After Halloween, I am just about ready to throw in the towel and stop play Tanki. Well, at lest stop doing Daily Missions. I am tired of being forced into DM battles. I like Isida for its healing abilities not its attack. If I wanted to play DM all the time I would use Firebird. I used to have fun playing Tanki, but around the Paint Separation update things took a turn for the worse. I retired my original account as it was getting too high in rank and drugging was getting to be too much. Ha! Now, even at a low rank, drugging is all there is anymore. It is not fun to have to think about when to press 1 2 3 4 5. Tanki used to be driving around shooting other tanks and it was fun. Now, with the outrageous drug use, to compete you have to ue drugs and that means you think less about shooting and driving and more about when to activate which drug. It is still a type of strategy, but not one I like. In fact I ditched a fairly high ranking account and started over just because I didn't like all the drugging. Without Daily Missions, I can do a mission if they are appealing and do Pro Battles even though it is kind of hard to find a good pro battle unless it is prime time. I won't be able to upgrade as fast without the weekly mission reward, but maybe it will maake Tanki fun to play again. It is too bad the developers screwed the game up so badly.

Hazel-Rah, as the head developer, should have gotten fired a long time ago, the the money people behind Tanki don't seem to care what he does to the game or the numbers. Any sane business would be horrified at a drop in customers like Tanki has experienced in the last year. The joke is that the Forum Helmet Icons (our only real link to administration) sing the tune of natural attrition. They blindly think (or say) that huge drop in players has nothing to do with crap updates and tragic game changes even though the update deluge coincides with the numbers drop off. And they have thousands of individual testimonials from their own players saying how bad the updates have been. It is a serious bafflement from any kind of business perspective. I believe "insane" might be the operative word.."Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"...and Hazel-Rah is at the helm.

I said MM is an abomination. 1. horrible lag and crashes 2. terrible balance of ranks 3. why move the mission button? 4. disproportionate scoring and crystal rewards 5. no choice of maps (and these same maps over and over) 6. long boring waits (three minutes one time just to be routed right back in the queue again) 7. mandatory exit after each game I also believe that if MM were to be implemented now, players would soon learn to quit battles as soon as they felt they were losing because of the pathetically small amount of crystals awarded to the losing side. There is some of this even now after two days. This will make battles terrible to play. We will end up spending more time waiting in queue than battleing. PLEASE re-think this atrociously bad Matchmaking system and do not implement any form of it other than as an option to replace the silly Battle Button.

MM is an abomination. I have NEVER experienced so much LAG and so many CRASHES. I have been in 1st place three times in my last three games and each time the game crashes with two minutes left to play. It starts with me getting killed then spawning back in as a ghost of my tank (see through). I can drive but not fire and all the other players are stationary. About 20 seconds of this and the game screen goes blank. I log back in asap and, no game, no reward, but xp has been awarded. Previously without MM I did get an occasional crash, but most of the time I could log back in and take up where I left off, or at least the game awarded the crystals earned. With MM I spent 45 minutes to wait in queues at least a dozen times, play three battles totaling about 24 minutes, spent dozens of repair kits, countless double damage, many double armor, mines, speed and I got NOTHING! I will wait until tomorrow and this moronic MM is gone to get my 1st place. I quit for the night. Again angry and frustrated when log out of Tanki. Just not a glowing testimonial for MM or Tanki.