"Lag is not important to most players." I've said before Tanki did not understand its own game. Here's your proof. If all these efforts are really goiung on why don't they take amoment to mention them in VLOG? They filrm the thing already. Yeah in August when I started I was not beset by crippling lag. Today I am. It is ruining gameplay. Read the chat windows. I am not alone. Let me simplify things for you. Tanki wants me to spend money. When I thought tanki was a good comapny I did send money. I believe is supporting a good game comapny. Tanki has lied to me too many times and has made too many odd changes fpr me to support them with money any more. The deial of lag as a problem is a flat out guarantee I will not be a paying customer/

Clans have added crippling levels of lag in the literal sense. People have been unable to log on much less play, And clans have benefitted virtually no one. I went through my friends list with over a hundred maybe two hundred names on it. There were 2-3 clan members. I look at chat screens and in-battle rosters ... maybe - MAYBE - 2% of accounts are in a clan. 2% get can chat. 100% suffer from it. So tell me again Tanki's priorities are in the right place? The only way that would be true is if Tanki is teetering on the brink of insolvency and is desperate for those $36 clan license to stay afloat.

Yeah i did see that. One sentence in the past 6 months. You are easy to appease, Mr Chamberlain. Bravo. Now it's all better. Everything is fine people. Stop complaining about lag. Lag is just in your imagination.\ I see you did not answer my question, so I am going to assume your opinion is we all should just take our lag and love it.

Thank you for that. I was sadly uninformed of this holiday. Typical Westerner I.

In team battlesIsida is already king and queen. But golly gosh gee wiz ... I keep hearing how isida only real weakness is in DM battles. How will 20% more DPS but only 50% of the available time will equal more damage potential?

1) Yeah, I know what the company line is. I obviously do not believe Tanki's claims. Maybe that;'s just me but I start distrusting people who constantly lie and misrepresent themselves. YMMV. 2) BS they are working on it. If they are working on it why do we never hear about such projects? Hmm? I was not born yesterday. Did I say I expected lag problems to be 100% eliminated? No I did not. I really hate strawmen arguments. Please stick to what I write. Please do not change it to something you find easy to dismiss. We hear about new turrets we see constant changes we see an admission the clans system has caused exponentially MORE lag but I am not being informed about their anti-lag efforts. Let me ask you this: Which approach is likely to get Tanki to do something? 1) Many players focus complaints on lag and inist Tanki do something to improve that as their #1 priority.\ OR 2) People clap for the re-balance of the week and shout down anyone who suggests Tanki should put more effort into lag? I know my answer.

Stop changing what ain't broke. Start doing something about the lag and connection drops. The End.

What are "iron days?" Well, whenever there is a sale we now know that later that same week the items we just bought will be re-designed by Tanki. Anyone who spends real money on this product is a rube, a mark, a pigeon.

I thought about MUing my Isida yesterday and decided against it. Now I am glad I did. OTOH what use will I have with Crystals if I am driven from this game?

I have also said Tanki's recent moves smack of desperation. Look at the clan system $35 for a 12-account clan. Hold a sal on te 14th and on the 16th change the items just sold ... the stench of desperation is in the air. I'd not be surprised to read the going-out-of-business announcement somethine this year. And after 5 seconds you are helpless. Isida already is very powerful but that requires skill and knowledge. Tomorrow it will be dumbed down.

Because you are cutting down it's firing time to 5 seconds, which means two things. 1) My total potential damage / reload is cut. That's a nerf. 2) If I miss my firing arc or am out of range that will deplete my tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny 5 sedond firing time. It's a nerf. 2a) You are reducing firing arc which means it is easier to miss. It's a nerf. Then why was it decided to remove it if it was not a problem? Hmm? Hmm?. It already haes if you learn to engane those turret at Isida's maximum range. Isda damage does not reduce over range but theirs does. I kill Fire and freeze now all the time. But that takes, you know, skill and knowledge ... short commodities in Tanki. Who knows but you can be sure the narrowing of the firing arc is to force players to buy the m1 alteration ... which stomps on range. Isida needs range but the Tanki devs do not understand their own game. They do understand to make massive changes the day after a sal though ... get players to waste Crystals and real money on an item then change it hte next day. We;'ve seen this show more than once before. Anyone who pays real money to Tanki is a chump. Tomorrow. See above. Except is is not a nerf. What Hammer needed was simple. A dramatic reduction of maximum damage. It certainly did not need the additional capability of ricochet. (Actually a lot of these problems would not exist if Tanki did that the stupid and unimaginative DD and DA supplies. They ruin their own game because they refuse to get rid or redesign the supplies. ) Yes. When you say one thing but mean another that is called a "lie". Tanki lies to us all the time.

