There is a major correlation between overpowered equipment and the vast majority of players with low skills. Most players are on MM battles where you get 20/30 seconds before the tank blows, so you are forced to use all possible supplies, augments, drones, just to keep up. There is no time to study your teammates, the opposite team, to come up with a strategy or to learn to turn the turret. Hard-core buyers equipped with the latest equipment will ravish the field with brute force. The others will hide away and camp with their magnum, not caring for the battle result, just to finish up the mission. When they later try Pro Battles, it is evident most have no idea how to get advantage of an isida teammate, none reacts to the sound of a flag being picked up and the radar is never looked upon, just to make few examples. Remove major differences in equipment and players will work on their skills.

As a non-buyer, I am all for it. But I know the ship has sailed. Knowing you ran the idea to the upper floor, you have my respect.

How about a $100 button: "Press here to win the battle right now"?

Thanks, buddy.

I am new to the drug festivals (MM battles). Why some tanks show the same supply activated twice?

- More and more "newer and stronger" equipment favoring buyers and short-term Tanki economics - meaning more and more technical bugs/lags/errors - older equipment getting weaker and weaker continuing to push older players out Every update same story

"I can still play fine"... Are you winning more than losing? Are you doing that without spending money? Can you do that for as long as you want? I can do all that in Pro Battles, so... there are several minuses, but I will stick with that, thanks ?

Who said anything about a weekly crystal limit? I do not think it is "easy" for anyone to kill me in Pro Battles, beside that I play for the team, differently than the typical buyer's attitude. If many millions of crystals are required for equipment, where do you find the 2000 crystals for drugs?

In about 100 years, when I am done using crystals to upgrade hulls, turrets, protections, augments and drones, you will be right. Not till then.

Somehow you always miss the point... I am playing Pro Battles and I am not getting squashed. How are you doing with your purchased equipment: manage to turn the turret yet?

"You can purchase a few everyday..." I am a free player, by choice. And collected crystals are far from enough to upgrade equipment (drones never even considered and anyway not needed in Pro Battles). Half a million crystals to increase 1% all protections...

I frankly do not see any good side about MM, beside the better traffic. 1) players are constantly using drugs, 100% of the time. Are drugs free? Not, just the amount you can make up. So one should be limiting playing experience based on the drugs own, then get out. 2) Till you make your tank competitive, you are a weak link in the team and will get destroyed over and over by buyers with 4 protections and all latest augments/alterations. Anyone having fun being destroyed? 3) Anyway, let's drug. How long do you generally go from death to death: 15 seconds? 30 seconds? 1 minute? Definitely not long because in spite of your double armor, ALL enemies have double damage and quick overdrives. 4) Not sure about this, but all games, or maybe most, are 15 minutes, right? Short time indeed considering you will have to go to the garage to change protections, hull, turret, etc. 5) Because of all the above, what is the general attitude in MM? Enter the battle, press 1-2-3, go on a straight line, get killed and repeat. There is no way to come to know your team mates, make a strategy, unless you have a clan. Many others, hide, do not care about flags or team, just get their missions done. 6) Pro Battles (the real ones, without drugs) are pretty much the opposite: skills are a must (ok, buyers still have their advantage, but without their endless use of drugs, they are often showing major lack of skills, as the nature of MM battles does not call for them) and strategy too. But when you get in a battle lasting a couple of hours with the result on the line, there is nothing better than a Pro Battle. PS.: there is a user who writes thousands of replies just to flame conversations. Bothering as hell. max 6567 GS (300 less with isida, which I do not understand since isida is much better than twins nowadays). But with only 2 turrets, 2 hulls, 3 partial protections and no drones, I am always on top 3 in Pro Battles. Without using drugs in MM, I end up 1/20 K/D in 15 minutes.

