you should ask him if he sells the code for some crystals or a dream tank.. this looks awesome.

^ I assume those guys need different accounts in order to be able to enter various battles of various rank ranges (of course they can enter each and every battle but this is a little obvious. And it is strange if you show up with M3-something in a WarrentOfficer Battle). Those accounts are more like a tool they need to to their job. They are created artificially.. like maybe open tankers database, enter favorite equipment (cant handle other) and set the experience and rank propperly. Then - when it is played - the kills and deaths accumulate. I guess from this perspective there is nothing to worry about it.

Premium makes much more sense with the 100% crystal boost. Together with the 50% SMP those tankers can build up a stronger garage. Of course those are then overpowered in comparism to other players - but there mist be an advantage to premium if it costs 10USD per month. Also those players have better equipment - but less time to hone their skills, so the equipment compensates for that. But it's sad that you removed the 50% and 100% SMP. They have been usefull for some situations, if used wisely

It is for sure not about reaching a top25 language. It is about finding a country where the usual target group (maybe players between 11..16; and players between 25 and 40) have money to spend and have no access to the current offered languages because of the education system in their country. Indian teenagers have marvelous English skills. No need to introduce a seperate chat language with all the costs (paid people that can handle the tanki help mails in native language). teenagers in Austria and German (both german speaking countries) reach this english level when they are about 15..16 years old.. and so almost left the target group by aging up. As they can spend money it made sense to introduce a tanki in their language. No matter if you need 1 server or 5 (because most german players play english servers or Ru servers) but you can reach the youg ones with bed english skills - but some Euros on their mobile phone contract left. it's all about money; never forget that. It seems to me that Arabic players talk English very well too - at least those I talked to. So I have no idea if you will get your own language. For most regions it would make more sense to get local servers, instead of local language support.

Does this mean that the Polish players will not see the English Chat any more??? :blink:

Bring back Privacy ! (% instead of hours) -> Please rate the time played with different turrets/hulls/Paints in %, and not in hours. additionally: - it would be nice if the kilIs, deaths, k/d ratio are displayed as total _and_ as weekly amount.. so you can see how a tanker performs now, despite of his past.

Privacy is destroyed -.- I don't want that others can see how many hours I spend in this game. Maybe replace the hours-per-item/mode/... by %-per-item/mode/... But I really like the achievements, and all the other stuff :) Please introcude the kills, deaths, xp, kill/death per last-seven-days as well. So you can see how a tanker performs _currently_ and not since ages.

I was thinking of mobile barriers that you could push into place with your tank to block of some entries or ramps.. ..but this would require a complete reworked map design. Most of the good maps today are designed in a clever way to offer multiple attack ways.. that make it hard to defend the bases easily. Barriers or destructible ramps would counteract that design.

^^ I think so as well. When I was lower ranked I also had my experience with Isidas that blocked me off.. or that revealed my well hidden position by healing me from a non-stealth position where every enemy could spot their healing beam giving away my position.. But whatever.. they learned :) But actually the same goes for me.. when an Isida healed a flagrunner and I was busy defending so I crossed it's beam and gave the enemy the time to kill our flagrunner :p Later this was a usefull tactic.. I used my fast wasp to block of the enemy isida from the enemy flagrunner ;) I died of course.. but I bought some time for my mates to take down the flag.

So this means you have another rebalance when moving from flash to unity?

@ Moderator: ^ this explanation above should be taken into the Help/Questions/Answers section, as it perfectly explains the SMP and premium account effects!

