I use thunder and ricochet protection all the time, then alternate the other slot between smoky, twins and shaft protection. No plans to upgrade any other protections because it's too expensive and because hornet ignores the modules anyway. I spent all my crystals on turrets so they are all at least 10/20. Then alternate in battle as necessary.

My protection modules are useless... Hornet OD turns them off anyway and with drones, some players are so OP that my protection modules don't help at all. I get a couple of good games and think things are looking up, but then it all comes crashing down again with blowout after blowout. I will quit more battles from now on.

I noticed the same thing yesterday. I've had shaft and rapid-fire mode for ages but stopped using it. Now it is more powerful than my fully upgraded turrets. Now we all know that balance doesn't exist in this game...

Who else can't get a good game on tanki online anymore? In every. single. battle. there are buyers who can't be beaten. I kinda want this game to die now.

I hope they don't nerf it as I have just upgraded it... The thing is, there isn't one turret which you can use which will dominate every battle. I use gauss and sometimes it's great, but then in other battles everyone has protection against it and I do a small amount of damage. The strongest force in the game is hornet overdrive, typically paired with vulcan, magnum or shaft and defender or booster drone. Drones are running the game now. Hornet overdrive is ridiculous though. It should only be allowed to change once per battle.

Over the past 2 weeks my efficinecy rating has dropped from 90,822 to 90,788 ? I think the calculation has been changed and I'm not bothering to look at it anymore, as I can't fight it. I think it has been made to favour drone users. I have been paying close attention to my efficiency rating. Even after finishing a battle in the top 3 and with a good K/D, it drops down one point. Even when earning a lot more crystals than xp, it drops down one point. That is crazy... how much more "efficient" do they expect me to be?

What games do you suggest?

It's garbage. There is nothing smart about it.

They ruined thunder and made it shoot like a gauss. Might as well use gauss...

Yeah I quit for a year once before. Not much else to do atm with the lockdown.

Trash game. They ruined it.

I was in a battle yesterday where gauss augment and hunter od were constantly turning my supplies off... left our team completely toothless and unable to fight back.

I would like an indestructable hornet. You see, whenever I use hornet (to take advantage of it's superior overdrive) I am quickly killed by one shot. However, opposition hornets can take the full brunt of an enemy team, destroy them all with their vulcan or magnum, take the flag and cap. Unless someone can give a clear answer to this, I can only assume that there is still rampant cheating in this game.

Just got broadband radiators in a black box.

IMO most alterations are overrated and now they are more expensive than before. Alterations are also not immune to being nerfed (uranium and duplet). The best ones I have are compact tanks, large caliber rounds, electromagnetic accelerator scout and the mortar alt. Never use any of the others.

I have 100k to upgrade a turret but don't know which one. Vulcan is currently 5/20. Could take it to 10, but I still won't be as powerful as the players using booster drone. Freeze is currently 5/20. This is a really powerful turret, but I rarely use it. Hammer, smoky, rico and gauss are 10/20. Gauss is the strongest, but locking on can be frustrating. Rico is pretty strong. Wildcard would be to upgrade my rico protection to 45% but that's a bit boring.

I don't know what the answer is because I see a lot of hornets dominating battles. I have a fully upgraded titan and that can be destroyed in 1 second like your hornet.

I think they should remove the efficiency rating as the top 100 players are achieving it through rigging / gaming the system.

I saw Yarik doing this yesterday. See topic: https://en.tankiforum.com/topic/386775-efficiency-rating-dropping-like-a-stone/page/3/#comments

I was with yarik in battle and he would refresh everytime he was about to die (see screenshot). Also, he used dictator (bonus from overdrive) and finished the battle with 0-0 k/d.

I see this sometimes with high level players. You know when it's going to happen because they stop firing (probably because they are mousing towards the x or the refresh button).

Regarding the example above, those ranks are a long way from legend and less tankers will be on steroids. I think it was 4 or 5 years since I was at those ranks. Also, you can see that all players on both sides are putting in work and there is no one with a terrible k/d like 0-10. There is a sense of balance there and no one is completely helpless. At legend you get ridiculous instances where someone gets 35 kills in a short battle. When battles go bad, they go bad very quickly at the top rank. A fully upgraded titan with double armor is devoured in 1 second by hornet overdrive with booster drone. Thankfully not all buyers are so ridicuously op.

Is anyone else bored of the current selection?

If I quit it's usually near the start. I stayed until the end in a JGR battle this morning where it was 3 vs 8.

How do the top players have such a high efficiency rating? Like this guy for example. Only 20 exp earnt this week but 15,776 crystals? https://ratings.tankionline.com/en/user/Yrap_cool Are they taking all of the fund from PRO battles (once everyone else leaves before the end)? None of this is making sense to me because I play an active role in the battle instead of camping all the time, especially in CP.