Let's kill some tanks. Game authorization, bla bla, here we are. Pro Battles of course, never understood why should I participate in those 1-2-3-4 MM die-within-10-seconds no-skills druggin' festivals. OK, what do we have here. This battle is stuck judging from the time 3:00:00, this battle is 6 vs 1 (never understood why autobalance is not on as standard...), this other battle is stuck judging from all players being at 0 points, this battle is full... damn there are no more decent battles nowadays, as the number of players shrank. Finally: 5 vs 6. Let me check the players, as we do not want too many K/D 0.22 in our team or we will never compete. OK, I can enter... damn, it is already 8 vs 8, too late. What else? Wait... wait... wait... here it is 2 vs 3. Let's enter blindly or we will lose the free spot. Damn it is an OverDrive battle, I need to change Hull. 4 minutes at the end: I have short distance protections, I need to change as enemies are mostly long distance turrets. We are losing, 2 minutes at the end, why is everyone camping anyway? Lost of course. Let's check another one... Nothing... oh, an invite! Sure, I am coming! Oh... new game and my friend invited me, but I would be on the opposite team. Let's wait... and wait... and wait... Nah, let's check something else. Let's check the only CP battle. 1 vs 2... ok, enter. "You have reached the maximum amount bla bla", press Y. No overdrive here: good, Dictator is pretty bad, let me get my Hunter. Winning, but again, I need to change protections in CP. Won: 574 crystals! OK, let's stay, but I got 30 seconds to hit the bathroom, run! I am back, game started. Where did everyone go? I am alone against 5! Leave the battle. Searching... nothing, nothing... 5 minutes later, new game! OK, enter. "You reached maximum amount..." I wish I could stop this warning from coming out. Oh, Overdrive required, change. Play a couple of minutes, damn I got wrong protections again. Change. Tough game against buyers with their 4 protections and Pulsar and whatever else available only to them. Enemy takes flag, I am isida and I just respawn in the other side of the field (when I attack I will have to kill the same tank respawning in front of me 3 times). Anyway, certainly one of my 5 camping rails/shafts/magnums camping will take care, as the enemy tank is in open field... why none is shooting? Hey guys c'mon... damn, enemy wasp caps unseen and untouched. Guys we need to attack now, guys? "Ty smotrel fil'm vchera"... What is this guy saying? We are losing, 2 minutes at the end, understand? "Mne ponravilsya etot akter"... Damn, none understands a word here! And here we go, losing in 3.2.1... Ops! game stuck, no crystals for anyone, LOL. It is late, time for bed. Managed to play 25 minutes in an hour... but one of these week-ends with the 30% discount, I will invest half million crystals earned in a couple of months to increase my protections of 1%...

Who complained about the number of players using firebird?...

Who asked not to use it?...

I am not a Buyer, so I do not have Drones, augments for payment (playing MM is for buyers, therefore no containers), fourth protection and all that stuff that boosts GS. I just play Pro Battles (in my opinion, the only ones worth to be played, even if there are no players left, almost). Quite always Flag Battles. As said, all my protections are at the same level, about 42%. I am boosting 1% at the time with discounts, meaning it takes half a million crystals to increase all protections 1%. And reaching 50% won't change much the outcome. If so many players use Firebird there is a reason...

Nope, Freeze does not kill me that easy, no after-burn and I have same protection levels. No Pulsar. Of course Freeze will give the "slow-motion" problem, but I can back up quickly enough to get more than a fair fight with Freeze. With Firebird, there is no chance (consider that I only have Isida and Twins, which operate from the same distance). 1.5-2 seconds and I am dead, hopefully taking Firebird with me, but no chance to escape.

Twins is a disaster now. First you need an Augment, just to not kill yourself. Then you need to hit perfectly your enemy, or no damage will be done (differently than many others such as rail, that will kill you even if the shot was meters away or if you already turned the corner). Twins will hardly shoot up or down. Then the distance is ridiculous, as you need to be in front of a firebird to hit (and get killed in 1.5 seconds). And finally the damage given is peanuts. Take different turrets on a straight line starting from a fair distance and twins will lose with every single one. PS.: and I forgot to mention that Twins shots are blocked by dead tanks taking forever to disappear.

Firebird should be massively nerfed. It takes longer for overdrive to kick in, then for firebird to kill. That alone would be too much, but then there is the after-burn as well...

Just finished a long 3 vs 3 pro battle. 5 players voted many times one user that was clearly not playing by the rules. ONCE AGAIN NO moderator arrived. I mentioned this time and time before. It is a complete useless possibility. None never shows up. But if you get angry, chat moderator will ban the users playing by the rules and for the team. What a crappy way to make everyone disappointed!

From what I can see Pro Battles allow max: Berlin - 40 players (not 80) Dusseldorf - 50 players (not 100) Lost Temple - 16 players (not 90)

I wish: - players at 0 points after 3 minutes to be kicked out and penalized of 500 crystals - points should increase exponentially for players capping flags, for players touching enemy flag, for players returning flags. Decrease points distribution with high K/D rate. This to fight campers attitude. - 500 crystals penalization for players leaving the battle earlier.

The question was more for Developers, but their attention to users is well known (...), so no, I did not get an answer, but you can close the thread.

The only decent battles would be Pro Battles where supplies are OFF and players have to show their skills. Of course buyers still come with all sort of new turrets and hulls, 4 protections at 50, augments and alterations, but without supplies most of these buyers are terrible players. Unfortunately Pro Battles are now disappearing, as technical bugs are taking over and 80% of battles are frozen.

How do you reach full garage if not buying everything? I played for a decade and I got 5% of a full garage. Because playing Pro Battles these days is hardly impossible, I just tried some MatchMaking battles and it was a super disgusting experience. Generally a team of buyers using supplies constantly vs a team of buyers not even trying to compete, just there to complete a mission while hiding and shooting. Battles lasting a couple of minutes (and luckily so...) with zero skills to see.