Ahhaaaahaaa! "but lag is primarily dependent upon your connection to the server, and your connection quality." Typical ignorant response! So, my Gigabit Fios connection and my score of quality line of A on DLSREPORTS tests must be the culprit! not the fact that tanki servers cannot handle the load or that their connection could be problematic! Or the fact that the software is so poorly written that they do not properly tear down invalid TCP/IP connections causing new connections to wait to enter the game! I am not going to block you because I am amused by your ignorant responses. if you read the complaints, you would see that the majority of players complain about the lag which happens to get worse by each "update". As far as the client goes, I am glad you are using it, but again I have a choice not to clutter my PC with game clients when I can play through a browser. By, the way, in pro battles, I rarely have any issue getting in the garage within a reasonable time. It is only on this "wonderful" MM system. And, the issue happens only if I try to get in the garage while in a battle and not from the main screen. So yeah, I think they do it on purpose or they have no clue how to fix it. By the way, I do play WoT and World of Warships and I NEVER had ANY lag issues. But then again, comparing WoT to Tanki is like trying to compare a Porsche to a Yugo (if you do know what that is, Google it!) Nice to meet you KariWolves, but then again in the grand scheme of things your opinion is just as insignificant as mine because the people who make decisions regarding this game are just as clueless.

What evidence do you offer that the lag is not introduced on purpose? Just because you say so? Who the heck are you and why should we believe you anyway? Our evidence is that it used to take mere seconds to get in the garage and now it take minutes if you are lucky and it doesn't time out. Yet, this is not been addressed, therefore it must have been done on purpose. This, the lag, the dumping on a game that ends within seconds after you enter while having waited nearly 2 minutes and other issues that have been introduced with all these "updates" validate the statement that it is done on purpose or else they would have been fixed by now.. Another possible explanation would be that the developers have no clue how to fix these issues. Either one is not good.

Can someone explain why lately it takes so long to enter the Garage? Today I have been waiting over 2 min to get in the Garage. Previously, the issue was present only if I were in the game. Today it happens even before I get in to the game.

Thanks for the info but it does not work for me because I only get the containers through missions so I never have more than 3! So I do not have a choice but to open 1 at a time and 99% it is either Mines or Speedboost of which I have about 15,000 of each. I cannot use them fast enough because the cool downs are so long that it is ridiculous. This game is becoming a joke with the short battles and the long wait. I have waited over 1.5 min only to get dumped on a battle that has only a few second left! But that's OK, the dumb people who pretend to be game designers are busy reworking maps and turrets instead of fixing the serious issues. Thankfully there must be enough dumb buyers to keep this game going. I just play enough to get some crystals so I can buy a Pro pass and play some real long battles without drugs or limited drugs to whatever falls from the sky. As far as this so called MM is just a joke by some clueless people.

It could, but chances are you will still get Speed boost or mines at a rate of 99%.

Whooooohoooo! I am looking forward to getting another useless skin or paint or a color shot for a turret that I do not have! Never mind that the main issues that plague this game, like lag, dumped on a battle with 5 ranks higher, or dumped in a battle that ends within 1-2 minutes from entering while having waited 2 min to enter the battle! And never mind that it takes forever to enter the garage during a game to change combo because you were dumped in the wrong map for your current combo! Other than that, great job Tanki! You prove again how clueless your decision makers are!

Whatever they did to the Fire/Viking combo made it worse now. I can barely kill 1 tank and the fire does not last long nor it does as much damage as it did before. My Rail/viking combo on the other hand is awesome. I usually get 4-5 kills. Also, what's the idea with mammoth OD? It is pretty much indestructible. There is no way you can kill a mammoth with OD turned on. How is that fair to the rest of the players?

But of course! Less stress playing the game, sit back and enjoy using your Viking OD to kill as many noobs trying hectically to get the "nuclear boxes" and let's not forget saving 10,000 crystals. Maybe if you participate you can get lucky and score the 10 gold boxes, but that you just make you break even. For, the amount of time I play this game, it would be stupid for me to spend 10000 crystal for a stupid paint. I'd rather use them to buy Pro pass so I can play in real battles and not in that abomination called MatchMaking. After all I have enough useless paints that I got in containers so I do no need another one. As far as the skins go, well, I leave that to the buyers. Also, as far as I am concerned, skins do not do much for me.

Hahaaaaaa! And when you thought that Tanki screwed this game for good with MM and they cannot make it any worse, here comes Tanki to prove us wrong and screws it some more with this ridiculous overdrives! Different OD for different hulls? seriously? Whoever came up with that idea must have been drunk and whoever approved it was probably drunk and stoned at the same time! Ah, there is no need to complain, though. We all know how well they listen to the players and I am sure they will fix it like they have fixed the more serious issues that plague this game! What? No?

