Heavy hull + thunder/twins in polygon. Supplies and premium will obviously help too. Fire wasp is best only if your opponents have it too.

Talking of math, here's some more enlightening information for the rest: With 40% chance for crystal reward missions, probability of getting all 3 crystal missions after using 1 free swap was 10.24% With 37% chance, this reduces to 6.24% So thats a reduction of 40% in your crystal income if I do not take into account the 20% increase. With the 20% increase, the crystal income has gone down by 28%. So once you compare yourself to new players, accusing them of mismanaging their crystal income, think twice, because they may not have as much to spend. Also, the druggers walk away with most of the fund, and the losing team doesn't get much for its efforts (only exception is m3 xp/bp battles, where even the losing team gets a very high reward)

If supplies have been in the game for 8 years, so have jump hackers and fly hackers. Just because some elements in this game have been here for long doesn't mean they cannot be or should not be changed. Also, for the last 7 years, we didn't have to get into supply enabled battles to do missions, so nobody complained much about them. I do play pro battles. He just said "if everybody used equal supplies, then it would be fair". Thats why I said everyone can't use equal number of supplies. No, I don't want to use constant drugs, all I want to is to have enough crystals to buy 1 or 2 decent combo at each m level, but for that I need income from missions, and I would like fair battles (similar m-level, and MUs, no supply usage) to do those missions. But many players don't like playing fair. Also, if you look at my original post, it is all about adapting, and playing xp/bp, where buyers have no advantage over anyone.

Rail smoky ricochet is the best module in whole garage for medium-long range at m3+ ranks.

If you are having fun in drug battles, go ahead and play them, get your missions rewards, and sink them in your garage, and repeat forever because it is a never ending process. I get annoyed in drug battles thats why I think it becomes pointless to do missions after a point, because I play for fun, not to get frustrated now and have fun after 12 months when I accumulate enough of everything. Other than poly xp/bp, you have island and arena and ping-pong, and IMO thats super boring, and irritating if you see an isida on enemy team. You may already have isida, but for teams that do not have it, it ruins the fun totally because you are unable to cause any damage. In CTF mode, you have Noise, Hill, Island, and its very risky to join these because they have usually 50 flags limit, and if even one teammate leaves, and it takes time for another person to join, then your lead is gone, and game lost. Sometimes there's Sepurhov or Rio CTF, but I stay away from CTF mde, because having noob team hurts much more in that format than others. If you had 500k by Brigadier, that was because you had much higher probability of getting crystal rewards through missions. They cut it down, and my General account barely makes 600 crystals on average per day from missions if I complete all 3 missions. Moreover, it is harder now to do missions than earlier, so on many days I can't complete all 3. The developers of this game are ordinary programmers looking for easy money - not widely acclaimed spiritual leaders. So if you tell me you use 12345 all the time because they allow it and encourage it, thats a pretty lame excuse for cheating your way to victory and getting more fund than you deserve by robbing another guy who played honestly. Everyone cannot use the same amount of supplies, because we get too few through missions, especially repair kits. So there will always be imbalance. Premium gives you 10 repair kits PER DAY, + 2.5k crystals + 40 more supplies. Plus they get supplies from missions and chains. A non-buyer cannot afford to use 10 repair kits a day and match their supply usage.

You guys are all big ranks, marshal+ You can get wasp rail m3 and just play xp/bp. Once you commit yourself to playing xp/bp only, BOTH crystals and supplies have no value (unless you like paints). MUs disabled, modules disabled, no changing equipment, no supplies. So you don't need to enter supply-enabled battles at all, even to do missions. You can learn some real skill there, from the all time best pros on EU1. Thats what I intend to do, get Touche kit at unlock rank. Right now even if I play Polygon no supplies in mid ranks, isida on enemy team gets me totally frustrated. xp/bp means no isida, no druggers, only skill helps and of course a good team. If you play even Polygon no supplies, then this game will be never ending. You will want more m3s, more MUs on them, more m4s. Then more modules, more MUs on them, that will take forever. The best way to "complete" this game is get yourself xp/bp combo and leave the drugs behind. The game still gives high rankers a bit of a choice: either play "Press 12345 online", or "xp/bp online". I came across this game in Nov 2016, and you know what, had the only turret in the game been railgun, and only hull wasp, I would have called this a pretty good game. Now even if I log in for 15 minutes to do missions only, I end up pretty frustrated, even if I win the game, because I don't like winning when I drugged excessively for it. There is plenty of bad blood between the players, and asterisks in the chat, when drug usage gets out of hand. I remember the good old days when I had my m2 xp/bp combo, and players used to get around for m2 xp/bp games everyday and complete missions in them, but that is gone now. Devs are pretending they will help non-buyers by changing the supply mechanism (remember the 2 supply experiments we had a few moths ago?), but all that is a hoax. The reason they want to promote supply usage is because it serves as regular income. If I buy crystals or kit from shop, it is only a one-time purchase. Example: If at WO5, I buy dictator-rail m2 kit, and then if I buy crystals from shop, and MU stuff to m3, then I no longer need to buy anything more for the rest of my time. Because a good tank means I am well set, and it will help me accumulate a lot of crystals (I'll be winning battles, so good experience / crystals ratio), so I will never have to buy anything again from shop again. This means that devs won't be getting any of my money for the rest of the year (low profits). How do they react? They figure out that to keep the money coming in, best way is to sell supplies and premium accounts. So they make everyone play supply battles so that they spend $ buying supplies from shop every week. This serves as regular income for them. Same for premium. So players with some self-respect, who don't like to be dominated in battles, but don't want to spend money either, either leave, or limit their play only to do missions. If you play too much in the mid ranks every day, you will rank up to Lt. General with only 150k crystals in hand, too less to buy a kit. Mid rankers now have to worry more about thier exp / cry ratio, than focus and strategy and skill. They keep coming in with useless updates, new paints (like who asked for them?!?) and other crappy changes. It was the update that forced us to play in drug battles to do missions which caused all the trouble, and in the end, that will be their undoing. They have this crazy idea that matchmaking will help increase player base, but in reality, it won't, as it will just cause more supply usage, which means more players annoyed, more players leaving the game. In my opinion, drugging will forever remain cheating, trying to get an unfair advantage over others. (unless of course other guy drugged first) Although that is not uncommon among Russians, even in real life. Sharapova served out a ban in tennis for doping, many Russian athletes test positive for banned substances, Warrant Officers with Russian names already have over 10k supplies used - definitely a link here that some people have no sense of fair play and spirit of sport in them. Also, don't give me that "tanki needs supply buyers to keep the game running", because this game was quite successful for 7 years without forcing us to do missions in pro battles. They can cut down on staff to raise profits, you don't need 20 programmers to keep this game running. (Just in case you are wondering, I'm posting through an alt account in the forum because my general account got banned as I gave the developers a piece of my mind - some truthful feedback in the news and announcements section)

