If your high perception thinks I'm a bot, I laugh. Bots only post positive things towards tanki. I only post what I see as tanki's failings. Except that one map that guy just made. That was a pretty good map. Just--as I said-- 6 years too late.

Is he not allowed to continue to vent his displeasure while simultaneously playing? Are you one of those players who just swallows whatever tanki shoves down your throat and says that it's the best game ever--despite knowing it isn't and the player base is dwindling by the day because of it? Maybe you should ask more from a game than just 'happy to be here, screw everyone for profit. I'll still play because I'm that _____' ( rhymes with blathetic...). It's 2024. 'Just happy to be here' is so 2012. Glad you aren't running the game, bro...

Then maybe they should shut the forum down, don't you think? And just so we're clear, 90% of the time I come here is the time spent waiting for a battle to start. And you come here just to read my stuff? So, literally, I'm keeping the forum going for you. Maybe you should thank me for giving you a reason to come to the forum...

Just played a game where only 6 of the 24 players were real. There were 18 bots. Biggest joke of a game I've ever played here at trashski online. Can. Not. Wait.

But they haven't. They're just more difficult to destroy. And they inflict more damage. That's it. Any hack can increase the amount of damage bots do--or decrease the amount of damage taken--by just changing a number in the programming. That's it. They still don't participate in the mission. Heck, they even drive right past each other without shooting a lot of the time. They respawn at light speed as well. My favorite is that one tank that always drives backwards into enemy territory with full health. That part isn't AI, my dude. That's just number manipulation. ****Just played a game where our Juggerjoke spent the majority of the game shooting a shaft on our own team. So, no, it isn't a decent of level of competence****

My complaint is the over zealous 'moderation' in a long dead and unvisited forum.

Thank you so much, Tanki developers for this great game and for giving us exactly what the owners and shareholders want when you maximize profits and reduce the fun of the game to almost zero!!

You realize they actually DO have bots, right? Like... you DIDN'T know this...? It isn't a secret. Greed defines the game now--nothing more, nothing less. THAT is the very 'core and essence' of TO now. And advertisements lie. Snake-oil salesmen have been 'advertising' their fake products for money for forever (in one form or another). In fact, when you buy a turret and it gets nerfed a month or two later, some would say that tanki lied about the turret's stats when you bought it... It's like buying a 'porche' and realizing it's a lada after you drive it for 2 months... Very altruistic. This doesn't happen anymore. That actually sounds like a quote from the tanki archives somewhere designed to lure noobs in to play the game. (Unless you are being sarcastic) Tanki doesn't have hackers. There is a place to report them on the russian forum somewhere. So how could there possibly be any hackers? Are you implying that the hacking reporting system is less than perfect? Are you implying that tanki doesn't care about hackers within its game--upsetting the delicate balance of players and teams for their own benefit and boredom alleviation??? Are you saying that the devs have done a sub-par job at preventing hackers from entering the game if they are still present in vast numbers after a decade??? Pish posh, I say. But then... you've been here for a while, haven't you? Especially if you knew the complaint thread started in 2020...

Let's just make all the bots 2-3x more powerful than the players. That will fix everything...

The forum is obsolete. Prove me wrong.

My opinion is that if you're just going to delete all the posts anyways, why have the forum at all? Why not just delete every single thread except the compliments thread? And just have no comments allowed on the patches/updates thread? That is my opinion on the current state of tanki online.

The remaining players who still pay to play tanki will pay whatever the price is (be it in crystals or real currency). Tanki knows that if there are people still paying to play tanki, the owners can tell the devs to dream up anything they want and charge a massive amount for it. Because those players will still pay it. Quality loses out to profit.

Weird how this was allowed as a pic of the day back in November 2023: But this wasn't allowed today as a pic of the day. Again, a special kind of tanki logic on that one. But that's my complaint for today.

So evidently, this is not con structive criticism. Not sure what construc tive criticism is--as tanki rarely listens to literally anyone. But there you go. Right from dumb ledore Not exact ly sure when 'complaints' had to become 'constructive criticism', but I guess mods start behaving bad ly when they can see the end is near.

I suspect you will have to demonstrate how it will increase their profits for them to consider your idea at all.