"These ODs make for strategic gameplay". I guess you have missed the part where strategy went out of the door with the implementation of MisMatchmaking! 1. You have no idea on what map you will be dumped so 90% of the time you have the wrong combo. 2. Add the fact that it takes over 2 min to get in the garage to change 3. Add the fact that they took away the English servers and dumped everyone in the same battles where are dominated by either Russians or non-english speaking players so you cannot communicate with your team. 4. Add on top of that the shortening of the battles where you get dumped in battle that is just about to end and there goes your "strategic gameplay". Tanki is becoming a mindless game if not for the Pro battles. Once they take those away, they are going to be left with a few new players, mostly kids, who will soon find out there are better games to spend their parents money. And Cedric keeps repeating the same line about "making the game more enjoyable"! Judging by the comments in the forum, he is either delusional or he just tows the company line so he can keep collecting a paycheck.

Interesting. I had issues with lag and problems getting to the MM system, but I did not have any problems in Pro battles!

So, it seems that we have another "update" that did not go smoothly! Nice going Tanki! Another validation of the incompetence that plagues these game designers.

Like I said, clearly you have no idea how an organization is run. In my 30+ years of running a business, I have seen many organizations that do not listen to their customers die a slow death. You do not believe me, just pickup a copy or Tom Peters book "In Search of Excellence" and see where some of the companies mentioned as "great" are and why they no longer exist or are in the brink of extinction. Companies like Kodak, Kmart, Wang computers, DEC, Data General, and others once they were great and then they stopped listening to their customers. As a customer, i never expect a company to let me decide how it will be run or who will do what. Far from it! However, I do expect them to listen when something is not right and then correct it. It is very arrogant from you and Tanki to ignore the customer's wishes. We do not try to tell you what game engine to use, how to right code, when to update the game, and other things. We are telling you that what you have done is not working and you are not listening. I mentioned the missions and you told me to get a Pro pass if I do not like the missions. That right there is the wrong answer. You know it that it is unreasonable to have players wait for almost 2 min and then to dump them in to a battle that ends within seconds of entering the game. An on top of it to tell them that the change was made to make the game better! That is not telling you HOW to develop the game or who will fix it. All I am pointing out, as a customer, is that your product has a serious flaw and since the majority of your customers are complaining, you should not ignore it. That is just a small sample without going in to lengthy discussion. You and who ever made the decision to go to the present form of MM are in denial of the fact that MM in its present form is not working and players are complaining. Worse yet, it is the fact that you and the likes of you are trying to defend something that you know is wrong and you doing this by antagonizing the players who post the complaints. By the way, if a restaurant changed from French to Italian, guess what would happen to the majority of their customers. They will go to another restaurant and will not go back. So while they have no saying what the menu will be, they will have an impact on the business that could be significant. Because, if me and my friends want to eat French cuisine, certainly will not go to an Italian restaurant! Perhaps there is a reason why so many long time players said "oh well" and abandoned the game! Oh sure, you will get some new customers, but if you lose your long time players just think what will happen to your business. I remember times when there were over 60,000+ players online at the same time and during holidays that number was a lot higher. Nowadays, if you get half of that number you are probably ecstatic.

If I ask for your point of view, then you can give it. Until then, you should do what you are assigned to do: read the complaints and report them and nothing else. And I understand that the "developers are entitled to make any changes to the game without any prior warning or notification" and they should make changes to make the game better. However, when I pay for something and then they change it, I would expect some form of feedback when the changes have a negative effect in the game that we invested time and money. At least they could respect that regardless of any EULA. After all, as I said before, if we do not pay, they do not get paid. Simple as that, but then again this seems too complicated for you and the developers to understand.

Again, since you are not in a position to give us feedback then you should concentrate of doing what you doing: collect the info and pass it along. You obviously have nothing to contribute to the resolution of the complaints so just collect the info and pass it along. Like I said before, the complaints are not answered and whether it is the developers, Putin or Trump that make the stupid decisions that so far have created this mess, I really do not care. However, you are in no position to offer me any advice as to what I will or will not do. Yes, there is a big reason to be upset about many things regarding Tanki. We, the players, invest time and real money in this game and it is that money that pays the salaries of the so called "developers" perhaps yourself to. However, when I purchase something, I expect it to work the same way today, tomorrow and until it dies. I do not expect to have to pay again for features that were already there and then taken away only to show up again as an "alteration". It is not a game really, it is business, something that it is very obvious that you have no idea about. I, as a player, invest time and money for my entertainment. It is not the missions I am displeased. Actually, I couldn't give a rat's ass about the missions. What I am displeased is the fact that I am a paying customer, I have a complaint and it is not addressed. Is that so difficult to understand? So, spare me the lecture and at least respect my time that I spend voicing my complaint.

