Missions are quite easy to finish if you know how, even finishing 1st three times or catching 10 flags. There's certain tricks you can use...

It depends if you want to use smoky exclusively. I played smoky M2 with 1 microupgrade (1/50) all the way up to marshal and then I got smoky M3. If you only want to use smoky then microupgrade all the way as you get M3 for free, I think. I used a variety a weapons mainly on the smaller maps.

Saving up enough crystals for titan M4 then play PRO battles only on RU2/3.

I only played for about 10 minutes today and completed one mission (earn 150 crystals in TDM). At one point, I pressed pause and didn't even play for 2 minutes because our team was getting slaughtered by M4 druggers. Impossible to fight back when they were getting healed up by isidas also on double damage. It's funny to watch them running around trying to find their prey whilst I press pause. In the near future this will be all they do as all the normal people will have quit the game, then they can fight each other. My other mission is destroy 250 enemies for x121 speed boosts :lol: and earn 600 XP in (non-PRO) battles which is easier said than done. Yeah... to say this game isn't fun anymore would be putting it lightly. :unsure:

Whaaat no way I'm doing 6 missions a day! Tanki already became a grind-fest long ago.

Sorry to hear you're leaving. Can you buy an M3 kit with those crystals? Might as well go out with a bang because it takes a long time to earn that many crystals.

$200? That's madness for a product that is constantly changing. I've never spent any money but I have invested a lot of time in the game which is just as valuable. Needless to say I play less than I used to for the reasons you gave.

There are two successive updates which, combined, have ruined the game for me. I'm not exaggerating here. 1. The mission update (making us do missions in normal battles). Because of this, no one bothers to buy PRO pass now. 2. PRO pass update (making us need PRO pass to create a game). The combination of these have ruined map diversity and choice of games. It's ruined the game for me because all my favourite maps are gone. Before these two updates I was playing regular skyscraper CTF games on RU5, where I was usually playing with the same group of people. This was quite fun and good to see familiar faces. I also played aleksandrovsk CTF on RU5 with the same guy almost every day. I've noticed that he doesn't create these battles anymore. It has to be down to these updates. It just sucks. Either tanki need to move missions back to PRO battles or let us create maps without PRO pass. It's all so confusing and convoluted now. I've noticed that in the latest celebrations, the increase in battle funds won't apply to PRO battles. What is the deal here? What is tanki's line of thinking?

I used to find it relaxing. Then my goal was to get better equipment. Now I'm not sure. I've got a lot of crystals burning a hole in my pocket so I'm waiting for the birthday sales to see what happens next.

I used to do the same thing occasionally :D

I think the legend ranks should be split up. There's a huge gap between the legends with lots of M4s and the rest.

Freeze has got a bit more bite again.

-_- I will wait until 50% and 70% on speed-ups.

I know, I did the calculations myself but this really happened yesterday on a kungur CTF battle. I got one shot by an M4 rail, even though I had DA.

There should be lots of battles available around your rank or lower? From what I've seen there are more active players at lower ranks which is probably why the brackets were increased even though it's not balanced.

It still amazes me that railgun M4 can destroy my tank in one shot. I had double armour equipped (on viking M3.5) and they had double damage. I wonder if it can destroy a viking M4...?

Yes I would get ricochet m4 + minus-field stabilization. I'm about 100,000 short of crystals right now (assuming the microupgrades sales are still 50% / 70% as they used to be).

It's a difficult call because I've never played XP mode before, but railgun was the first M1 I got. I thought about getting titan but it's a bit boring.

Railgun + alt or ricochet m4?

This is to encourage everyone to buy isida ;) Then in the future they will make another weapon strong on purpose.

I would get thunder because it's a more exciting weapon and it's easier to finish in the top places (if that's your thing) due to splash. Legacy modules like emerald were taken out of the garage a long time now so probably not as many tanks knocking about with 50% protection.

Brings a tear to a glass eye.

Pretty much, but tanki make it difficult to just log on and play whilst still being competitive.

The idea of balance in tanki online is non-existent. It's obvious that the developers introduce updates in order to make some weapons stronger than others. This is to make players purchase them and have an advantage. Of course, if you have a full M3 garage or various protections then it doesn't matter as much. I find it a bit irritating how the developers keep changing parameters in this way. At it's most extreme, some parameters are changed completely (for example viking was swapped with hunter), or alterations are introduced thereby making you spend more crystals just to make your weapon competitive again (firebird and railgun). It's all a bit tiring to be honest.

I've currently got emerald at 5/22... might be time to ramp it up to 10. Felt verrry strong in DM mode today.