If you pay often for crystal to upgrade your weapons it's a great idea! If you do not have so much money, well... it still is a great idea, until your experience raise to a point where your rank only allows you to play in battles where your guns do NOTHING. So... no more crystals for you because you have the lowest score in the side of the team that lose the battle. Sorry... I did say "...no more Crystals..." I ment, you win 8 crystals... :-D (That happen to me. Maybe a bad choice of the battle).

...players ability to earn good funds... So, do you have ability, or bigger and better guns? Let's face it. I consider myself as having good ability. I saw every time my way of doing things being readily copied during the very same set of games by other players. However there's is no ability that could possible save you against an heavily armed guy. There, you born to die. So what I think is that you are the gay with the ability to leave the battle when such thing happens to you.

Hi I've already left a message in the Brasilian foruns (Portuguese) about the Crystal box thing, in the hope someone translate that to the Russian language... So, here it is a more or less good translation of the message I put in the Brasilian foruns. ----------------------------------------- I play in the English where I registered myself for the first time, but I decided to come here to put my views on the crystals. This is because I did not play for a month and now I return and I see everything upside down. The new look of the boxes is good, but I do not think it was a good idea the experience they add the crystals that were to fall to the game fund, and the same for the idea of the crystal boxes now have between 1 and 100 crystals. Consider this: 1- The developers of the game are doing a good job and they deserve to be paid for it. But this is only possible because there are players in a hurry to buy crystal to faster upgrades their weapons and gain advantage in the game. 2- But the players who do not have so much money to spend can still play, and the only way to upgrade their weapons is playing and catching the crystal boxes that fall. 3- When the crystal boxes were only 10 crystals, it appealed to those who had little, and predictably leave indifferent who had plenty. But I could always watch that the fact that because it's only 10 crystals, it did not removed the interest of any player take the boxes. But gave more chance to those who had less crystal and consequently also had weapons of smaller caliber. But see how the game today: 4- Players with better guns and/or higher rank, earn and always will earn the part of the lion, because players with lower rank and less capable weapons are in the game for a little more than born and die... 5- Now all players earn something. Let's see what I usually did in a game with only a wasp, and a thunder turret: I dedicated myself in trying to destroy as much as possible the other tanks, and try hard to keep me away from being hit by all other players with heavy weapons. With some work I could sometimes catch as much as 250 crystals per game, if only dedicated to that. In 4 games I could get almost the equivalent of a "Gold Box". The advantage is that by NOT kill many tanks, I could NOT win to much experience points and thus keep me in my current rank, where my weapons still have some effect. Now that the crystals are added to the game fund, (this is good because all players win!), but how much they earn? The best I did was a 300+. Most of the time I win below 100, and below 50 often enough, in a game! It appears that players with heavy weapons are continuing to collect the lion's share, and now even more and without additional work, because it has been added to the game fund, the crystals that were to fall. Now to make 1000 crystals I have to play almost all day, I do not have life for that. But the worst is that I have to kill so many tanks that my experience goes up (and still not earn much crystal). Soon I will be promoted to a RANK that only will allow me into games where my weapons have NO effect, and I will no longer earn nothing at all! Btw, a few hours ago, I was systematically killed by a wasp with Isida, that resists both, 3 (micro upgraded) Thundr m1 shots, plus a mine that I left in his path, just to be killed at the end by the guy, and that happen in a battle where my rank was among the top 3 that were allowed in the battle. With the new system of crystals range from 1 to 100, we will see a heavy fight from those who have heavier wepons to acquire the larger boxes, the 100 and the 50. Eventually the other boxes with less crystals will be left to the players with less powerfull weapons, which will continue to, basically, NOT win anything. Now... my math may be wrong, but I don't think so. I still prefer the 10 crystal boxes, because they give more chances to ALL in a balanced way. Boxes of 20, 50 and 100 crystals, will be won by the same guys, and that will NOT benefit at all, those who depend on buying crystals for a living, that is the developers.... So... soon some gamers must give up the game because they will reach a rank where they can't do anything (those players grow slowly because of their weak weapons and because they cannot spend too much in crystal to upgrade them), and the many ones that will stay (and could pay the crystals and that even already done that a few times), will now have all their crystal needs fulfilled by one of these: bigger crystal boxes, or bigger funds, whatever is planned! Sorry my lousy English. It is not my native language.