Hey! :) ....Malevolent used to be my nickname on my alternate account until I accidentally let lt it go too long without logging in. And wow, you are a Legend! I'm impressed, you have used the name well. Good luck and enjoy what is left of Tanki. :)

I believe you are so very very wrong about that. In strategy you need to know what your team is up to and at least have an idea of what the opposition may be up to. These ODs are introducing an almost impossible to define variable that will destroy any posibility for strategy because you will never know who on the opposing team is ready to pop an OD. You must see how strategy has gone down the tubes alrady with the short battles, current OD, no interteam communication other than name calling...MM ruined strategy...ODs will trash whatever is left. You will see how it will become even more everyone for themselves in the next couple of weeks.

The game-play is already almost all luck. These ODs will be the nail in the coffin of strategy and make battles 99% luck..at least in MM battles where there is no organized team. Clans might be able to ue them strategically, but MM will be a grinder crap shoot. More and more child-like, a game for the kiddies...such a waste.

restart is at 2:00 UTC...they said 4:00 UTC...it' 5:35 UTC now and that makes it 10:35am in Prem Russia (I just looked it up). Hopefully they will get it rolling out before they go on lunch break :) ------------------------------------------------ Maybe they read this :) My Premium just started....containers not in yet, but that is no biggie. Thanks Tanki. a very nice gesture.

still zip...anyone get the Premium yet?

Ain't got nuttin' yet... :unsure: :ph34r: :rolleyes:

I am getting the impression that whenTanki changed the amount of containers in missions they also changed the percentages around. I am getting a lot more basic supplies, more gol boxes, way less crystals, less Premium, a little less paint. I've opened enough boxes at this point to notice a sizable difference in crystal payouts. Anyone else?

I assume this Pro problem is related to the horrendous lag issue and the constant crashes. It is getting old really fast: play 90% of a battle, expending supplies enough to ensurer a top position (stars events), and the turrets start spinning and then the screen goes gray just before the battle ends. Refresh and you get: Then after the site comes back online (1 minute to 10 minutes) it takes two, three, four minutes to log in...if you can log in at all...many times i get the "server closed the connection" dialog box. Then there is trying to load a battle...geez.

You have many good points. For me, seemingly like you, Tanki is no where near as much fun as it used to be since all the toxic updates implemented to accomiate the awful matchmaking mechanic. But, is Tanki doomed to go down the drain? I don't think it is even close. In fact the horrible updates that have ruined this previously great game, probably make Tanki way more money. I don't think there were anywhere near as many buyers a couple of years ago as there are now. Look at when they put out a bundle offer...you can see how many they sell...and it is usually just paint! They are selling thousands of these bundles...which have virtually no extra cost other than just normal overhead. Now if they sell boat loads of these bundles which we can see numbers, how many crystal and other bundles are they selling? I tend to play in the lower ranks now since higher rank game-play is thrashed and devoid of any fun what-so-ever. In the lower ranks there are many many players that are sporting fully MUed kits...my guess is that tons of player are buying kits at low rank along with a crystal bundle to MU to the max. This was very rare a couple of years ago....now there is an obvious buyer or two in almost every battle. Yeah, Tanki has compromised the game and turned it into a mere shadow of what it once was, but from what little I can tell, it looks to me like they are making A LOT more money. As much as I hate what they have dome to my once favorite game, I can't really blame them if they are in fact making more money...it's a business, not a service.

The lag is so bad battles are unplayable...can't do damage, can't tell where an opponent will be, was, or is...can't pick up boxes...can't hold a flag or pick up a ball. Kinda funny eight or nine tanks trying to pick up a gold box and no one could get it...it just sat for about 30 seconds with tanks zipping around it and driving through it. The entire game crashes about very ten minutes...every other battle.

Is Tanki going soft...humble...maybe even considerate? The announcement in the news pane of everyone's lobby is very nice, warm, and reminiscent of the old "family and friends" Tanki as opposed to the "in your face" tortured rationalization and mondo spin tactics of the Neo-Tanki regime (It's OUR game and we'll do with it what we wish, if you don't like it...quit, we couldn't care less). I sure hope this is a trend. :)

You guys got me pretty good. I was like, "OMG, how can they possibly figure out any more ways to squeeze a penny out of the player base...geez, the gaul of these *&&^$(!!()# bozos!" Then, as I started to write a typical ByeByeBye chastisement, I remembered it was 4/1 and decided to tone my post down to reflect the possibility of a prank...at least I was hoping it was a prank. After I made my post saying this had to be an April Fools joke, I was curious as to how much Tanki was going to charge for the extra characters if it wasn't a joke. I clicked the link. Bang...perfect execution. I was relieved...and then impressed with the quality of the joke. Well done guys, Tanki may have many objectionable traits, but at least they have a good sense of humor. :) ...And thanks for the weekly, that was a very nice touch...very reminiscent of the benevolent old days of Tanki before all the money grab updates of the last couple of years.

Even Tanki...as greed and squeeze oriented as they have become, couldn't really do this...gotta be a April Fools prank. good one guys...got us :)

.This war isn't for the players benefit or even motivation, it's to sell Premium passes and the stars doubler pass. My guess is almost anyone that tries to compete in this war without both passes will find themselves with no reward for their effort at the end of the war....even if their faction wins! Having to hit the threshold of the average number of stars will probably be pretty tough since this looks totally like a war event for the buyers.

