10-14-2015: brown screen is still a problem.

In that case in my free time I'll repost my observations because it is indeed true that Daily Missions do reward more than the Daily Gifts (based on rank). :)

Really strange. It was't there until I logged out and logged back in. Now I see it on the individual posts in this thread as well. I appreciate the clarification. --->(Firefox :( :ph34r:)

Weird. I don't have the ability to hide on any topic I made (there is no link or option to "hide").

How does a person do that? I looked back through some of my topics and don't see a way to delete or hide a topic. This is why it didn't make any sense.

I'm looking for the link now. Edit: Here: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=285125

If it was inactive it would have simply moved down the list. All of the posts are gone out of my posting history. I posted in it nearly every day, and, the sad thing was that my conclusions supported the developers. I was not the one who started it, but, I don't recall any rules being broken or any violations. Even if there were the individual posts could have been edited - it didn't merit 7+ pages of discussion simply vanishing without any explanation.

Put thousands of "helpers" in the game suddenly and you'll see that paint that gives universal protection suddenly alters game play. Every paint right now has a weakness. This one does not.

Could one of the mods please comment or look into this? http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=289674&page=10&do=findComment&comment=5072018

Actually I proved over a period of 20 days that this was not true - in fact Daily Missions at my rank were substantially better than the Daily Gifts. There was a thread in "Game Discussion" where I posted 20 days' worth of missions and calculated their values, supplies rewarded, etc. I posted my missions every day so that it would be a fair and balanced debate. When I ranked to Commander I was going to continue the discussion for 20 more days, then, I discovered that the thread was totally deleted. Yes, the thread was deleted. I would like to know why this thread was deleted.

Curious - did you have any Firebird yet (M0/M1/M2)?

Now that I have had more time with Twins I might actually forgo Firebird and spend the crystals to upgrade Twins instead. I haven't decided yet. It also depends on what discounts there are on upcoming sales (a 25% personal discount last night wasn't quite enough to get me to spend my crystals yet). It's tough going from Twins back to something that has a very long reload time.

Ugh. Today I could have gotten a GB on Serpukhov - I finally found it and the only person there was a Hornet with Freeze - someone I could have taken out easily with my Twins/Hunter M3. Then, just as I had pushed the Freeze off the drop spot someone on my team comes along, pushes the Freeze, and the Freeze ends up getting enough of a push to be pushed on top of my turret - taking the gold. :angry:

Isn't that strange? Same rank, same turret offered, but a different discount?

Your analogy about stairs, escalators, and elevators is terrible. When I go into a building and take the stairs nobody is throwing bombs of flaming oil down on me while I ascend. I may go up slower but I'm not being bullied or harassed the entire way up. People on the elevator don't throw buses down on the people on the escalator while going up. If people were buying simply to rank faster it would be one thing. But the way it is done here is essentially the ability to pay to rank and bully at the same time.

Last night I was playing some Polygon TDM because there weren't many suitable battles to choose from (I usually don't play DM or TDM unless it's for a mission). Loki139 had Twins + Wasp. It was pathetic. I'm guessing it have to have been Twins M0 or M1 at best. Anyways the damage from that player's Twins barely had any effect on my tank (I was using Raccoon the whole time so I wasn't using paint with Twins protection at any time). Initially when I saw that player it took literally only 3-4 blasts from mine to get a kill. After some time I tried not to intentionally seek him out but often he would cross into my stream and get wiped out almost immediately. I'm not the kind of player to intentionally seek out the weakest tank and just follow them around for easy kills. One time I was taking a short break and hiding behind one of the buildings and suddenly I saw my health slowly going down - it must have taken him a good 30-40 blasts to finally kill me. I don't know why he was playing because as you can see from the final score it was a total bloodbath as far as he was concerned. Considering his rank it's surprising to see such a weak tank in a higher ranked battle - I don't see it too much but it happens from time to time. But, it really highlighted the difference for me between the levels of damage that you get from upgrading - we sometimes forget what it's like to see weak turrets when most people at high ranks have M3 or better.

Premium should be a way to give special items - paints, maps, special hulls and turrets, etc. that would not be accessible to non-Premium players. If it just becomes another way to bully players as kits and drugs allow then it's going to drive people away.

If you create too much imbalance who are the paying players going to bully once all the free ones get sick and tired of it??? If all that is left is paying players many of them would quit because a bunch of them lack the skills necessary to play Tanki aside from pressing 1-2-3-4 all the time.

This is certainly tempting:

Many people go to universities that are prestigious, but, they themselves are poor students. It's like compressing dirt in your hands hoping to create a diamond. Going to a top university means nothing and isn't that impressive nowadays. It's what you do with your education that has meaning - the degree is just a piece of paper on a wall.

Because some parts of it were interesting - such as the new sounds. I gave it a "Like" for some parts of it while disagreeing with others. That's why "Like" buttons are misleading.

Most of the time I do move in a circle around them or quickly zigzag back and forth because I know the Vulcan cannot lock that quickly - but on some maps (like Iran) it isn't always possible due to the self-destruct zone to the right of where I was located. If a particular Vulcan is highly annoying then I will just drive in a straight line towards them to assure every blast from Twins gets them. :D

You ever wonder if the goal with these updates is to actually "settle" on the lower number, or, try to get away with the bigger one? It's the same as when large crystal boxes were added - then they removed ALL of them - claiming "imbalance." So, what if the plan was 15% all along - so they post 20% then drop it to 15% to give the appearance of listening to players?

It was posted on the FB page. If it's posted by an official representative of Tanki on Tanki's official FB page then how it is NOT official?

You mean the same official media that stated there was going to be a 50% Tanker's Day sale a few days before it was announced it was only 40%?