That is fine...it's a personal preference. What I was referring to was you saying not everyone can understand abbreviations. That is the silly part.

They haven't sold enough MUs for the newly purchased Magnum modules. I would guess they still have a two or three month window to keep selling modules and MUs for the modules at a very fast rate.

This is TERRIBLE! How can they just erase something like this?...and no real purpose because it is just can't be much bandwidth. This borders on being cruel and is certainly thoughtless and inconsiderate. I can see limiting the number of Friends but not to take away something that someone paid to give you! They won't let us purge unused garbage from our own garages, but they remove gifts with personal messages...this is like burning someones scrapbook. Callus jerks. I hope they make this right for you and all the other people that have many gifts.

??? You're joking right? A two year old can make out DM but not necessarily Deathmatch. Is it properly Deathmatch, Death Match, or neo-web notation DeathMatch? DM covers all bases, is cleaner and easier to read at a glance.

You guys do a great job wrangling the hoard of topics and posts. I have had several topics merged with another similar topic. After they get merged they become hard to find. It would help a lot if you could embed a link to the destination topic that included the identification number of the topic being merged and use the "Merge" button to activate the link. In other words, I write a separate topic about a mission idea and you merge it with "Ideas for Missions". I click the "Merge" button next to my topic that has been moved. Click bam boom, I'm at my specific post in it's new home topic.

This was only changed last week and it was cleaner and better before it was changed. Now, the wording in not consistent between mode and battle. Several capitalization mistakes have been made in changing from abbreviations to full words. It is more cluttered and less recognizable at a glance. Here is an example of poor positioning/word wraping: The Team Deathmatch mode just looks cluttered and messy. TDM is easier to read at a glance, is cleaner, and will fit better. Some modes, when written out, take two lines. Go back to abbreviations. Also, I just noticed it should probably read: Take one of the top three places on the winning team in a battle Instead of: Take one of the top three places in the winner's team in 1 battle (at least write 1 as one, gosh)

Holy Tank-Cicles Batman! I just pulled my M2 Freeze out of mothballs in an alt account. Damn! It used to be fun to disable opponents by sneaking up behind them and watch them try to escape the freezing, but now there is no need for stealth....just run up to them and as you fire and they are dead before you can even see them slow down. It's so much faster at killing than Firebird...it's like a massive one shot turret. It kills so quickly it almost never runs out of freeze-sauce either. And it seems to damage at a much farther distance than Firebird. Every game I played I came in #1..and a couple of battles I was only in for less than half...and still got first place! I even managed to turn a couple of losing teams into winning teams. OP now stands for Outrageously Powerful when talking about the new beast Freeze.

A very interesting point that I wouldn't have thought of myself. All the new Freeze modules will have to displace something, right? Incidentally, a 30% buff on damage is obviously way too much. I have a 10/10 M2 Viking and if an M2 Freeze barely touches me with DD, I'm done for...like half a second or even less...I've always been able to go head to head with a Firebird and usually win, but I'm helpless against Freeze. So, yeah, way too much of a buff.

They aren't trying to "balance" anything. They are trying to sell "Freeze, the Newly Improved OP Turret" and it's subsequent MUs along with a tonnage of Freeze Modules and their MUs. In two or three months there will be another turret buff...for "balance". What a crock. Will all the Freebie players jump on the new OP Freeze or even buy Freeze Protection? Some, maybe even quite a few, but the real money buyers will be buying like mad and pay to MU everything to the max almost immediately. Buff, Nerf, Buff, Nerf all in the name of "balance"....the Big Lie. If they really wanted "balance" they would do exactly as you say and make small changes, see how they work and do more fine tuning. With the new single protection modules I expect to see a lot more tall-tale-marketing like this.

So Freeze gets about a 30% buff in damage. It is now the fastest killer out there. If they really wanted BALANCE they might have given it a tad more destructive power, but 30%?????? All they want to do is sell modules, turrets, and MUs. The money grab is patently obvious. They take one of the less used turrets and buff it completely out of reason...many players rush out and buy the newest OP turret and start MUing it asap....buyers just run it up to 10/10 in about five minutes. Many many players will now buy a Freeze Module and start MUing it. Nerf this, buff that all in the name of balance, what unmitigated garbage....The Big Lie: balance. In a couple of months or less it will be another turret buffed, like Striker.

