Hey, they're not yours...they're mines...all 111 of them. Twiggy can have my 111 mines ?

I was fooling around today and went down a genealogy rabbit hole. I found records of my family all the way back to 1650 leaving England and coming to America. They were some of the very first settlers through the Cumberland Gap with Daniel Boone and settled in Kentucky almost a hundred years before the American Revolution! Yikes. This was only a generation or maybe two after Jamestown Virginia was established (1st permanent English settlement in the Americas). They were born before tea came to England! These were my Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandparents! And it seems my family has lived continuously in the same area since that time. (Why don't we have more money I wonder) Yeah, you are right, it's kinda weird to post this here but everyone in my family is asleep right now and I wanna tell somebody what I found.

Well, not 11 days of Premium, but 111 Repair Kits is still a very nice gift. Thanks Tanki, you have been very generous with your gifts on your 11th B-Day. It has made your 11th very memorable.

It seems to me that Lifeguard is almost like an automatic repair kit that uses batteries all the time and 3 rep kits when repairing, I've never used Lifeguard so i don't really know, but it sure seems to me that I could do better just spamming repair kits...and probably even use less repair kits! There are times when you are just gonna die and even an instant auto-repair is only gonna keep you alive for a micro-second longer anyway so, might just being liberal with repair kit usage be as effective or at least almost as effective as Lifeguard? I'd be interested to hear what some pro-droners think. (Please don't move this to "Let's Talk about Drones")

I made a bet with myself that today would be 11 gold boxes and tomorrow would be 11 days of Premium. I was very wrong about today and was totally surprised by the drone gift. I think the 11 golds would be nice and welcomed tomorrow, but I sure hope the 11 days of Premium is the winning ticket instead. I would be shocked if Tanki did the 111 mines at this point after having been very generous overall so far. So..com'on Premium, yeah boi...

A Drone. I sure wasn't expecting that as a B-Day gift. It is kind of like when your rich aunt gives you a Hummel Figurine...you know its bloody expensive and has great value to some people, but what the hell are you going to do with it? This Lifeguard drone seems like it munches through batteries like all drones, but also chomps up 3 repair kits...each time you die! Yikes! You could go through more than 36 Repair Kits in one battle. Yikes! Condolences to all the players that bought a Lifeguard drone previously...very frustrating. Too bad we can't sell or trade equipment...I'd hock my Lifeguard for...well, really just about anything ?️

The 11 containers is another very generous gift. Thank you Tanki! I intend to open one of my gift containers along with a Mission container whenever I earn one. They will seem to last longer this way (at least to me).

Thanks...I would have been beating myself up for not looking if it had been below Rank7...silly, but true. You've put my mind at ease ?

This is a weird question, but does anyone know the lowest rank that could collect yesterdays B-Day gift of 111 Repair Kits? I just assumed it was Rank7 like it was for the 111 Speeds so I didn't check Special Missions with my low rank account (I made a new one to play for the 2X-3X) Did anyone collect the 111 Repair Kits below Rank7?

Thank you Tanki for the very generous B-Day gift. I really thought the 111 Speeds were the end. I was pleasantly shocked to find the 11,111 crystals. This will make the next upgrade much easier. Thank you again for this very generous gesture.

Patch Update #606 - Released 4th June 2020 List of changes: Returned crystal boxes with experience points for first ranks: Recruit — Sergeant-Major Why are there still Crystal Boxes at Rank 11 - Warrant Officer 1 ? The patch notes say it and it seems like Sergeant-Major would be the logical cut-off for Crystal Boxes, but I'm still dealing with the game ruining things at Rank11, Warrant Officer 1. Any way you could pass this on to the powers that be so they can fix this?

Patch Update #606 - Released 4th June 2020 List of changes: Returned crystal boxes with experience points for first ranks: Recruit — Sergeant-Major The patch notes say it and it seems like Sergeant-Major would be the logical cut-off for Crystal Boxes, but I'm still dealing with the game ruining things at Rank11, Warrant Officer 1. Please let the people that need to fix this know that there is a foul up in the amount of ranks that CryBoxes are appearing...I'd like to get back to real supply drops please.

