I just went to the Matchmaking page in the Wiki. This is from the page....I thought you all might get a good laugh: Advantages of Matchmaking System In the literal sense, the matchmaking system makes it impossible to send a mult into the enemy team. You will no longer need to worry about someone possibly playing for the other team (a.k.a sabotaging his/her own team) in any battle. In the matchmaking system, every battle will start from exactly seven minutes. Joining a battle in the middle is still possible, but the system favors creating new battles more than making people join battles that are already underway. The teams in Matchmaking battles will be almost always full right from when the battle begins - the system tries to fill up empty slots in battles as fast as possible.

oops, I was looking at his previous gold catches not his total...I'm dumb. But even two golds an hour is BORING when all you are doing is waiting like a vulture. I still can't figure out how he got his Mk6 at that rank. He is obviously a buyer, but even the Keeper kit (Smoky/Titan) has never been offered below Rank4 even from the Shop as far as I know. If he did somehow get a Keeper that could explain it in conjunction with the conversion to Mk...M1-10 converted to an Mk6 I guess. Man if this guy ever decides to fight that account he is going to dominate the battles. Imagine a fully MUed Mk6 with protection mods, DD, and DA marauding and pillaging poor innocent Rank3s with their Mk1-2s...just brutal.

How in the hell do you get Mk6 hull and turret at Rank3? This guy has played 435 hours and only has 1021XP. I know he is a gold digger, but damn Mk6! And he has spent almost two and a half hours in battles for every gold box he's caught...how friggin' BORING! Just goes to show ya, everyone has their own way of playing Tanki

Hey thanks, that is a very helpful list. OK, Imma buy me an Isida, cap flags, and score touchdowns for the next couple of weeks! Do you happen to know the same type of information for ASL and Siege? I'd like to put this complete list in my Tanki file...very handy, thanks ?

I love your name...really funny ?

So I see you are getting back to your old vicious habits of being insulting and condescending. I'm sure glad you're not a moderator any more...one of the only good decisions Tanki has made in the last few years. So battle funds, which are almost insignificant even when doubled, are in a ratio to XP earned. Normally you get a few crystals in a battle along with XP. Several months ago, Tanki reduced the amount of XP you gained with each kill because players were ranking up too fast to be able to generate enough crystals to keep up with upgrades. More time spent in ranking up means more time to accumulate income. When you almost double battle funds you are still left with a very small amount of crystals...virtually nothing when compared to the income (loot) to be found in weekly containers and regular containers earned from completing missions or even progressing through the Challenges. When you almost double the XP on the other hand you rank up very quickly, which is not always a desired situation....especially in the lower ranks. This is ratio is one of the reasons Premium has a lower rate of XP than income. I believe it is 1.5X XP and 2X crystals. So like I said before 1.75X XP is not welcome and will prevent me from using my lower account because it will make it rank too quickly...my choice; and you too are welcome to play Tanki how ever you wish. As far as liking to complain, I can't say that I like complaining, but Tanki gives one so very much to complain about....especially when you used to really love the game. I feel very cheated and almost abused by Tanki all the time...for years now. They are constantly changing things for the worse and compromising the game. The companies attitude is obnoxious and the spin-doctoring they put on the explanations of their decisions is infuriating to me. Tanki is frustrating. What is horrible is that it doesn't need to be. They had a great game and they could have a great game again but all I see it doing is declining in quality.

This 1.75X XP is really awful. It ranks my low account so quickly, there is no way to save up enough crystals to upgrade anything. I don't want to wreck my low account so I'm going to have to stop playing until this stupid 1.75 thing is over. Way to go Tanki dolts.

Not the worst thing in the world, but it is still kinda lame. The "We Love You" mission is now only for Rank11 and higher. The first day it was for everyone...now, I guess Tanki doesn't love us low rankers ?. I understand it in a way since a couple of containers to a Recruit is massive, but I think the threshold should be lower than Rank11...maybe like Rank5 or Rank6 How about it Tanki devs? Where is the love? Lower the threshold from Rank11 and make us lowly low ranks happy too...please.

