I thought I was imagining things when I logged in today. Fortunately, there are other (though limited) ways to communicate ?

In some bizzaro quest to "improve" the game over the past decade-plus they managed to nerf most of the qualities that made it a challenge to play. Now it's a game mostly geared toward repetition rather than raw skills, power ups rather than strategy, buying rather than earning. Long long gone are the days of sniping silently from across a map, knowing where boxes might fall without noob markers, hulls that didn't defeat the purpose of many of the game's obstacles, and the relatively recent and god-awful balance algorithms that pit 4k tanks loaded with enhancements against sub 1k tanks. Now it's just a game to kill some time now and again. I preferred pre-2010 Tanki far more than the current version.