I may have not understood this post, but You don't have to fully MU things before unlock ranks any more if you want to buy the next Mk for 0 crystals I have lots of low MK equipment on some of my accounts, including a Mk2/8 Titan on one of them (the account is Colonel rank). I still have the choice of buying the last two MUs for that Titan and saving some crystals or buying Mk3 if I don't want to wait If you keep MU-ing the Hunter, you will be able to get the Mk6 for 0 crystals at any rank when you have done 10 steps. But if you buy the Mk6 immediately after you get to Colonel, then that would be a waste of crystals If you meant that ranking up so fast (if you don't just do missions) means that MUs are possibly a waste of crystals because you'll get to the unlock rank and be able to buy the next Mk in a sale before you have finished 10 steps, then apologies

Me too My most recent encounter with stupid

Thanks for the tip My assault rounds alterations have been gathering dust since I bought them for all my accounts a long time ago, but I need to use them more, if only for fun

I'd support this if the other game modes were put in to a daily rotation (but daily missions would have to change too), so JGR, CP, CTF + TDM or ASL or SGE or RGB I don't dislike any of the game modes enough to want any of them removed (I've had good battles in all of them with good teams), but some consolidation of the smaller number of players in to fewer game modes has to happen to get more balanced teams

My take, no TL/DR Viking4s and other Hornet players have a valid point about Hornet being a low HP hull Hornet OD should not be able to ignore spawn protection Hornet OD should not charge whilst it is active Hornet OD should not be active for 20 seconds, no other OD allows its users to kill the same enemy twice during one activation

Absolutely If those missions were removed (something I might have supported before this experiment), I would stop playing

I've kept my accounts ticking over in the sense of only playing enough to complete 10 missions a week (was going to stop doing 20 missions a week anyway because it was taking too much time), but now I'm avoiding missions that earn lots of XP or completing them over several days, and often earning more XP per week for 10 missions than I used to get for 20. Two of my accounts (including this one) could probably cope with fast ranking and get to Lieutenant General / Mk7 kits for crystals with enough funds, but I'm holding back for now. Not the others though. This experiment has turned me in to a passive player, which is really boring, and I'm worried about the possible reasons for it, like accelerating new players' progress through the ranks so that some of them can make it to Legend before the game dies from lack of players.

This might be controversial, but I don't have a problem with OD Hornets one shotting me, same for being in the wrong place at the wrong time for Wasp, Viking, Hunter, or Mammoth What I do have a problem with is 20 seconds, I think I've been killed twice by the same Hornet during that 20 second window a few times. What's the justification for Hornet's OD duration being longer than that of Viking?

You can, which means that you're better off buying equipment for the first time as kits. So something I'm considering at my rank is the Mk6 Hornet + Striker + Striker module kit (kits include modules) for 253,300 crystals. Buying those things separately from Mk1 would cost 667,400 crystals, so buying the kit is like buying a hull and turret in a 50% sale and getting the module for free. The only equipment I'm buying at the moment (and only in 50% sales) is modules for turrets that I'm never going to use, anything else will be kits. (but with the daft XP experiment making the time between ranks so much shorter for everyone, it might not be worth buying kits below Mk7 any more) I thought the Mk update was a good idea in theory, but I've no idea why they compounded the problem (instead of solving it) of overpowered-for-their-rank players by converting M1/10s and M2/10s to Mk6 and Mk7 instead of Mk5/10 or Mk6/10, same for my 30% modules on this account (now all 34%) that got converted to Mk6 instead of Mk5/5. (I voted for challenges / stars because they reward players for scoring the most points instead of winning the battle, why care about losing when you can walk away with 3 stars?)

3000 XP in just four battles today, doing the last two missions (of ten) on one of my accounts Tempted to take a week off

I was tempted to equip the Jeans paint and caption a screenshot with "does my Arse look big in these?"

Look at the number of players - link - and note the small difference between the daily numbers and the mega-XP-boost weekend numbers (it should be higher) Maybe I have a bad memory, but I think those numbers were a bit higher at the start of this year I'm still hoping TO will last long enough for me to get to the rank where I want to spend most of my crystals (at 10 missions / week amount of playing), but I'm not sure it will

I had fun pushing Ares' off the edges in Archipelago with Hunter, even though I couldn't damage them with my turret

It’s hopeless I gave up with it and tried equipping a Mk8 Hunter (also tried Wasp) so that I could literally drive in circles around these slow hulls that can’t turn their turrets, but the test server only allowed me to do damage with Ares

This is turning out to be a real kick in the teeth for me. I'm focusing on the missions which I like the least from a gameplay perspective (the easy ones, the ones that you can complete without scoring points) and doing things that I used to hate teammates doing just so I can finish 10 missions without earning too much XP. I'm only playing this weekend in case I get some easy missions, hopefully avoiding having to do all three missions tomorrow or on Tuesday. I think taking pay-to-win to the next level was allowing Lieutenant Colonels to buy Mk7 kits, allowing them to wreck F2Ps (or people who don't want to buy equipment early) all the way from Lieutenant Colonel to Lieutenant General.

I know it's tempting to push "useless" teammates off things (especially camping Shafts), but that sort of thing is much more likely to get you banned than any chat violation

I've reached the rank where I can buy a Mk6 Striker / Hornet kit, have encountered a few players that are very good at "hide > shoot > hide > enemy doesn't know where the rocket has come from" with that combo, and that difficulty level is tempting I don't want an easy life in Tanki, even though I only use Smoky (easy in some ways, not in others)

I think the new turret will increase enemies' XP in addition to doing damage

Something weird is happening I just finished a battle where I earned 235 crystals (and 315 XP), but my crystals amount has increased by 2735

Exactly I'm now trying to do 10 missions a week without getting too much XP, and this isn't going to help

Perhaps I am a masochist, but I don't have a problem with the delay on Hunter's OD, and I only use Hunter I think Hunter would be OP without the delay, and I'd miss the thinking / strategy that's needed to use it effectively (edit to add: revealing OD readiness to everyone was dumb)

I'm still confused by container rituals / beliefs. I always open mine one at a time, and as soon as I get them. Sometimes I get runs of mediocre luck, only got one Epic container from my 11th Birthday ones (44 containers), but I opened Legendary containers on the 15th of May, 30th of May, and the 14th of June. My lowest ranked account has had the worst luck, only one Legendary container and no 100K containers.

It's "the ability to choose whether you want this boost or not" ... would be ideal (got the message, will reply later)

I'm not happy because I'm not in a hurry to get to Legend (don't think I'll ever get there) and just want to get to Lieutenant General with enough crystals to buy and upgrade a Mk7 kit and the modules I already have to Mk8, and I earn most of my crystals from containers and missions instead of battle funds (I have 2,433,352 crystals at the moment on this account if I include unused gold boxes and weekly containers, but have only earned 516,060 crystals) I rarely play beyond completing daily missions, averaging 5,000 XP a week, so getting 15,000 XP a week is going to hurt my earnings, even though it means chewing through the 250,000 XP I need to get to Lieutenant General faster I'm happy to get there slowly and with more crystals Was going to say the same thing, and it would give TO some useful data by seeing which players / ranks opt in

Oi, leave Hunter alone I think the only problem with Striker is people using it when they don't have the skill. For people who have the skill, it's deadly (and they don't rely on the lock on) If I had to remove a turret, it would be Gauss, but Shaft is really annoying me at moment because of stupid teammates using it with Mammoth and camping in the same spot for entire battles and achieving nothing for the team