Have been playing a number of years now and find this update the worst ever... even worse than when blue crystal boxes were changed from 10 crystals to multi values and all its ensuing fall out. Paint prices have been jacked up to stupid levels and you get NO protection from it. Then you get gouged for protection! Come on TO this type of practice will drive away your loyal players... unless this is your plan to kill TO ready for TO X??? Splitting paint/protection now means you have to go to your garage before you enter a battle to see if you have any protection at all rather than knowing from your paint selected. Accordingly I used to know what protection an enemy had and could change my turret accordingly to try to counter them. My recommendation would be not to spend a crystal on paint.... "looking cool" does not win you battles/crystals! Buy a couple of protections and keep them... save your crystals purely for hulls/turrets... and remember ONLY BUY IN SALES! Make your funds go further! Goose.

One of the best updates ever. Golds should be removed from the game all together with 1000 crystals added to the battle fund on the same 1/7000 chance as there currently is for the gold falling. BTW - There is no such thing as a "skilled gold hunter" only players sitting out in format battles waiting for gold to drop and ruining the chances of the team they are on, I'm more than happy to let the mults whine and bleat about them being removed. Goose.

Like the new map and battle format. Way better than Halloween. Slightly easier to defend but if the attacking team work together flags can be captured. Most battles proving close so far (in XP/BP at least). Would like to see this new battle format become permanant. Discounts are better than I thought. Looks like they are weighted towards less popular items which I guess is understandable. When looking a the discounts it should be noted these will be even bigger if you do not own the item at a previous "M" level. For example if you buy Freeze M2 at 50% off you pay 30700. However if you do not have M0/M1 then you will actually save around 64%. Personally my only small gripe is MU's could have been a little higher discounted but 33% is still more than I expected. On the whole a good New Year package. :)

Garage changes are OK. The changes to CP for me are not good at all. Played a Pro Polygon CP today and 1000 points later I left with the score pretty much the same as it was when I joined. That battle was to 150 points. Bearing in mind Pro battles have no time limit that battle will probably still be raging when the server update happens! I got a 1000 point CP mission today so I went to RU1 to find a XP/BP Poly CP battle. It was very noticaeable that where I usually would see 50 or more Poly CP I had 5 or 6 to choose from. I'm guessing people don't want to be stuck in a battle for hours at a time. While I'm not against the idea of the leading team's score falling if the don't hold the CP, I think it does need some reworking to make that fall less drastic.

So Premium account sales not going well then.... Tanki have removed Score Multiplyer Passes from the game to try to get more people to buy PAs. If they left them in people would just buy crystals with their cash (after all buying crystals is permanent buying PAs are temporary) and use some of those crystals to buy a SMP. Now by removing them and trying to bribe buyers with 100% crystals they hope to get more PA buyers. Buyers beware: As others have already pointed out Tanki will not tell you of their plans re transferring accounts to Unity. In my personal experience when people will not tell you of these plans it usually means it will not happen... bear this in mind BEFORE you commit your £-$-€

I can't find the original Halloween announcement from Tanki for last year but this is the after event post... http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=228254&hl=halloween&page=1 2292 posts Profile Posted 29 Oct 2014 - 12:43 Tankers! http://goo.gl/vEQI3d The 31% discount on all garage items, MUs, speed-ups, and mobile and SMS purchases has vanished into thin air like a ghostly presence. But the Halloween spirits are still very much alive with the following in-game goodies till 2 am UTC on November 3: A special Halloween map. Special Halloween-themed props: flags that look like scarecrows, themed billboards, a special paint, and themed drop box parachutes. AND, 3000 crystal gold boxes — that's three times the value! So jump right in the game and have yourself some Halloween fun. This could also be a great opportunity to show some new friends just how cool Tanki Online can be. Jump into the game right now!

