Nitro's cooldowns are a bit faster than most other drugs'. For example, if you use DA, you have to wait 1 minute before you can use another DA, 30 seconds before you can use a DD, and 15 seconds before you can use a Nitro. However, if you use a Nitro, you hve to wait 1 minute before you can use another Nitro, 15 seconds before you can use a DD, and 15 seconds before you can use a DA. So it doesn't speed it up, it's just not as long.

People say that "drugs are the life-blood of Tanki", as a large portion of Tanki's revenues comes from people buying drugs. In reality, drugs are killing Tanki -- making tons of players leave because they can't/don't want to buy drugs. Back in 2014, it was uncommon to see less than 200,000 players online at any given time. Now there's fewer than 50,000. Clearly there's something wrong.

Most of us don't want supplies (supply boxes that fall from the sky) to go away completely. They're a crucial part of gameplay, and they make effective map control even more important. However, drugs (supplies used by pressing the 1-4 keys) are extremely overpowered. Did you know that you can pop a DD or DA and then a Repair Kit with zero cooldown? I don't care what you have to say, that's OP. Don't believe me? Try it. I'll wait. Basically what your first paragraph told me is "Druggers are overpowered. You have three options: become a drugger, lose constantly, or get out." For a game that promotes itself by saying it's "based on teamwork", that's hardly fair. That's cool. It's kinda dumb in my opinion, but that's cool. If you wanna buy, go buy. But if you're buying just because you can't win without your "store-bought" advantage, you've got a problem. When you get to my rank, ...Okay, not this rank, but 2nd Lieutenant (the rank of my currently banned-for-stupid-reasons alt), When you get to 2nd Lieutenant, you'll notice that your store-bought advantage is going away. Right now you're chill because you've got a store-bought kit. You have M1 Vulcan and M1 Hunter, and Sakura Paint. Your K/D is through the roof. You think you're special, am I right? Don't gimme that shake of the head, I know you do. Well you're not special. Anybody can get that kit. Anybody can buy drugs. Anybody, including myself, can take you out, because anybody can spend money on this game. You, Burger-N-Fries, you are not special. You're just a buyer who's happy with the temporal product. But come 2nd Lieutenant, you'll get stomped all over and forgotten. You'll be mutilated every round and you'll wonder why. And then after feeling what it's like to be a loser for several rounds, after that K/D takes a dip into the negative zone, you'll quit and start a new account. THAT is Tanki's marketing strategy -- making people have to start over because they're too lazy to develop actual skill before reality hits them. I don't know about you, but I really think that's crappy. It's shoddy, it's unfair to free players, it's unfair to payed players, and it just gets them more money. Tanki doesn't care about the buyer. They don't care about the Preemie. They care about money, and that's IT. Make your own judgment, I'm done rambling.

True, but... I'm mostly talking about the lower ranks here buddy. I guess at your rank, preemie players don't really make too much of a difference, since (from what I've seen) everyone at that rank drugs and/or has awesome MU'd paints. The only big difference would be that the preemie players get twice as many crystals in battles, and hey, who doesn't want that? I still think it was a good move. It may seem pointless to you, but for me... it's pretty big.

I have to admit, Tanki did a good. They added Premium Account benefits as a Daily Mission. While it makes it harder to determine the preemie players from the free-to-players, it does give people a chance to fight back against the overpowered scum of the game. GG, Tanki... GG.

Quite honestly, when I run into Preemie sellouts, I get the entire team to focus on that particular buyer. Who cares if we lose the round? Killing the tool and making the game fair is more important.

When Tanki had a like/dislike system, you were able to see just how many players liked an update, and how many players didn't. And usually, they received a lot of negative feedback for rolling out some admittedly stupid updates. Now, there is no dislike button. If you type a negative comment, chances are it won't be read by the devs (and if it is, they'll probably just ignore it). You either like the new updates, or you don't have a say in anything. Bravo, Tanki. Not from me, or any other sane person really, but since you're now only getting likes, bravo.