Good God. Tanki's gone absolutely insane. It took you a long time of careful analysis to see Hammerr is OP? It is OP because of it's damage level and you are not changing that! Hammer is OP because it drives around with DD up 1-shotting everything it meets. So what if it takes 1 more second between shots ... it's using that second to drive over to the next victim. And no, "real shotgun" pellets are not known to be a riccochet problem because each pellet is soft and relatively light. When they hit an object they either imbed or they deform and fall to the ground. What bullstuff. And Isida was fine as it was, Most players thought it sucked but real Isida players knew how to use it. I really don't care about the self-healing but I do care about the drastic change to the entire concept. I have no confidence Tanki knows what they are doing. Just look at Shaft. This is what? The 4th time in a half year it has been redesigned? Just look at how they ruined Vulcan last week.

Eh? Say wot? Is Tanki out to ruin Isida now that they've ruined Vulcan?

Having played on Massacre just yesterday... yes indeed it was. That loss was keenly felt.

...combined.

Why didnt you just go without a Pro Pass for a day or two? You made a long term commitment over a very short term issue.

That's Tanki's idea of marketing. Tanki does not believe in "the customer is always right". Tanki's idea of marketing is to browneat and coerce the customer to buy. Fail.

No, ratings are not a "position" they are a number. Just like the Quarterback Rating in NFL football. One QB might have a rating of, say, 90 or there might be 10 QBs each of them with the rating of 90. In Tanki and in football the ranking is just a mathmatical calculation based upon an arbitrary formula. There could be 10,000 different arbitrary ratings caluclations. Who's to say if any of them really show anything meaningful. For example the QB rating just calculates from stats like passing completion percentage and whatnot. It does not measure the QBs ability to read defenses, to audible out of a pass to a run, leaderships skills etc. It's just a formula a sportswriter thought up and its been used ever since.

Oh yeah I forgot the overheating time nerf! Add that to the -10% and the two nerfs compete for Worst Place. The only place I saw more than the occasional single Vulcans yesterday was in a Massacre CP bout. There were 3 maybe 4 in that battle. There the weak damage boost probably helps some.

Testify Brother testify! I agree word for word except that I think the gyro nerf is substantially worse than the 10% damage nerf a month ago. The lighter the hull the worse the gyro nerf I suppose. But add in the huge loss of vertical arc with the gyro and this nerf is much worse than the 10% nerf. On the upside the Vulcan nerf has given me a reason to hunt down and kill Vulcans when I play my Smoky/Viking with +impact mod. That throws off even a Mammoth mounted Vulcan. The faster turning turret doesn't help them as I circle to their rear and execute them.

Then join a different battle. I am in the exact same rank as you and I do not see every battle dominated by druggers. I have only supplies from daily missions, and I am able to earn Cry in battle. If you cannot manage to earn a few thou Crystals at some point you just have to conclude you just suck at tanki.

I have a Viking/Smoky m2/m2 account and an Isida/GHornet account also m2/m2, and a Smoky/Titan account m1/m1 but with a lot of upgrades. They all work very well. Titan is a bt slow but it is nimble enough especially with a SU active. I personally have no problems at all in DM playing my Isida/Hornet. Players keep telling me I am wrong but I believe my own experiences. However I do thinlk the fact I use the fast and maneuverable Hornet hull has much to do with success. But mostly it has to do with knowing how to maximize Isida's advantages in battle ... just like with every turret. My advice is if you really like Isida keep playing it. IMO it is the most fun turret in the long run.

Of course you will have to pay real money for it. The clan system exists to rake in as much money as possible from the rubes.

Spent more time playing last couple weeks to be in position to rank up just in time to buy m2 Vulcan during this sale. But five days before, Tanki ruined Vulcan. They certainly did so for light hulls. And Vulcan on a heavy hull is, is, is .zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. So thanks for nothing Tanki.. I won't be buying Vulcan m2 at all. Such fun I say with heavy sarcasm.

You are absolutely right. Each missile does pack a big big BIG wallop. That's why I've never joined the chorus that sang "The new turret sucks!" Players are now just getting good with it. I still thnk it is too early to fiddle with it. But in the medium term you might be right and it might be toned down a bit. I might have to convert my Vulcan account to Striker but I'v not player Striker on a Wasp. That's a lot of splash dmaage for a Wasp. :)