I have played Tanki for many years with different accounts (bigbigballs, hairdryer, splashgun etc...). I am so called non-buyer and doing fine with smart tactics of sticking to 1-2 turrets with one hull in the beginning. When I get bored with existing combos I create a new account for new combos and might use them parallel to get mission rewards on 2-3 accounts while saving my supplies in one account alone. That way I was able to build my supply stocks to level good enough against buyers. Regardless of what i just said I can also say that the path of non-buyer has become more challenging due to few issues: - You can't anymore choose the map suitable to your limited garage. - MM puts you to battle with uneven GS -ratings, They can be between GS 3000 .... 9999 in a battle and you can really feel that with the GS3000 equipment. - Drones and batteries are practically out of reach for a non-buyer. I now have over 2000 batteries in my account but I have not even tested them or learned the drones and their characteristics because they would be too expensive to use. I buy repair kits instead. I have missed to see what is the Tanki Dev's plan of the non-buyer's path to success in Tanki. It is not up to us to try to see how a non-buyer might cope but the Tanki Devs responsibility. Unfortunately I do not see any hint from Devs' part to this direction. Maybe because they do not know that. Game devs are missing the consistency of design.

Last battle GS was between 2400 and 9800. Tanki devs are so lazy to do anything usefull.

In last battle GS range between players was from 3400 to 9400????? I would like to know what is the "wisdom" behind the MM algorithm, if there is any. This happened with my alt acc of General.

Still so many w/o protections. I use english to tell them to activate protections but nothing happens. I even use some cursing words to forward the message, but no, nothing happens. I even asked someone to translate my message from english to russia but no. V%&##!/(#"#%"

One way to remind players, would to not allowing them to play until they activate their protections. This was bad bad update management.

There is still so many players, who has not activated their protection modules. I try to tell my team mates to activate them but they seem not to understand english. This latest update has been very poorly managed in this regard.

I've now had several battles where the GS total of one team significantly exceeds the GS of the another team. Is this a bug, feature or something else totally insane?

How can a player have GS over 12 500 like Starina46?

Yep, yep. With your reasoning, if a low KD player would have said the things I said, you would have proved that person really is struggling in the game, ergo, game is too hard for non-buyers. Your reasoning based on 1 sample is misleading, to say the least. I say that overall this game is going towards where non-buyers overall have to struggle more in order to cope in the game. That is due to too much of protections and boosts available to players with crys, while a non-buyer, like myself, with a limited equipment in his/her garage has to be even more skillfull and smart in order to cope. This game is now less fun than what it used to be....

3. You have used 114k of supplies against my 94k. Kinda hard to see how my use of supplies is double to yours. I'm kinda tired to these passive-aggressive comments from all besserwisser players.....

This is now clearly a pay-to-play game. I as non-buyer play against legend1....legend100 most of the time. I play well, but it gets a bit annoying to plays against all kind of protections and drones. All legends are fully packed with drones so as a non-buyer it gets more and more challenging. If they'd put me to play against players with similar GS rating but I very often end up playing against GS 9999 legends. Most of them are not good and it makes it even more annoying to lose to a noob legend.