I am not complaining. I am stating facts. You are young (my child is much older than you) and you brag about your "better" garage, as most youngsters do. Fact is that you are a buyer like most and either ashamed to admit it or thinking that few bucks here and there is not really buying. There is no reason to make my account public: I have two turrets, two hulls, one cheap drone and 3 protection slots, after playing several years. This is how the garage of a rare-to-find free player looks like. And if you think I am a bad player, ask someone doing Pro Battles.

"My garage is bigger than yours"... How old you did you say you are? Buyers always get aggressive when confronted...

Not sure which contradiction you are pointing out... ... Crisis and Armadillo after 100 hours of game (and 178 Gold Boxes)... What would you know about "free playing"? LOL Thanks I said "many" buyers do not have good K/D, not "all" buyers. Buyers (in MM battles) do not die from me (free player), but MM battles are mostly played by other buyers.

Snow Trap Missions: - destroy 100 tanks using light hulls: I do not have them - destroy 100 tanks using heavy hulls: I do not have them - destroy 100 tanks using medium range turrets: I do not have the turrets they mention. Twins is not mentioned anywhere. - destroy 100 tanks using long range turrets. I do not have them Tankoins: having saved about 2,800 in more than 3 years, I am reluctant to invest 1000 in something I do not know. And not knowing those events/contests I cannot say you are right or wrong. Not at all. In MM battles, I end up shooting with my twins a buyer many times and he never dies. Then he turns around very slowly, shoots me once and I am dead. Even if I manage to kill one, I will die a second later from another buyer. If I get isida, I will never get close enough to someone to try to kill. And none needs to be healed because they all use repair kits. And if you heal the Juggernaut, you will get almost no points. In Pro Battles, with drones and supplies OFF, and augments either ON or OFF, I am always Top of the Table. And in these battles where skills matter, one can clearly see how most players do not have the basics of the game (not turning turrets, not hearing the sound of flags, camping while losing, not reading the radar, not seeing anything sidewise or behind, etc.).

I appreciate the honesty in saying you are a small buyer. If $50+ a month is not considered a buyer, I am guessing you spend more, but I am not interested in the amount. It just confirms what I already know: most players in Tanki Online spend money. What's stopping Joe... these are discussions already explained many times through another guy you were siding with... once again: Joe (or me) have a limited amount of containers from which to get equipment. In the last couple of festivity missions, I got about 100 containers, from which I got 2 augments, none to be applied to the turrets/hulls I own. I have no augment on my isida and I invested 250,000 crystals (minus 30% discount I guess) for my only twins augment. A buyer, who already has most equipment, will keep buying containers or tankoins to get the latest overpowerful equipment. Random players: most players are Russian, so selecting 3 ENG speakers is not a correct way to judge. A small buyer might just go for a Pass, or get the 4 protection modules. I am Legend 30 and I have less turrets/hulls/drones then the 3 guys you visited. Many Buyers do not have good K/D: buying equipment, especially if fast, will make sure that skills are not learnt. That is another point I always make: most players are buyers and unable to play.

Free players abandoned Tanki years ago, as per all game reviews. Current players are either small buyers or heavy buyers. Some are claiming to have become free players, after having bought most of the stuff in the past. Some are claiming to be free players because "five bucks a month is nothing". - Free players would obviously play Pro Battles, while the huge majority plays MM. - Free players have a deserted garage, while the vast majority has all the latest equipment. - Free players would not contribute in Tanki Funds, while the number of participants is always huge. - Free players would complain in the Forum about how the game is Pay-to-Participate (way past P2P), as they did in the past. Now discussions are all about equipment and competitions that Free Players have no idea of. Even when you guys nicely try to help, much appreciated, your point of view is not coming from a Free Player's angle. Whoever called you ultra buyer was a small buyer... F2Ps do not recognize different augments and do not know what helios is...

Thanks for the reply, but... - minigames such as Snow Trap require all sort of hulls and turrets that I do not have - paying tankoins to participate in mysterious events (probably other MM battles full of buyers) that do not guarantee the fourth protection, does not seem to make sense, taking in consideration the major difficulties in putting together the 5000 required (about 10 years for a Free Player...). - there are not "many" F2Pers in Tanki Online ?

Tell me again how to get the 4 prots as a f2p... possibly without having to go through too many disgusting MM battles where free players get massacred (especially the ones not having long range turrets).

