They tried before and it didn't worked out well, so don't expect a change soon. The forum is primarily for the benefit of the players (us) to exchange among the community and also receive news or participate to contest, not really a platform for communication between Alternativa and the players. Alternativa do answerers questions via the v-log or the CM.

No everybody is OP like you :) We tend to forget what is required to get top 3. Unlucky. :( 15 times top 3, it is manageable for good players in a week, but it is hard for average players. ​But you have done one already, don't give up 14 to go! That's a fair point. Even reducing the number to 10 would be still difficult and with no option to change it you are stuck with it. Option to change after a week or 2 week should be available. You should feed back on the main post (New Missions, Drones Update) if you have not done it yet.

I claimed today a mission I have done yesterday (the mission was still there unclaimed), and the system crashed :D ("error connection") Still I got the rewards associated with and the premium reward even if I didn't see it displayed.

The mission was still there unclaimed. I claimed it and the system crashed :D Still I got the rewards associated with and the premium reward even if I didn't see it displayed.

Yes "what the owner wants", he has an idea of what the game design and mechanics should be and then hire people to build the game the way he intended, so he is right to do so. I write a book and I make the story, I don't; let someone write on my behalf. However if I'm wise (and looking to make money) I would seek council from experts (good one if I can afford one) or friends I trust. I'm right to do so - even if my story is crap and make a big flop. Is it right for all the players? We all know that you cannot please everybody, consequently he builds the game to target certain clients, and he would (he should) listen to them to make the proper changes. Question is who are the consumer target and how much the owner is willing to concede and make the adjustment? "propaganda", "public relation", "you sound like x" have a paranoid side - I should better not feed that.

Edit: Yes it is my opinion which I can expresses freely, I hope. I might sound positive on the updates, well what's wrong with that? Hence why it looks like it comes from TO, but why would TO do what I'm doing since TO never listen according to the general opinion? Why do you do add all this unnecessary teaser like: "You work for TO? (but have no badge)" - what's your gain? The summary of Blackwasp and the different points he touch upon relates concerns from players as he perceives it and you agree on that, but the tone suggest the need of improvement rather than the removal of them, is it what you match with your "Plain Wrong"?

Lets see what happens tomorrow: The DM are filled with vik/hammer and the hammer alteration double shot - they just ram you and shoot you at point blank.

Those are all legitimate questions. ​I could not find anime character on the net that would suit those secondary protagonists. The early introduction of Cardinal's pic is a teaser for the next chapter (animes and mangas does it a lot). I will let you search the word Troika on Wikipedia, it has to do with Triumvirate and Russia. ​Like any boxing match there is always a Boxing poster of x Vs. Y, so this chapter is a preamble to the match and not the match. I introduce partially the 2 adversaries in that chapter.

​Which updates are you referring to and what does you qualify as PLAIN wrong for you? Give me some precision so I can tell you my sentiment about them. ​There is one update I'm not happy with, is the pro-battle list by order of creation, and I'm pretty sure it is on purpose to counteract ... well I have no idea what. ​The big pictures is: TO 2.0 is still a beta game (lots of opportunity to cheat your way to the top and not everything is automated), so 2 years ago they decided to finish the game and to accomplish that, they took a large chunk of the developers resources away from TX to finish TO. Very soon you will have a complete picture of the final game that they envision 2 years ago. So Goodbye TO 2.0 and welcome Neo TO. ​They revisited the battle creation, the score system, the missions system (which now is similar to bigger game, battle pass and challenges), the interface (yet to be added, but already in mobile version), added a couple more mechanics (OD, Drones, alterations, battle modes, containers) and more equipment (sticker magnum, skins, color shot)... ​All in all this is not one update but a lot more to conceive the Neo TO. The price to pay is that many players have left the game and that the openness, choices (battle and map) and the wild west spirit is now banished to the pro-battle part. I won't be surprise if no xp will be earned there, I feel it is still a temporary solution. Many updates are not understood by players especially if you look at them one by one and if they are a an interim step to a bigger update (e.g. missions updates). However if you look at the bigger picture they are all for a better Neo TO.

The next Chapter is out! http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=377970 [The Blue Sphere] Chapter II – Cimarron Vs. Troika

Tank you very much, Venerable Dictabot.

