My friend you are wrong! They are not DULL Russians, they are DUMB Russians.

Business 101! The idiots at Tanki do understand the word Business! So can any dumb ass from Tanki explain to me why in Flash when I click on the Missions button I am taken to a stupid web page telling me to play in HTML? I though you said Flash it will not go away until 11/30/2020. Yeah, you may not like my language, but those and even some worse words describe you. No ifs or buts about it.

Ahahaaaa! Testers? Tanki has testers? Either they are totally incompetent, or the so called 'developers" cannot fix the bugs they catch! Either way it is bad all around. The only real testers are us, the players that play the game real time and find the bugs which are ignored by Tanki. You can argue as much as you want about this, the truth remains that there are so many bugs that the Tanki developers have no idea how to fix. They implement one fix and they break 3 other things! But now I understand why they ignore the players: they are all Russians and they know better!

Considering that over the past 30 years that I have worked for organizations that have been in business over 50 years at minimum I think that 11 years is like the organization is still in its infancy. Just getting by and having to resort to dishonest methods to extort money from your customers , yes the management team does not have a clue about managing a business. The main reason that Alternativa is not one of the big players in the gaming industry is the fact that they do not listen to their players as opposed to the big players. I gave you an example of the positions they have of Community managers with their primary task of finding out what the players want and passing the info for action. Where are Tanki's community managers? Why so much turn over? Perhaps the fact that they tried to pass up the info and they got fed up getting slammed by the player community for nothing getting done has something to do with it? Please, do us a favor and stop defending something that you cannot defend. I am sorry but you thinking is flawed again as usual! What do you mean "Shaft is a problem for less than 10% of the player base a best"? First, 10% of 10,000 is 1,000 players which is a significant portion of the active player base. Second, how did that ever pass Quality Control in testing? Didn't the "smart" developers test Shaft? How about management allowing software with major flaws (because Shaft is not the only issue with HTML5) allow it to go to production? Like I said clueless on all ends!

I am sorry you have no idea what you are talking about polls! It all depends how you structure the question! You can ask 1. Do you like Tanki HTML5? a. Yes b. No c. Not Sure 2. If you Answered b. No above, why don't you like it? a. It sucks b. Too many errors c. Hazel Rah is the poster Boy for Village Idddiot d Other (please specify)_________ Get it? If you want a poll to be valid you have to have a good representation of the population and not everyone and to decide the Confidence Level and your Margin of Error that it is acceptable to you. Let's not get in to the statistics of polls because I am sure it would go over the head of many here, especially Tanki management. Polls can be useful and it is one of the many tools management will use to make sound decisions or to just take the pulse of the player base. However, it has been proven that Tanki management has no clue about managing a business and that's why Tanki has lost a significant number of players and will lose even more come the end of the year. And if they think that polls are not useful then that's another reason to solidify my opinion that they have no clue what management is! So, why do you need to have players who have played more than 3 weeks? I can tell you that I spotted the shortcomings of HTML the very first time I played it and that was a few months ago. I played again this week and the same shortcomings still persist. Playing every day in HTML5 it will not correct the issues with Shaft until the kids who write the code learn how to fix it and then actually fixing it! So, refrain from making feeble attempts to defend a decision that Tanki management pulled out of their censored threw it at the wall and hoped that it would stick!

Lingering on the forum does not mean HE IS playing the game! Once I am gone from the game, I would still be lingering in the forum so I can get a good laugh because the few players who would be left will be complaining about the same issues as now.

And that will be their downfall! I see that another gaming company has several openings for Player Communications Managers in 3 different regions with their primary job to: Listen, understand, and report back regarding player concerns and feedback – ensuring it is heard and acted upon Does Tanki have anything like that? And whatever happened to the previous Community Managers like Nives and what's his name from Malta? But hey, that poster boy for Village Idddiot of the century (Hazel Rah) knows better!. No wonder the number of Tanki player is dwindling fast. That stupid banner that comes up in Flash and disrupts the game is a good example of not listening to their players. So many of us have asked to be removed because it serves no purpose other than to get on everyone's nerve. However, I think they do it on purpose because they have this misguided notion that if they pester us they will get rid of us on Flash sooner. Well, once Flash is gone, me and my friends are gone for good. So, be careful what you wish Tanki because soon you will be wishing that you had listened to us.

You explained it very well. Now whether the dumb "developers" will understand what you wrote is another issue!

OK. Define "inappropriate language" for me.

Add me to that list too. I made another post regarding shaft problems in HTML5. I have the same issues and I have missed shots that I very rarely miss. As it stands now, it is very difficult to play with shaft.

No Thank you. I prefer to play my games on my PC using my 32 inch dual monitors. I am too old to squint on a 5 inch screen.

"but it crashes a ton and does some weird stuff" Actually your statement is the evidence! If they knew how to code HTML5 properly, they would be no crashes and no "weird stuff"! Play some HTML5 games other than Tanki and you will see for yourself what competent programming is.

