And it seems that the buyers like to be milked!

Again trying to defend something that does not exist but that is your prerogative. You can roll your eyes as much as you want, just be careful not too strain them much because you may miss that famous "an error has occurred".

Did not say it did not have issues. However, from a programming perspective, you do not get the lag and the errors you get in Tanki and the MM system IS balanced. Battles start with the teams having equal amount of players, you do not get dumped in battle that ends in mere seconds, and you never have play against players that are higher than 1 rank. In Tanki we see battles with rank discrepancy of 7 ranks higher than you. Perhaps some people like to get killed by one-shot!

Well if you do not understand the difference between "stupid" and "Dumb as a rock" that is your problem. Since I know a little bit about Information Technology I can tell you that the size of the developer team has nothing to do with the quality of the product. You can have 1 competent programmer produce much better program than 100 so and so programmers. Developers like the ones Tank has would not last not even a month in a real company especially when the company charges money for a product. If that product produces "an error has occurred" and they have not fixed it in a reasonable amount of time they would be gone. This error alone has plagued Tanki for over 5 years now! And you are right, there is no way we can compare a product that works like it is supposed to work with the garbage that Tanki has produced and they have the audacity to charge money for it! Either you are working for tanki or you must be a butt hurt buyer to defend them so vigorously!,

Problem with comprehension much? I did not say they are stupid. I said they dumb as a rock which is worse than stupid. I am not much into speculation regarding profits because these actions show that they are desperate for cash and that this HTML5 project is bleeding them dry. Let alone the fact that they too a nice financial bath with TankiX and now they are trying to make up they huge losses. You can believe whatever you want and you are entitled to your opinion. After all opinions are like assholes "everybody got one" I gave my facts in another post and not only I say they are dumb as a rock, they are also incompetent programmers. Go play WoT or another game and then come and tell me how many times you will get "an error has occurred" Or if you will pay for equipment and then all of a sudden they will be changed for the worst. It is happening only in Tanki.

Sorry but I really have better things to do with my time!

Have nothing to prove. Their actions prove it. They went from 70000+ users to less than 20000 in less than 3 years! And judging by the reaction to this "update" the numbers will dwindle further. If that is not proof enough then go take a piss and feel better.

They are not stupid. They are dumb as a rock and compared to the dumber than a rock buyers, the developers seem to be "geniuses". But the rest of us know better.

Sir, I beg to differ! In the course of my professional work as an employee and a consultant to major Fortune 100 companies all over the world, I have met many dumb decision makers that outnumber the intelligent ones! As far as the Tanki developers goes, I am sorry to say that they are the most unintelligent people that I have ever had the unfortunate luck to come across! Besides that fact that as programmers are proven over and over they are not all that they pretend to be, they are even worse as business managers. I understand wanting to make money. every business, even non-profit organizations, have a goal to make money because that's the way a business survives. The key to it, is knowing how to go about making that money. Certainly, not listening to your customers and making decisions that severely impact your number of customers is not one of them. You will not deny that the player number has dwindled for over 70000 to under 20000 and based on the comments of most people here this number is going to be reduced even more. Besides, before pushing people to Matchmaking they need to make sure that Matchmaking works. The system that the Tanki developers call Matchmaking is a hodge-podge of code so buggy, that makes the game at times unplayable. Let me put it in a way that you will understand: 1. Reducing the time of battles to 7 min is just not working for any skill development or strategy. 2. Dumping players in unbalanced battles that end within mere seconds of entering the game is criminal. 3. Having from a few seconds to a few minutes to get "1st 3 places in a winning team" mission cannot be considered "intelligent" decision by the developers. 5. Pitting players against players 5 ranks higher is not a fair game. 6. Perhaps profit have been boosted in the short term but I highly doubt it as these moves seems to come out of desperation for money rather than improving the game itself. In a nutshell, if Tanki wants to make money, then perhaps should listen more to the customers and make it worthwhile to spend money instead of making changes based on a simple speculation that more players will play in a flawed MM game! I guess the "intelligent" developers do not have the common sense to realize that more people play XP/BP (I am not one of them) and Pro battles because they DO NOT like the MM system! (at least not in its present format) I can write an entire dissertation on what Tanki is doing wrong to squeeze more money out of the little loyal base they have but it is not worth my time. All I am saying is, compared to other Multiplayer games, Tanki is ranked among the worst as far errors and stability goes. So, try as much as you want to explain the dumb ass decisions, they still remain dumb ass decisions! enough said.

Oh, trust me on this! They already have thought of that and it is coming soon! These Tanki decision makers are so dumb that a rock can come up with better ideas!

Me too. Unfortunately, I get stuck in the Weekly one since I play only for fun with a Titan because I like to defend more than be aggressive and go after flag and such. But I really do not care much as long as I can do the daily missions and get a few crystals so I can get some supplies because the way the game is made now, you do not survive long without supplies. Especially that you cannot get them any more in the garage. This game is slowly becoming from Pay to Win to Pay to Play which it will be the death of it since only a fool would pay real money for a game that has so many "an error has occurred". But hey the answer is: LET's HAVE ANOTHER SALE & DISCOUNT WEEK!

As long as there are suckers who will pay real money for this crap, they will not listen.

While this is true, the moderators and helpers are the only customer-facing staff from Tanki so they are our only link to the incompetent so called "developers". The only thing they develop is a concoction of bad ideas mixed with bad code and no idea how to fix it. "an error has occurred" but hey here comes another sale and discounts!

