST suicide - In real life suicide can be much faster. Please stop wasting our time waiting 10 seconds to self-destruct. 5) Pivate game messages - TEAM messages that are actually private. I want to communicate things to only my team, but I think right now it gets broadcast to everyone. 6) Message Macros - like in quake... we could hit F1-F12 with pre-programmed macro text messages (i.e. "Cover me", "Blue flag, left side", etc) 7) Fix message history - After I type a message, I lose visibility to all the previous messages. Why? This should be an easy fix, no? 8) Game Auto-balance by default - Please create an auto-balance feature for game creation. Very often one team dominates heavily, after the game restarts, the same players are on the same team... unless you are playing Clan battles, by default there should be an auto-balance formula applied to the new game heavily based on who did how well in the previous game. 9) BITCOIN - Can you please allow the purchase of crystals with bitcoins/litecoins and/or dogecoins? It's very easily to implement and you can get paid directly in cash with 1% fee (cheaper and faster for you than paypal, visa etc and NO chargebacks!). See bitpay.com (North America) or bips.me (europe). You never have to actually handle any crypto/virtual coins yourself, you get paid instantly in cash. 10) Game Calculators - Please provide calculators so we can make better decisions. See my post here: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=208923 11) Self-made Tank/Paint Kits - How about you let *us* create our own tank/paint kits to purchase at 50% off? If your goal is to make $, then it will be highly likely more people will buy kits if you let them create their own. You can still have your weekly/monthly specials, but please let us create our own. Thanks! 0verKKiLL PS. Love the weekly video and contests, very creative stuff to keep your userbase engaged. Cheers.