Gosh, from what I've seen, I'd be shocked if even 10% of the players in low rank battles were actual newbies. Occasionally I do see a real newbie...someone that can't drive or is trying to shoot me and we are on the same team, but certainly the majority of players have been in the rodeo before. Where would the newbies come from? Most of the real newbies either wander into Tanki on Steam or some similar platform or they get told about Tanki by a friend. Both of these systems are pretty inefficient and I just can't imagine many new players even finding Tanki...certainly not 65% of all low rank battles (10 or 11 out of 16 players real newbies...nah). Maybe 1 or 2 real newbie players in a low rank battle, but even this seems kinda too high. I would guess Tanki only sees a handful of real new players a day...I'd be surprised if Tanki even sees the average of ten real newbies a day. What do you think? (this might make an interesting poll)

Again with the personal insults and snide remarks. You just can't seem to help attacking people and trying to make them feel bad...I guess that is how you feel better about yourself. Kinda sad. If you'll notice, the lower ranks extend at least to Rank11 or WO1. I recently did a "Road to WO1" and it took me about ten days of hard playing, sometimes a couple of hours a day to reach WO1 even with my Newbie 1.5X XP bonus on top of the Lockdown 3.0 1.75X XP ...so even with super fast ranking, it still took 12.4 hours of play...not 20 minutes...to go through the low ranks. You seem to have an opinion about the crystal boxes...why don't you enlighten us on how crystal boxes instead of supplies are going to help anyone learn to use their turret better. Or is it that anything Tanki says must be true and good. Or is it just personal, and the things I say calling bullpucky on Tanki must be wrong and injurious to Tanki? My biggest problem with Tanki is that they just can't leave anything alone....they have to keep fiddling and changing all the time...and almost always for the worse. The crystal box change is a pointless and silly update. It's change for change sake, but it still impacts the game. Every aspect of the game keeps getting degraded more and more. The lower ranks were one of the only fun places left to play and now Tanki is coming after them too with their toxic updates. It's these toxic updates that have purged hundreds of thousands of players from the game. The poorly conceived updates and naked greed of Tanki is what knocked the player base from 130,000 at peak times to what it is now...well below 20,000 at peaks....110,000 players GONE...that translates to hundreds of thousands of players overall. And as far as new players....There are almost no new players. Do you understand this point Viking4s? There are almost no new players.

I'm not entering since I will never get my wish....but I do have a fervent wish. I wish Tanki Online would be the game it once was when it had great social interaction...back before Matchmaking, and Drones, and Challenges, and Tankoins, and Augments, and limited homogenized maps, and crappy HTML interfaces, and excessively time consuming Daily Missions. The years of toxic updates have not been good to the old guard Tanki players. I wish Tanki Online would start a spin-off game similar to what they had during their peak player base...Tanki Nostalgic

The lower rank battles are a shambles. Trash battles almost all the time now. Hopefully, battles will get a little closer to normal when players get bored with the crystal boxes in a few days. What a dramatic change for no ones gain...I can't even figure out how Tanki is gaining by this foolish disruptive update. It's just more change for change sake.

Crystal boxes...what an absolutely pointless update. And if you believe Tanki's ridiculous spin about helping the new players learn to use their equipment, I have a very nice bridge I'd like to sell you with a lovely view of San Fransisco Bay.

