Very often players laying mines, especially with Saboteur drone, are heavy hulls hiding somewhere using Magnum and being kept alive by 1 or more isida's. Hence the mines stay untill you trip over them.

The results of your speedtest are more than acceptable, so the speed of your internet connection is surely not the reason of your problem. I haven't read all topics about your problem on this wiki-page, but you are using the TO client, right ? Why not play in a browser ? I have been playing in a browser all the time with good results. Less things can go wrong in an browser than in the client (which is in itself another piece of software on your PC). Give it a go with Google Chrome (as there are some issues with Firefox as well), make sure you have the Flash plugin and allow it to run in Chrome.

I have noticed some issues with 'clicking' while using Firefox for a few weeks now. If you are using Firefox, try with Chrome. That solved my issue. And clear your cache on a daily basis by using CCleaner (=freeware). Good luck.

http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=273237&p=6660735 :angry: :angry: :angry:

Just found this out by accident : 'Capture a flag' as mission goes as well for CTF as for Assault. Stupid me was always going for CTF, which is much harder than Assault. :)

Week 4 or 5 of this mission. Reward : 1 normal + 1 weekly container. Since star-hunt started everybody is using drugs as much as possible to get as many stars as they can, which makes it even harder. Please remove this kind of missions, or at least give us the opportuinty to change it.

Week 4 or 5 of this mission. Reward : 1 normal + 1 weekly container. Since star-hunt started everybody is using drugs as much as possible to get as many stars as they can, which makes it even harder. Please remove this kind of missions, or at least give us the opportuinty to change it.

Then why drop me in that battle in the first place ? For all I know the one that replaces me could also have a lower rank. The point I am trying to make : in a MM system that works as it should, this would not be possible. See also : http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=365223&p=6660540

See what I mean ?

This happens often to me. As a General it is hard work in a battle with all Legends and now and the the odd Generalissimo.

After 3 or 4 weeks ... Pfff, this is becoming very frustrating. Please devs, add an option to change a weekly mission, or at least 1 of the 3. PS : does any of the developers ever read these posts ? If not, just scrap the whole forum-concept.

I agree that this is an extreme example of an unequal battle, but ending 4 or 5 vs 8 is not an exception. In such a case a battle should be ended earlier as well. Such unequal battles are no fun, not for the loosing and not for the winning side. Surely MM refilles the empty spots, but how long does it take to refill them ? And how many of them stay when they see they have landed in a 4 or 5 vs. 8 situation ? Many of them leave as soon as they can, and I don't blame them.

Point taken, but if it were not for the stars (= exceptionnal) why stay ? Can't have been much fun for the 2 red survivors. By the time you get in your garage, change turret, join the battle, get selfdestructed and can finally start to play another minute is gne. Who's decision was it to shorten battle time from minimum 15 minutes to 7 1/2 ? Another doubtable decision taken by developers. Where are the days when could choose battles of 1 hour ? In 1 hour with some players leaving and others joining a battle could go each way. Being in the winning team after 1/2 hour was no certainty your team was going to grasp victory in the end. Or the other way round. 7 1/2 minutes are just too short.

Why not stop battle early then, if no new-ones are coming in ? In the old days (before MM) it was like that and that avoided a lot of frustration by those who were being spawn-killed for minutes.

Didn't I read in a forum somwhere that group vs. non-group wasn't allowed by MatchMaking ?

One of the pleasures of the MatchMaking system, welcome to the club ! Just exit and try again, and again, and again. It will work, eventually. :angry:

What I notice is that they spend a lot of time in new things : competitions, colours, challenges, bundles, ... Just look at the landing-page of TO. Maybe they should stop for a while introducing new stuff and concentrate on fixing things that don't work like MatchMaking, hacks, mults, ... I often see this at work too : something works for approx. 80% and off we go to the next project. Good for the image, people see that you are very busy busy busy creating new stuff. That the 'finished' projects don't function the way they should seems to be of no concern.

Any sales on MU's these holidays ?

Weekly mission : working on this for more than a week (almost two) now. Come on, developers ! For a good player this might be a piece of cake, but for an average player like me this is almost impossible. And surely I am not the only one struggling with this kind of missions. :angry: And even if I end up in the top 3 of a loosing party I get nothing - rien - nada - zilch - nichts - niets. These kind of missions should be banned.

I used to be an Isida player for a long time. Great for defense (viking) or attack or helping someone to get a flag to base (hornet or hunter). As for now I have a M2 fully MU-upgraded Isida and waiting for one more level up (Marshal) to become M3. In the old days, when it had the vampire-feature, it was even better. Recently I bought a kit (hunter M3 + firebird M3) with my hard-earned chrystals. To be honest, I get better results in any battle with my hunter+fire than with any (=hornet-hunter-viking)+isida, so I can't agree with your OP-statement about Isida. BTW, with my Isida and DD I can attack and destroy any heavy hull IF I can sneak up to it and do not get too many direct hits.

I'm a wagon on one of those trains, sometimes. :D

I followed your advice, more or less. With laptop op my lap (that's what it's for) I completed my 5 DM missions with 1 eye on the game and another on TV-set watching yet another boring X-Mas special... Managed to collect 10 stars in my 5 battles + completed a second mission (10 DD-boxes).

That is not the point. I am here to try to have fun, to enjoy the game and earn something (XP & chrystals) in the meantime. Being AFK is not my idea of playing a game, I can just as well not play at all. What I want to point out, and you got that right, is that replacing one mission by a similar one in the same kind of battle is ignoring (by the devs) why someone changes a mission in the first place.

One of my daily missions : Score points in Deathmatch : 0/500 I click 'Change'. New mission : Finish battles in Deathmatch : 0/5. Thank you Tanki. Why do you think I changed I changed that mission ? Because I don't want to do any druggin' deathmatches !!! :angry:

How do you do that since introduction of MM ? In the old days you could easily find a map with 2 empty slots in the same team, but nowadays ?