That is not going to happen and you know it! If you have 3 Containers, it is pretty much guaranteed that you will get 1 with Speed Boost, 1 with mines and 1 with a useless paint or a shot effect for a turret that do not even have! Everything else is "Rare" and "Epic" even if they do not label them as such. So we can forget about "augmentations".

I guess you have not paying attention! These people have been born and bred in a totalitarian system and they have no clue about democracy, customer service and petitions!

Yeah it is probably the name of the asylum where the Tanki "developers" have escaped from!

Amen brother, but I got news for you! You have wasted your time writing because the developers are inbred with the Soviet mentality of "we know what's best for you" and they are not going to read any of this. If, they do, they will certainly ignore it just like they have ignore similar comments that we have been making since the MM system was forced down on us. It is amazing that no one in the Tanki organization has even questioned let alone address the fact that the player base went from 70,000+ (at least when I started a few years back) down to barely 20,000. Even during Holidays with all the discounts and sales, they barely hit 30,000 for a few hours. If they read the comments here they would understand why. But hey, let's screw the game some more and then we will have another Sale!

I really could care less! But chances are, it is not going to happen and you know it. You just have to tow the company line and it is understandable.

Developers? That's the reason why this game is losing so many players! Bad developers, who couldn't get their code to work properly, with no business acumen make decisions that are not even remotely qualified to make! Hahaaaaa! Good one!

Now that is wishful thinking!

They are not bugs, they are "features". They are there so they can make the game more challenging and you can increase your level of skill! I am not sure why all you guys are complaining about! You should know better than to expect anything good coming out of Tanki! It is like the Titan OD: first they take away the dome's ability to heal, then they make it so it provides no protection from the Hornet's OD, then they take away the protection from the Wasp's OD and I wonder what good is the Titan's OD? That is just an example! Let's not get in to more detail of the atrocity they call Matchmaking! Soon they will make us to use crystals just to login to the game and if we do not have enough, we will have to go to the shop so we can buy some. For now, buyers may think that they have an advantage, but once the majority of the players leave, all that investment in Tanki would disappear as soon as Tanki goes belly up. If you pay money to Tanki then might as well start burning your money because it is the same as giving it to Tanki! I said many times that I play this game for fun, but now the fun is gone and so am I! I already have cut back the hours I play and I spend very little time because I had enough of the message "an error has occurred". It seems that the decision makers at Tanki are not interested in fixing the REAL problems, but they are looking at all the different ways to fleece the naive players. As they say in my village, "there is one sucker born everyday"!

Come on Joeyguy! Do not be ungrateful! Take what they give you! After all THEY KNOW what you want better than you. And if they take that option away, it must be because you do not want it. You just think you do! After all, you do want a MM system where the teams are never balanced and the game ends as soon as you enter, right?

I guess by "playing to the fullest" he means that it is fine to get dumped in to a mismatched battle that ends within mere seconds of you entering! There you have the opportunity to showcase your ability to complete a mission of killing 100 opponents for 5 mines and 5 speed boost in battles that last only a short time! A if this was not enough of an obstacle, you have to content with the lag and 2-3 "an error has occurred" messages! See how creative they are at TO in making the game to be very challenging!

Nicola, the Flash client has GREEN backround with light green letters. The Html5 looks much different.

The ones that listen to their customers and produce a stable product, always succeed. The ones that have crappy product with "an error has occurred" and kicks you out of the game, will always struggle because there are some dumb like you, who probably gets some form of compensation, that support it. Yes it is the soviet menatlity, even if you are too blind to see it, that has ruined this game. Again, there used to be 60,000 0 80,000 players in the past now it can barely hit 20,000! What happened to all those players? Which Is more possible: that 50,000 players got bored or that 50,000 players were not willing to take the crap they shove down our throats without taking into account the players wishes? If that is not soviet mentality, then you do not know what soviet mentality is because you were born in to it and you will gladly accept without protest whatever comes down the pipe. So now they are making the Titan dome even less useful by taking away its protection from Wasp bombs! Like it is not enough that the dome does not protect you from Hornet's OD now you are not protected by Waps's OD! It is not enough that a hornet rail with OD can oneshoot a Titan within the Dome and a DA! Yeah, I am sure that the players asked for this and that this is not the hairy brain idea of a dumb ass! Besides I am here just so I can voice my displeasure with Tanki and open the eyes of the noobies so they do not make any mistakes and dump good money into a bad product. If you see my stats, I am not playing much anymore. Oh, by the way, HTML5 does a heck of a lot less than Flash when it comes to the game functionality. Start from the the login screen where you cannot right click your mouse and paste information but you have to use Ctrl-V to do it to the fact that you cannot check your mission progress while you are in the game! Just watch when Flash goes away, how many players will drop out because they cannot play in HTML 5. So you main advise is to "lower my expectation", shut up because no one in TO will listen and that this game will always be flawed since TO is a small company. Well, if you had any clue, you would know that TO's problem is NOT the size of the company, but the competency of its creators. When you cannot fix your own mistakes, it is not a matter of money and advertising, but a matter of ability and knowledge. So, I am off now to login to the game so I can "lower my expectations" and and enjoy the countless "an error has occurred" messages! I also enjoy seen the likes of you trying in vain to defend TO! It is priceless!