I can't help but feel disappointed with Halloween in Tanki this year. I've long felt that DM is by far the least favourite format of all tankers as Tanki try to push us into this mode everyday by giving constant DM daily missions. People do not play it as much as there is no skill needed for DM battles, just lots of drugging and a heavy hull. Making the Halloween map DM only is just more effort on Tanki's part to force us onto there. 10x gold boxes - many players use light hulls only so the chances of staying alive long enough to capture any of these are remote. I've been playing for just over a year now and the decline in the quality of the sales is very evident. When I began there were random "one hour" sales on a specific hull/turret as well as sales at key points in the year. To me this years 13% down from 31% and no "one hour" sales show that Tanki are taking their customers too much for granted. Tanki take note - happy customers are profitable customers. The "special" paints are way overpirced. Spending 500,000 crystals at Gissimo is just a start, how many '000s will we need to spend to fully MU it? I would down vote the original post but Tanki took that option away from us.... Goose.

Range of XT items.... Of course Tanki want to increase this for Generalissimo, after all once we have MU'ed our items we are not spending crystals. Items will be added all the time to try to get us spending again. How true it is I'm not certain but did see someone in the chatrooms claim they had spent 400k of crystals trying to get one of the rare XT daily missions. Unity.... All well and good but we still only want the answer to the question "will our garages be transferred over in full". Only buying the relevant "M" og turret/hull for items you don't own is good for people. Who knows I may even be tempted to buy the "no skill to use" Vulcan :) Goose,

This is my first Tanker's Day as I started playing TO last October. I'm disappointed for my fellow tankers as I'm told that in previous years the Tanker's Day discount has been 50%. While I appreciate that TO always say that previous discounts are no guide to future ones, if this really is "one of the most important days" then 50% would have supported that claim. To me the reduction is just another attempt to drive real money purchases of crystals. Personally I would not buy crystals until we know the answer to the most important Flash to Unity question... Will our garages be transferred to the new game in full? My advice would be: IF you were inclined to spend real money, wait until Unity and see which game you prefer before spending your money. As a Generalissimo I'm disappointed there are no MU discounts. I have the hulls/turrets/paints that I want, am not really obsessed with the whole XT equipment thing and am not a useless, battle ruining, multing gold chaser so I do not feel there is anything being offered to me. I can certainly see why most of my fellow tankers of all ranks feel that this is at best an OK event rather than the great event that we had all been anticipating. Goose,

I think the thing that should be taken into account with CP battles is this is just a stop gap. If I remember correctly in a V-Log it was said that the developers were working on making the winnig team score increase slower and the losing team score increase quicker to try to make CP battles more competative and attractive for people to join even if it looks like one team is winning by a big margin. I suspect any future change to an early end limit will be tied to this and any changing now is a distraction to getting this updateto us asap. Goose.

Sadly we DO need posts like this. Feedback, whether positive or negative, should always be constructive and polite. Reading the various forums there are far too many personal attacks aimed at mods/devs. Believe it or not they will be working to give us a positive experience. By all means give feedback as to why you think something does/doesn't work, don't however launch into a tirade calling people names as this shows a lack of maturity on your part as the poster. Goose.

To be fair this sounds very much like the first attempt at an early ending syatem Tanki tried earlier this year. The concept seems good but in reality was very hard to make work so was de-activated. Goose.

I agree too many people are showing concern as they may miss a gold box. However I've been in much longer battles and have seen this problem since I joined Tanki around a year ago. The issue isn't new nor really any worse now than before. The bigger factor is the 30 second delay we have now than when it used to be shorter. I've even been in battles where someone captured the winning flag ending the battle knowing there was a gold falling (battles used to be able to be created by number of flags without a pro pass before). I do agree though that those bleating about golds on this thread are wasting time as it's a distraction to the bigger issue of making a workable early ending system. Goose.

Every day without fail I get a DM mission. I assume this is due to DM being the least popular battle format (after all who really wants to play a biggest tank/drug user wins all battle) due to the lack of any skill required to play them. I thought the whole idea of missions was to diversify the playing styles and to promote some of the lesser used maps. I also agree that missions for Gissimo seem to offer less reward that the middle ranking missions. Lets take a look at this Tanki. Mix it up a little more. Don't just stick us with finish 1st, DM, kill x # of enemies and collect boxes missions. Lets get back to missions in varying maps and of all battle types. Keep it interesting for us. Goose.

