I don't use drones for this reason, it's way too inefficient in the long run. I wish the devs would remove them because only the people who can pay for the game can use them coupled with the rest of their m4 equipment. Were those the last 600 you had?

No, because speed boost is the supply which I always have way too many of. It would be super unnecessary to buy speed boosts because you will just get a ton of them in containers and end up with thousands extra compared to DD, DA, and RK.

Yep!! Also that whole thing with the shift key and Hornet and all that... And not to mention drones and supplies... The game is obviously doing GREAT!

Yep. Yep, maybe it will be the new definition of overpowered if they ever buff it. It has gone down in the legend ranks recently due to there being much stronger turrets. Thunder isn't bad though. Especially with sledgehammer. Honestly they kinda ruined it also because of the immunities.

It's way to damn harsh to do anything to stock Railgun I think. I don't use Railgun ever, but I sure as hell can tell you that I NEVER see stock Railguns around in MM battles these days. If anything, it needs a buff. The people in charge of balancing should try to make a game which doesn't have a clear meta as much as possible...

Ya. Fire all the current devs who can't seem to fix bugs and optimize things. Fire all the people who plan the game's updates (we all know these aren't the actual devs, probably just the management does this). Then they might start making smart updates and things that actually benefit players' quality of life.

I wish they'd undo the Hull alt update. It really ruins the balance to an unparalleled degree. I don't think anyone expected this sort of stuff to be possible. The best battles these days are no supply, boxes on, overdrive off, upgrade on, alts off. Pretty much all those things mess up balance these days...

Thanks for making serious posts. I actually agree that there will be some degree of advertising coming in 2021. I think they might bring the referral system back. That's what would make sense anyway. Forgot to add the Tesla turret. I'll add your things in once the post gets the confusion reactions like I said I would. You're right Snafu. That's why this is just speculation. Still thought it might be an interesting thing to try though. Tanki is really not dying like I would have thought either. People always seem to stick with it to some degree. Why does the chat get disabled?? I just read from a very surface level google search that it costs a few thousand a year to run a server. I'm not sure how many they have, but it isn't that much if they are still making decent revenue off the remaining players. I believe Alternativa also says on their website that they have 2 million players per month, 90 employees, and 2 offices. I don't really believe this because 90 employees is a massive amount of overhead for a game that only has max 8,000 players at any time.

Until the game has nobody online and can't be played. Since it is heading in that direction it should get there eventually, the question is how fast. If you have any ideas for what devs will do in the next while, please mention them. Also everyone else please keep the photos and off topic stuff out of here. I'm actually interested in finding people who have an idea of what will happen.

Attention! Please read this WHOLE post before replying to the topic!! If you do not you will likely be a detriment to the progress of the project! Hello everyone. After watching the V-LOG today and looking at the Youtube comments, I noticed how negative people are about the future of the game. Many were predicting when it would hit 0 players and similar things. I also noticed the video had more dislikes than likes ?. I for one haven't had much fun in the game recently because great pro battles have been hard to find, and therefore it is getting a bit stale. Anyway, I am creating this thread in the interest of fun for all of us. My idea is to create a timeline that we continuously update which reflects all the different milestones in the game until it hits absolute zero. I thought it'd be fun if we were able to accurately predict what would happen. The V-LOG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoHatThDWM _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Posting Guidelines: PLEASE keep the thread strictly on topic. I don't want the replies to get cluttered if this project works well because then it will be difficult to go through and add things to the timeline. I am attempting to create a universal timeline which everyone can generally agree on. Although you should be sharing your personal opinion, don't share something that is a very fringe idea, or if you do, make sure to justify your points with evidence and logic so that others will agree and then I will add it. Try and be as realistic and accurate as you can. We will want the timeline to correctly predict things. There is no fun here unless we become good at predicting what will happen. Don't make multiple posts at once. Try to keep all thoughts in one text wall. It will make it easier to parse. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Event Addition System For the sake of organization and efficiency when adding events to the timeline, I thought we should use this system to determine when to add events. Do NOT use reactions on this thread UNLESS you want something to be added to the timeline. I will add events to the timeline when we have either 10 or more reactions on one post or have reactions from more than 50% of the respondents in the thread. Use the CONFUSED reaction for something that you want to be added. This should cut down on people coming in and giving something support by accident because they didn't read the guide. Event Removal System To petition for the removal of an event, first state that you are trying to do this in your post. Quote the event from the timeline you want removed. Add justification and reasoning so that your post will get traction. Follow similar rules for reacting as with adding an event. The only difference is that you should react with a HAHA reaction this time. That way we'll be able to differentiate between removals and additions, and will be able to cut down on accidental reactions. If anyone has suggestions for changes to these rules please PM me. Like I said above I am trying to keep the thread uncluttered. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I will put the official timeline here: September 2020: Player numbers are consistently at ~8500 or less. In the following weeks the developers will continue to remove features from the Flash version in order to try and push players to Html5. Tanker's day sale. October 2020: Halloween sale. The teased Freeze balance may happen at this point. IF a Hornet overdrive nerf takes place then I believe this will also be done at the same time. November 2020: Flash is discontinued (I believe this is the correct date, tell me if it is wrong). Player numbers will drop to ~5000 or fewer. Black Friday sale. December 2020: Christmas sale. War or similar event. January 2021: February 2021: IOS version of TO mobile will be released in some capacity. Maybe just in beta. Advertised heavily as the game will likely need players badly. Alternativa may also try and advertise their soon to be released game "King Hardcore" (check Alternativa's website) at this point. March 2021:

