Depends I guess - on whether you can fight back with mk1 stock. Can't be that expensive to pump your mk1 up some while you wait for a kit. Are you plannning on keeping any of your mk1s? If so, slowly upgrade those while you wait for a kit to get a second combo. I did that when I started my alt account - waiting for mk2 can't be that different from when I waited for previous version which was m1.

Good luck with that. You are giving them way, way too much credit in seeing how co-operation can benefit the team.

How do you get 0? Have you not done any upgrades at all? Are you using stock mk1s?

You would not be able to keep pace if it was the other way around. Burms me when I'm in Hunter-isida and the hornet ahead of me takes off - then dies because I'm not close enough to heal. But it's always nice to play against what appears to be an inactive team.

When ignoring the objective (like capping points or flag) you tend to die less. = less time respawning and more time killing. Especially on larger maps where a lot of time is wasted travelling. If you're on the losing side of a CTF blow-out - many will just ignore the flags and try to generate some stars via kills (or healing) as trying to cap in those conditions will get you ZERO stars.

It was P2W years ago. The only difference between then and now is what you get when you pay. I have yet to pay and I have 1 account at L5 and the other at Lt. Gen. Win some and lose some. P2W might give you better chance at top-3 spots and more variation in equipment, but it's not a guarantee for overwhelming success.

Yeah - I have autocannon. But... most of those shots are just tickles. Auto-cannon is actually better at long ranges because it's more frequent criticals suffer no damage loss due to distance. Over 2.2 seconds (I think), unless you have DD, you'd have to be fairly lucky to kill a medium hull. I've found Ricco way better with Hunter, but maybe I'll give autocannon a try with it sometime. Wonder how cryo will do... stun it, keep shooting and if you get a "crit" it never moves.

12 hours? Unless you don't care what kit you buy, you will be waiting days, or even weeks for a suitable one.

See a lot of these stealing flags in CTF. Freeze the defenders in place, drop the bomb and run away while they die in fiery explosion.

But that is not the norm. Most ppl can't get 9-out-10 as "top score" since there's only 2 "top scores" per battle amongst 16 players. So - IMO - that's a "standard" not reachable by many players.

Even though the low ranks seem very slow compared to speed of battles in upper ranks - I also believe that's where the most enjoyable battles are (aside from the rare mega-buyer totally dominating).

Why? Does it kill faster than stock in those 2.2 seconds? Cuz Hunter+stock is kinda meh...

DD allows this combo to finish off all but heavies quickly. Hunter OD takes care of the DA. Ya gotta keep moving though - keep out of danger while you reload.

I don't think it's the Value that is the issue in this case...

I concur. There's just waaay too many of them - and they are too generic really. Plus - half the time I can't even see them to select. A Bug?

Hunter-Ricco (with Plasma torch). Was accused of hacking because I was "torching" so many of them in Siege battle. Or maybe I just happened to inadverdently pick on one of them... wasn't paying close attention to who I was destroying. Viking-smoky (incendiary) was a pleasant surprise as well. The afterburn catches them off guard.

5 m2 kits? Overkill IMO. At most you need 3 m2 combos (at your rank) It is highly unlikely you will make use of that many combos - better to make 3 combos more powerful. You would have them closer to mk6.9 by now.

I still maintain that some of that imbalance is "Groups" vs "non-Groups". "They" say it doesn't happen but - you can see the way some opposition co-operates. It's too synched to be non-groups. If only they's add tags and make it more transparent...

Thank goodness you did not say Tankoins... As for crystals, one might actually have to pause playing somwhat in order to not rank up too much to get the kit you had your eye on.

"thats the point of tanki to make money , why cant you give everyone a fair advantage to access to the kit instead of buyers getting in advance" I was respinding to the above quote from you. How will TO make money if EVERYONE has same access to the kit. Why would buyers spend money on kits if they did not get an advanatge?

I understand that. Not sure FLAW does though. Convenience of what?

Too Long Didn't Read If ALL players had the exact same chance, why would buyer spend their $?

I beg to differ. When I started in 2015 I was getting wrecked by buyers who had a ton of supplies. I had little to none. I also ran up against buyers with preadtor Kit at a low rank - they easily dominated. Buyers have been around for years. What (for me) is harming the game is things like MatchMaker. Maybe it was needed - but they have done an absolutely awful job of implementing it.

Keep it simple and to the point. Or you will have many TLDR responses. FYI - it's always been P2W.

What?