I think that as a rail gunner you have to choose your maps. Some really suit the railgun, Massacre being my favorite right after Rio. Some of the smaller maps really don't. Pick your battles. Railgun is a medium to long range weapon, yes it will kill at short range, but the reload time only allows one shot before the other tank is on you. Pretty much all you can do is drop a mine and back up and if the other guy is any good he'll drive round the mine and still kill you. It's not just knowing what your gun will do but you have to know the strengths and weaknesses of all the others too. Low ranking rail gunners probably haven't worked out the way the gun works. or have paired it with a light hull and don't yet have the skill to scoot and shoot. A rail/light is an effective weapon but you have to know how to use it to get the best out of it to last very long in a battle.

I was going to start an etiquette post but I'm not sure where to do it so I'll start it here and I'm sure someone will point out where it should go. I play railgun/dictator sniper/goalkeeper, what most forum members would decry as a camper. To be fully candid I have a premium account occasionally (for the EXP boost and the drugs) and I am a light to moderate drugger. Etiquette for players with a railgun sniper on their team. Written with tongue firmly in cheek and should be read in same manner. If I have an overdrive star I am saving it for when the other team attack, no amount of bumping me or shooting me with your flamer will get me to overdrive you when you have full health and a star of your own. Thank you for healing me Isida but next time please do it from the side or behind. I can, and will, shoot through you to hit an attacker. This is sometimes taken as an insult. If I am not actually firing this means I am aiming. I am fully capable of hitting other tanks at the maximum range of railgun. It is hard enough to do with the other team shooting at me without my own teammates putting me off. Please take the time to drive around me instead of trying to push me out of your way or crashing into me due to poor driving skills. Freeze, Isida, Firebird, and Hammer turret users seem to be prone to doing this, maybe because they don't have to aim. On the rare occasion that another player overdrives me it is not necessary to smash into me at top speed to do so. As a defender/goalkeeper I will be using drugs to help the team. DD and DA help to keep the other team away from the goal and will allow me to slot that firebird/Isida/freeze before it can kill you ridiculously quickly and capture the point/flag/another kill. I am spending my Xtals and in some cases real money on the team, please have the same consideration and come and lay a few mines in front of me. Please feel free to add any other pointers that might help others with a sniper on their team. Trolling and haters also invited, particularly about drugs or in game buying. :D

I've been playing a lot recently due to being ill and it takes my mind off feeling so c$ap. Last time I put so much time into a game was Quake back in the dialup days! I'm a railgun/dictator sniper, so I spend most of my time camped out in front of the flag/base/cap goalkeeping for the team and helping out my teamates by slotting the Isida or Firebird killing them. I think a lot of the problem with one sided battles it that few players actually play as a team and when a group works well together it overwhelms the other side. Most players seem to treat the battles as a different type of TDM. If I flip an attacker there's no point in putting another shot into him as upside down he's ineffective (unless on a CAP) and I move on to another target. Then I see three or four players rush towards the upside down tanker to get a kill. Players don't want to play the equipment they have. This is more obvious on open maps such as massacre (my favorite) fast hulls with short range turrets hanging back in the base area and heavy hulls with shaft blundering towards the flag. I played a CTF battle today with the opposition working well together, using their equipment well, gathering together in cover to overdrive the maximum number of players and then attacking in waves. We didn't stand a chance but it was a joy to watch. How many of you have left a blowout while on the winning team? Or do you gather round and wrack up the spawn kills like everyone else? What I need to find out is how the entire team can be fully drugged up seconds after the game starts!

Hi All. I've been noticing tankers of my rank playing with turrets and hulls that I am unable to get due to not having enough rank to unlock them. Just got totally destroyed by a group of players of the same rank using M2+ equipment when the most I can seem to field is M1+. Can anyone explain to me how to unlock or purchase above my rank?