Since we get no feedback on our complaints, we are left only with assumptions. Posting a list on the forum does not mean that anyone in Tanki, with the power to do something about it, has read it. There are no status updates, there no corrections to the easy fixes, like increasing the time of the battle since we know it does not work. Explain to me why I wait almost 2 min to get dumped in to a battle that ends 20 sec later? How am I going to complete a mission "get 10 CP points" when I get dumped into a map that has only 3 CP points in 20 secs? That's only a tiny example. So, beg to differ as much as you want, but judging by the fact that a lot of players complain about the same things over and over and nothing is getting done, it shows that the complaints are ignored. Actions speak louder than any list you can post. so far the action on the complaints is missing, therefore, they are either ignored or not read by the people who matter.

Sorry but i find plenty of battles with or without supplies that are 30 min long in maps like Serpuhov, Highways, Monte Carlo, Esplanade, and others that you will not even find in the MM ssytem (MM=MisMatched). And if i do not like a map I can create one and invite people. Certainly beats the MM crap.

There is no point of complaining. Nobody in Tanki takes us seriously. They do not even read the comments. I have noticed the same thing with the control buttons not staying after restart. But if that was the only problem, I would be be very happy! As far as your second suggestion, it will never happen. The designers cannot think and Tanki programmers do not know how to program such a complex requirement. Sorry but you are barking up the wrong tree.

Don't worry! Eventually they will do nerf them all!(even the ones you did not buy) Tanki is notorious for making you pay for something twice! yeah like that double shot that takes 90% of your health if you do not have protection. But then again how would they entice us to buy the overpriced protection modules? See? there is a method to their madness.

If you really want to enjoy a good battle, you have to get a Pro Pass and create your own map and invite your friends and other people will show up. At least we can enjoy that until, of course, they take it away, because that's what Tanki does.

Well, I am not sure if they do or not, but I remember awhile back I needed 1 OD to complete the stupid mission and I know in that battle, I did not pickup any OD box and didn't have time for mine to fully charge because the freakin battle ended faster than the time needed to charge! However, a teammate did share his OD and my mission was done. Perhaps it was a glitch but now if i get an OD mission, i change it immediately because for the amount of time that I play, especially with the short battles as it is, it would take years to finish it!. I just do missions to earn some cry and supplies to buy a PRO pass so I can play in the maps I want. I gave up on Tanki fixing things a long time ago, and it seems that Tanki, for whatever reason, do not want to fix the easy things like the ridiculous missions never mind the more complicated ones like having narrower rank spread and even teams at least at the start of the game.

The only worthy container was this!

Well, yesterday, as soon as i entered a battle after waiting 1 min 25 sec and barely had spawned before the battle ended! I didn't even had a chance to move! But, hey do not bother the Tanki people with facts. They will tell you whatever BS they can come up with to justify this pathetic system. Just read the BS in the newspaper that Cedric Bono said in an interview! No real answers, just feeble attempts to justify this phacked up game. I really liked in the description that they said he was going to debunk myths about the game but all he can come up with was more excuses. Let's face it: this game was not though out well and they make the changes willy nilly to see what will stick. For example, They shortened the battle times but they did not adjust the missions. So you get a mission use 10 overdrives in a battle, which unless you are lucky and pick up a OD box or a teammate uses one and you happen to be near by, there is no chance that you can use at least 1 of your own since by the time the battle ends, your OD wasn't even 50% charged! Missions should be hard, but they should be attainable based on skill and not luck or having to spend an enormous amount of time. Like completing a mission to get 10,000 xp points or take 15 top 3 places in a winning team! If you are a casual player, good luck with that! But then again, Tanki does not care about casual players or so it seems.

"It would seem to me that since there is such a high emphasis on stars, the Devs would put some type of coding in the MMS to tell it that a battle is nearly at the end and the score has such a wide gape, it's impossible to even tie a battle, to put players in a battle with some simbulance of success. " The Devs cannot make these decisions by themselves. They code, if you can call that coding, whatever the game designer directs them to code. Now it seems that the game designer(s) have shown repeatedly that they have no imagination and they cannot think out the game mechanics. The shortcoming you point out is just a small sample of their incompetence. I have given many more example in other posts but it seems that it always comes down to "tanki knows better" attitude. Just like these rewards they are giving us. Seriously? do I need another stupid paint or a color alteration for a turret I do not even have not I am going to get? How about the fact that 99% of the containers will give us either Speedbost or Mines but very rarely Repair kits? So, you work hard to complete the missions while the odds are stacked against you because of the shortening of the game plus the fact that you get dumped in a battle that is about to end within a few seconds from joining after having waited for over a minute! And good luck completing a mission "use 15 overdrives in a battle when it takes so long to charge the OD? In the above scenario, which happens more often than not, it takes forever to complete such a mission, even if it sounds easy.

So, not much of a discussion in here! In the mean time..... "you have been removed due to inactivity" before even getting into any battle for 4 times in a row! Oh, yeah, MM works like it is supposed to...in some other universe perhaps.