Well, I just got disconnected in the last minute of a battle that was working fine up to that point. Wish I could get those funds...NOW.

This has been an acknowledged issue for 3 weeks now: they didn't admit it for nearly three weeks more. The server connections are unreliable, meaning that one battle goes fine, the next is horrible: can't shoot, steer, pickup cubes, or take flags in "real time." Then you go to the garage and you can't get back into the battle (surprise!). If you reset, you find the battle gone or your score zeroed. Things have gotten shoddy and all the tweaking in the world on your part will not improve them.

Yes. The true measure of what you can do is EXTREMELY inconsistent. I have seen the "mysterious" pin spikes (999) that herald a truly bad battle experience: slow pickup of power-ups, ridiculous garage times during a battle, and difficulty in getting a shot off with a given aim.

Yeah, keep telling everyone that. The garage is loading half speed now. Looks like they moved some resources to stop the servers from seizing up and losing connections. But this is still really bad, because your "net frame rate" is lying to you -- I have clocked it at 60% of what it says, which screws up most aiming for Shaft and Smoky. If your players leave before Tanki Unity comes out, you won't HAVE a Tanki Unity...

Still happening. At UTC 09:52, this battle was "disconnected from its players" about 2 minutes after restart, with only 3 players. (RU3 battle fffffff5b0b35dd3) http://tankionline.com/battle-en.html#/server=RU3&battle=fffffff5b0b35dd3 And again at 11:35 http://tankionline.com/battle-en.html#/server=RU3&battle=fffffff5b0de1aee

http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=309571&do=findComment&comment=5354414

This would be funnier if I didn't end up playing with those Knobs. :wacko: I like to raise my D/L by killing from a distance, but occasionally I will go "LE-ROY JOHNSON" on the enemy team, ...and sometimes they just quit after being killed repeatedly as they spawn...

Hah. It happened across all the RU's, for me especially RU3 and RU4, so it was the server operation that was and is the problem. http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=309571&do=findComment&comment=5354414

That's not going to help if it is the server that is falling behind. You can tweak and tweak on your PC and you still have the problem. Why? Because it has nothing to do with anything on your end. -- If you can play normally one day, and get repeatedly disconnected the next day, it is almost always a server problem.

Yeah, that's about right. Problems with the servers, give your players the runaround until someone smart enough can fix it...

This LOSS OF CONNECTION is just not supposed to happen, especially not at VERY SLOW times. When I get locked up, or kicked from a battle, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get back to that server...much less to that battle. I have to reset my ENTIRE CONNECTION to Tanki to do that...!!! :angry:

Yeah, old solutions to old problems do not help with the new ones. Once we get someone's attention, they can work on the REAL problem, which is almost always something new. :blink:

It is neither pings nor lag, nor anything that you can solve on your end. The RU servers especially are losing contact with players, or retaining the wrong status. This is a really bad problem with the servers themselves, but communicating that to the devs is like pulling teeth.

It may be that you are losing connection to the server, so none of your inputs are going in. "Refresh" is a fine suggestion but half the time it does not solve the problem: you just glitch more. :angry:

The question is showing it by the red clock icon - but if it's less than a minute, what possible difference could the exact time make???

I can't say I have any sympathy for them. In my view, it was thuggery. If they want a challenge, they should play other organized groups, not steal battle funds because they had organization impossible for the other teams to match. :angry:

Yeah. The special 3-minute that we saw last 2 months was evidently their test run. It was only on SOME of the battles, so they must have been tweaking it. I hope they kept the "third strike" where a game cannot continue if the short timer comes on 3 times.

It has to be better than "Hurry up! You're about to win!" :P

New Glitch: FPS rate fluctuating constantly This means that when it suddenly drops, I have a 1/2 to 1 second "skip" from my controls! It is like lag except that I see everybody else continue to move normally, while my control inputs cause me to jerk around or de-aim, or lose frames completely, as in stop motion. The ping is a constant 70-90. This (fluctuation several times a second) is not supposed to happen! It occurs on EVERY server, and began today (FEB 6 approx 1400 UTC)

Tanks are the military. You do not call a female superior officer "ma'am" -- you call her SIR.

(duplicated in the New Garage thread) I was UNABLE TO BUY M2 Railgun since I am already eligible for the M3. Which means that I did *not* get the Achievement "When is the Next Sale" which would apply when all my turrets are M2 or M3 (which they are). I wrote to help@TankiOnline because obviously the Achievement code needs to be rewritten to pick up these "leapfrogs" from M0 to M2 and M1 to M3. Otherwise you might end up with the "all M3" award without getting "all M2." :wacko:

Gonna put this here and in the Achievements thread, since they are connected. I was UNABLE TO BUY M2 Railgun since I am already eligible for the M3. Which means that I did *not* get the Achievement "When is the Next Sale" which would apply when all my turrets are M2 or M3 (which they are). I wrote to help@TankiOnline because obviously the Achievement code needed to be rewritten to pick up these "leapfrogs" from M0 to M2 and M1 to M3. Otherwise you might end up with the "all M3" award without getting "all M2." :wacko:

Unfortunately, your proof is not sufficient to take action.

I posted this on the Problems, but in case anybody has the same problem: BLUE REWARDS SHOW AS ZERO I don't know if I received my reward or not because I didn't look at my total before the battle.

What happened here? Are your programmers messing up? I don't know for sure if we received anything or not :wacko: