Hi and thanks for writing. Here's my two cents: 1. Since you know a term normie, you probably also understand how large the forum community actually is, compared to other channels for the game. I grew up on forums, spent most of my school and even college years ranking up post counts on local game, bootleg console and anime forums. I know how good it makes you feel, and the sense of importance that comes out of your status and recognition on the Forum. The hard, and the most brutal, truth of modern community management is that forums matter much less than they used to. It's all about social media. Here, we are a small group of players and administrators, talking to ourselves and our discussion is contained, repeated, stable. What matters in terms of plain numbers, community outreach and cursed SMM numbers are how many friends did you tell about the game, who are the people seeing your likes, shares, retweets and so on. It saddens me in a lot of ways to understand the cold reality, but that is the reality we live and work with. 2. I actually think we're doing pretty good on the Forum front, and plan to help the forum community become more prominent in feedback that goes back to the devs. We have several regions, one small dev team and a CM for each localization, which means there is no reasonable expectation for game designers or a project manager to come and talk to the community as often as I do, because that's not their job. What I hope we will do more often, and introduce on a regular basis, is to answer most common questions, especially during big releases like Black Friday and Assault mode, straight from the devs and translated and posted with the help of community managers. At the time of the crisis all who you want to hear the answers from are wiping away the sweat and bringing the game back online, and it's the job of a community manager, like me, to still manage to get official statements and explanations out of them. More developer interaction would certainly help and I will push for it. P.S. At the end of it, when resources are limited, every company, team and person has to make calls where to spend them. Me being on the Forum and trying to talk more often is not required by the job in the same capacity as managing social or in-game chats. It my choice, because I still believe that your core, most dedicated and loyal fans are the reason the game thrives or fades.

The matches are ongoing, and we plan to stream semi-finals and, of course, the Grand Finale :) New round will begin next year.

You won't believe, but I didn't have time to play it on the live servers yet, hope tonight. I hear it favors attackers a lot and on some maps can be a slaughter, but we'll see :)

That is the plan, unless Flash stops us from implementing new features.

Why you ask? Got something to work on? :ph34r:

At the moment both MM and Mobile version are planned for 2018, yes. I predict we'll hear specific dates, when they are ready, from V-LOG :)

Hi everyone, Right now developers are working on several fixes to most common issues, including kill zones, endless loading and server load. We will announce when the fixes are going live soon, follow this topic and in-game news for more info. Thank you for sending all the reports!

Nope, being a helper, a mod or an admin is a reward in itself. can I have some food now

It's late, the jokes are getting worse than usual, my bad. When helpers enter any contest, they must explicitly state in the nickname field that you're a helper, so all prizes go to players :)

Who said I didn't?

Everyone has to sleep, sometimes, and some are on the other side of the world :) What's the issue?

We aim for the first half of 2018, but you will hear a more specific date when it's ready.

Tankers! Earlier we announced a new mode — Assault — that will be added to the game soon. Good news! After server restart on Wednesday, 02:00 UTC December 13th, Assault mode will be released — just in time for the holidays! To remind you, the new mode will be available only on the new maps, meaning you will be able to access Assault by pressing “Play!” on the game mode button in the Lobby. In Assault mode the blue team defends, and the red team — attacks. Defence needs to protect a point where the attackers want to plant a flag. It’s very simple, but super fun! In PRO-battles the mode will appear only after new maps are added to PRO-battles. After analyzing data from the most recent update, we’ve also made a few changes to the new maps, to improve team balance in time for the release of Assault. Join the new battles tomorrow and tell us what you think about the new mode :)

Check your Garages :ph34r:

The rewards are coming in under an hour. Technical difficulties, apologies.

20:00 UTC.

Prizes for events happen on Monday, today, closer to midnight. We don't want to miss anyone and double check one final time.

Containers stay in the Garage after all events, they are yours until you open them :)

=== CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED === Tankers! Thank you so much for sending a lot of cool videos, and this holiday season we wish all of your video messages to come true! And now, after intense debates among the judges, the winners of «15 Seconds to New Year» contest are... The Winners @destroy-who 1st place: 100.000 crystals, 20 Gold Boxes, 10 containers and Tanki branded t-shirt and coffee mug. @White.Wo1f 2nd place: 70.000 crystals, 15 Gold Boxes, 7 containers and Tanki branded t-shirt and coffee mug. @I.StarLess 3rd place: 50.000 crystals, 10 Gold Boxes, 5 containers and Tanki branded t-shirt and coffee mug. Congratulations to the winners! We will be contacting you personally in PMs for shipping addresses, hold on :) The Runner-ups It was very tough to pick the winners, and we decided to award 11 more entries with runner up prizes! @WEPY (video) @mattheww0520 (video) @LaszloHunor (video) @mimko2001 (video) @Hippin_in_Hawaii (video) (video) @SiLEnCeR.T0 (video) @KY_TANKMAN (video) @navjeetsingh_tanki (video) (video) @devil3_EN (video) Congratulations to the runner ups! All 11 entries will receive 20.000 crystals, 5 Gold Boxes and 3 containers. Prizes will be delivered within 24 hours. --- Thank you for entering the contest, wishing happy holidays and New Year to fellow tankers and see you in 2018! ;) === ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT ===

=== CRAZY WEEKEND RESULTS AND DREAM TANKS === Tankers! It's been one of the most insane contests so far, and we're ready to announce the winners of Crazy Weekend! >> The full list of Crazy Weekend Winners<< We also randomly picked 2 lucky winners of Dream Tanks - fully upgraded tanks with turret, hull and module of your choice. Dream Tank Winners are... and , congratulations to both! Prizes for all participants will be sent out within 48 hours. Thank you for spending the weekend with us! :)

It's one of the features of the Forum engine and was disabled for reasons of player security. We always have to keep in mind what the nefarious scammers can use for their own goals. I plan to recruit new members personally :)

Number 2 ._.

Is that hacks? I wouldn't know :D

I do at least a mission every day, missing a couple if the week is busy. Ain't nobody giving me M1s for free :ph34r: Our recruitment is, at the moment, closed, but I will notify my second-in-command to announce its opening once we are ready.