Further to above, I'd forgotten the effect of cooldowns carrying over into the next respawn but without 30sec delay at respawn. This means you can virtually instantly drug for anything not on cooldown as you spawn. So perhaps you can only monitor this at the very start of the battle or when people instantly add all three supplies

A thought on cheating: surely cheats are now obvious. If you run a routine at server level, you should now easily be able to pick out the people who drug instantly they enter battle, or spawn, as this can only be done by cheats. Also pick up people who go instantly from no drugs to full drugs. These should then be automatically banned for a week (say) on first offence, then a month etc. The new update should make spotting such people very easy - it would then be worth implementing permanently with a lot less whining than we are seeing in the discussions above. What do you think Hazel???

This is much better for players who use supplies strategically, like myself. However, just been playing a couple of rounds of DM on Desert on a Russian server #/server=RU7&battle=fffffff289693817 and seen several players cheat the system - mainly large tanks, one with thunder, a couple smoky and a rail. They switched on supplies instantly they hit the ground and, in the case of the thunder, managed to activate all three supplies as they entered battle. This really needs to stop if the update stays. I didn't get player names - too busy doing missions - but I hope you can track them. The update does give the 'incumbent' an advantage. If you manage to stay for the first minute, you can mix collected supplies with those from the garage and considerably take advantage of tanks just entering battle. Overall, I'm in favour of the update, especially if cheating can be much better controlled.

Competition entry

Are the answers here somewhere, please

Last night. I cannot be absolutely sure when I passed the 250 mark. I hadn't realised 9.00pm finish - thought normal 2am :angry: Could be the reason

I have two tanks. One, Tankenstein, has been correctly allocated 5 gold boxes. The other, Madalien, should have 3 but none are showing. Why? (Is it to do with the server glitch/restart that happened part-way through the evening UK time? Though I think I had 250 kills before.) I started the day at 30723 kills and finished with more than 30997 (the last amount I recorded).

Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate this. So few choices worth playing, so hard to achieve missions, so much swapping servers looking for a battle that gives a sensible chance of a return on time playing.

Twins is way too powerful - continuous fire and able to 'bully' others by its impact force. If rebalancing, there's a serious issue. 'Hey, teacher, leave the Freeze alone'

From what I have seen, the Battles button sticks you in a battle where you mid-rank other players. Canny people will select battles which give them an advantage (by rank, mission, equipment or whatever is important at the time for them). The Battles button cannot account for this. Also concur with point about needing to create battles for specific missions. (Aplos if all this said already - have not read whole thread but just skimmed a few posts!)

will alterations be on sale at the same time as turrets?