Absolute garbage. Bots get in the way, stop moving at ramps, are terrible 'team mates', do not do the mission, sit there inactive for minutes at a time. And I've never been shot more times by my own bot-team ever in the history of the universe. Enemy bots seem to have become indestructible to compensate for being bots as a damaged-boosted shaft sniper-shot doesn't destroy tanks it usually did, and bots seem to be 10x more accurate than real players, heck, they don't even have to be aiming in the general direction of the tank it's trying to hit and yet still score a crit. They respawn at lightning speed, and seem to be able to drive backwards, unharmed through enemy territory. And lets not forget the mines. Evidently, they can drive over multiple mines without either setting them off or being destroyed. And I guess instead of adding an 8k enemy to 'even the battle', you just turn off or dumb-down the bot AI. Am I correct? Oh. I stand corrected. Tanki still puts the 8k tank on the other team. I guess when there are only one hundred total players playing on any given day, there isn't much you can do. I cannot figure out how this course of action makes tanki more money. It just gives the appearance of more 'accounts'. Can. Not. Wait.

Even though you have many, MANY bots playing to cover up the fact that there aren't enough players (not accounts) to fill any arena anymore, but you STILL can't get matchFaking right. STILL having 9k's in with the 4k tanks.

If you will permit me... Mark Twain said: 'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor...' He was 100% correct.

Exactly. But that's why he was very specific with his use of 'accounts'. He knows the numbers or real people playing keep getting worse and worse. And I mean, he seems to have a lot of time and energy tied up in the mechanics of tanki, so I'm not surprised that was the word he chose.

If only the bots could be programmed to complete the mission. Whether it is capture the flag or get the heck out of the way.

Both statements could be accurate at the same time.

I, and trillions of others, don't care what the newspaper is/was about. It's mere lack of existence today proves that. I have zero responsibility or inclination to wade through inane and useless posts to find it. In short, not knowing about it--and the other thousands upon thousands of account holders not knowing about it--will never be enough to save this forum. Or ultimately the game itself. Kinda like 'the newspaper'. "Do some research to back yourself up bro" Except that those 'prophets' you speak of only have to be correct once. And I mean, you can see the game/forum's incredible decline to almost nothing, can't you? One day--without warning--your login won't ever work again. They won't tell you the forum is shutting down (we've all seen the disrespect tanki owners have for the very people paying to play this game), it'll just be gone. And I want to witness it. This forum used to be actually somewhat interesting. Now, this forum is like an old and fat Elvis Presley. Slurring the words to his decades-past and tired songs on stage in front of an aging and indifferent crowd hoping to squeeze one last moment of enjoyment from the artist who made songs they used to like. Barely even fitting into his pants because he got bloated and fat on money and druugs. But even then, there were still young naive and silly little girls in the front row cheering every burp, every drop of drool oozing from his mouth as the backup singers sang louder to cover up his fall from grace. Those are the ones who never saw his ultimate demise on his own toilet. Today, tanki is that Elvis. And you are in the front row. He's ok. I'm not taking offense to anything he is saying. His opinion is just as valid as mine. I hope he is doing the same.

My words also apply to you. If you find my words so offensive, you can keep scrolling as well. But you felt the need to post a childish reply to my (so called) childish reply. You just don't think it's childish because it's YOUR reply. And if you think anyone AT tanki listens to anyone NOT at tanki, I'm not sure what to tell you other than good luck, lol. But someone at tanki got all butthurt when I suggested the forum has outlived its usefulness and deleted my post. No one cares. Like, at all. You know how I know this? The number of people who no longer come here. Ten years from now, no one is going to suddenly go: "I wonder what the nerf to Gauss was back in the July update of 2022..." I'm sure you had the same opinion about MySpace. We all know how that went.

I said: Shut it down. If this offends you so much you feel the childish need to delete it, then YOU are the problem.

They still have a lot of bugs to work out with the massive amounts of bots in the battles. I mean. Shot hits you. A second passes. And then tanki decides it was a critical hit. The beauty of having bots from tanki's perspective is that they can decide when a real player's tank gets destroyed and when it doesn't--based on no real tanki mechanics. Just random. 1 you die. 2 you don't. And you can't challenge it or even dispute it because you don't know. You don't even know if it is a real hit. Or a real miss.