I'd say it's VERY effective. If I use it with Defender and hornet (gs of about 8800), I am unstoppable and can wipe out about 7 players before dying with full supplies and OD. At max it does like 1050 DPS, and that is without DD. All said and done, you can comfortably kill 5 heavy hulls with OD and DD. NOT less effective. I do concede that a fair amount of this is due to the fact that drones and Hornet OD are broken and cause most of the problems in the game currently.

I wouldn't go past 40% with protections given that the first five steps are monumentally cheaper than the rest. I'd just get more modules. Rico is very good. I have it at either 16 or 17. I would recommend. Don't do Freeze, long ago the devs ruined it with a update that removed most of its freezing power. I'd wait until it gets buffed (which they claimed weeks ago would happen) and then buy it based on its strength. You will want a quality of life turret, and right now the poor freeze isn't in the position to do so. I miss it being balanced. I would say from best to worst choice: Gauss Vulcan Rico Hammer Smoky Freeze If you upgrade the top two you are largely jumping on the bandwagon of those who only choose equipment because it is OP though. Personally I have rico hammer and smoky, and rico is probably the most versatjle without alts.

I saw something like this except it may have been with a hornet gauss. I was glad to see it. Normally I won't play tdm unless I am willing to use my supplies on holding a good K/D. I don't often use a super strong combo (it is upgraded just not meta), so that sometimes hurts my cause. For example, stock smoky has a lot of battles where it either does extremely well or horrible with hornet. Generally bad in tdm. Great in cp. Hammer is best suited imo for tdm because of hornet's speed and od. Mine is also essentially max (mk7-17). With slugger it gets consistent numbers, so consistent kills and doesn't leave you reloading to get killed by an enemy you couldn't hit. Slugger is a direct upgrade essentially.

My whole point was that it isn't meant to be nerfed. I think TO devs aren't actually attempting to balance anymore and are dedicated to using their knowledge to milk buyers for money. We're the idiots for playing still, buyers are the bigger idiots for wasting their paper this way. I'd like the game to get smaller so it'd stop. If it gets small enough they'll practically be unable to keep the lights on. Best case scenario is probably another company buying it and placing it under their management. If TO essentially wasn't profitable they may turn around and dump the game on another company. Idk. It might just die all together. ~30k players aren't much to speak of.

I understand. Also wouldn't say it is offensive... Not sure why it would be. If you have a terrible kd but spent the whole battle trying to cap the flag and finally are able to so your team wins, you are much more valuable than a mag camper who gets 250 pts hiding by the flag and shooting into the enemy base. That is more what I concern myself with. Maybe that battle I choose not to drug. That will hurt my score, but it's to be expected. Just cause you aren't going all out doesn't mean you aren't trying a little more than I might be to get a high score.