We are initially planned Smart Cooldowns and Predictable Drops to be complementary. Your experience on test server is a good news to us.

This is not that kind of skill you need around. You either know or you do not know where the drop zone is. You can learn it, but learning is not the skill, it is HOW you use that knowledge should be considered as skill. Besides, doesn't it make less fun to play on new maps? You should learn where the drop is before you can adequately fight. Seeing where the drop is you can learn and use that knowledge faster. In this case we are removing skill of knowing where and what is being droped, but allowing more people to get into skill of using the drop. Makes sense to me.

Oh yes I do... But it took some effort to tune it for acceptable game experience

When siren goes off one of predetermined gold box drop zones will become visible. So yes, you will be able to know where it will be dropped. But being able to find the place and actually finding the place are different things. I mean, you can find it and stay on it doing nothing, pretending you haven't found anything. Or you can shoot enemy tank one by one coming to your spot, guarding the zone. Or you can do it old fashion way standing in the circle with other tanks. And... well... what we need is diversity — gold hunt should take different forms. Standing still is not that fun as fighting or looking for something. I mean, catching a gold box will require more meaningful efforts, rather than waiting and hoping for luck.

I consider this kind of situations as a serious level-design flaws. Teams should have somewhat equal chances.

First of all — I am not the one who makes decisions. I only make them happen. Secondly — it is going to be a riddle to some extend but also it will be something else. This new system will make different experiences during gold drop on every map due to sometimes odd gold box placement. Madness map going to have some really wierd ones. You will never know if it going to be a slaughter in the middle of the map or you will have to run all over the map and fight only one enemy, who found the spot faster. Also, the drop time will have wider spread.

Faster your battle fund goes — bigger their value gets. And vice versa. So yeah, in simple terms if it is going to be dropped 5 old crystal boxes the system will give you only one, but 5 times the worth.

No, I do not think that in maps like sandbox it will be hard to find gold spot, you can even remember all of them. But this is not going to help you much :D You will never know which zone is activated and you are not going to get to the spot safe for sure. Does everybody forgot how gold been dropped back in the old days? Well, it is not going to be that easy and predictable anyway.

Will be where? There like 10 to 20 Gold zones per map. You will have to find one first :D

Oh, now I see where the idea to remove drug kits came from.

Will fix it.

You're still in it! Good :]

Yeah, sure. Welcome back anyway :)

Still, I find it curious that you do remembered that update, but you haven't point out yet that you couldn't get more crystals back then. You know, back in 2012 crystals weren't multiplied by 10.I dunno, if I where you and would be back after 2 years I would be shoked that I can get 1000 now, when I could get only... 150-200 in 2012. Curious that is.

2k in 100 kills battle two years ago? Yeah, right

Yeah... they are still leaving... you know... ^_^ This is what happens, when you put some effort into convenience for majority of your players, even if you sacrificing a little bit of your income. By the new year this game will rock, I am telling you. Next awesome updates are almost ready.

Nope, it's much more than that. We have already launched 9 additional servers.

Oh well. Next time I will not put so much effort to make it look special then.

Lol, remembered this photoshopmadskillz about game servers I made back in the day when I was tester. 2012 was so long ago :mellow:

But he's not alone who think this font is unreadable.

By removing self-damage thunder will turn into noob gun that doesn't need to be aimed and positioned properly. Just point to enemy general direction and hold the button, splash will deal with the rest. This is not the way it ment to be played. Self-damage won't be removed.

I know! That was that guy! The Gold Bill :D

You're still fight it, don't you? I know about your little rebellion on october 1st. I know your other plans. And I know that you are losing this war. But keep up a good fight! It keeps me in a good shape as a developer ;)

You are welcome. And as long as this is neither idea nor suggestion, I am locking this topic.