I'd get rid of MatchMaking. Then ditch the drones. I'd cut way back on weekly supply rewards. I'd nerf Magnum or get rid of it altogether. I'd stop fussing with balance of turrets/hulls just to generate income...I'd try to actually balance the turrets. And to make income I would introduce advertising similar to Agar.io. If players wished, they could click an ad...but the ad would then reward them with crystals or supplies...don't care about the rewards? You don't need to be bothered with ads...optional. This is a biggie because I would try to make my income from ads and try my best to make the game actually fun again. My focus would be in providing a quality product. I'd re-evaluate the development personnel with the idea of replacing some of them. I'd also consider allowing private servers. I'd start advertising Tanki to draw in new players. I'd give a real incentive for players to bring in their friends or even players that quit the game previously. I'd try my best to bump numbers back to 100K or more to make advertising more effective. I actually think I would get wealthy if I had the power in Tanki.

Tanki doesn't want any topics about any aspect of Matchmaking anywhere else...minimize the bad publicity. They close all Matchmaking threads...try making a new one :) I even tried a new thread with a poll, but they closed it in less than an hour. Tight control. It's a form of censorship...bury any complaints here in this huge group of complaints. The Russian forum seems to be doing the exact same thing. Their MM thread is nothing but chit chat now from what I can by via Google Translate.

Another MM fail...it's inconceivable that with over 22,000 players online MM could not fill the team for almost the entire game. In the Battle List there would have been 30 to 40 CTF games with even tighter rank brackets. We are stuck with MM, so I sure hope they try to fix it...20 months, gosh. By rights we should have lost, but blue was just barely trying it seemed

Issimo LittleWillie Your images are very small and there is no link to see them full sized. Maybe it's just my computer, but I can't make out any text at all on your uploads...if it is just me someone tell me please. I use https://imgur.com/upload It is very fast and easy to upload. Just click the menu to the right after you upload and choose "Copy BBCode" for this forum. Here is a screen shot of a pic I uploaded so you can see the interface....I used the title as instructions to post.

I seem to get sent to Bridges over and over. I have been sent to Kungur, but not too often and usually in ASL. Rio very seldom and Silence, a TDM now and then, but again not like Bridges over and over. I get Polygon frequently. MM seems to have its favorite maps.

It used to be kind of a career for me. :) Now, I think I spend as much time in the forum talking about Tanki (well, MM recently) as I do in battles. Tanki battles have become little tedious and somewhat repetitive with little variation from game to game...moving towards boring. I used to play a lot in off hours, but now it is too difficult to join battles, so Life has slipped back in and already taken Tanki's place. Thank goodness that the devs were benevolent enough to unchain us from our mission chain...if that hadn't have happened, and with the advent of MM, I doubt I would play Tanki at all by now.

Wow!, great post! And here I thought you were only an MM troll :) This is very informative and kind of scary. In a way, I'm kinda glad drones are so expensive to operate. If everyone could afford them it would make an entirely different game that basically revolved around drugging not really driving/shooting. I've seen drones here and there but so far only one battle where they made any noticeable difference. A Firebird had one of the drones (maybe Assault because this battle was some time ago) and just could not be killed. His team won the battle and he came in #1 of course, but he hadn't killed all that many of the opposition. The real trick was he had zero deaths. Between heavy drug use including constant coordinated repair kits and whatever drone he was using, he was unstoppable...GodMode_On unstoppable. Even teaming up and concentrating on this guy couldn't kill him...he was literally invincible. He almost had to have been a buyer. The upshot of this experience portends that if anyone wishes to dump real money (lots of real money) into Tanki they will be able to dominate all situations. That's OK with me as long as there aren't too many of the heavy whale rollers out there. The buyers get to kill us Freebies and we Freebies get to kill each other. Buyers keep Tanki alive and I think drones have the potential to make Tanki some substantial income. Great! Another thought I had concerns Legend ranks...drones could get pretty bad up there in the mature "I got the max garage" M4 ranks. Way up there it might become "use drones or you can't compete". I don't really know the economy of that area, but it seems like kind of a scary possibility for the newly ranked Legends playing against the Legend 999s

