I honestly consider Isidas as balaced... as long as no drugs are involved. An Isida on D.Damage is overpowered, as its damage as well as it's selfhealing are boosted. Isidas would be much more balanced if the D.Damage would not effect the selfhealing. In my opinion the range is ok as well.. because if you consider that a firebirds burning damage is range independent... those two are eqally powered (each with adv and disadv,).

A Vulcan shots tracer ammo at the moment (tracers are the bullets, that leave a visible trace in air).

I would clear up my mind what you really love to ride.. the hornet or the wasp. And then I would get only one of em, and drive only this one. If you change often from XP to BP and vice versa, you will not be as good as if you stick to one and get real pro at it. And there is no point in buying something just because it is at sale and affordable.. if you know - that spending cr on it will make you save even longer for the item you really want - that as soon as you have what you want, the "drive by purchase" will just catch dust in the garage.

don't make em too much hope ;) According to the Tanki Wiki developers Plans, they are going to seperate the protection from the looks. This will be.. good in principle. I just wonder, howo in detail they will do it. Usually such changes cost crystals (MU upgrade, ..) or favor buyers/druggers. Lets see ps: I just got myself this little nasty death-dealer: Wasp M2 is soo awesome B) B)

poor you... I think you can't expect much to be refunded. sorry for you

Little guide on microupgrades :P As soon as you purchase M2, all you microupgrades on M1 are lost of course. So you should upgrade only stuff, that use almost always only if those upgrade really make a difference on the battlefield lets get into details: My wasp is at an M1 at Step MU10, it has 103.6 points health.. it protects me well from Rail M1 but some Rail M2s can 1shot me. I purchased those microupgrades during a sale and mainly for handling reasons.. and as I know I will have enough in time to get mosquito.

I would stay with Rail Wasp and save a lot, you will need it: Because If you love Wasp/Rail soo much, then the Mosquito Kit is your next target: Wasp M2 Rail M2 Savanna Paint (20% Rail, 40% Smoky !!!, and I think a few %Rico as well) unlocks at 4diamonds () costs about 195.000cr If you dont get this Mosquito kit, your Wasp M1 will have troubles from on - that's the rank when Rail M2 is unlocked. Your enemies will tear you appart, even with forrester if they have some upgrades. It is troublesome that Wasp M2 unlocks very late, at , so this kit does really, really pay off for Wasp/Rail players. The paint alone is a pure lifesaver from Rail and Smoky, and usefull up to the highest ranks. I will get the kit in the next few days, as it comes back with the next cycle. ps: Forrester paint costs 500cr. Invest +10cr for a +1% microupgrade; that gives you a total of 11% from rail

Same oppinion here ;) Besides Tundra is very usefull paint in medium ranks

It depends mainly if you like - the little smaller, little faster Hunter that skids around the corners and has average acceleration - or the little larger, little slower Viking, that drive corners precisely and offers more stability and better acceleration How about taking a week time to try both out.. playing the same maps with different hulls over and over again; to notice which situation is better master by which hull.. and to find out what is more important to you.

The point is to use a hit-and-run tactics with a light hull. You dont stay and wait to reload.. you rush from one cover to the next, and while on the go you place your shots. Lights hulls have never been designed for 1-vs-1 standoffs..

When an light hull with Rail (both M4) it can be a usefull supporter on CP matches as well. Althogh all players start to complain that a wasp/rail is a mult.. they will start to notice: - that a rail cuts a Vikings health in half; and cuts 33% of a Titan or MAmmuth - that a skilled pilot usually strikes two targets at once (so in average takes out the equivalent of one Viking all 6 seconds) - that in their DPS calculations they usually do not consider, that noone has Rail-protection in CP battles - that by this assistance his team will reach the point with more health, and so will last longer So if the Wasp/Rail works hard as an agile sniper to have a good shot position all 6 seconds, and manages to hit 2 Targets with each shot.. the support effect on the team is tremendous. No other hull can hunt him down, except they come from two sides.. so the low health of the wasp is not very important in this scenario. While in the beginning of such matches the enemy ignores the Wasp most of the time, they start to hunt it usually when it comes to the end. Simply becuase the enemy realises that this dam white rail-trace was again the last thig they saw before they blew up ;) Only Ricos and Thunders are a real threat (so such a paint is usefull). Of course the light hulls get into trouble, if there is a 10vs10 polygon. There are no spaces left, that are not under enemies fire. So 7vs7 or 8vs8 battles are best (although a Wasp/Rail can perfectly take cover behind his own teams Mammuth and simply shot through it ;))

very nice article, respect !

