It seems that all these changes have driven players away. It used to be that the server loads were well over 120,000 each day but now about 35,000 players are gone. With these changes I don't see myself playing much longer either.

I agree. Gold hunting only invites people who join teams and sit there doing nothing for the sole purpose of trying to grab a drop. I am sick and tired of 3 or 4 people on CTF doing nothing other than waiting for gold to drop then suddenly moving their tanks for that purpose only.

All areas that are out of bounds lead to immediate self destruction. This is not a bug or flaw.

The lasers make it so easy to avoid Shaft now. I can see them and sneak up behind them or beside them knowing the player isn't looking. And if you use a long range weapon you know where to shoot.

I think the problem is that the overall drop scheme is flawed. Sometimes I will see gold boxes in Rio drop 3 in a row literally a minute apart - other times - hours go by without one. There was a 25,000 crystal battle fund in Polygon CP last night without a single drop during the time I played, yet, a Rio 15 minute round can have 3 drop. Makes no sense at all.

Somehow in a pile of tanks using Hornet I managed to get one tonight (and it didn't even require climbing up on others). :D

I know about those things. It is a problem that started when they did the rebalance last week.

Then this happens: And if the two happen together in the last minute of battle I lose all funds earned in the battle!!!

This is a rather annoying bug: Happens on every map I play. Randomly the screen turns this color and I have to refresh to get back into battle.

Druggers are ruining it all.

I have the suspicion that when they monkeyed around with the auto-aim feature recently and it started making Isida lock onto weird parts of turrets and tanks rather than solve the problem they created they just nerfed Isida's cone instead.

All this does is bring out the cheats and druggers. There is a battle going on right now on EN4 with a player named "riyadh_handsome" who is cheating.

The lesson here: don't sink crystals into any upgrades. Why buy something when the turret or hull can be nerfed next week?

I would be more willing to buy crystals if the last "rebalance" was rolled back.

I never would have played if it wasn't for the crystal drops - that was the only thing that got me interested. If I had to start now it would be extremely boring without the drops - when a team loses you practically get nothing. Also it was much more fun when drops were random - the predictable drops are boring and simply lead to camping and sniping of those spots

The solution to the problem is to limit team size to 8 or fewer. I made this suggestion long ago and I am surprised it hasn't been implemented.

70 crystals for the ultimate drug wars? :D

I don't understand why Berlin is left in rotation when everyone has this problem! Even at greatly reduced size it still causes errors every 2 minutes or so.

The problem with 1 minute is everyone sees "Gold Box Dropping Soon" and immediately starts changing to Dictator so they can grab the gold.

The same issue with Firebird. And it's a disgrace that the range doesn't increase despite the cost of upgrading it.

Now that I have ranked I see the problem: The Jackhammer kit - which gives a person M3 Hammer and M3 Viking at the rank of one star (when both normally are unlocked 3 stars). This is why I see so many of these around. Actually finding a suitable battle can take up to 30 minutes sometimes. The way they keep reorganizing ranks and battles on servers makes it a much greater PITA than when I started last year.

It doesn't exist any longer - that is a copy and paste from the Wiki.

You do realize that that includes battles below my rank? If I switch to other servers literally nothing will show up in the actual battle list for those servers. When I log in only ENG 3 and 4 show battles that a Colonel can join. When I get 200 more XP to rank the field will narrow even more. Here's another "full" server: Notice the empty battle list.

It was only two months ago that Freeze, Firebird, and Twins were improved to go against Vulcan and Hammer. Now they took back the improvements they made with those and made them worse than before.

I said it was hard avoiding battles against most M3s because of this: The reality is that at my rank this is what I see most often: I'm not stupid enough to think that I should join a battle with all M3; in fact I have had friends of higher rank invite me before and usually I will tell them "If I take a spot it will deny one to someone of similar strength as you" so usually I decline. However, just because someone has all M3 equipment doesn't necessarily make them any better than if they had M2. The specific issue I complained about is M3 Hammer with M3 Viking. Even with Firebird M2 MU'ed 25% and double damage it is usually impossible for me to take them out when factoring in how the knockback flips tanks as if they were made of paper. Now that Firebird has been nerfed the issue is even worse. Against all other M3 I can do fairly well - it is Hammer M3 with certain hulls that is way overpowered.