Good luck to all the participants!

@MarcusSorry I don't really get what you mean when you reacted, does that mean you can enter with multiple accounts or only with one account? I hope if you enter with multiple accounts you will only be registered once in the giveaway.

Good luck to everyone participating! Happy 12th Birthday Tanki Online :)

Yes TDM is fun :D

You are most definitely not a buyer, legend 70s are probably people that have been playing since the beginning of the game or for a super long time and have Mk7 of everything. I never see a legend 50+ without a bunch of super powerful gear they probably spent years on upgrading to where it is now. However a lot of the new players coming in are just leaving after they get to a rank like Warrant Officer or Lieutenant because, yeah.

Not everyone are Legend 70s and have a thousand tankcoins. Most are free to play players that don't have the time to earn tons of tankcoins every day. (Nice account and gear score, by the way O-o)

On my main account which I have had for half a year, I saved up nearly 500 tankcoins (479) and was about to complete this challenge when boom, here comes updated challenge with 1500 tankcoins. Playing hours a day and nearly every day would take me at least a year and a half to get the battle pass. Coupled with the fact that most of the Tanki players, if not nearly all, are free to play (f2p) players. With new updates like these I see a dangerously steady decline in the number of players every day. Less and less players in every battle have normal gear scores for their rank, and almost half of the players I meet in a battle now have 7K, 6K gear score when there rank is only around Lieutenant Colonel or Colonel, obviously people who have spend money buying tankcoins to buy the mk7 kits, as 7700 tankcoins are impossible before ranks like Legend without buying. Saving up crystals for three months got me to 7K gear score at Lieutenant General, the minimum rank for mk7 crystal kits in the shop, plus a month of waiting for the right kit to show up. These updates are just making f2p players leave the game. Half a year ago most of my friends were f2p non-buyer players. Today, only three of those players still play. The other thirty or twenty have left the game and stopped playing. Before they left, I recall some of them complaining to me about the game becoming increasingly pay to win.

Can you enter with multiple accounts? Like I don't want to win any Gift Boxes, Merch, or Tesla Turrets but those 12 ultra containers at the end look tasty to me. It would be awesome to open 12 ultra containers on all of my accounts but will it accidentally enter me several times in the contest? I don't want that as I'm not interested nor do I want to enter unfairly in the giveaway.

That's unfortunate, I'm sure there are still players waiting for their stars to be updated but now can't vote anymore.

I could still vote, I just voted 5 minutes ago. I don't know whether that is for the time zone difference.

There is a large time gap (about 1 hour) between actual Tanki and the website, stars you earn in the game whether from battles or daily/weekly missions take some time to show up on the website, so don't worry, you still have about 2 hours to vote, and the website should be updated by then. Remember you need 100+ stars on the website to be able to vote.

Same here, but I just found out you need to earn a minimum of 100 stars since the voting started to be eligible/be able to vote, so if the star counter next to your name on the website (top right) doesn't show 100+ I think you cannot vote.

When I try to vote on the website, it says, "Unable to authorize. Try again or use another browser." What happened?

I think I got the answer, just a bunch of researching on the wiki :D

I guess I was right when I told @Dr.Isida that it would win first place a week before the results were even out :D (Just look at the detail of the shading and how real the sunset is)

I didn't specifically mention the plight of new players, but that is why I have the list below. Most of them are aimed at making the game easier for new players. Also this is just a personal opinion after researching on players' opinions, it's quite tough to figure out a way to satisfy everyone, if not impossible. And yes, I agree that the Matchmaking suggestion is probably the most important one. To clarify, when I say "veteran players" I refer to players that use old methods for things like catching gold boxes, and yes, also high-ranking players that have played Tanki for a long time. YouTubers like MrThunder and MrRailgun have left. Also tightening Matchmaker will not solve the issues completely because there are still those singular buyers in most battles that have augments and OP gear as well as drones however this will give new players a very good chance. By common augments I mean rare (blue) augments (read the wiki) that really aren't that effective but can give players a chance. Overall, I would say that my suggestions are an alternative to changing Matchmaking if it upsets the balance but I think you did a good job presenting a different approach to the problem.

For second place, is the augment your choice or is it a random augment? In other words, do you get to choose the augment? (obtainable from crystals or tankcoins)

I see so many players complaining and being happy at the same time about these things. What I feel like a lot of people need to understand is that what benefits one group of people will almost always be at the expense of another. This is why I think Tanki has been doing a decent and even excellent job at maintaining general balance, albeit difficulties. We see this in current Tanki. We see many old veteran players and YouTubers leaving Tanki but at the same time more players entering Tanki. The new updates have made the game easier for beginners but arguably more difficult for experienced players that use old-time methods that they have perfected and mastered. So, why am I writing this? I would recommend that although Tanki is doing decently at maintaining balance, and your opinion will almost be certainly different than mine (if you are reading this), there are indeed a few things that would benefit the game. To summarize: make the game simple and easy for beginners but progressively harder as they become more experienced but not too hard that they quit; make the game playable for veteran players that use old methods that they have spent a lot of effort on mastering; sort of like tiered difficulty that forces you to adapt and choose your own playing style; at the same time making the game so fun and engaging that players never want to quit. Below is a list of changes that I have concluded on (just my opinion, a recommendation) after a lot of time spent researching player's opinions, both new and old. This is in the best interest of the general players. -Nerf Hopper's overdrive, make it horizontal or a lower jump, however in return raise the health of it slightly or make it more maneuverable or expensive to upgrade (or you can further lower Hopper's health) -Make the common augments/weaker augments slightly cheaper, but increase their rarity in containers -Raise the rewards in coinboxes significantly (as they are pretty dang expensive and you can lose a lot of tankcoins because it is like a mega-gamble) -(In response to "druggers" or supply spammers and also beginners losing games) - make supplies slightly cheaper and easier to obtain (as a couple 30-second supplies could potentially cost as much as a player earns in battle) -Make the AP immunity and EMP/stun immunity augments more expensive and a little rarer in containers -Slightly lengthen then time of Hot Sales to maybe around 1 hour 30 minutes or as much as 2 hours or take away the hot sales (both of these seem to be the only ones people will be satisfied with) -Consider the time zones; be sure to alternate sales evenly between all the time zones and not during hours where children have school (a lot of the Tanki players if not most) ESPECIALLY in America (tons of people I know here play Tanki) - In America almost all the school districts block games like Tanki Online so children can only access Tanki from their home/Google accounts during non-school hours -Make training/practice tournaments or battles for beginners to sharpen their skills -Do something (idk what) that makes the gaming easier for those poor people that have no supplies and keep getting one-shotted by druggers with powerful tanks (I'm telling you that's over 50% of the people in every battle) especially in low ranks *This is all only a suggestion, PLEASE do not take it personally. Thanks! **Thank you Tanki Helpers for helping to keep the balance!

Good luck to all! I'm bad at digital art but I guess I can make use of my drawing and coloring skills.

I'm not sure if my story was 100% believable but it is definitely very humorous :) PS. I can't wait for the contest results