Personally I like the sound of shaft, I wouldn't expect a laser gun to be loud

Tbh if you get bonus score for getting destroyed by healing, then it wouldn't really help you to gain battle score faster, as respawning takes plenty of time, so i think it's be a fair mechanic.

You have explained that you don't get more than 1112 damage with an arcade shot wothout a damage boost box, but that's exactly how it should work. As I mentioned even for a maxed shaft with SBE, you should get 1161 critical damage, and with your modification this number is 1112. Similarly, you are not supposed to deal 5000+ sniping all the time with boosted damage, as remember, the enemies often have DAs. Probably what changed for you in the higher ranks is that most people there have active DAs, so you'll experience the effect of boosted damage much less often. The numbers i posted are from the wiki: Shaft - Tanki Online Wiki Damage - Tanki Online Wiki If you still think that the damage dealt by you is miscalculated, please report to video so we can see what you mean.

To me it looks like you don't exactly know what damage you should deal or how damage is calculated. I don't know from where have you got those numbers in your post, but even for a maxed shaft, with SBE, this is the damage you should deal: 923 arcade damage, 1161 critical shot damage, and 3300 for the sniping shot, when it's fully charged. About how capable your combo is, i specifically tested your setup yesterday: shaft SBE, hunter (I refuse to use viking with shaft), saboteur drone, and unequipped a few things to make my GS lower (I can't unupgarde my shaft though, but as your's is also at least mk7, it shouldn't matter much). Even though this is not the most impressive result, it does show that you can get decent results with it, so it's not like it became impossible to use this combo at legend ranks.

The main source of crystals is not from the battles, and that's how it has been since years. Actually, you'll get most of your crystals from containers, so make sure to go for completing all missions if possible. With that, you should have enough income to max a few combos quickly. I'm not sure what do you mean by this. What is the upgarde level of the drone you are using? (I assume you are using DBs when it's possible). Maxing out your hull and protection modules definetely makes you a bit harder tartget, but the difference is not huge. So it's not like if you start being more active you have no chance if you don't have a maxed garage. As long as the rank gap is normal, this is not about matchmaking, rather game design: how to make 'new' engame players competent enough, but not let players max their garages too quickly? It is not an easy question, and cannot be solved perfectly, but i think one of the main issues is that the power gap between paylocked and normal augments is too big, but you'll suffer from that even if you're a legend f2p. Imo this has been probably worse though, during the status augments era where you met a lot of them, yet with brutus the effect for you was much more significant. These days status augments are generally weaker, thus you come across less of them.

Playing in legend battles after getting used to playing with lower ranked players is indeed much harder, however I'd like to note that it's actually good news if you only experienced this at the marshal rank. This rank was always able to play with legends, and before bots were introduced, you'd find yourselves in such battles much earlier. Even few years ago when i was 1-2 ranks before marshal, i already played in legend battles. Of course, the economy changed a bit since then, but as i see you have pretty decent equipment to fight with legends. Don't think that all legend players are buyers, actually, most of them are just f2ps who played long in enough to max their garage and unlock many augments. Of course, they have the ability to change their equipment and protection modules can help a lot, but generally speaking, a maxed drone (if you don't have enough crystals, brutus) and mk7 equipment should be enough to stay somewhat competent. If you want to achive better result, i recommend you to max 1-2 combos at sales, and only then spend your crystals on modules, as the latter is really expensive. Also, camping in legend battles is probably much less rewarding than it was before, so you might want to try out other playstyles as well and be more active in battles. So basically, what I wanted to say here is that playing with legends while just reaching marshal indeed makes it harder for you, but it's not as significant as you'd first think (imo).

Actually 100%-90% is indeed 10%. So this is how math works. I don't think this discussion leads to anywhere; but i'll state my opinion. This event is done smartly because there are no real extra costs. Of course, someone had to prepare it and calculate its effects, but that's no different from the case of a regular event (and actually, not even an extra page was needed for it, the already existing mission tab was used). Of course, we could consider the cost of the reward itself. However, if we had a 'normal' event, it would also give some 'free' (or, considering the cost of the event pass, I could perhaps say highly discounted) rewards, so it's not much more than a normal case, but you get something else in exchange: data. Even if most of the new accounts are created by existing players, developers can collect data about low level gameplay and progress, so they use this to make it better before they'd choose more expensive methods of gaining new players (like ads, if they ever want to do that). Not mention that even if most new accounts won't be actually new players, there'll definitely be some real new players, for which the waiting time will be decreased due to the more amount of active players on low ranks, so this is a win-win situation. Even if you're not interested in participating, the best you can do is to not care about it. It's not like that this event is going to further increase the gap between a p2w and a f2p players...

So first of all, according to my knowledge, the server has been in Netherlands since ages, and the other servers (USA, brasil) got shut down at least 4-5 years ago. I don't think tanki ever had a server in the middle east. The reason why your ping went up is the ddos protection, but that impacted everyone, so not even the european players are chilling with 30-50 ping. Secondly, the issue with adding a server to the middle east (or basically, anywhere else) is that the game doesn't have enough players to make the waiting times reasonable when splitting up MM into different servers. Also, running servers in the middle east would be pretty expensive, as servers need more cooling than in a colder country (like the Netherlands). Nevertheless, I think tanki is a game where ping matters much less than in FPS games, for example, so 250-300 ping shouldn't make the game unplayable. I'm not saying you won't have any drawback, you might not deal damage from time to time, for example, but it's not like having a 150 ping disadvantage will make you lose all fights. About the locales, till many years, for every langauge that the game had, alternativa had an employee (for example, a CM), so probably an arabic locale wasn't added as they didn't have/couldn't find someone who could speak it and translate the game into that language. Recently, they split langauges and locales, where the latter has CM and own community, while they intruduced game translations with the help of volunteers. So if the arabic locale indeed has many players, then probably they'll translate the game into it sooner or later, suggesting that in a separate idea might be worth it. (My guess is that in order to start translating the game into a langauge, first they'll need at least a few existing helpers who can speak it and willing to be a game translator, so that they can make sure there will be people who can start maintaining the project in that langauge).

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Greater than 45°? That sounds a bit illogical. It's probably a disadvantage, as now if you miss and hit for example the wall behind the enemy, then it won't explode and deal damage.

Yes, on the other hand the mine supply is much cheaper than a grenade.

That avatar was well deserved

Running 7km in 30 meters would be impressive

Finally the snowballs mode is back, and on a new remastered map! Too bad it'll only last a week.

Luckily now we have a site to link - if you want to remove these, just go and play Tanki Classic once it comes out.