I actually think 2. :)

You might have had an increase in the junk in your garage. Did you check that? Time for a garage sale. :)

In the few minutes it takes to do that, you are better off leaving the battle and joining a winning side somewhere else. You'd have collected more crystals than what you would have if you brought your score down near zero and had to wate for a few more minutes for the timer to detonate. Why don't you look at the statistics and see how much of the problem this update fixed? (You need to define the problem first, it is not what you set out to solve.)

People do not find it appealing to join the losing side because they don't get rewards. To prevent that, you need to make sure that the losing side does not get raped, but this idea is not appealing to Tanki. In real life, when you lose you get killed, your family gets taken prisoners, your women get raped, your country gets occupied and ruined. Maybe that is why they think that it is fair for the losing side to get raped. Even rewarding the losing side similarly (based on their exp score, not flags or kills) is not enough because when you are fighting 4 against 8, you get destroyed 2 or 3 times to destroy 1 tank if at all because usually 2 tanks will be hitting you at the same time. Now with the old system, you can get used to taking advantage of the system and try to join winning sides all the time. The good thing about this update is that it will only affect 1% of the battles because even when a side is getting raped the score acceleration ratio gap is usually less than 10. I am torn between wishing they keep it this way so they don't ruin more battles and between fixing it. If they fix it, you'll be damned if you win and damned if you lose. Maybe that's considered fair because everyone will be damned!

It did not work for this battle, which everyone had to leave. I joined to check the timer when there was 5 against 1. I then left and came again. 261 crystals were lost. :)

That can't be solved. How can they tell you are coming back? How can their server tell if you had a power outage or just a network glitch? The only solution for this is to treat rewards like experience points. You do not lose those when you leave a battle. I think you should be rewarded based on what you have already done, not based on your future earnings. That way you can only accumulate rewards and you can't lose them. This is a fundamental change to reward distribution. You would need to wait for years for Tanki to figure it out. :)

Maybe they should add a manual override (like the server thing) that if most of the players (most of each team) decide to continue or end early (regardless of the score), they should be allowed to do so, but this feature is soo good they would only add it to PRO battles.

I agree about the loophole, but the friend invitation thing you have to do within the early timer. Anyway, even if a battle ended early, that is not the end of the world, you can go to another battle or create a new one. My problem is that the timer would rarely kick in. Chances are your mentioned battle would not get the early timer. I feel like the early timer is in the case where one team has completely left or there was only one person and that person abandoned the battle and started playing parkour. We one had a battle where there was only one person left of the other team, and we started to play parkour, and he joined us. I don't think even in that case the timer would start because nobody was acquiring any scores.

I don't know what the criteria for it is, but I expect to get a longer list of battles. I gave you the benefit of the doubt when I saw a shorter battle list on the server chosen for me, and thought maybe you count the "available" battles (i.e. not full to capacity), so I counted those and it did not work out either. With this update, we always have to use the manual override. It looks like there is a bug in the mechanism. A better update though would have been allowing us to forget about this server business and let it work in the background. I really do not care on what server I am. I only care about the battle I am looking for. Why not give us the freedom to say, list the battles (regardless of servers) that has Highland or Rio, CTF or CP, with highest rank WO5? That would have been very useful to everyone. Nice try though. :)

You are like saying: We should legalize murder. In the end, how many people would be killed? Maybe murders would double, but look how much we could save in legal fees, trials, police work, suspense, news coverage, etc. and divert our resources to more important issues. In the end, we can't stop murder whatever we do. The fact that something is not common does not make it right if it is not right to start with. I agree with you that it is not very common so far. I can't tell if I have experienced it or not, but I have left quite a few battles because I was not doing well for some reason or another.

The 10-times faster is too big. If it is 10 players vs. 1 player and the 1 player gets a kill every once in a while, the timer does not kick in. Everybody has to wait for this dead boring battle to end its standard time. I have seen at least one battle where one team is roasted, most of its players are gone, and the standard timer is on. The criterion should be based on accumulating crystals, not scores. 1 team could have better score than the other while beaten 20:0 in CTF. The team is screwed, and they should actually leave the battle because of the meager rewards they are getting. That is a dead battle where the timer should kick in too. They can see that this timer will kick in in 1% of the battles, but the problem is a lot bigger. Conclusion: Sorry, not impressed. I expected better.

You are not serious, right? A noob can at will join battles who have players at least higher than themselves by 5 ranks. They do not need you to take advantage of them to learn. If you are so smart and skillful, why don't you teach the people of your same higher ranks? I am sure there are a lot who can use some learning, and they deserve it more than noobs.

When the hammer is fired, it looks like a disgusted person spitting, and it sounds like coughing.

It is pretty popular for higher rank people to have alternate accounts with lower ranks where they realize their fantasies of becoming heroes as they beat up real low rank players. I think that is unfair unless you tell everyone that you are actually a higher rank person that is crashing their game to take advantage of them and ruin their game AND they agree. Naturally, they have an argument that at that level, they are using the same equipment like the low ranks but they just have more skill, and there is nothing wrong with having more skill. Until a few days ago, I was only using M0 stuff available to recruits and privates. I never thought it was fair for me to fight against them, not that it is allowed by Tanki. I once got invited to a DM with people a few ranks lower than mine (I was just a seargent), I accepted and then apologize and quit. It would have been unfair to them, regardless of the equipment. Whenever I join a battle where lower ranks are there (I only joine if I see it unbalanced), I do not shoot at anyone who doesn't shoot at me or passes very close to me. I never go after anyone in such conditions. That isn't because I have M3 equipment and they have M0 equipment. Can I ask you this question? Do you think it would have been fair if Richard the Lion Heart gave you a sword superior than his and invited you to a duel? He is even using equipment inferior to yours, but would you take that challenge? It is just skill, nothing more. Why do you think it is okay to ruin other people's game? The answer to that, if you agree, is that because most people have disregard to others. They only think about their own selves, their own fun, and their own rewards. That isn't as bad as it seems though, because this is the nature of man. They are not especially better or worse than others. They are average or mediocre. I just want to say here that not all people are like that, and that it is within your reach and you have no excuses.

Off topic, but congratulations on ranking up!

Why does that make you mad? (The title of the thread)

It does not matter what I think. What I said is logical. I do not think you can find a logical flaw with it.

I agree about that drugger thing, but nobody really steals your kills in team games CTF and CP. I am not sure about TDM, but, in DM, everybody is for his own, so there is no stealing; it is just being smart.

I am happy for you that you are not the only cheat in the game.

It is. Imagine a black belt karate guy bragging about beating the hell out of white belt kids. They all use bare hands. He just has more experience. He can wear a white belt too, if that makes a difference to you. :P

It must be fun playing with players lower than your league, like taking candy from a child.

Its visual effect is silly too. I almost laugh each time someone shoots at me or at someone else with a hammer.

Making the right decision for purchasing or upgrading equipment is part of the game, and, when you make a stupid decision, it's your right to live with it and regret it forever. Nobody should be able to take that right away because they would then rob you of a valuable lesson. It's hard to learn without paying a big price..

I am the least experienced here, I think, but I believe M1 Hornet is the best M1 hull. The Hunter M1 is not bad either but it's available at a higher rank.

The unanswered question that was picked, its answer is clear from the garage. I cano't believe a WO1 would ask this question. However, this kind of question should be asked in the forum not in a running chat window where everyone is looking for their friends or whatever, and by the time they type an answer the question has been gone. Regarding people who want to chat instead of fighting, if you are fighting, why do you care?