if you like a heavy tank: atlas - titan m2, smoky m2, loam

thats pretty good :) Although an M3 costs 200k + (on average), so if you receive a PD then you still have too less. I think if you wanna make some beneift from this discount mode, you have to have about 250..300k - and not touch it. and then.. you can wait pretty long (I rarely got PDs, but I got some that I could afford at the time)

yes. Maybe your average amount of crystals to spare is too low, as you invest it frequently :)

np, the spreadsheet I used to make this charts is configurable (I just select which fire I want to compate to which freeze.. and it does the job. I made it for another thread here in the forum). And I aaaaaalomst purchased Sibiran for myself, so I simply told you what I knew about it. (ps: the reason I didn't get it, was as I like driving Wasp/Fire as a hit-and-run combo - dealing damage and escaping before they fight back. And I thought I'll try some Titan on this account :)). Nothing I can tell you about Osaka

Don't trust him. He was just sarcastic. just kidding :p Wasp and Hornet are both great hulls in M3.. and used in repect of their individual strenghts and weaknesses they are both pretty deadly. In skilled hands they don't give or take each other very much. But if it comes to pure XP/BP I often saw some Hornet Pilots complaining, that the enemy has "more wasps" in their team... ; while I never heard of Wasp teams complaining about enemies Hornets ;) :p Light Format was of course a different story.. as the Smokys give Wasps a harder time then Hornets. And as Wasp is way harder to master (due to instability and not forgiving driving mistakes), because it unlocks far later, and because costs more - I guess there are simply more skilled Hornets then Wasps out there.

I still think that this is part of the monitasation stratgy of the game. By making you face equiment that are far more powerfull then yours (as they unlocked, while you are still one M behind them) the game lures players into purchasing that equiipment. This strategy was especially effective in the times, when you had to get M0M1M2... all in a sequence. Once you had some decent M2 turret.. and then some other M3 unlocked and overpowered you..the situation was pretty tempting to purchase it as well. Today it's easier.. we can now start off with Twins M0, continue with Fire M1, get Freeze M2, then purchase Rail M1.. and so on. I made a proposal a week or so ago.. I think it was in this thread. i proposed that all turrest should start with an M0 price and you could gradulay upgrade them to todays M4 by 100 steps. At each rank a new maximum stepping is unlocked (linearely). At the steps 25, 50 75 and 100 the looks would change (M1, M2, M3, and yes, an M4 design to get people into going the whole way up). I added some other aspects as well.. must be some pages ago.. A noce mod hinted, that the Tanki X system might work this way... would be cool :)

You're better off to expect much less..

and do you think it is because of the stats, or because the pro's have learned when to attack, when to stay back, how to keep their health recharged by assisting in kills and such stuff? I seldom see very skilled Isidas at lower ranks.. so I honestly can't tell.

It -> is -> simply -> aweeeeeeeessoooooommmmeeee xD xD xD

- you _can_ use "only" a Wasp for the rest of your tanki carreer - you can be very successfull with it :) (ok, I have a titan to relax as well :P)

it changes the state of your psycho-physilogical system (it makes you widen your eyes and smile when you receive it)

Twins has to be a little "weak" in 1vs1 situations, as it has no reload pause (constant preassure and make-em-miss) and the highest DPS output of all turrets. So while the isida maybe kills you and happily survives with 50% health (due to self healing) it can _afterwards_ not even defend itself as it ran dry while killing you. On the other hand, if your Twins manage to kill a tank, you just keep dealing damage to somone else until you die. If you can drive your maps blindly backwards, then your Twins' impact force will slows the chasing Isida, so it can not even come in range... turns around to run away and you can chase it down. I agree with you, that an Isida on DRUGS is like invincible. It kills you twice as fast; which means it heals itself twice as fast -> it takes almost no damage against many turrets.

it's true, during xmas quite some people complained, that they send gifts to their firends.. but they did not receive the crystals. And soem of those complaints read in a manner, like if they were written by grown ups So at the moment: It should be written somewhere in the garage, that this is just a kind way so say "Thanks you!!" and that the crystal amount will not be transfered. For the future: I really would like to see the possibility to give gifts and attach ingame stuff to it (crystals, supplies.. whatever). But I there must be some way that prohibits, that players create alternative accounts and transfer the stuff to their high rank accounts. So if you can come up with a solution for this one..