Was rather hopeful that the news on Vulcan was that it was being nerfed. It's by far the most over powered turret in the game. Put it on a fully MU'ed Mammoth, add Prodigi fully MU'ed to it and the ranged weapons of Rail (50%), Thunder (43%) and Shaft (29%) are heavilly negated when trying to kill it. For me this is the turret to use if you have absolutely no ability to steer a tank or aim a turret as you can camp in the open firing continuously as the projectiles will fly at virtual right angles to the direction the turret is pointed. A real favourite those that drug heavily too. Goose,

To be clear the length of a battle is immaterial to a gold box falling there is a 1 in 7000 chance one will fall (http://en.tankiwiki.com/Gold_Box) and has as much chance of falling after 2 seconds as it does falling 2 seconds from th end. I've been in 1 hour battles with big funds where no golds fall while conversely I have been in low fund 15 minute battles where multiple boxes fall. Personally my preference is to take gold boxes out of the game all together and add the crystals to the battle fund. Too many battles are ruined by pathetic, childish non playing mults who could not give a flying freeze about battling but just pause in and out of the battle on the chance a gold falls. Goose,

Not sure if anyone has commenrted on this.... In the V-Log it was stated that DM now has no limit and TDM has 100 kill limit. If all of you opponents quit these battles you will still have to wait the entire duration of the battle for it to end. (DM because there is no limit and TDM as the team may be stuck on >100). Now in all reality I find this funny as opposed to an issue for myself as I find these are "biggest tank/drugger wins" battles and require no real teamwork. strategy or skill to win and only ever play them if I'm stuck with one in my daily missions. Goose.

As a follow up to my earlier post we are now in a ridiculous position of a dominant team NOT capturing the last flag as "a gold may drop"... (golds are random people, battle length or prize fund are irrelevant http://en.tankiwiki.com/Gold_Box) Battles are not ending any earlier and what is worse some players are cursing others for capturing the last flag. Switch it off Tanki, put it in the fail file. :) Goose,

Was trying to think of something funny/sarcastic to say to you about watching Corrie but my mind is failing me.... still could have been worse, you could have said Eastenders :) :)

For what it is worth I personally would not buy any crystals until we know what will happen to our accounts.

Terrible update.... CTF battles are lost as one team is invariably short of players at the start of the next battle and are 2 or 3 flags behind before they even have a full compliment of players. CP neutral on as am used to a limit cap when playing them in pro XP/BP battles. TDM/DM couldn't care less about as I only play these "no skill biggest tank/drugger wins" battles if they are in my daily missions. It's good Tanki are still looking for ways to address the need to end battles early but while it's A for effort it's F for success this time. Goose.

UNITY The only question anyone want, and deserve, a prompt and honest answer to is "will we be able to transfer our garages?". Personally my feeling is that by refusing to answer this question means that we will all be starting from scratch. If this is the case then I also feel Tanki should hold their collective heads in shame as they have still been trying to get people to buy crystals. You really should not be complacent Tanki. I and many others play both World of Tanks as well as Tanki (and many many other games). I suspect that like myself many of them will wash their hands of Tanki and concentrate on WOT. Tanki,,,, I suggest you read the Aesop fable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_That_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs... I'm sure this should act as a warning to how your bussiness model could be affected.... Gold Boxes Had rather hoped that the news on gold boxes was that they were being removed from the game helping to get rid of useless non battling gold chasing wastes of space.... Video of the week. Best I've seen in a long time. Very imaginative and original :)

If we have already got Rail/Hornet M3 and are/have MU'ed them will earning the XT variants wipe out all of the MU's we have spent crystals on?

It would be possible. I've worked for a multi billion £ company. We aquired other companies on a regular basis. Our IT specialists could link bespoke systems to commercial systems such as SAP and they would communicate perfectly. In this case Tanki already have the base data details so coding Unity would be easy. The cynical view is they do not want to take people's garages over as everyone starting with nothing gives them more chance to make players spend real money

This hits the nail right on the head. There are many tankers besides myself who have worked hard to rank and build our garages and the lack of any a clear plan from the developers is beyond frustrating. I have to believe that it has already been decided what the process re transferring garages will be. Afterall no one would embark on a major project without having a "plan of action" as you would be wasting time coding then recoding to make things work. I'm often asked for advice by tankers (indeed I will volunteer a couple of hours most days in chat) what they should do. I can say that I will be telling anyone who asks if they should buy crystals not to do so until this issue has been fully resolved. C'mon Tanki, lets address the "elephant in the room" so we all know what is going on.