Thanks, but SHREYA88 already answered my question. Funny, with as desperate as Tanki seems to be getting to push people into MM battles, accessing the Forum with a mandatory battle count wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility (I hope this doesn't give them the ideas).

Wait...what? I don't get this. Does this mean you can't access the forum without playing a certain number of battles in MM? If that is true, when will this be implemented? At this point I have had no trouble using the forum or chat. I haven't used this account to play Tanki in ages. I've played some MM battles but with an alt account and on flash. What's the story with this...could someone clear this up for me?

I'm pretty sure that is the whole idea....keep them $$$ a-comin' ?

It is getting very discouraging trying to play Tanki anymore. I stopped playing in the upper ranks because of the sheer grind factor...just spawn/die/repeat...maybe, if you are lucky, you get a shot off now and then. Mid-ranks have always been difficult and made even worse in the last year or so which left the low ranks to play and enjoy. I've been having fun in the lower ranks because there are less magic foo-foo dopdads like drones and a zillion augments. The biggest factor was you could stay alive long enough to drive around a bit, even sometimes get to the point where you can recognize a team player or a talented opponent. It wasn't just spawn/die/spawn/shoot/die, there was, sometimes room for a bit of strategy...not often, but sometimes. Now even the low ranks seem to be getting trashed as far as fun goes. The rank brackets are so wide that it is quickly becoming almost the same kind of grind the upper ranks have been. Even with just the 3X XP, you rank up so quickly that you are thrown into highly outmatched rank brackets within mere minutes of a new account. The concentration of buyers to freebies (less upgraded/max drugged) has gone up dramatically in the lower ranks as freebie players just stopped playing because of the gross XP. Now it will be 6X XP for the weekend. I was having some fun with a personal race to WO1, but it is such a grind that I don't think I even want to bother...the game-play just isn't fun anymore. I think these foolish foolish greedy shortsighted irritating devs have finally ruined the game completely (for me at least). I'll give the Race to WO1 Friday and see how it goes. There are still a few hours around peak play times that MM has a big enough pool of players to generate decent matches, but I miss being able to enjoy Tanki at any hour...now it may only be three or four hours before peak and an hour a hour after...so a five/six hour window to still have a decent battle generated. Very discouraging. And we are gonna get HTML on top of the 3X-6X XP garbage. It may be just too much for me.

Freebie players are not playing as much because of the foolish 3X XP. The overall number of players has dropped significantly...about 20% less than last week before the XP update. But here's the thing....the buyers are not the ones quitting or taking a break from Tanki. They are too invested (literally). They might even like ranking up quickly...maybe not...doesn't really matter because they won't stop playing either way. They can just shovel some more money into the game and stay competitive whether they are a whale or just a little fish. They've already sent Tanki some money, a bit more is no big deal. They will continue to play even if the player count drops off dramatically. It's more the freebies that get discouraged and stop playing as much or at all. If this is true, that means that there is a much higher concentration of buyers to freebies than there was even a week ago. (I'm just guessing at the number of buyers...you can plug in any number and you get a similar result) total of players buyers concentration of buyers in battles 21000 (months ago) 8000 38% 16500 (last week) 8000 48% 13300 (now) 8000 60% A few buyers may have stopped playing because of the XP, but that few is probably offset by more players motivated to buy. So we freebies get triple whammied. Ranking too quickly from the 3X XP, fewer players overall so MM creates even more unbalanced matches by increasing rank brackets to fill the mandatory 16 slots, and a much higher concentration of buyers with lots of upgraded equipment. The future does not look very bright where Tanki and fun in Tanki is concerned. Going to be a rough few months.

yeah...Tanki will get 100,000 players online. ...Like if you add up everyone from the whole week. Ba-dum-bum-ching! ? (My attempt at humor)

aahhhhh, comon now, harsh. Tanki will get 100,000 players easily

It is just astounding how these devs can be so consistent with updates that compromise the quality of the game.. They do dozens of updates a year and each one makes the game worse. You would think that just by accident they would make at least one or two updates that made the game better. It's impossible to think that they would actually sit around and try to think of ways to make the game less and less enjoyable or ways to degrade it, but the reality seems to suggest that the impossible is possible. Why would they keep trying to ruin their own interests? It's mind boggling.

I think Tanki is going to come out soon and say it's a typo or they will let this run a couple of days, see the big drop off in numbers (and buying), and lower the XP to 1.5X or even 2X. i just find it hard to believe that they will let this stand...especially throughout the entire summer....it would be so bad for their numbers.

Tanki sure knows how to sour a great B-Day celebration...back to normal in a heartbeat

I foresee another large drop in player count. Over Tanki's B-Day we only averaged about 16,500 players at peak times. This is well below the 20,000 average of just a couple of months ago (I forget which specific toxic update generated the 20% drop in players at peak times) This 3X XP is going to drop us even lower especially without all the B-Day celebrations. Lockdowns around many parts of the world are easing up so many players may pursue things other than playing Tanki all day. If they introduce Ares it will make for a lively couple of weeks, But I assume that Flash will be discontinued when Ares comes out so having only the vastly inferior HTML instead of Flash is going to make many many players just give up Tanki. The novelty of Ares will wear off in a couple of weeks and still leave us with inconvenient, lame HTML and 3X XP with only 2X battle funds....it doesn't bode well for Tanki. I predict another 20% drop at peaks to around 13,500 because of the 3X XP. Ares would pop that back into the 20,000 for a short period, but then, if we do have to give up Flash for HTML to accommodate Ares, it's gonna be hard for MM to put a battle together for all except peak times. My guess is 11,000 at peak times...maybe even lower...Yikes.

