Unified view! Excellent suggestion! This though- "If a new battle is created in this unified lobby, the tanki system places the battle on the server with the lowest load." would mean that ultimately all servers would largely be defined in terms of ranks and not the geographical considerations that are weighted more currently. Guessing this would be huge. I think if they give us a unified view and players only use that view, it doesn't really matter where the battle is created.

In order of annoyance/frequency scale, assuming I play 5 battles daily- The Goldbox passes right through you. I've seen this happening pretty often (like 1 in 12 golds seen). I've experienced it rarely (maybe 1 in 15 golds caught) & but then I don't get golds often. Battle freezes. Just as many have already explained in their posts here. This happens uncommonly (1 in 25 battles, usually big maps). I've given up trying to re-enter battles when this happens. Join a battle and the turret deals no damage, you can't pick/drop flag, but can take damage. This is extremely frequent (like 1 in 3 battles). It curiously sorts itself out on the second respawn. The same as scene#2, but it stays that way and does not fix itself, even after refreshing. The occurrence is rare (1 in 50 battles maybe). I just restart the browser or switch between mozilla/chrome. Seems to work. Seeing tanks zoom through the maps at the speed of light, tanks reset after having flipped tracks up, getting hit by enemy fire when my tank visibly wasn't, ramming into other tanks and doing spectacular somersaults before auto-selfdestructing, tank visuals that make me think the enemy went left when they actually went right etc. These things happen all the time and are the least of my concerns with respect to this list. Not sure if it's relevant here, but I often face the problem of simply not being able to join a battle (there may be many empty player slots), even after multiple retries. The screen hangs on "loading". This happens often (1 in 7 battles). If I think of something else I'll be adding to this ^. P.s. My fps is decent most of the time. Ping does go haywire at times.

Any grace period?

You know, I think the alternate price pool thing is a real downer. Just saying. I can guess at why it should be there. I'll try to send in something just to raise the chances.

Is XP/BP one word or two?

The thing about kits is that you need to get them as soon as they unlock to make it really worth the wait and effort. Else you'll just have bought yourself a whole lot of crystals worth of 'dashed expectations', if not complete disappointment.

Confusion is (how tanki plays) the game ;) Thanks for the info. Had no idea...

Rock - for noise and polygon.

Anyone care to share their thoughts? Do I need to get more m3 hulls/turrets?

Set theory.

If you like playing the vulcan, it's a great choice. You can lean on it for a while coz m3 unlocks late and it's pretty OP with DD (duh). The paint quickly loses effectiveness... unless you MU maybe.

1. Clay 2. Savanna 3. Raccoon 4. Firebird/Vulcan

I think you'll benefit from getting a good hull and paint asap. IMHO hornet m2 is a waste. Unless you're drugging all the time, it's going to be difficult using it as your primary hull in the ranks to come. If your current garage isn't damaging your crystal inflow too much and you are confident that you will be able to save up for firewall by next rank, do it. Don't buy anything at less than 35% off. Also, about the firewall - yes, fire m2 is very good, but the hull and paint are IMHO, mediocre. If I were you, I'd seriously be considering the fortress kit. It's cheaper, paint is better and the mammoth m2 is a solid investment. Just play polygon/noise with isida/mammy and get enough crystals to get yourself a proper m3 turret or kit even. Skip the m2s.

WOah... I feel like I just got off the carousel. **Swoons like an XP-er caught in vulcan fire mid-air** +1 to originality! ... make that +1000

Did you say you like to attack often? I think going for smoky m2 is a good idea. Don't bother buying what you don't like. I can't comment on titan really. IMHO it's best to have a heavy hull, a medium hull and a light one to adapt to any situation. Although, either the light or the heavy hull can be sacrificed to meet budget constraints and playing style. The medium hull is therefore, an essential. So I'd say you should prioritize viking m2. But if you're more comfortable being a camper beast, go for the titan. My thoughts on the kit choices you listed - 1) Northerner - Good kit. Paint will be useful in maps like Monte Carlo, Serpuhov, kungur... in that order (I guess). I think it'll also be best worn on a medium/heavy hull, not a light one - to be really effective. Btw, I think it's hard to play shaft. It gets really annoying at higher ranks though when all of them simply equip DD and you can't move without being sniped. Most games are won thanks to the shafts and isidas of a team. 2) Minotaur - No comment on twins. The paint rhino - maybe you don't see it being useful at your current rank, but I can say with some level of confidence that I think those protections are worth having in the long run. 3) Atlas - Already said what I had to on titan. The paint I'm not a fan of. It probably works on heavies. But that's it. You can't rely on Loam (without MUs) to protect a medium hull decently. Another point you need to consider is getting the paladin kit later on (smoky m3, viking m3, inferno) which has an better paint with firebird protection.

Torn between buying prodigi and going for MUs at this point. Any advice guys? I got approx 15/50 on each m3 I own (Long term plan is to max 1 combo). I really doubt the MU sale percentile will be enough to make speed ups worthwhile over the 3 day sale period. But then again, MU sales don't happen often afaik. So then... :wacko: ???

Donno about the rest of tankidom, but I'm experiencing a severe bout of bad missions right now. Anyone else got it too?

I know this is old, but I wanted to correct this ^ My email wasn't confirmed at the time I wrote that (and I was unaware of it), so the settings reflected enabled change fields. Now I see that the password/email change mechanism already works the way I suggested i.e. through links and is externally dependent on your email.

I hope the battle doesn't end before it even gets started...

Lol, you're taking mine design to new heights depths! Would be cool to have a tank that can drive underwater (a tanki sub maybe)! :P

No. I wouldn't be able to fairly judge between digital and hand drawn entries. So naturally, I feel they SHOULD be judged separately.

Totally understand where ^ this is coming from. A salute to the judges who can pronounce unbiased judgements with such criteria! LaserShark's mine must've really "blown up" some hopes. It sure blew me away :lol:

This helped me! I suspect a lot of players are probably facing this. So, if you have the activation email and the link in it has "miniclip" anywhere, you need to retry the confirmation following the steps in the above link.

Lol! If you can't beat em, join em eh? I was in a similar dilemma... I decided against it because the way things are, I think tanki is bound to take notice and rewire isida (I hope). Don't know about you guys, but even with a hornet, I have trouble outrunning the range of an isida on viking. Here's the thing - every short range turret has it's damage reducing in proportion to range. Isida doesn't. I think they need to bring this aspect into the gameplay.

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