So, since I cannot get in the garage using Flash, I said I will give this HTML5 a chance. Well, the verdict is that is just as much as Tanki X was and soon I expected to go by way of Tanki X. Here are some problems I noticed: 1. On the logon screen, you cannot Right Click to paste the user name or the password. The Remember me box is checked, but it doesnot remember squat! 2. For some idiotic reason that only the dumb head designer knows, the supplies do not default to the numeric keypad like Flash did and the OD defaults to the Left SHIFT. So, I said OK, once I get killed, I will go to the options and change them. I did and went back to the game only to find out the hard way that while the settings have changed, the supplies are still activated only by the numbers above the keyboard and the OD is still the LEFT-SHIFT! 3. Of course the camera at long distance is as fuzzy as it can get, I guess they did not take it to the eye doctor to get some glasses! 4. And why on earth the music is on by default? Well that does it for me folks. I may not play the game anymore by I will be here reading and laughing at those who call themselves "developers" . I will also be laughing at the buyers!

Right! very nice! You can use Ares provided you can get in to your garage to change equipment and the game does not crash after you respawn! What a bunch of BS!

Ahahaaaa! Yeah right, perhaps they will fix it in a couple of years. These guys are clueless as far as programming goes. I wander if they know what testing and QC means!

I have the same problem using Flash client. earlier I was able to play in one of my accounts just fine minus the really annoying popup. Now I cannot get in to the garage in 2 of my accounts. I too deleted the cache but no dice. I just think they do it on purpose so we can move on from flash now instead at the end of the year. Well if that's the case, I will just quit Tanki now. This game is not fun anymore and I think it is dying a slow death.

For that reason precisely are idiots! They want money I understand, who doesn't? But the way they are going about to get it is totally idiotic and they are losing players. I will quite once Flash goes away.

As far as I am concerned, when I spawn I get killed immediately by a hornet with od camped at the spawn point. Another great example on not very well thought out "feature". I am telling you that the idiocy of Tanki decision makers along with the developers incompetency makes this game almost unplayable. I understand that they want to move on from Flash but putting this pop up that takes up almost all the screen to come up everytime you enter a battle in Flash is beyond annoying. It is stupid not to mention a vile method to makes us give up Flash! Well, as soon as Flash goes, I am gone too. I will put up with the stupid banner until the end and I will keep saying that Tanki is a dishonest company run by dumb people who qualify to be village idiots. My opinion is that Tanki is the village ***** of the gaming community.

What is the purpose of the spawn invincibility if the hornet OD disregards it?

Why? what is the purpose of it then? Another great example of Tank stupidity! When I say to myself, they cannot be any dumber than already are, boooom they do something like this that brings the stupidity to a higher level! Also, I have noticed that once the battle is over, I get a message that says the timeout is nearly over and do I want to return to battle! Well duuuuuh! the battle just ended morons! What is the purpose of these messages other than annoyance? certainly they are not informative! However I have to give them credit for being very funny especially with that line about a "drastic reduction in crashes and critical errors"! That is hilarious!

The camera is not steady, it is very "jerky". If you use shaft and you go into sniper mode when you track a target the movement of the camera is nowhere close to the smoothness of the Flash version. In the Flash version if you track a target that is moving fast the camera moves smoothly and there is a very slight lag of the optics as you move the turret fast. In the HTML version the camera cannot catch up the fast movement of the turret and as result 9 out of 10 times I miss shots that I rarely miss in Flash. This makes it very difficult to play.

Very well said! I have said the same things many times over, but someone named Vikings4 keeps telling me I am wrong and that they have "fixed" the camera problems! Glad to see that I am not the only one.

I got a great laugh yesterday when I got this message and I decided to try again playing in HTML5 only to have the game crash on me every time I went to shoot! You see, i followed Vikings4 advice to give HTML5 a chance and that's what I got! Hahaaaa! Serves me right. I also laughed myself to tears when I read the line about the "drastic reduction in crashes and critical errors.' I said it before and i repeat it now and I do not give a rat's ass if I get a note telling me not to use "inappropriate language": When Flash is gone, I am gone. You are 100% correct that this message is insulting. It is not insulting that dumb idiots are ruining the game by telling us they know better than us who play the game on what we need, now we have to put up with garbage like this by people who try to justify idiotic decisions.

because I keep getting that stupid message when I log on to the game and I wanted to see if HTML5 got any better. Sadly it has not and it is not only these errors but also the behavior of the camera is horrendous. I noticed that on my Shaft in sniper mode, there is a slight twitch or tremor when I try to track a moving target which results in losing the target altogether. I find it difficult to play like that. Never had this issue with Flash. I understand the need to move on to a newer platform. However, this move was done half assed as I said to someone else in another post and now we are the free Beta testers for Tanki.

Right, so i waited about a minute and a half to get into a battle after I was timed out twice so I can fall in to a very unbalanced game with the only option to leave. Yeap, that's what I call waste of time. While there is no game that is fair matched 100% of the time, there are true matchmaking games out there where: 1. Every team starts the battle with equal numbers of players at the start of the game. 2. The rank spread is at the max within two ranks. I have a Tier 5 equipment and I have never played against opponents of Tier 7 or higher! 3. the equipment are matched evenly (you may have say a Russian Tank vs an American tank but they are of the same class. They may have modifications that you do not have (like better optics or better suspension or even better ammo) because they can afford to buy them and you do not. That's OK. After all, they do need to make money somehow and buyers will always have the edge. Nothing wrong with that! In Tanki however, the spread of the rank is ridiculous as it is the fact that you get dumped into a battle that ends within mere seconds of entering because the teams are so mismatched that the battle ends in to time at all! Apparently, a lot of the long time players of Tanki have taken your advise literally and they have left! Soon the only players left will be the Tanki developers and the few fools who have invested heavily real money.