You're comparison is not a good one. Not even considering ODs, firebird and mammoth is not a good combo. But Vulcan and viking is a good combo. So... back again to how the mechanics differ. They benefit re-load turrets way too much. And a good number of turrets (freeze, Firebird, Isida, Vulcan) do not benefit very well with vulcan OD. You say it's not a big deal. Is it just a coincidence that your 4 most-used turrets are just fine with viking - your most used hull? I wonder...

More battles in middle of day today - 8 vs 5 TO START. Stayed that way until 3 min left. Other team had 2 early caps and it ended 2-0. Could have been a decent battle if MatchMaker actually worked. But it does NOT.

Wait a minute - you think Vulcan should not get same boost as other turrets (while using exact same OD) because it already does a lot of damage? So Does Rail, and hammer. But they still get a giant boost. There's a difference between being optimal and getting the same benefits as other turrets. Vulcan-Hunter has very little in the way of synergies, but the OD does the exact same thing regardless of turret. It nerfs supplies and stuns. But Viking OD performs mechanically quite differently for re-load turrets, and in a much better way. It's night and day for when a Rail hits shift versus Vulcan - and they are both ranged turrets. The reload buff should be based on a factor - and that factor should be lower than it currently is. And since ranged turrets get a reload buff they do NOT need a damage buff too.

It was fine a year ago. Then they sucker-punched it with long spin-up so they could sell more Speed Regulator alts. Then they put a few nails in the coffin by giving it a 75% damage nerf when overheating - as if self-damage was not bad enough.

My Lt. Gen account getting stuck in legend battles tonight. Wide rank-spread DOES. NOT. WORK. I'm just gonna exit the battle each and every time MM does that.

(If it was even possible) it would be cutting the player-pool by - if not half - at least a significant amount. Ah yes... those RTL accounts... those players with vast amounts of humility.

I would guess there is no such mechanism that does balancing based on your battle results. It's more likely a law of averages - worked out over many battles or even many days. Play 100 battles and you are likely to be on the winning team ~ 50 times ... +/- 5 or 6...

Agreed.

2400/year??? Not for your average player when it's 3 TK per weekly container. Since they were introduced I think I've managed to save... 350 TK... maybe... Even IF you actually got 2400TK - what can you buy for that?

That does not necessarily have anything to do with balance in battles. Both sides could be balanced - but one player being so much lower in power than other players is NOT a good thing. Those players will quit (the GAME - not the BATTLE) in frustration.

You mean like half the paints they put in the lower tiers? Same paints we get in containers? Tier might as well be empty for many of us... Plus... you're not likely to get to the final tier unless you buy Premium.

It is probably due to way the conversion was done from m0-m3 to mk1-mk7. Lower rankers who acquired an m2 (maybe through kit) and upgraded that to m2.10 were granted mk7.0 instead of mk6.10. This meant they could continue to upgrade past mk7.0 even though they were relatively low level. Plus rank-spreads are still too wide IMO.

So what WILL be the spin-up time of Stock vulcan?

Not suggesting any real punishment... was just a pie-in-the-sky wish that would wake them up...

Most ODs are useless when compared to Hornet OD. I get killed by Wasp bombs daily - I can't be the only one playing against competent Wasp users... can I? I wish they would. Might wake up all the dummies that STILL have not equipped a module.

They widen the rank-brackets when there are not a lot of people online. This might be part of your problem. Odd - the battles do have quite wide brackets right now. Can't be that few players online...

I'm not a fan of "last one to activate wins" mechanics of the domes. They should cancel out. So 2nd tiitan has the option of placing dome elsewhere and keeping - OR - sacrificing it to take out the other dome. Adds a bit more tactics IMO.

Hate it though when my team is the one with majority of players sans modules...

Shut down. Not enough money to keep it running because there were not enough players.

Multiple battles tonight where enemy team is capping before 1/2 my team has loaded. Literally spawning first time into battle and I see a hornet or viking all powered up making off with the flag. It's just really stupid how fast these battles end 5-0 when players realize how the battle started and just leave. I don't blame them.

Meh. For many, many years it never had splash. Devs made that change for 2 reasons... As a fake nerf (since you can buy your way out of it) Which leads us to 2) You can pay crystals to get rid of splash.

True - that's how half the battles start now. The hornet/wasps with Trooper drone making first cap before all of enemy team has loaded. A bang-up job!

Nope... Most of them end in < 7 min and are 5-0 blowouts. But apparently that's GOOD for tanki ?

Not really - those turrets are supposed to be used at range anyway. If the turret does self-damage it's designed to encourage you to keep distance. So if your OD ignores protections, why would it not ignore your own as well? It is perfectly logical. I think you misunderstand... Hornet OD already ignores your protections. I'm suggesting it also ignore the Hornet-OD-users protections as well so they are a danger to themselves if they get too close.

They should just make Hornet OD ignore ALL protections - including their own.