Yep. As a workaround i proposed that a XT item for premium users costs between 1.5 Mio and 3Mio crystals. Then the guys who receive it through luck with missions and through hard work still can feel special, as the high price gives it muck more "value", that can't be purchased sooooo easily

So will the premium paint be MU'able or not? (It makes no sense if it can be increased to more then 15% afterwards..) For the gradually increase of protection (5%, 10%, 15%) I still propose to make 3 paints, all that look the same and unlock at different ranks Like: PremiumPaint M1: unlocks at Recruit, 5% against all turrets, 0 crystals, only available for premium users PremiumPaint M2: unlocks at rank_12, 10% against all turrets, 0 crystals, only available for premium users PremiumPaint M3: unlocks at rank_24, 15% against all turrets, 0 crystals, only available for premium users @legosuperhero + IceCremStory repeaters:

Pardon me, but have you considered that quite a large number of players are not happy; but simply continue the game until their frustration reach a tipping point? If the "leaving rate" is the measure you take... then the daily peak rate on the servers should make Tanki listen. I started here 1 year ago, and the peak rate was about 120k each day. today its between 60 and 80k. And pardon me if I ask you again - you must have missed my first question.. np, you have much to work volunteer this days. I ask again: By which means does Tanki collect data about the happiness, anticipations and expectations or the active players? Honestly... they can simply define 3 paints, all looking the same but having different level of protection. They unlock at 3 different rank levels and each of it cost 0 crystals; available only to premium users. Making it this way requires next to no code change.

actually they cant ban you if you read the forum posting rules and keep them. If they would.. they would not have enough manpower to handle all the complaints. Hazel put it right: they cant fight off the horde. But if we stay not polite, they have the option to simply shut down the discussion. Would not by wise by the players, as this is one of the rare threads where I have the feeling they at least read a lot in here.

1- actually he didnt say mods are paid, he said he was paid for his work as commentator. So.. who exactly do you mean with "we"? 2- He never said that all mods do that. It also did not "feel" like he mean that. Your text reads like there was "somethng but not too much". Well.. it fits togehter 3- Could you please explain how the developers collect what's inside the 500.000 active monthly palyers? I hope it is not through such google questionaires, that always offered the questions in the most unusefull way (if you really wanna get information from it) And please, don't feel offended. I really simply ask this as I am interrrested, as I like the game and I like to see it continued.

I think this is not necessary and does not lead to a suitable result. So lets see what we have, where the problems are, and what we can do about it xp, crystals bonus: The basic design of this premium package is +50% xp and +50% crystals. This means that the premium players will move faster through the ranks and therefor use up their crystals anyways. The crystal/xp ratio is the same as for free players.. they just cut some time. They can only overpower by purchasing additional crystals on top of the premium package.. as others can today. This aspect is not harmfull. paint The paint is overpowered in my opinion.. and it seems many others share this as well. Also noone complained proposales of max. 15% on all turrets.. so why not take this limit? The idea to scale the protection up from a little to 15% max was also given 3x by now.. no complaints up to now. Seems it seems the community can live with that. XT items Well.. this is not a question of power.. but a question of trust. Tanki stated the XT items as super-rare.. and players invested a lot in getting those. If the rules now change it is natural that the players feel betrayed. I would suggest as solution that a purchasable M3 XT item costs 1.5..3 Mio crystals. So all the lucky guys with XT missions can still feel happy to have saved a lots of crystals.. while the ones who spent 5Mio on it should be rare anyways (and honest: I feel sorry for you guys) Kits Kits are already a problem today. Making it worse does not sound like a good idea to me. I would skip this bonus.

Premium paint proposal: start with 7% on all weapons; increase to 11%, end up with 15% Will it be possible to MU this paint? I hope not tooo much.. Premium Paint with 0% = massive drawback (won't get equipped) (edit: ok, maybe on hornets in XP/BP..) By the way I have a proposal about a way how to split paints and protections.. I will maybe write this on Monday evening. Score Multiplyer Pass, 50% XP bonus