I really hope it is just players trying out the new Freeze buff, because every single battle has two or three Freeze. One battle I was in had FIVE Freezes...way worse than an Isida Train. They just totally dominated. One of the five would immobilize a tank and another team member would steal the freeze kill or Freeze would polish you off itself. Now it is almost, if they touch you and you are dead. It just seems too much of a buff, but time will tell. I am pretty sure there is really no "balance" in consideration what so ever. Now Tanki will sell more Freeze protection with MUs, more Freeze kits with MUs in the shop, and more Freeze turrets with MUs overall. In a few months something else will get a big buff and they will start the process all over again...sell more, sell more, sell more. Harsh marketing. I use freeze in an alternate account and I thought it was fine. Vulcan is the one that needed a buff. It used to be my main turret, but several nerfs later and it is pretty much useless unless you are going to use it on a big hull and camp....it is not much of a mobile turret anymore. And still no nerf on the blight of blind, can't drive Magnums.

I used to think the Top 3 missions were a piece of cake. Now I avoid them as much as I can. The only exception is if the Top mission is for 3 hours of Premium or a very large crystal reward...even those I click away many times. To complete Top missions you need the good luck to be put into a battle right from the beginning, with acceptable rank brackets, and then I drug like mad to insure my Top 3. Even the Top missions with big crystal rewards are seldom worth the bother...click 'em away in the new MM era.

I really don't think there is much rhyme nor reason to the way MM puts people into battles. I've seen WAY too much mismatching and obvious foul-ups from MM already to believe that they have much of any real criteria at work matching players. As I have said before MM is pretty much the Battle Button with a queue. I got Latvian Flag or some such on an alt account. Now I will have to see whatever it in my garage until Tanki goes under. Why are they putting these in containers? It would be great if you got "Choose a Flag Paint" from a container, but just an arbitrary, "Here's your fan flag paint" is silly. But then again, these are the same duds that spent 20 months developing MM. :) PS Your image is really small and there is no link to see it full sized. I now use https://imgur.com/upload It works very well.

OMG you just don't stop with your twaddle. Don't you see the number of players online? 20,000 to 25,000! And you contend that MM can't find 16 players that want to play CTF or any other specific mode? That is patently ludicrous! Your arguments are just so completely hollow it is annoying. I don;\'t want to keep posting stuff about MM, but just can't let your troll-like posts go unanswered. You are just dead wrong about MM and most players know it...just stop already...MM sucks, but we are stuck with whether we like it or not. It's here...you win, we lose...it won't go away. Be happy because you are one of the very few that believes MM is an improvement, rejoice...the majority of people know that it is a downgrade and doesn't even work as promised.

This is, in my opinion, is exactly the time Tanki started the downward slide. And I even thought the Paint Separation was a good thing! But, it did seem to usher in the new era of terrible update after terrible update, all to accommodate the worst update of all....MatchMaking.

They aren't. Legend rank has nothing to do with the weekly mission chain....it like all ranks, is based on how much XP you generate over your Tanki career. In fact it would be close to a record to make it to Legend in ten weeks. Check some of the legends profiles...all hundreds of hours played.

Much better than a sharp stick in the eye. The double battle fund for two days is a very nice gesture...now, get rid of MM and we can be friends again :) Here is a link to see the paint....it's OK-ish, but 2000 kills....I'm much too lazy. https://en.tankiwiki.com/Retina

nope...no group. Gosh, I didn't even notice that I was bottom of the rank barrel, I was just focused on the churn. And that brings up a good point. Tanki has brutalized the game with MM. WHY in the world do they insist on group capability on top...to add insult to injury? It is obviously a disaster. Take a group of players (three now I believe), who have played together, have coordinated equipment and might even be in real time communication with each other then toss them into a battle of individuals. The side with the group will most likely start to win which starts the churn of the losing team to go into a full fledged exodus. Then, I have seen it already, you put two sets of three clan members on the same team...the clan may have fun shooting fish in a barrel but the fish are pretty disgruntled. If Tanki insists on having a team function, let teams play against other teams...or better yet, just get rid of the team function altogether. ...............and another point to highlight from these three battles is that I spent about 15-18 minutes of queuing/loading/waiting to battle about 16 minutes.