This year in Tanki has been crazy. So many new changes, alts, updates, and the creation of TO mobile, which btw, I can't play in yet because I live in Canada. For the year of 2018, I started out by hoping to achieve a better k/d. This dream was crushed quite fast. But that didn't mean I couldn't just try something else; and that goal was to see how much crystals I could attain in a year. Honestly, I ended up spending some of them, but I am currently at the highest amount of crystals that I have ever had. So while people may make fun of my total lack of skill, what they don't know is how much more cri I have than them. Except for the buyers... Who are the buyers? They are, (in my opinion) the hated ones in Tanki, and also the envied ones. Throughout this whole year, I’ve been put in so many battles where I was thinking that “Ok, everyone here is a lower rank than me. Easy peasy.” And then I see all these lower ranks than me running around with M2’s destroying everyone around them while I still can’t access those same M2’s… Weird. And the only surefire way to play with people around my skill level or rank would be to buy a battle pass and create my own battle or join someone else’s. As if I have more crystals to spare. The thing is, I’m not that bad. If you saw my k/d around a year ago, you would have thought that I’m pretty good. But the rate of buyers grew, and while Tanki needs money to run and all that, it made kids use ‘their daddy’s wallet’ (or moms), which, btw, is a phrase I’ve heard quite a lot this year. Along with ‘Gold plz admin’. And I’m not a hypocrite so I’ll tell you that I have used those three words a few times this year. Not that I actually ended up getting those gold boxes or anything. But that leads to the happiest moment for me in the Tanki 2018 year; getting 10 gold boxes from a container. And then dropping them by mistake each time I tried to press 5 to drop a mine, because my fingers are too clumsy. The same clumsiness is probably also the reason why I have close to double the amount of deaths then I do in kills. Quite often, I would turn my turret left when the enemy is on the right and vice versa. But then again, I do enjoy being the team healer. This year, I tried a few different turrets in the hopes that that would make me stop using Isida, the turret that I’ve pretty much almost always stuck with since I bought it back in the day. (I’ve been playing for a few years so I still remember those times when skill actually mattered more than how much money you were willing to spend.) The same for freeze. I love its power and the fact that the strongest mammoth becomes frozen with fear when the liquid nitrogen strikes against its side, causing the great hull to become immobilized and wait in desperation for its punishment to end. So, what did I learn? Well, I learned that it’s just better that I stay away from playing with Shaft and Striker. I seriously admire players who can play with those types turrets and end up in one of the top places in the battle, without causing too large of a dent in their bank account. Well, probably half of what I wrote was about buyers and all that, but in all honesty, every time I decided to stop playing Tanki and find another game, a week later I would be back with my friends, joining a battle and ranting about those annoying buyers and trying to get more cri so that I could get a good kit that wouldn’t make me lose all my money. So, my 2018 Tanki year, overall, tears of joy and tears of grief alike. Thanks for creating a great game so that I can waste more time of my life and watch while people steal gold boxes that were meant to be mine.