Players may think using supplies is fun, but I call it cheating, trying to get an unfair advantage over other players. They should play fair, on a level playing field. Only reason to use supplies should be in reaction to others using supplies.

Remove effect on teammates, or only make teammates drop a mine.

Extremely sad that you haven't been able to fix the critical errors in 8 years. Just got kicked from a 2 hour polygon battle after investing so much time and effort in it, and never got any crystal reward for that. Devs: Find a dustbin close to you and jump into it as soon as possible, because thats where you belong.

Thank you. I will buy ram kit then, and perhaps both the alterations for twins, so maybe fast projectile alteration may help me in big maps.

Read my post carefully. I had 3000 points which obviously means I wasn't playing non-pro battle, for which match-making is coming. There will be no match-making for pro battles. I can adjust rank brackets, but what prevents a high rank player from joining with m0 equipment? There should be a minimum m-level for each battle, or give us an option in pro so that we can choose minimum m-level along with rank. I won't post this in ideas section, because even after 10 pages full of discussion and approvals, nothing ever gets implemented in the game.

True, he looks like one of the wise old tankers who has given up drug battles and missions and only plays xp/bp. That is my goal also :)

why would anyone rage quit from an excellent team that is winning by a good margin?

Which is better kit Ram or Atlas or Fortress for CP mode? I would like to be able to do missions in non-pro with it as well as do good in polygon cp. twins is good in polygon, but short range may hurt me on big maps in non-pro. how is mammoth thunder in polygon no supplies? i like to take the point unlike noobs who sit away and hide from the enemies, taking the odd shot at them, and the self damage may hurt me, plus the kit has no fire and twins protection. please give rankings on the 3 kits. i plan to use them from unlock rank till Lt. General, and buy no more m2s, and then get m3 kit, so tell me a kit which we will be good till Lt. Gnereal. I don't want to spend on more than 5 MUs for turret / hull, because that will spoil my budget for m3 kit.

Before closing tell me about the autofinish bug too, if anybody else notices this, and what is being done to fix this.

okay, that makes sense thank you. seems like its all developer's fault, those players must have got an error occurred message and be forced to leave. I guess I will have to wait till html5 comes in and see if they can fix things.

I know what pro battles are and what non-pro are and what autobalance means and how to check/uncheck it in pro. This happens in non-pro battles and a screenshot showing 7 vs 3 won't help, because that can happen if players leave my team. I don't have video recording software, and don't want to go to such trouble. Just ask the noobs developers to check their code and find out why this is happening. Also, auto finish does not work when we team with fewer members is winning. Example: We winning in Kolhoz CTF 3 : 0 CTF 3 vs 3 non-pro battle 2 of my teammates leave, its 3 vs 1, battle does not end for next 8 minutes. They cap 4 flags, its now 3 : 4, only then timer starts and battle ends, and this is wrong, because I worked hard to get the flags, and I deserve the fund if my teammates leave.

Why are players using m0 equipment able to join battles where you should have m2s? I had 3000 score in polygon battle, and nobody on the other team had even 2200, and I lost the match because half my team was using m0 (at Third Lt. rank battle on my other account). I asked teammates to leave and vote the weak players, but either they didn't or battle mod never came. Why do you allow this to happen? These players using m0 should be banned from high rank battles, and should play amongst themselves. What is tanki going to do with such players? Why do good players have to suffer because these weak players who have m0 and can't turn their turret join their team?

I was playing non-pro, and nobody on my team left. This happens very often. Also, sometimes in game screen, it shows 4 players in blue team, then when I join and press tab, there is only 1 other player than me, and then when I leave, it again shows the names of 4 players same as before. There are 'ghost' names on the list sometimes, when you enter the battle, there names disappear, but outside in the lobby, you can see them.

My team has fewer players. Its 5 vs 3 After few minutes it becomes 6 vs 3 and 7 vs 3, and this should not be possible. I don't have screenshot, but this is happening again and again especially on Kungur map. Developers can't even do simple things like autobalance in non-pro battles..