Not always, but you as balance changes happen, the sooner you are in endgame with everything unlocked, the better, but you suffer a lot. I think you're stretching 100 exp per mission a lot. But you need to make sure you don't claim these if you are close to rank. And when you are about to rank, ideally you want the best game possible with a lot of score and exp earned that game as the moment you rank in game, you earn no more experience after that until you get back into the lobby. But sure, you can claim these in the legend rank, just know that each stage has a 'promotion' mission to rank up, which will be more painful if you don't keep your grindrate up to do 200k exp pretty frequently.

Now, to note old historical information, regarding 2024 cybertanks event which was the earliest cheaper form of this style of events; I urge everyone to read the whole thread, it was a pretty interesting time then. This had 2 generally filler skins (GT FIRE WASP), , see how pessimistic some players were at this stage. And back then, this was considered a great change in event pricing, but the change in pricing was mainly due to lack of good skins in the event. Compared to tanks in space, the cost for prize was far more broken than this even, and with better prizes and quite a solid needler augment. As opposed to a bigger variety of augments that still some arent considered great meta. Firebird crit mix, sustainable nano isida and LCV which is in current EP. There seems to be not a single way the game can win, unless they make everything free for all tankers it seems, but you can't run a game from free. Where is the breakpoint of cost, who decides what is a valid pricing style, where do we draw the line? Everyone is free to suggest what would be considered a good cost. But let's be real here and the baseline for very good = battle pass. If you pay a set price and get more than what a battle pass gets you, I personally consider that generally busted, in which case the last tanks in space minigame, was certainly so. Atleast for players who were able to dish out enough to complete the event that is whilst the rest suffered or skipped. (I personally skipped as I simply didn't care to play, that was the decision I made as everything there was a filler for me) The one thing left is to make auction events more common I guess with a decent baseline of rewards. The dev team can implement it such that the most energy earned wins a set prize woohoo, maybe this will help reduce some of the costs on events like this for players who keep moaning? But then we will get players moaning the prizes for the auction event brings back rare unique items old players own and too many shenanigans.

I quoted only 4, out of a lot more, I was being generous. I see your point. But this is one of the events that wasnt meant to be affordable lol? There are still players doing this event, so tell me, why complain and play? Because players will still play it. So the game will continue doing it. The demand for crus RF was high, so they just upped their prices in line with it. I literally read 'buyers' complaining that everyone now has the skins they purchased a long time ago. I know they aren't happy. No one can win here, not the game, not the whales, not the dolphins, and never the free2plays. Whilst you may be able to spend on the 8k event. There are several players who cannot even pay for a battlepass. Are you gonna call them broke? Or shall we just make the battle pass fully free too so more than 80% of the playerbase has a fair chance? Are you even reading into the game economy? As for broken baselines, everyone should remember 50 tier tankifunds back when TOA's broke the game and everyone cried they had fillers. This was simply another form of it. I will repeat, the only bad thing right now is the lack of crystal contracts. The ruby pricing, is still fair for the reward obtained. If you think otherwise. you really should quit this pay to progress game, which has remained this way many times because the game will have their cheap events and their expensive events. But why do you feel obliged to do every event? Just skip events like me and many other players do. It still won't matter as there are still plenty of players completing this event. Does that make any sense to you?

So were you not there when these events costed around 70k-110k tk to buy straight up? They make it insanely profitable once or so and people consider it the baseline In the past, f2p's still couldnt do checkpoint 2 for a long time

Lol this was there in the past, the only issue rn is lack of crystal contracts

Everything is subject to change unfortunately. Seems they've been altering it a little bit more lately, but whilst there are a fair bit of players complaining, there are still enough players completing the event at such cost that it just doesn't matter for the game (from the looks of it, I've seen a lotta people still grinding and some with the railgun pan skin already, i.e. ~52k rubies gone with just purchase and speedup directly)

https://tankionline.com/en/2024/10/the-trick-or-treat-mini-game-2024/ https://tankionline.com/en/2024/12/tanki-and-the-snow-trap-mini-game-2024/ https://tankionline.com/en/2025/07/cybertank-2025-mini-game/ https://tankionline.com/en/2025/04/tanks-in-space-mini-game-2025/ I'll stop there, but there are plenty more. You knew what you paid for, if you didn't, testers already vaguely showcased the aug. Would you prefer this was in epic keys with 6 other exotics including crusader blaster etc? Which could take 1 to several hundreds (putting it lightly in terms of true rng) of keys to get? You're basing your comparison on the more broken form of this event. It's like comparing the broken tankifunds with the current tankifunds. Stop doing that.

@Opex-Rah so can we get your expertise on this

Take a visit to test server, the repair cooldown patch is the omen

And well, considering rf scorp wasnt there on last black friday, we'll need to wait a good year

Small, a very small chance it'll return on black friday

golds are of the old template, where i remember shaft dc etc costed atleast... Let us address your concerns, players always complain, but there must be a balance. High demand reward of crus rf, will earn where it needs to. Or fomo and try to spend or get lucky at black friday. These events are never catered for f2p's in general, it sucks they kicked endgame crystal hoarders this time too. You pay a lot, or you pay less and grind a lot. Or you pay almost nothing but grind so much. I'm sure the game was well aware of the backlash this event will bring, but it won't affect them, what are the players gonna do, boycott? It's about right for the general style, the rewards are eh but you get what you sow, some good events, some bad events, this will be ranked in the latter although imo it's still valid because if the step rewards are still the same, it's roughly more balanced now and not exceedingly profitable for spenders. Fomo time, spend and firm, or wait for black friday to suffer and get lucky maybe. Players seem to have already forgotten about the whole set of rewards you get from the actual minigame even if the main prizes sucked. 7540 rubies (based on 26 golds) for around: 200+ epic keys 100+ rare keys 200+ common keys and the main prizes. IF, that is a big IF, the rewards for the moving forwards remains the same. 25740 rubies for this, is still far better than a general large epic key bundle. Minigame completions had likely increased, making dolphin spenders make a good profit for tanki bday, now the game has simply made them a bit more balanced in terms of rewarding. It sucks, but noone has to play this. I'll still skip this like every other island minigame i've skipped since shaft dc. That is the plan, gotta collect the special paints, unsure as to what Miami beach has to do with cybertanks though, does anyone know?

certainly agreed with the conclusion there, would be nice to be able to temporarily restrict account gear to something for a set rank, but we have modules, which are a big issue rn, like u said in the rest of the message, a legend tryhard will always have a bigger edge... How capable do you think the devs are, and how much effort do you think they'll put into the game?

So how would you regulate the switching of combos for MM? Please let us know once you have thought it through. As it would be amazing for many players to go into a game with mk1 to face warrant officers only to switch to a nice mk7-20 tsunami duplet and get 100 kill games.

Most people don't even want classic, they just need a reason to quote nostalgia against the current games situation though...