Let's find out then about your theory. The mysterious daily mission disappearance. I'm 100% aligned on the after and before, you must have confused me with someone else. Just one request leave riddler out of this, I can't see what you are trying to convey with this behaviour, you usually have better argumentation to stress out a point, why stooping so low? Maybe the lure of having your name again this year here: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=367253

Halloweenee potato of course!

Find Arabic players that can write in the first place, then make them write in the AWC and then we can talk. Otherwise is it just a wish in the wind.

I can still play and do 3 missions today and tomorrow and claim them on Tuesday, without playing on Monday. Sounds like a good idea no? That's 3 out of 10, then do minimum 1 mission per day on the following days, the 10 missions is relatively easy. On weekend, I have more time to play consequently I can complete from 3 to 9 missions, so here again I can catch up easy. It's clear I won't be able to do the 20 missions in one week but two. This mean 3 containers + 3 weekly containers every 2 weeks, it is a total of 9 containers + 9 weekly containers. Before it was 8 containers + the other bits (and it was only when we reach week 10). Now every week is the same.

Wait for the next chapter :ph34r:

I finished all my weekly missions yesterday. I can't wait for the next round of weekly mission :) The additional weekly mission number one is a really good idea, more missions = more rewards. I played a few new maps, and MM Sandbox is really good. MM Parma is meh, plus the view, from the top, is blocked with all your team players health bars, can't aim properly. MM Sandal is too small and cramped.

Seems to me like you have issue with playing this game. Too many questions or barrier you have and you seem to overthink a lot for not much ado. Just play the game.

If you look at screenshots from mobile battles results (I saw two somewhere) and look at the GS range of the players you will find clues on what TO is doing in term of players tiers MM. The mobile interface displays more information than the current interface. I'm talking about team battle. ​For DM, a wide range of rank is not the best, but you can still leave the battle if you don't like it as doing so you would not putting your teammate in danger :) (unlike team battles). So have no remorse to leaves DM and Juggernaut battle early.

You could watch the v-log it is all explain in it.

ty for letting some works to Kaisdf All Russian names sounds like that :D, especially if you give them a knife. I think Penguin retreated to Antarctica.

Thank you Sly for the approval and the edits, the flow is way better (and my Franglish wordings a mere memory). It's a project that I started 2 years ago and I am glad it has now finally started. ​Being a Tankiverse story, it is fair to get inspired both by the game and the community - beside finding so many name for the requirement of the story is a lot of work. A lot of this actually exist (the Institute, the secret Russian laboratory, Tokamak, Electrolux, ...), and use of nicknames could offend some people. Thanks, you make me blush, (hippin is way better, and Penguin40 was good). TLM was a training exercise to improve my writing skills to deliver TBS. Without the time spent on TLM, I would not have dreamed of writing such a long first chapter. I'm a bit scared by the scale of the task though. I was like 4 chapters will do and that is it, but it seems that it's going for a longer run. I do have 15 ideas for the TLM though, so it is not dead, just on hold. Don't blame Ninja, who want's to be associated with a flavourless name of a global home appliance manufacturing companies :D