I must interject something here. It's something that Tanki itself just doesn't seem to get at all. Ready for it? Here it is, and listen closely: People play games in different ways. It's called PLAY...you play or fool around. I'm not ranting at players, but more at Tanki in their fixation with making everyone play the same way. Here is a perfect example of a kind of unusual, but totally sensible way to play Tanki...collect paints...why the hell not? We play for fun and people have fun in different ways. What I HATE about MM is that it squished everybody and homogenized the game. Pre-MM you had almost unlimited options of play...big crowded battles, small 2 or 3 player battles, completing missions in pro-battles or not, creating any kind of battle on any map you wished, play against higher ranks or the same ranks or lower ranks, it was almost endless variety that has been destroyed over the last few years until the most of the life and fun has been sucked out of the game. I guess my little MM tirade seems a bit non sequitur, but it's one of the ways Tanki keeps hacking away at the way people play the game. They remove and remove and change and change and pretty soon very little is left of how many of us enjoyed playing Tanki. Tanki lies to us about Tankoins and how they aren't going to change the economy of the game, but few months later try to buy a kit or in this case a paint. I don't really know if I'm getting my point across. I don't think I'm expressing this properly and what I wrote only vaguely conveys what I feel...so I'm just gonna shut up about this. Paint collections. It's not for me, but I think it sounds fun. High K/D. Not for me but some people like it. Completing as many Achievements (remember those?) as you can..again, not for me, but for some it's fun. Low supply usage...it's a point of honor for some players. Full Mk8 garage...yeah, good for me, but it will never happen. Use and own only one combo from Recruit to Legend. Make videos. Collect Gold boxes. There are still a zillion ways to have some fun in Tanki, but Tanki itself has shut down so very many ways of playing their game it gets harder and harder to have fun anymore. Tanki wants everyone in a little Tanki box that includes sending them lots and lots of your cash ?

oh gosh, wow...how underwhelming

Hey! It's another CRAZY WEEKEND!!!! ....no, wait, it's Tanki's eleventh birthday celebration? You mean the celebration people have been waiting for and anticipating for months? Yep, that's the one! mehhhhhhhh

"We do this so that beginners can get used to the game, learn how to shoot and rotate the turret, decide on a favorite combination of turrets and hulls, and only then they can begin to figure out how to handle supplies. " As usual Tanki is spreading it on thick and the Tanki sycophants are slobbering all over themselves in approval. There are almost no new players in Tanki. Tanki doesn't advertise or even put forth an effort to generate organic growth. All this crystal box hooey is to get players to move out of the lower ranks more quickly (Tanki wouldn't want anyone to actually have fun playing Tanki after all). Crystal Boxes have almost no actual value at 10 crystals but they will come attached with XP.

Dude, you forgot the granddaddy of them Windoze 95 ! You missed Win7 too, but there wasn't much there.

if it speeds things up for some forum users, it's probably a good thing to do the pinned topics like this. But, I suspect that when they are slightly less visible like this that the number of posts and views will diminish dramatically. Might there be a way to keep the topics pinned for maximum exposure, but archive 95% of the older posts somewhere else? Provide a link to that storage/archive section from within the topic...like a header post at the top of each page like I have seen in several posts from moderators.

Done. I'm at WO1. The progress of my journey is on the first post in the spoilers (I added each day by editing) along with my conclusions at the bottom outside the spoiler. Lockdown 3.0 is almost over and we will all go back to normal 1X XP and 1X battle funds. This account served it's purpose and allowed me to play Tanki for a couple of weeks without ranking up too quickly on my real account. It was fun most of the time and tedious some of the time. Some things surprised me and some things were exactly as I expected.

I've spent most of my life on small yachts which are classic for making people seasick (motion sickness). Anyone who says they never get seasick just hasn't done much sailing...everyone gets seasick at some point. There are many different factors and what sends one person into the greenzone won't affect another person. It even gets weirder in that what makes you blow chunks one day may not even bother you a different day. it's something that you might get used to, but another person might never be able to get used to it. Tanki improved the camera so most of the problem has been cleared up and most players won't ever have any problem what-so-ever with motion sickness...not even an itty bitty teeny tiny problem. But other players will have problems...problems with motion sickness enough to keep them from playing Tanki. If that problem player (let's say 1 in 1000) happens to be one of Tanki's pet whales (a big big big buyer), well, there goes some income for Tanki. The fix is so simple and so easy, I just don't see how Tanki can risk losing players by not implementing it. All they need to do is make an on/off setting for the radar and OD indicator and it will cure any potential problem