"Chatting" could actually be one of the best features of the game. Not in MM of course, as battles are short and between unknown players. But in Pro Battles it would be great to strategize: "Bill control the right side", "John can you stay in defense?", "Let's attack in 4 from the left, 1 isida". But with only 10% of players understanding English, and only 10% of players able to play the game...

If it was lag, how many billion Mpbs one should have to avoid it?

Santa Claus makes F2P players 2x stronger than buyers... some people here said. Admin drop a gold box!

A player killed team mates (in a friendly fire battle) hundred times. Voted him for 10 minutes. None arrived as usual. But it is important to ban players getting angry. What a joke of a game.

I was told that it is the player's fault (LOL) because of a low Internet band. "They say", the shot is happening before we see it, so it is not crossing a wall, but while our tank still had to arrive undercover, we just see it later. Fact is that I have 100 Mbps and it only happens to some turrets. Rail can shoot somewhere close by and it will always hit. A Twins with self damage removed, will often miss easy targets. 100%. A logical consequence of this game "development". Tanki kept increasing the Pay-to-Participate portion. "Older, wiser and better" players left long ago, as they did not plan to "waste" money on games. Player base got younger and younger. They buy everything right away and they find themselves with 9999 gear in no time. Therefore they use brute force, as there is no need and no time to learn skills. When they visit Pro Battles, with their "toys" removed, they can be seen in all their... incapability.

If it is not enjoyable for people wasting money, just imagine for the few ones not paying at all...

I would possibly consider to play an Event if Tanki would give me 700 tankoins... but maybe!

New version of the game today: Crashing Online.

Thank you indeed. Big relief. In the Wiki page there are some amounts... not sure if the page just changed or I did not see it before, but it mentions Early Access with smaller numbers nearby. I was wrongly adding up the Early Access numbers.

Question: does it take about 22,000 tankoins (in addition to the too many crystals) to maximize a turret now? Hope not, because I collected less than 2,800 in the many years I have been playing.

What a circus every battle is. The vast majority of the enemy team is camping near their flag. We have a magnum camper: where does he shoot? As far as possible from their flag. We have an isida and two healing shafts: where do they position themselves in a team attack? In front... Ricochet, with an isida in support, trying a sneaky attack. What does he do? He stops well before massively shooting their base, making sure everyone sees the attack. But I have been told that all these guys have a full garage because they understand the game...

Broken English, Broken Spanish... and neither is my mother language too... Anyway, duly noted you are still buying the Pass... "but I did not buy till Legend"... does it suppose to be an excuse? A buyer is someone buying or has bought something... And generally I bought "a little", always means "yes, I got carried out..". A Free Player is someone who NEVER bought. If you got the concept above... when you say equip your tank with a crystal augment... there is no such a thing. FIRST, again FIRST, one needs to play MM battles to get keys, and through A LOT of keys, really A LOT, you get one Augment. With A LOT of Augments, you finally get an Augment for YOUR tank. So first you need to play HUNDREDS of MM battles WITHOUT augments, and with a limited choice in turrets/hulls/drones. You always talk as if a Free Player STARTS with all augments. Nope, nada, zip. A Free Player wanting the desired augments will have to get crashed for YEARS in MM battles. The only positive side in doing that (for the very few players doing it) is a MAJOR increase in skills because one has to make up with players having 10x stronger equipment. You invested a million crystals and got stacked... you cannot really do much with a million crystals. Just by memory, I think you can increase all your (16+1) protections by 3%, which might be 5% during Christmas. I remember you saying you did not upgrade your protections much, so... no idea what you got stacked with. Not with augments for sure. And you said yourself why you are doing well in MM: you camp (and hide). Enemies will go for flags/points/Jugs and will leave campers pretty much alone. When your team wins, campers get the biggest share. I could not camp even if I wanted, as I do not have neither medium/long range turrets nor heavy hulls.

"nobody is complaining" = SUPER LOL. This is page 41 and the rest is on the hundreds of other threads. Or simply read some Tanki Online reviews. Again: SUPER LOL! "you refuse to teach yourself on what ur using" = grammar aside, should I make you a drawing? Free Players have VERY FEW augments. Considering that we also have VERY FEW turrets/hulls, we generally CANNOT chose between augments we do not have !!! "on this account I bought" = you bought your equipment and teach how to get it for free. Same thing that other Buyers do. Makes perfect sense. I think you might have the skills to teach how to be a Camper. That did not work well when you were playing Pro Battles. Hope you will come back one day because it was fun ?