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental or come from an alternate universe. Read next part here. Previously on TBS II – Cimarron Vs. Troika February 1999 - Brest, France “Watch out!” warns Viktor (nickname Shadowstar). “Two opponents sneaked behind our base from the left flank. They wounded Nik (nickname LLapb) and me.” “Don’t worry baby Vik, stay put by the flag, I got your back now. These noobs will not escape from my crosshairs.” Tobias (nickname Letloose) replies with a smirk. “Clean the base, I’m coming with the enemy flag.” announces Kilian (nickname Drako123), “I’m on the left flanks behind the white tall building. Mikasa (real name Leoni), shake the nasty one on my tail, plz.” “Vik, СЫН, dinner is served.” calls Anna, his mum, from the kitchen below. “Come down please.” The young boy removes his headset and mutes the micro. “Mum, later, I’m playing and I’m in the middle of a clan war right now.” He shouts back slightly displeased with this embarrassing situation. On his computer screen, an enemy dashed to the flag which was left undefended while he had lost his focus from the ongoing battle. “Come now or it will be cold! Tell your little friends to pause the game for you until you come back,” insists firmly his mother. He mimics a facepalm. “No mum, I really can’t. It doesn’t work like that,” He replies in despair and totally mystified by his mother suggestion. On the headset, his clanmate Nik screams “Flag, Vik, mult, what are you doing?! Kill the attacker!”. “Ugh!” he finally moans. He put back on the communication device and announces gloomily. “Sorry guys, I’m really, really sorry, but I got to go now, it’s dinner time.” “LOL”, “Vikbro?”, “Noob!”, “Was zur Hölle?” He can hear among the stunned reaction. “T’abuses vraiment mec,” complains Killian in French, the leader of the [CMR] Cimarron Clan, and his best class buddy in real life. He personally knows his best friend’s mother and he is fully aware that he cannot argue with her. His friend is too nice, and he respects her a lot. Since they moved to France from Russia, she had the difficult task to raise him alone as a single mother in a foreign country. “It’s ok Vik.” the leader finally adds, before instructing his team with new orders. “BlackMamba (real name Jaspal) come online and sub Shadowstar. You go midfield and I drop in defence. Tobias, move to attack and let loose with your skillz.” “Yeeeeessssssss!! Come at me bro,” yells Tobias. “Let’s solve this stand-off and WIN this game!” He declared, on a positive and decisive tone to his remaining teammates online. Reluctantly Vik logs off, leaves his bedroom and walks down the stairs to have dinner, while the rest of the Cimarron clan members have fun on the multiplayer online video game. By the kitchen’s window, a small cracking radio has finished to announce the local headlines of the day and it is now covering the international news. “…Today’s focus is about Russia with the troubles in Syldavia.” the device broadcasts on a monotonous tone, “Mr. Voniasuhk, deputy at the Russian's State Duma, as declared earlier today, that Russia as a sovereign country will not tolerate interference from foreign governments into its internal affair. Too long, …” This is the 13th of February 1999, the eve of his 18th birthday. On this special evening his mother announced to him that as he will soon legally be a grown-up, she thought that it would be a good idea to get him a passport before it becomes administratively too complicated. Secretly, without him noticing, she’d managed to apply for and obtain two passports: one Russian and one German. Yes, Viktor Wolfenstein has a double nationality. Firstly, his mother Anna is a Russian from Perm district, and additionally, he is born in Moscow district. Secondly, his father, Kurt Wolfenstein, is a German from Cologne. Anna switches off the radio and hands over to him and announces, smiling, “Happy birthday in advance, my little man.” Happy, he thanks his mother as he is not mad at her anymore. With these new documents, he will be able to realise a project that the Cimarron clan members have set up together. For months they have talked about meeting each other in real life during this summer holidays. Their plan is to first all gather in France for a week at Vik’s place, followed by another week in Germany at Leonie’s place and an additional fortnight in Russia at Nik’s place. Four weeks to tour some part of Europe, playing games, having fun together and, before all, relax after the school exams. It would not have been possible for him without a passport. After the dinner he will announce the good news to the clan. Same day – Aleksandrovsk, Russia A sleek shadow of an athletic and fit girl slides soundlessly in the long corridor of a vast and dim old Manor. The figure with untidy black hair moves towards a grand painting depicting a frail and sophisticated woman. As Daria furtively pass by, her intense brown eyes ignore the stern and empty look of the painted portrait of her long-lost mother. The determined girl is carefully heading in the direction of the main study of the house at the end of the north aisle, from where an agitated discussion is resonating. She intends to eavesdrop on her father, Sergei Vonabalab, whom, inside the closed room, speaks on the phone with several unknown, and inaudible, interlocutors. “Miskam, this is great news!” he declares, “Keeping the passport application under check was a strikingly good idea. We have finally found out the whereabouts of the Wolfenstein family.” “Your strong connection with the FSB, being an old member of the KGB, is a good asset to our Troïka Organisation,” he says, satisfied. He pauses for a minute, nodding time to time, listening to a muffled low pitch speaker. “Yes, Kahzirts. The discreet