It's hard to believe that there are actually players that are motivated by lame events like these. ...A 33% chance of winning, after buying a paint you don't get to keep and spending an extraordinary amount of time playing Tanki for an entire month...nah, not for me, but good luck lifers and buyers. An after thought: I forget and keep thinking these challenges and events are created for us players, but they are not. The reality is that these are created for the sole purpose of upping sales...Premium passes and the stars doubler pass. Everything Tanki has done in the last couple of years is profit driven and gameplay/player enjoyment is only a means to this end. Sad.

oops....you are correct, Singapore, yep, English...sorry, my bad. My ignorance is showing. I don't know about the signal boosters. I am in Thailand and before they combined with the EU, it was silky smooth graphics for me with great fps and ping when I could play with a friend on PlayPark out of the PI. Since they moved everything to playing in EU, my graphics are much worse than they are if I just log in through the normal EN icon. The PlayPark interface may now be just a remnant of some contractual obligation of AP's botched attempt to expand.

Release the ODs, don't release the ODs, it just doesn't matter at all. The game is already ruined, at least at this rank I've been at for ages. I haven't played at this rank for a couple of months and now I know why....zero fun...absolutely devoid of enjoyment. The game is tedious, repetitive, luck based, and just plain boring. I don't know how anyone can play this or why they would waste their time. Hull ODs promise to make it even more luck oriented. If you do try to execute some sort of strategy you might be successful or you might run up against an insurmountable batch of ODs...just luck, nothing more. I have an Viking M2 MU10 and I get killed within 3 seconds of spawning. There is usually enough time to press 2 or 3 and maybe get in a shot, then die. How can there be any strategy in grind fests like this? It's all luck now....well, maybe buyers with drones and their finger on the 1 key might fare a bit better, but even they don't last long enough to really play the game. It all reminds me of the old days and the Polygon CP matches...except those were fun because you could do them when you chose...now it's every map, every mode, every battle, all the time. ODs? I couldn't care less.

I think this might cause lots of camping...especially for box missions. I would not like to see this idea implemented.

I'm probably the only player that cares anything about this, but I'll report anyway. Tanki merged the S.E.A. servers with the EU servers so now you can jump into a battle as easily as you can with a normal EU login...because you are playing EU/North American battles. Unfortunately, to accomplish this they wiped out all previous SEA accounts....100%...gone, poof! So now you can hit the PI or Indonesian Flag icon and be given the choice of login in through PlayPark, Google, or Facebook...period. The login does put you into HTML Tanki. But, there are several bugs in the HTML version and the lag is the same...possibly a bit worse than a normal log in through EN, RU, GM, PL. So, for me, SEA is pretty much pointless...I guess the Indonesian players get a lobby in their own language, so that's cool. ---------------------------------------------------------- PS Just logged in via the Indonesian Flag icon in the drop down menu. The Indonesian section comes up in English only...go figure. The HTML also generates some sort horrible aberrant motion sensation due to a slight delay in turning your turret or hull...it's like a motion sickness feeling or slight dizziness. It's not lag but something peculiar to the HTML5 version of Tanki. There is no way a person could play this for a couple of hours at a sitting without barfing. So, the Tanki venture into the SEA region is a complete 100% bust. Other than a curiosity, there is no reason or advantage to login through the SEA icons and SEA interface...zero. At least the drop down menu looks more international with a couple of extra flags. TankiOnline...ya just gotta love the incompetence. :rolleyes:

Previously I've suggested that Tanki at least put a UTC clock with time/date on the main log-in page. I like your idea of official "Tanki Time". Tanki Time also needs to show the day of the week for those player that live in very far flung time zones It would certainly make calculation much easier...it's always the day that fouls me up.

My guess is there are probably only a handful of players that actually want these overdrives. But, I would also guess many many players are curious about them and look forward to trying them out. Unfortunately, once they are implemented we are stuck with them and all the endless re-balances Tanki will institute for them. This is like matchmaking but a tad less dramatic...almost no one will like the ODs as soon as the novelty wears off. They promise to usher in an even more chaotic, luck oriented, style of game play. These new OverDrives are likely to be the second worst update in Tanki's long long line of game devolving, trash updates.

After a few weeks of being off line, S.E.A. is back and you can log in now. Now I can log in, but my account is closed...only the registration screen comes up...sigh. There goes my hoarded crystals and many hours playing with friends...their accounts are closed too. Tanki...what a pisser.

Since the new loading screens I've had lots of problems with the game just freezing up. I also get the "re-enter" screen many many more times than previously Another much more annoying issue is that the damage I do is intermittent. Sometimes I do normal damage and then a minute later I do very little damage....or even no damage at all. This seems to have started about the time the new loading screens were implemented but has gotten much worse in the last two days.

These changes may make Tanki more commercially stable. We players have little insight into Tanki's bottom line, but as for making the game more enjoyable, I think thousands of forum pages speak for themselves. The game is much LESS enjoyable after all these toxic changes. You infer that there is more to come that will transform Tanki into something much better. I'm pretty sure MatchMaking was their big Hurrah, and it fizzled badly...it is terrible and took Tanki from a fun strategic game to a reactionary child's game. Maybe that is good for the bottom line since kids might spend more on the Neo-Tanki than the old school strategy players did. But, it crucified the game itself. I won't go into the particulars either since no one wants a book of whines, but almost all the features that made Tanki a great game are GONE....sacrificed for MatchMaking and Tanki's bottom line. Like several posters including myself have pointed out, the old game we loved is gone forever and will NEVER be brought back. Neo-Tanki is all that is left. We need to enjoy it as best we can since there is nothing else. As far as the bigger picture and benefiting the shrinking community go, AP may be making more money and thereby will stay in business...the shadow of Tanki we now play will continue to be available to play...that is pretty much the only benefit.

One thing that might even motivate players to stay in battles would be to make first place on the LOSING team apply to this "top three places" mission. It's very frustrating for you to play well, come out on top, and have most of your team just abandon the game...or even be stuck with junk players doomed to lose.