UPDATE: I obviously didn't read the whole thing, and this event mode is pretty fun, so I'll be on for now.

As of today, I have found 2 accounts that have mk7s, owned by the same person, who both started a week ago. Pinch and Potato_tank both have mk7 viking and twins, hammer and thunder mk7. It is highly unlikely that these are bought. And if you read the forum post in the Russian server that I linked to, battle mods stated that they know about the glitch that got them mk7s.

No. I mean people actually get mk7s from that glitch. I know about the mk7 skin update and I take note of that, but referring to this forum post: https://ru.tankiforum.com/topic/281639/ and Pinch (check his profile), some time 7 days ago close to the server update, he bought guns and they became mk7, at recruit. And as Tanki moderators state, it's a known glitch. Mad Tanki indeed ?

For those who don't know me, I'm ShooterMk7, posting from an alternate forum account as I'm too lazy to do matchmaking on that account. I've been a 5-year Tanki Online player who has gone through all the trials and turns of bad updates, and sticking all the way. But after today, I'm just too tired of this game and bad updates / experiments. I was fine with all updates leading up to the M->MK update, and even so, I wasn't truly upset with this update until seeing buyers get truly good stuff. Just look at C-A-T-Y-P-H, 9999 gs at WO3. But two recent updates have pushed me over the limit, Hornet's overdrive update and Mad Tanks. Mad Tanks is a horrible update that makes earning things and completing missions almost 2x harder. The one thing that I am really upset about is the glitch where recruit players could get Mk7s. I see many people with Mk7s at my rank which infuriates me. Tanki's developers should remove these Mk7s gotten from this glitch, but of course this doesn't happen. After these trials and tribulations, I am pretty much done. Playing 2 hours a day of matchmaking is, at this point, earning me pretty much nothing. If Tanki can release an update people actually like and that actually balances the game, I might come back. I hope the developers do us the good and restore the game to its full potential. Thanks for your time, ShooterMk7