I think that's how the new flag locating indicator thing will work, tho I might have misheard it. I haven't been corrected yet so I assume it works like so,.... If anyone has the flag = doesn't show where flag is If anyone doesn't have the flag = location of flag is shown through any obstacle Here's a couple of scenarios that this change effects, every relatively experienced player would have experienced these in battle..... Towards end of a draw battle, your team is bringing a flag back to base and a lone light hull enemy is escaping with your flag. Teammate Heavy long-ranger one-shots the enemy flag-bearer somewhere in the middle of a big map that only the long-ranger that rekt the flag-bearer knows, then begins the hunt for the flag. Currently you'd return the flag with some element of communication, knowledge or pure luck. Returning that flag is a battle winning situation, where's the challenge if the flag location is shown? It also makes it very easy for the enemy to get to that flag if they happen to be closer. Another scenario.......2 of your team is hiding with the flag. Flag-bearer supported by Isida. One enemy comes along and takes out isida and flag-bearer, but gets destroyed by a teammate before enemy gets a chance to return the flag. At this point every single enemy will know exactly where the flag is. Any teammate that then picks up the flag is at a huge disadvantage, any direction they run to hide to is very likely to be spotted, definitely if your team was under almost constant attack. The Isida and the guy that originally held the flag can chase to support....but the advantage they held of being one of few that knew where the flag was is gone. This is especially bad for teams that are getting overrun, but are putting up a brave fight using battle smarts. For a clan takeover it takes away just about the only challenge that might prevent them from winning in time, locating the flag quickly enough. …......just because there's a magical indicator that happens to show the location of an uncarried flag through any obstacle.....Pffft!! :D :D When it comes to Tanki, I will always find a way to be sly. If this new system works the way I think it'll work. ….....If I'm hiding with an enemy flag I can confuse the enemy by temporarily dropping the flag in one location, pick the flag up, then move to another location, drop the flag...etc.etc. Would this work against smart players? Doubt it, doing this is more likely to give them a clue of the hiding places I use. As soon as I get rekt, enemy will know exactly where to head to. Just seems an 'it ain't broke, but we'll fix it anyway' type of change to me.

Duuuuhhhh !!!!.....Can't believe you didn't realise what I was eluding to. You have used 18k double damage and have won enough for an M4 Tank(or more), without paying into the game. But then say it's pay to win. If you're not good enough to make better use of the freebies the game gives you....tough luck, plenty of others are. And this is a forum, if you post comments expect a response....especially if they're stupid comments written in large yellow font :P

No Yes

It's the English (EN) community faction, not the actual English Nation faction.....the paint is not the English flag, nor the British flag. There's stars and stripes on the flag for a start, so the flag is probably a mix of the British and American flag.

That 834000 crystals you've won, did you buy them?.....did you also buy those 18500 Double damage supplies? Just curious.

Don't see the point of the Flag change....Sometimes I intentionally don't return my teams' flag if an enemy lost it somewhere awkward that is harder to find or get to than the flag at base. Then I can just guard the flag until an enemy comes near and then return it, wastes a bit of enemy time which can be especially useful towards the end of close battles. Or I can return it if a teammate is close to capturing an enemy flag. With this change all of the enemy will be easily able to locate it, not just the guy that lost it. I actually think this is a bit of a noob change TBH. Literally noob. One of the challenges of CTF is locating an uncarried flag, at certain times in battles it can be the difference between winning and losing, why simplify it?

.............and an unbelievably brilliant crystal gathering machine in Polygon CP XpBp battles, if you have reliable clanmates and friends. Without even having to upgrade the turret/Hull, and this guy complains :rolleyes:

Ummmmm!!!....it just isn't

So if you don't maintain a high KD...what happens? Do you get your noob KD discounted from your team's scores? In other words, is there any system in place to prevent one community having their overall kd being rekt by mults? If I fight for EN and get a KD above 2 for my community, what is stopping someone from another community undoing my effort by buying EN paint for their alt and playing like a noob mult with a junk KD that drags down EN communities average KD score???....this is the type of thing I want to know to assure me that this will be a fair fight. Also, don't see why you have to wear the paint for your contribution to be counted. RU will have more players probably, so anyone joining a DM battle with any other paint is likely to be teamed against. The likelihood is that the smaller communities will have a big disadvantage. Should make it so you don't have to wear that communities paint, unless you want to.

