Unlike last event - the rewards are not guaranteed - they are random.

My Titan - inside the dome - has been one-shot by hornets. So it is not "less of a problem". Hornet+DA+50% module has equivalent of 8000 health. Not exactly weak. It's not like they sit there and take it. Stop defending this abomination of an OverDrive. It's just silly. 1) Maybe he meant that Hunter OD takes away your defense like DA, just like hornet ignores it. Same result. 2) Mammoth and Hunter have to get very close, same with wasp. You can kill them all before they get within range. 3) The hornet hides and one-shots you. From anywhere on the map. Yes - that is a balalnce problem. 4) So you don't want this account to get nerfed. Still shows bias.

Main Page won't load - so I can't play. What's going on?

Don't misunderstand me - I don't expect the game to exist without buyers either. But to suggest something that will have a drastic effect on the game (immunity to freeze effect) should be priced very high will indeed "price it out of the market" for F2P tankers. When you do that, you are creating a bigger gap between buers and non-buyers. The more new items introduced - that affect gameplay - the bigger the gap. I really think items like immunity are a huge mistake. Could create a huge imbalance on par with the m2.1o-to-mk7.0 coversion. Big difference is that conversion was one-time-thing. These hull alterations would be perpetual. Not to mention the frustration from players who have invested in Freez turret or Hunter (if EMP immunity applies to that) Maxed garage for "average player"? Is average player non-buyer? Once I hit Legend I started a new account with mostly different items. So I'm still working up my Legend account garage while my 2nd account just ranked to General. Takes years just to get 1 account with 3-4 combos close to max level. I started in 2015 and I'm still working on it.

2-4 hornets on opposing team renders it useless. I know this because for the past week my Titan mk7.19 has used it plenty of times. And plenty of times after deploying it I've been quickly killed by a Hornet with long-range turret. A number of times i was killed with 1 shot. So deploying the dome just invites multiple shots from the many hornets running around the battle. If that doesn't get you another Titan or Hunter wll disable it. I've stopped using Hunter because it's become completly specialized and really see no point in using Titan - It's OD does not do what it was designed for.

I never said anything about 100 crystals. But the more expensive you make it, the harder it is for F2P tankers to get it - they are on "fixed budgets". Introduce more and more items that affect gameplay (like drones) and the F2P tankers can't buy it all. They have to choose. MU current items or buy new module or buy drone or MU drone or ... buy new hull alteration. Buyers do not have to choose - they can have all of the above. + / + / + / + is >>> than or / or / or / or Drones are available for crystals - but buyers have more drones, better drones and higher-ugraded drones because the good drones are priced at higher end of spectrum. Will be the same thing with your suggestion to price hull alterations that way. Realistically the only ones to afford that are buyers.

So... increased P2W since only buyers would be able to afford them.

You only see this NOW - after the botched m-to-mk conversion. New players will not have mk7+ items at that rank. The only ones that do got them due to conversion and will rank up soon and fight their peers. Did Devs botch the conversion? Yes - big time. But it was a one-time thing. It is not useful to try to implement a completely new system to correct a temporary issue that will soon correct itself.

How do you run away from a Hornet equipped with Gauss or Magnum or Rail or Vulcan? (you wouldn't happen to have any of those.. would you?)

2) Okay... but... a bunch of high-rankers enter the battle that way to try and complete missions - all with max equipment. This gives the shaft to all legitimate tankers of that rank who will now face a disproportionate amount of maxed-out enemies. And these enemies will still have access to their unlimited supplies. The players completing their "Top-3" missions will all be Legends who downgraded for this specific purpose. 3) That's no incentive to buy with $. They can get that by just progressing naturally. Many of the buyers spend $ so they have a much better chance at the best rewards (Top-3, battle-fund, Stars). There would be a significan drop in income for TO if this was adopted. Let me re-phrase... why do you think the current MatchMaker based on ranking - with the 7 splits on allowed items - won't work?

Pre-battle lobby is one of the few I would adopt. Games looked similar, but were quite different. Players who wanted to play TX would have done so if it was better. They did not because it was not. So trying to adopt much from TX will be futile - look at the pushback on the changes already being made. Trying to make a hybrid of the two games will just drive more players away IMO.

I have read all that. Let's pretend the silly conversion from m to mk that gave low ranks access to mk7 equipment never happened - since eventually that effect will disappear. In case above long-term, I don't see how your proposal will work better than the current 7mk splits. 1) More splits no means there is less difference between the low-power and high-power entering battles 2) The system downgrades equipment to current match AND punishes the rank of the player. If they are on equal footing item-wise why do they have penalties? 3) There is no real incentive to upgrade equipment. If you can't strategically improve your items, why would buyers spend $ to just play someone with same gear? 4) Your proposal is quite complex and I really don't see Devs investing time in that. Why do you think the current system with 7 mk splits won't work?

So this would be a nerf to those modules then. Hardly seems fair to players who have invested in them.

Why would you expect anyone to listen to you when you insult them?

What do you get when you complete a Challenge Tier that rewards with a paint already in your garage?

You think Shafts with no laser was balanced? started playing in 2015 and it was not as "balanced" as you claim. There were Captains running around with Prodigi paint. Back then - only buyers had supplies and there were no cool-downs on the supplies. The only players capping flags were buyers that had unlimited supplies. Only way non-buyers could get hold of decent amount was getting a Kit. And even those supplies did not last forever.

Another battle where enemy team had 4 hornets... Gauss, Hammer, Magnum and Vulcan. I doubt there was much time during that 5.5 min battle that at least one enemy did not have an active OD. My Titan was getting one-shotted inside the dome. It's pathetic now. If a Hunter or another titan isn't bringing down the dome, it's a hornet one-shotting my undamaged titan.

So what happens in Assault if a Hornet-magnum with DD and OD active hits a fully protected medium hull that is carrying the flag? Keep your distance from the wasp? How can you do that if you can't even keep your distance from a Hunter?

The gold stars. 2 "Challenges" per month - each lasting ~ 2 weeks. Go to missions tab and one of them shows your progression.

Thought it also had to do with turning off drones so they did not suck away so many batteries and could be used in a more tactical nature. My mistake.

You don't think the REAL reason is because... they want players to use up batteries? ?

Sure... sure... wait... you're serious? You mean... like before there were cool-downs on supplies? When Shaft could one-shot tanks and had no laser. When Captains could just buy m3 equipment? Those good-ol' days? You seem to have blocked out a LOT of what was happening in TO "way back then"...

I stopped reading here - so don't waste any more time for either of us.

I agree - should not be there once you get to WO. Should only be for players learning to play.

They should just be more open about it and change the name of the game to Hornet-Online