A Sergeant Major with 4 protections, including Armadillo, Vampire augment and whatever augment is on Ares... With more than half million crystals not used... Guess somehow the game has to retribute its "workers"... Not sure what I would have to be blamed for if, at Legend 31, I do not have any of that! "if you are experienced and strategize": considering that most players have a pretty good garage, this would mean that most players are experienced and pretty clever. Then they show up in the battle and... it is the opposite. How do you explain it? All great economy minds unable to drive a tank. Pressing 1234 rather than picking up a box. Turning the tank rather than the turret. The reality is that everyone is rushing to BUY containers=equipment and none goes through the process of learning skills.

"I didn't pay for many years" = Free players NEVER pay. "how to properly play a game" = Sure, every kid study your "Manual" for three months before their first battle. "you're a smart gentleman" = Gentleman no. "I tell 2-3 things in chat" = Tanki Master explaining "the Manual" in few seconds and all smart kids graduating within a minute. "youare" = the game is not complicated, but grammar seems to be. "if you are good in Pro, you are good in MM" = there is something missing called Equipment. "I am an actual PRO" = You used to play PRO battles and that is not what I remember. "uranium striker is F2P" = I am legend 31 and do not have neither striker nor uranium. Probably you can mention other 4 turrets and 4 augments and I will reply the same way. "my friend didn't pay a cent. Just asked which combo to buy or if this augment is good" = F2Ps do not BUY combos and do not have augments to choose from. The Magical Land of Oz.

... refusing to PAY the game like intended (fixed it). According to the defenders of this game, most players read, study, observe and get a degree on How to play properly Tanki Online. They are all super smart knowing "The Manual". Then, in the battle, all that intelligence is nowhere to be seen. Same thing in the Forum, Battle Chats or video comments. A normal player signs in and starts to play. It won't take long before the Free Player will have to decide between paying for a bunch of containers to reduce the distance with the others or give up. The ones that decided to stay in the game will notice that they got better, but not enough yet. So... more $$$ containers. Once the garage is getting full, and $$$ are not that much required anymore, those same players will come to the Forum saying they are not paying (missing the word "anymore") and teaching "The Manual". PS.: their Manual is - play Missions and Events, which are a complete tragedy if you do not have a full garage. So their Manual starts from the last chapter of the book, missing everything before. And "buy only at -50%!", as if that 20% saving in crystals would bring you more than one or two pieces of equipment in a couple of years.

And my only two turrets are short range, one augment in total, and a Brutus drone ? Very much enough in PRO battles, absolutely useless in MM.

And I am not a human being. I have a sledge with 9 reindeers. Finally someone not trying to disguise as a f2p.

I doubt you will have any future as a Defense Attorney for Tanki, but the "I'm f2p" was fun ? Elvis is alive!

LOL Not turning turrets, not reacting to the sound of the flag, no teamwork, not using the radar, not watching the clock, hiding and camping... I guess this is the way you consider optimum playing... If a team is bad, it is still a team of buyers having 10x stronger equipment than the rare free players, in MM battles. Again, f2players left years ago, way before Pro Battles, matchmaking, augments, etc. At the time WE were fighting the excessive use of supplies, calling them drugs. We lost the fight, the game sticked with buyers and kept verticalizing that trend.

Re-explanation. And this is only for free players, meaning poor garage. The one good thing to be in a losing team, is the hope that most teammates will leave, making it easier to arrive on the TOP 3 for missions. Free players left the game well before PRO battles were created. Buyers struggle in PRO battles, as without most of their OP equipment, lack of skills is too evident.

Yes. In MM-battles after the initial 45 seconds waiting for Jugs, flags and caps to show up, it becomes clear which team will win in between 10 to 120 seconds. Few battles will revert that trend, while most won't. So, no reason to stay in a losing team unless you need to reach the top 3 spots for a mission. In that case one has to hope that most teammates will abandon making it easier to get into the podium. So many dirty tricks to play in a horrible environment made for buyers, just to get few augments.

ALL MM battles (for a free player as me) are literally disgusting. A real torture. Unfortunately it is the only way to hope for few augments that I can use in the enjoyable Pro-Battles.

With my empty garage, getting wrecked by buyers and mostly ending on the bottom of the scoreboard (MM battles), I have no problem being in the winning team. Without camping.

As a Legend 69 I guess you are playing since a very long time, meaning you have been filling most of your garage when everything was x10 times cheaper in terms of crystals. Beside that, you are one of those big-brain Wiki guys knowing all events and stuff. Maybe you even got a freebie here and there ... ? But yes, I bet you did spend few bucks in the game from time to time. You obviously love this game and no free player can love this game.