Nice analysis. Still... have you ever killed more than one tank with Hunter's OD? Stole a flag thanks to Hunter's OD? It works better in defense, when you can eliminate attacking wasp OD, but in attack it is not effective at all, except for Wave scenario. Firebird will kill you in less time than OD kicks in. Viking (killing many), Titan (with a dome protecting all), Wasp (with a bomb killing all even behind walls) and the flying hulls OD (taking and capping flags without nothing others can do) are way more efficient. I do not have them, but I see them. But again, I am playing Pro Battles. If you play MM and you are a buyer with 4 protections, one of those super drones, etc. etc. keeping you alive much longer, maybe it works better for you.

Why would you capture points with magnum and not a short range turret? In CP a couple of magnums remotely placed are good, keeping banging the same spot. The problem comes when a third of the team, or more, is magnums. It is a smart reaction to the Pay-to-Participate MM engine. But in Pro Battles I would curse you ?

I do agree and love all the other qualities of Hunter. But does your OD kills anyone beside light hulls and half damaged medium hulls? Do you find the range of stun big enough? You need to get close and a firebird or a freeze will kill you before the OD takes place. Which is another defect: other ODs remain after death, this one does not even start. I disagree about Dictator OD, but I guess you play MM battles - where everyone has supplies on anyway -, while I play Pro Battles, and the supplies make all the difference. I do not have other hulls, but most other ODs seem many times better than Hunter's.

I find it absurd that Hunter OD is so weak that it does not even kill a healthy reinforced medium hull. And a firebird can kill you in much less time than Hunter OD starts to work. New equipment for buyers is always x10 better than whatever equipment a free player finally manages to reach.

Every MM battle I guess (not Pro Battle for sure). I have never saw it, but thanks for the tip.

Pro Battles: magnum is the worse teammate possible. Will not attack, unable to defend. Sure there are (one or two...) players capable, but the vast majority will hide and never react to the sound of a flag. If the team is losing, they never care. All they seem to care is their K/D, but when the team is losing 13-0, one wonders what is wrong with these magnum players.

Thank you for the very detailed reply! Being a free player, I have no premium for the challenges, no turrets/hulls for the third and I am not sure in which battles it is coming as a bonus, as I have never seen it. No idea how to get to the elite pass level... but judging from the color, it might be another premium thing. Guess I will pass on the weekly mission. Happy New Year.

Sorry, I still do not get it. Is Nuclear Energy an item? In Garage I have the 4 supplies and the golds, nothing else. I do remember using few in one single battle (no idea how I could have them), then nothing else. I thought it was something "generating" over the course of a battle. And the shop does not seem to mention them. So no way to complete this mission...

Even if battle crystals would be 5 times what they are, I would not play MM, if it was not for the missions generating augments that I can use in Pro Battles. Honestly, I would not play MM even if they paid me! And with that K/D 21-0... you are a camper ?

Another question from a nonsavvy MM player. How do you get Nuclear Energy to work? I understand you suppose to press and hold the OD button once you have it. But how do you get it?

I am just wondering how can someone play from a small screen. If you are home, obviously a big screen should be the choice. Do they play while they are sitting with friends or when they are at school/work? Honestly I cannot envision one smart reason, but at least I understand a bit better why so many players are terrible.

The only enjoyable battles...

Lag is a time differential. If you cross a box over and over without picking it up, that is a software bug, as the others I mentioned. And I did not write that buyers do not have that problem.

You know how often you cross through a supply box and cannot pick it up? Well, today it happened with a flag. Killed the enemy holder in his base, crossed through the flag with my entire tank, but the spotless software decided it was not enough. Then of course there is a moment you no longer can turn left, and you need to turn right to make it working again. Same thing with going forward, getting stuck till you go back first... But the important thing is to keep adding stronger equipment for buyers...

I did not win! Oh... wait... did I have to participate?

I literally have no idea who would like Matchmaking battles. Less than 13 minutes. 1 minute to start (flags, jug, points, etc.). 30 seconds to visit the garage to adjust to the scenario. Most teammates and enemies unknown. No chat. If you are in the buyers team you win. If you are in the campers team you lose. If you are a buyer you will kill a ton of free players. If you are a free player you will get crashed all time. End of the battle. Watching grass growing is funnier.

Players are to be blamed. Prices increase 300%? They keep paying. Pro Battles allow to learn skills? None plays them. Tanki constantly decrease the power of the equipment already bought, directly and indirectly? No complain, except for few users in the forum.