Yeah, so I've been getting augments in containers. I usually have no idea which turret they are for since it isn't shown along with the augments name. I then have to call up the Wiki and peruse the whole augment list to find what my shiny new augment is connected to. Sooooo, i made a list and alphabetized it...yeah, I'm kinda that way. This might be much too fiddly for the Wiki and is a tad redundant. I kinda doubt you even want it in the Wiki, but if you might, here's the alphabetical list (save you a bit of work) Anyway, the Augments and their respective turret or hull as of May 5, 2020:

Yeah, so I've been getting augments in containers. I usually have no idea which turret they are for since it isn't shown along with the augments name. I then have to call up the Wiki and peruse the whole augment list to find what my shiny new augment is connected to. Sooooo, i made a list and alphabetized it...yeah, I'm kinda that way. It might come in handy for someone else. I titled this post so in might be found more easily in a search. I'm going to suggest adding this to the Wiki, but even I don't know if that is warranted. Anyway, the Augments and their respective turret or hull as of May 5, 2020: Adaptive reload - Hammer Assault rounds - Smoky Autocannon - Smoky Automated gunpowder loading mechanism - Magnum Berserk - Ricochet Broadband radiators - Isida Cold Immunity - Hulls Cold Resistance - Hulls Compact fuel tanks - Firebird Corrosive mix - Freeze Cryo rounds - Smoky Death Herald compulsator - Railgun Destabilized plasma - Ricochet Dragon's Breath - Hammer Duplet - Hammer Electromagnetic accelerator "Scout" - Railgun Electromagnetic salvo - Gauss EMP Immunity - Hulls Heat Immunity - Hulls Heat Resistance - Hulls Heavy capacitors - Shaft Heavy plasmagun - Twins Heavyweight Construction - Hulls High-capacity ammo clip - Hammer High-precision aiming system - Smoky High-pressure pump - Firebird High-pressure pump - Freeze Hyperspace rounds - Railgun Incendiary band - Vulcan Incendiary mix - Firebird Incendiary rounds - Smoky Large caliber rounds - Railgun Light capacitors - Shaft Lightweight Construction - Hulls Minus-field stabilization - Ricochet Missile launcher "Cyclone" - Striker Missile launcher "Hunter" - Striker Missile launcher "Uranium" - Striker Mortar - Magnum Nanomass reactor - Isida Plasma accelerators - Twins Plasma-torch - Ricochet Rapid-fire mode - Shaft Reinforced aiming transmission - Railgun Reinforced aiming transmission - Vulcan Reinforced gun carriage - Magnum Remote rocket explosives - Striker Round destabilization - Railgun Round stabilization - Railgun Rubberized rounds - Vulcan Shock freeze - Freeze Shooting speed regulator - Vulcan Short-band emitter - Shaft Sledgehammer rounds - Thunder Slugger - Hammer Small caliber charging machine - Thunder Stable plasma - Twins Stun Immunity - Hulls Subcaliber rounds - Thunder Supercumulative rounds - Smoky Support nanobots - Isida

No worries mate. I doubt you are "messed up". I, and now you, think your post was off, that's all. It takes a very reflective poster to change their mind and post about it. Thanks for being thoughtful and objective enough to see it another way. Although flying a kite or jumping in a lake sounds kinda fun ?

I do not want 1.75X XP. That is a very bad deal since it makes you rank faster....especially when it is connected to not even double battle funds.

OK, like what besides outright buying them, buying a battle pass, or buying etc. ? ? (Please don't include Coinboxes since statistically they take Tankions away from players)

I think someone posted something like this already, but I can't find it and it is worth mentioning again. The alts for 4990 Tankoins are for buyers not freebies. Here's why: 18 Tankoins per week from Weekly Containers 18 x 52 = 936 200 Tankoins per month from Challenges 200 x 12 = 2400 Total Tankoins in one year for 100% completion of all Daily Missions and Challenges 3336 Sure Tanki, the addition of Tankoins won't change the economy of the game one bit...they are just an addition so Mobile players can buy stuff too!

What a bunch of trash with this augment bull pucky.

It is beyond annoying not to be able to access missions and mission progress in HTML. Why does HTML have LESS features than flash? Please add access to missions from within a battle to HTML.

This game is getting too much crap in it. So can someone clarify this latest farrago for me. Turrets and/or Hulls can have either Heat Resistance or Heat Immunity or both? What does Heat Resistance do and what does Heat Immunity do? How many Tankoins and/or crystals do each cost. Do they both come in containers (to the lucky)?

