If you chose to MU both XT and standard turrets, you already "wasted" your crystals regardless of whether you knew they were going to be merged or not. You had two pieces of equipment with identical functionality and chose to MU both of them, why, I don't know. It's the same exact situation before and after merging.

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HTML5 is not running MM. Tomato - tomato. Regardless, who are you to know what is best for the game? This sounds like a very cheeky question, yes. But in all honesty, ask yourself, what will keep the game relevant and producing revenue in 2018? Tanki used to be a niche game. It still is. Keeping it that way would result in death. Notice how most of the recent updates are geared towards making it more modern, more appealing to the current market.

This is funny - "hard" number are concrete proof. Tell me, where are you getting these numbers from? I remember the approximate player count before patch 451. If 30-40k players had really left, Tanki would have literally 0 players. This is the thing I am most frustrated with when it comes to "Tanki is dead" crusaders. Players are ostensibly constantly leaving, yet there is no comprehensive record of player count for you to make accurate claims from. Experience from other games has shown me that though Maf may sound like an apologist for Tanki, he's right when he talks about games losing players naturally. I've played other MMOs that have peaked years ago, and have disgruntled communities, yet there is no sign of death in sight. Their situation is strikingly similar to TO. Now I find TO far less enjoyable to play than before, and I don't really play the game much either. But none of this was a result of these "bad" updates everyone loves to hate. In fact the updates that I hate the most are generally ones people forgot about, like the supplies rebalance, although that was perhaps overshadowed by the addition of overdrive.

http://ratings.tankionline.com/en/user/golfinray/ Judge for yourself.

Buffed or not I fail to see why he is complaining about Rico and Isida in 2018.

The current Rico is pretty much the same as the old one, plus you can buy an OP alteration. How Isida changed over time is a complex thing but to complain about it now is strange, in my opinion.

Neither Thunder nor Smoky are OP. The only problem with Smoky is that it's a very popular choice to MU to M2 at the M1 level.

Rico and Isida were buffed

If you check the latest announcement, Tanki converted to HTTPs recently and that caused problems for WinXP systems.

http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=372598&do=findComment&comment=6516142

That's not the point, the point is that having protection against 4 turrets is OP even if it is limited to 40%. 40% is still a big deal, and 4 turrets can easily be half of the enemy team.

The majority of people who left did so naturally (ie because of boredom). Such is the assessment of the devs, and honestly, I am far more willing to believe them than random disgruntled players on the forum. The people who are most vocal are the ones who are most displeased with the system. Whether they make up a significant portion of the playerbase or not is another question. I fail to understand why update 451 was bad. It was only bad for those that abused the system, and that's a good thing. I don't know where you get your "30-40k pepole left Tanki" figure from.

Total protection is not the metric here. One can have 100% against one turret and 50% against another to get 150% total, but this would be OP.

First we have players leaving after 2015. Then we had players leaving after paint disintegration. Then after removal of battle creation. Then after patch 451. Strange how there are still players left.

Depends on the battle mode and the rank of the killed tank. For Legends I think it is around 11.

aaaaand here we go again

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It's difficult to pinpoint the exact cause because the wreck was only found in 1985, more than half a century after it sank. That said, I don't think it's unbelievable that a huge chunk of ice could sink a huge ship . . .

No. All games reach a peak eventually and then decline, it's natural. That decline can take years and years before you can actually call a game truly dead, and some games make a comeback during that time. Take Fortnite or PUBG for example. These games blew up recently, but eventually they will lose their massive popularity, regardless of what the developers of those games do. Similar thing goes for Tanki. It's still far from dead though.

If all Magnums can play against each other in one format and stay away from standard battles I'm all for it.

So making a 1 flag battle and getting a bunch of crystals with 0 effort is good?

Some people asking to team and another guy complaining that you're using too many repair kits.