I'm sure pretty much everybody's seen PRO's advice on Firebird, right? Well, to recap if you didn't, the big rule for Firebird was: If opponent is using a health kit, do not engage. My problem is that when I use Firebird, almost EVERYBODY uses health kits to counter me. Why? Why can't they just admit that they weren't watching their butt and got toasted by a skilled ninja? It's not nooby by any means, but it's a cheap way to cheat a death that you obviously deserved.

Well to be honest, I did get a lot of free upgrades on my Firebird thanks to the new micro-upgrades system. Unfortunately now the upgrades are so expensive that I can't buy any more, but still... Honestly though, if Premium Account players or pay-to-players are going to dominate all the battles like I've seen so far, what's the point in supporting a free-to-play model?

I admit that trolling is fun sometimes. But y'all probably knew that already, didn't you?

Tanki recently added a crystal bonus boost to the Premium Account players. Now, preemies will receive an added 100% crystal bonus, or twice as many crystals as normal. Just goes to show you that the people who spend the most money have all the power. In my opinion, if Tanki is going to add this crystal bonus, they should remove or lower the XP bonus, since now free-to-play tankers will be swamped by kit buyers. Or at least remove the premium account crystals column at the end of the battle. God dammit, stop taunting me with the crystals that I didn't earn!

With the newly-released Premium Accounts (and yes, I've been running into them left and right), players now get 50% more XP, so ranking up is less of a problem. Besides that, there are extra kits that allow you to buy the newer upgrades at lower ranks (a Staff Sergeant with enough crystals can by Freeze M1 and Viking M1. I'm not kidding). Yes. I have drugs, and I occasionally use them, but I use drugs exclusively to counter other druggers, because I believe in fair play and winning by skill rather than by money. Aside from that, I main as Isida/Wasp, so I obviously do gratuitous amounts of sniping. You are correct. Like I said before, I prefer to win by skill rather than by paying for the game, in addition to my current financial state which doesn't allow me doing that. Proving that I don't want to pay for the game is irrelevant and redundant -- obviously if I've got an issue with pay-to-players than I'm probably not one. The issue isn't me quitting Tanki, or a subscription fee that nobody would want to play, or the economics of the game. The issue is imbalance -- that people who do pay can easily trump those who don't. I'm not saying that all P2Pers are crap (though a lot of them are), I'm saying that in general, despite what anybody else says, the winner is the one who pays money, and the loser is the player who got out-drugged.

"Slightly more easily"? Dear tanker, in case you haven't noticed, those who spend ten bucks on the game get a crapload of crystals, enough to get the next upgrade or buy a mountain of drugs. And when buyers get that much of an advantage, rank or cooldowns doesn't matter. A healthpack is basically an extra life, giving a drugger twice as much survivability as a normal tanker. Add in double armor and that makes four lives. Ranks and cooldowns aside, it's just not fair. Like I've said. I work for a living. Buying crystals is not an option for me. Once you grow up, move away, go to college, get your own job, and have to pay for food on your table and a roof over your head, try and see how many bucks you're willing to put towards for an online video game. Also (not to be pulling rank here, but trying to prove a point) how long have you been playing Tanki? I'm guessing you haven't run into mega-druggers and buyers en masse like I have. Either that or you ARE one, in which case I could understand you defending your pay-to-win brethren. If the latter is true, and you're getting upset that free-to-players are complaining about pay-to-players, then you're just proving my point. Reply to this. I dare ya. :D

I've stated this before, but it bears repeating. I work for a living, and spending money on a browser-based video game (especially when they're gonna replace it so quickly) is dumb. However, I still keep getting beat by sellouts, so I really don't know what to do. Like I said, Tanki should either become full-on pay-to-play, or make some adjustments to help free-to-players not get dominated. Supressing free players like they are now is not a good place to be.

Maybe so, but a lot of the recent updates (as I pointed out) only serve to cater to those buyers, whilst making it hard for those who don't pay to play. And like I also stated, when the updates came out, it received so much negativity that they removed the down-vote button entirely!