investigation, conducted by Ivan at the institute, on the remaining members of the Tokamak team, confirmed the existence of another notebook with a blue cover, which has been concealed by Kurt Wolfenstein,” he confirms. “We need to put our hands on the blue notebook rapidly. Ultimately this book will make its way to the boy. We should put him under surveillance and intercept the document before he can make sense of it,” Sergei queries. “What are your suggestions, gentlemen?” A long, unsustainable silence pursues his last words. Daria starts to feel anxious, considering that she is missing something important, and gets closer to the solid wooden door. The boy… the Wolfenstein family…, are they talking about Viktor? This name is reminiscent of the sweet perfume of her childhood…”. Absorbed by her thoughts, she clumsily loses balance and leans on the door to regain balance which makes the rusty hinges creak. ДЕРЬМО! She curses in her head and quickly rushes for cover behind a large wardrobe not far away. The cracking noise alerts Sergei. He sends a suspicious and sustained look toward the entrance of his study. “A moment gentlemen.” He pauses, walks to the corridors and peep his head to glance at the deserted aisle. Nobody here it seems. Back to the phone, he heeds the time on the chimney’s large golden clock and resumes the phone conversation. “Sending Domdog on the case seems a bit extreme to me. While retrieving the notebook, to restart the project Isida, is a high priority, we are dealing with an operation in a foreign country and should avoid making noise. Consequently, we should be more cautious and avoid the use of brute force or any other direct approach.” He suggests. Several minutes of arguing ensues between the 3 men on the phone. Sergei checks the time again, it has been about five minutes now. He opens a long casket sculpted in jade which lays on his precious exotic wood desk and extracts from it a deer-hunting knife with an ivory carved handle. Then, unexpectedly, Sergei drops the phone and dashes to the door, which he quickly opens and finds… his daughter crouched and paralysed. “Daria!” He shouts half surprised. “I suspected it was you, Daria darling. Do you not know that curiosity killed the cat?” He smirks and moves his sharps blade away from the contact of her throat. “If you intend to spy on your father, make an effort to be subtler,” he mocks. “Now go back to your bedroom, there is no business here for you. You are not ready to take care of the family business. Not quite yet.” Turning his back on her he concludes the discussion, “As a punishment, for being caught and showing weakness, you will not get your Kabarda horse.” And he seals the door. “Sorry for this, I had a small family matter to take care of.” He apologies once he is back on the phone. “But… this gives me an idea. Listen, we should not dispatch Noe Domdog, I have a better… subtler plan.” He says self-assured. “Miskam, could you urgently get more information from your friends about the boy: his hobbies, address, likes and dislikes. Here is my proposal...” The discussion continues for another 5 minutes, and finally, they all agree on the next moves before putting the meeting to a close. The conspirator hangs up and rests calmly on his armchair contemplating his preferred weapon. The cold polished metals of the blade flickers in harmony with the dancing light of the warm fire. He lets go a large smile, thinking that his business is going to get better and flourish with this new technology, and more juicy military new contracts will come. Hunt or be hunted, in the “struggle for life” game, he has chosen to be the strongest. He loathes weak people, they are pathetic creatures. Back to her room Darya is frustrated. She stupidly got caught by her father and even worse she will not get the superb Siberian horse with the chestnut colour coat. She could not believe it, at long last they found Viktor, that little boy she once met in the Gubakha skiing resort and who was nice to her when everybody was ignoring her. His future is not looking good if her father is involved in this. I’ll help him against my father, no matter what it will take. For the good old times, for my mother and for his own good, he will not succeed. Epilogue Who are the two men, Miskam and Kahzirts, conspiring with Sergei and forming the Troïka Organisation (TO)? Is Viktor in bona fide danger? Will he obtain his father’s blue notebook or will the TO’s agent intercept it first? Can Daria stop her father? Let’s find out in the next chapter. * * * Extra: Confidential Dossier NAME: Viktor Ilyich Wolfenstein STATUS: Person of interest LEVEL: Highly confidential ACTION: Keep under surveillance. Report movement. REPORT 29/03/1999: Viktor Wolfenstein is 18 years old and born in 14th of February 1981 in Russia. Only child of Kurt Wolfenstein (Missing, presumed dead) a German Physicist and of Anna Molotova, a Russian Physicist (now teaching science at a local college). Both parents graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin. Anna and son defected in April 1986 via Ukraine. The father current location is unknown, and he is presumed dead. Last known location, Chernobyl Nuclear-powered plant, Ukraine. Viktor is a shy teenager but easy to make friends. Currently in last year of college and following a scientific curriculum. He plays online video games and practice sailing at sea. He is part of an online clan called Cimarron. Talks fluent French, and manages both Russian and English. Possesses some basic knowledge of German. He is planning to visit Berlin, Moscow and Perm during summer with some members of the Cimarron team. The boy do have interest in girl but he seems to be currently single. Translation of foreign words Read next part The Blue Sphere III - Cardinal