What we don't know is the market. Tanki may assume (or even know) that they can milk a few whales for a larger bottom line than 1000 times as many smaller buyers. Maybe they have a small player base of super whales that they are catering to. 500 players that dump $10,000 a year into the game is way better than 10,000 players that spend $200 a year...especially since, besides the pod of whales, there will still be many many more smaller buyers. In the past, when the game was really fun to play, they had hundreds of thousands more players. We only know peak times but those peaks can be extrapolated. At one point there were 130,000 players at peak times, now there are 20,000 players at peak times during events. I just have to believe that the money people of Tanki would not let the player base drop so much if they weren't making more money than when they had seven times the number of players they have now. If they weren't making more money, they would revert the game to a time when they were making the most amount of money. We look at their updates as dumb and tragic, but the Tanki money guys just couldn't be so stupid as to lose income just to see changes put into the game. Tanki is making more money now than it was years ago...and with a much smaller player base. Normal logic like we players see it would be more players more income, but it may very well not be the case, especially when you consider the whale mentality. There are lots of people in the world with lots of money...unlimited money when it comes to something as trivial as a video game. Dropping $10K or $20K a year to keep yourself or your kid amused is nothing to the very wealthy. I have a business in the tourist industry and I see many many people spending $2000 or $3000 a day on just partying...and they are not even the super wealthy. Maybe that buyer that just creamed you and your team in the last battle has billionaire parents or is a billionaire themselves. Tanki may have a pod of whales that they cater to and we freebies and even small fish buyers just provide thinking targets for those that keep Tanki profitable. That would explain Tanki's seemingly endless hacking and chipping away at the game and turning it into trash from our (well, at my) perspective. I think the real problems will arise when there aren't enough players to generate battles in a timely manner, which is kinda happening now around restart time. Moving to 100% HTML is going to cut out quite a few players...which might be Tanki's B-Day in June when they say they will release Ares (Ares apparently won't work with Flash). It will all be interesting to see what happens.

Joeguy responed: To me, stuff like this is more painful to read than Tanki's blathering horse pucky. You are naive to think they listened to us. They anticipated our reaction and used it in their huge price increase scam. They played us (many of us anyway). The only feedback you gave them with your gushing post was that players are easy to fool. Tanki effectively took alts away from freebie players with such large price increases but made them accessible to buyers. 250,000 for an alt that used to cost 20,000 or even 50,000....5000 Tankoins? You aren't going to earn 5000 Tankions in a year! It's buyers only now...and you don't think they planned that??? Read my original post and see if it doesn't hit the mark:

BP/XP is the only thing that is really working in Pro-Battles. BP/XP players can generate enough income to keep their tanks competitive with just BP/XP. Tanki sees that many players are happy playing 95% BP/XP battles only. That means they are not playing enough MM battles. Power leveling is just an excuse for Tanki to pursue its agenda. Tanki needs to fill MM, especially with their dwindling player base. It is getting harder and harder to even get into a battle around restart time and I've been put in battles with players 12 ranks higher than me just because there are not enough players any more for those four or five hours around restart. Tanki's ***** band-aid solution is to drive BP/XP into playing MM. Players need to keep generating income so they can keep upgrading. Tanki views the BP/XP crowd as not contributing to MM or Tanki's bottom line as buyers because most can stay independent of MM by playing mostly BP/XP. Tanki pretty effectively guts BP/XP in one update. I think they will drive away more BP/XP players than they will make up for in increased MM player base. --------------------------------PS------------------------------ ***** That is not even close to a vulgar word. A hundred years ago it was a technological term and now it is in common usage...it's not even slang! Will you start censoring words like silly, dolt, foolish, cretin, dumb, dense, Bozo, fool, buffoon, dimwit, ignorant...what about illiterate? Readers, I've used a word that chafes at Tanki's chaps so please substitute one of the words above if they don't censor them...buffoonish is probably a better word anyway and closer to Tanki's actions in the BP/XP matter.

Question: Are days of Premium still available from containers? I thought I saw someone mention on the forum somewhere that Premium days were not in containers any more since the Ultracontainers (damn there are way too many kinds of friggin' containers). I can't find the comment now and the Wiki still shows that Premium is still a possible reward from either containers or ultracontainers....but maybe the Wiki is not current? Any insights?

It never ceases to amaze me how it is even conceivable that a company can sell a product that is supposed to do "X", then in a couple of weeks they negate that function or weaken it in some way to the point where it isn't even close to the "X" and the reason you bought it.

I have a bridge you might be interested in. It's a lovely reddish rust color and has a breathtaking view of San Fransisco Bay. I can let it go really cheap...just for you ?

Too true. And spending all that time to complete the mine mission just to get more mines is just horrifying.

Ouch, that has just got to hurt. All that time spamming mines, just to get mines....and lose 75 mines in the process. That is just bloody awful...condolences.