You are right, but I'll not send these pirates a penny. lol...one kill and you are past Rank1...funny.

Hahahaha..I just calculated XP per kill for a newbie account....14XP X 1.5 (beginner bonus) X 3 (update) = 63XP per kill. That is Rank4 (Coporal) in 23 kills. Rank2 with just two kills....ahahahaaaaa! Here's an idea. I hereby make a Forum Challenge for a world record. Create a new account. Who ever has the lowest amount of time (on their rating page) to WO1 wins. With 2X XP and newbie bonus, i just did it in about 12.5 hours. Now with Crystal Boxes that will be greatly decreased and of course 3X XP. I bet it can be done in six or seven hours. Anyone up for the Challenge? I'm gonna start tomorrow

So you get to Legend super quick. You have Mk5 or Mk6 equipment...maybe even Mk7. You are now battling players with full M8 garages including drones, alts, and virtually unlimited supplies. Solution: buy buy buy. Or you can't compete.

The sycophant army got in all the first posts. I condemned this update at about the third post but they deleted it to keep the happy chirrpy "oh thank you so much" posts on top...villains.

What a rip and a completely unwelcome bit of news. Horrible. I was looking forward to playing my main account but there is no way I'm going to play with 3X XP. I will continue to play Tanki but it will be with my throw-away alt account. At least previously it was 2X XP and 3X battle fund. Now it is reversed (you didn't think we would notice?) 3X XP is ridiculous.. What villains.

Wow...you are one of highest ranked Legends...an Uber-Legend! Respect.

It was a very memorable B-Day. It was really fun waiting to see what the gift would be each day. Overall they were very generous gifts and greatly appreciated. I will miss the daily mini-Christmas (gifts) and I will also miss the interaction on this forum that was generated on this thread...it was nice to read and write posts that were not all whining and complaining (I am one of the biggest complainers). So thanks Tanki for a good 11 day run....happy B-Day and I look forward to your 12th. ?

Really? The only obscure reference is Poipet (Cambodia) and maybe even Macao (China), but I figured Vegas (Las Vegas, USA) would let the reader know that they are all places to gamble...like you gamble with Coinboxes in Tanki (You throw out your gold teeth (another semi-obscure reference to a Steely Dan song regarding gambling)) I was being facetious about the Tankoin Empire...exaggeration on the amount of Tankoins I was going to win. I called the Tankoins lotto jewels, like lottery; and jewels, things of value. Auto-lose-Coinbox was just more silliness since you are pretty much doomed to lose with all gambling, especially Tanki Coinboxes..automatic-loss-Coinbox B-Day is short for birthday. The whole point was that you gotta buy Coinboxes in batches of 10 for 150 Tankions now and we only got 111 for Tanki's 11th day B-Day gift. You can't buy just one coinbox any more. Anyway, sorry...I only meant to be kinda funny, not hard to understand.

Ahahaaaahahaha, lmao...I thought I was gonna be clever and parlay a few of my 111 Tankoins into a Tankoin Empire by buying a few Coinboxes (and winning the max prizes of course). So I go to the shop ready to buy three or four Coinboxes.....SURPRISE! SRUPRISE!...can't buy just one Coinbox any more...gotta buy 10 at a crack for 150 Tankoins! What a rip...didn't these little lotto jewels used to just cost like 1 or 3 Tankioins...then 10 Tankoins? Now they work out to 15 Tankoins per auto-lose-Coinbox...and you gotta buy them in groups of 10...for 150 Tankoins! Damn, I'll stick to Vegas, Macao, and Poipet. (At least I still have my 111 B-Day Tankoins ? )

Sorry my pidgin is coming out...skoshi = little bit in Hawaiian (well Japanese really)

Dude, what do these women have to do with Tanki's B-Day? At least you tied in Twiggy to Tanki a skoshi, but comon....off topic by a mile.

Bummer. I guess today is the last day...at least it is the 11th day. I hate to be ungrateful, but 111 Tankoins isn't much of a finale' and is frankly kinda disappointing. I was really hoping for a generous cap to a very generous B-Day celebration. I'm just greedy i guess. Still, 11 Premium days would have been awesome and leaving the party on a very high note.

Is it...certainly could be....dunno

111 Tankions...didn't see that one coming either. It's nice gesture since they are a gift, but you need thousands of them to really do much of anything. Not to seem ungrateful, but tomorrow can we have 1111 Tankions to go with these 111? Nah, nah, nah...forget the Tankoins tomorrow. I'm still rooting for the 11 days of Premium. Goooooooooo Premium!..rah, rah, rah