Alien.....Red and black, always liked that combo. Looks mean.

Any competition that is based around KD is wide open to cheating. e.g....I have 5 accounts...I play for EN on my main and fight as hard as possible for a good KD. On the 4 other accounts I pick a rival team & play like a useless noob with as bad a KD as possible. Thousands of accounts doing this and u can see how it effects the result of the competition. It becomes more of a mult competition than a competition of good players. Can't see why the junk KD's of mults on each community should be counted.....The good players of each community should be the deciding factor, not the mults. It would be better if Tanki choose a DL amount as an acceptable score, anyone that doesn't achieve that has their scores ignored. Other than that, decent idea.

That German paint would look damn good on my XT's....Might consider fighting for them TBH.

The joy you bring to the game will be greatly missed..... :P

Are you completely clueless?....You say there's billions of druggers(which presumably means a lot of them are buyers = cash) then you say the game is dead and should be dumped. If you had a product that had many buyers, why shut it down? And then u say it's a game that's designed to steal money from kids, which presumably means you think the game is aimed at kids. Yet you say it's Pay2Win?... are you really that bad at a game you think is a kids game that you have to buy on it to succeed? Please engage your brain before blurting out nonsense on public forums.

lol....dude, it's a forum, a place to give opinions and have discussion....exactly like the opinion you just gave. I couldn't care less if devs read this stuff or not. Besides, if the devs are too stupid to make use of suggestions from their player base that have loads of experience on the game they work on, then it's their loss. I very much doubt they're that dumb tho, most businesses of all types would love this amount of feedback. Positive or negative. --------------- About this topic, Tanki is doing well judging by the amount of mega-buyers in the legend ranks that are still buying loads.

Are XpBp players toxic?....no more toxic than other format players, which is quite toxic.

Doesn't say anything about teams being split by server language, just says its a global event for the 4 communities, nothing about communities fighting against eachother....might be that each server language has their own huge map divided into sections. But nope, can't figure out how it'll work....wait and see. Exciting tho. Would be surprised if they split teams by language BTW, will create unecessary problems....such as inevitable complaints that its a rigged contest.

In 10 years, 5 months, 6 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes and 34 seconds from now....I think it will be all over.

I rarely blame myself for stuff, if ever....So if the blame game is between me and Devs, it must be the Devs fault.

From Nives announcement post...........

http://tankionline.com/graphic.swf ------------------------ Looking forward to learning this new mode when I got more time. Sounds like it'll be good once Tanki fixes some of the problems with it.

If more and more paints keep getting added to the game, then the more special many other paints become. Especially paints that cost a lot of crystals like Frost. Largely because everyone is more likely to use their newer paints in battles, so you're far less likely to see others wearing older paints like Frost. It's the same with the shop paints that were in the shop before this update. They became quite common to see in high rank battles, nothing special.....but now that there's loads more paints that people will be using more than the older shop paints, the older paints become a rarer sight in battle = more special.

I meant 2am UTC used for this game that was mentioned by @Nicola_M. I think this is the usual sever reset time, but I'm not sure cos it's in the middle of the night for me.

Get Railgun, Hornet and Viking to M4. + Railgun alt.

Depends on how much experience you normally earn a week. Looking at your ratings profile, you got nearly 7000 experience last week. 99999 / 7000 = over 14 weeks to complete the mission if you earned 7000 a week.or 100 days. So that's 100 easier daily missions that you could be earning instead of trying to complete the super mission. The value of those 100 easier missions might even earn you more than the 81000 crystal reward. The only way to make that super mission worthwhile is to complete it faster by either playing Tanki far more, buying Premium, or both.