So in future you can not take a simple look at the like-to-dislike ratio... I hope you stocked up community managers or you guys/girls got a decent raise, because else I wonder how you could handle this increased amount of workload with the same amount of work-hours. See spoiler for what this change implies: In my honest opinion you should really add a poll to each of the threads in which you inform us about updates and changes. Polls with meaningfull and worthy answers. If you dare to :P ps: to all players: feel free to use the votingCounter post on the next page to up/downvote the idea in general

you need maps where - you can actually hide behind objects often and/or - you have longer distances to cover -> So you are poor of in Arena, Island, Ping-Pong against a bunch of Titan-Twinners (too less cover, no advantage of your speed) -> But you do very well in Rio, Serpuchov, RedAlert, Sandal, .. to name just a few. Also Stadium TDM (as you are fast enough to invade the other team's stronghold), ... Of course you have to think more, as you need to take paths that give you cover and set you into a good position.. the low HP forces you to take each advantage you can get. Therefor it makes more fun on the other hand, as the tank controls are so precise :)

Same for me.. I started off with a hornet as well... but once I discovered the manouverability and precise control of a wasp (bought my first wasp at short after ending warrant officer 5) I never really missed my hornet any more. (ok, I missed it in the few months period when wasps could get flipped soooooooooo easily.. but luckily this is fixed now) ps: cool videos you make; I like to watch them as you have a totally different playing style then I have, and I can learn a lot :)

Thats true.. Freeze is pretty strong in lower ranks, but as soon as you face just M3 equipment it is simply ont as usefull. (I have to admit they increased the freeze effect recently, but it is still far away from the efficiency it had 2015-01) With the new characteristics you can deal strong damage through a long time. But the wizzed gameplay became totally lost.. - you can deal a lots of damage, but you need a midrange tank to do so as beeing close to an enemy means beeing shot by his friends - In the past you could use enemy tanks as a shield.. but now the freeze effect is too weak against M3 turrets and M3 hulls. Your oponents can just kill you , except they ride titan or mammuth. - You cant go through an enemies ambush, freezeing 3 of them and wait for reinforcements, as the time needed to demobilize a tank was increased most of the fun is gone. Firebird with the high afterburn damage can run away earlier, and is so more likely to survive. Isida with it's damage that is not effected by range + self healing is also a much more clever weapon compared to today's freeze. sad thing.. ps: and don't think I like an overpowered freeze.. no way. This will be boring as well. But today it is simply underpowered as his special ability gives him no advantage. It's now a cheap copy of firebird, that trades afterburn against a larger energy store.

I assume you both hold down Space key short before your reload time is finished, so you really shot "as soon as possible". Well if you do so, but still you die first, then this is because he triggered the first shot before you did. In Tanki you can not always rely on the things _you_ see. Simple reason is, that all the things that happen around you are transported as data towards your PC (like a code for "tank#2 triggered shot at time index xx:xx:zz") and then your PC makes them visible (starts the animation for the rail to charge up, shot, and so on). As such messages can not be transported instantaniously, but have some delay while traveling through the internet, you sometimes see things later then they happen. This is the reason why you sometimes got shot through the corner of a wall.. or that an enemy seems to have next-to-no chargeup time in one of his railgun shots. I play XP/BP for almost a year now.. and I had only once (!) the situation that a friend of mine and me shot at each other with railguns in close combat, and we both died. If somethings "looks to happen at the same time" does not necessarily mean that it truely happened at the same time. But don't worry.. others face this effects as well, so it is not unfair or something. Its simply the way things are here at the moment.

The logic is this one: the dates and aprox % of the sales became "common knowledge" in the forum. So people started to save up and plan ahead... so tanki earned less crystals. With the new system a part of the sales becomes unpredictable.. and often they would catch a tanker offering him the discount for his second most liked weapon (there arent soo many around) while he is short on crystals. Knowing that the discount will exist only for a few hours and only for him, this offer becomes a very tempting thing.. that is supposed to lure players into purchasing the crystals they lack to make the deal. I assume that the usual sale rates at the predictable dates will be reduced with a hint to the personal discounts.. and so this will all work out - for tanki as well as for buyers. All others need the same ressource as always: patience and time

purchase the M0 version on your alternative accounts. With M0 against M2 the test wont give you as much insight anyways. Especially Rail gets available after you make +1 rank (100xp) and you can purchase ot for the crystals you receive as a gift with a new account.