So as I wrote in this thread, I wanted to add a reason for leaving Tanki a couple of days later: https://en.tankiforum.com/topic/397512-typical-day-in-tanki/page/2/#comment-7002904 Why wait? Well of course because it will probably be deleted/ blocked. Mods already abruptly closed the thread where I posted my farewell letter. Not only did they close it, they also edited many of the posts, as well as removing mine, other’s and their own posts. All to make themselves and the game look better. Now, in what other system is censorship and manipulation employed by an elite to keep the wheels turning of the machine that upholds their own privileges? That’s right, in totalitarian systems of all shades. This leads me to my addendum. I will not go into politics, I will just state three simple facts. 1. Tanki online is owned by Alternativa Game Ltd. based in Perm. Perm lies in a country that is currently, according to the UN, engaged in a genocidal war of aggression against their neighbor. 2. Any money you put into Tanki increases the revenue of Alternativa, which in turn pays their company tax to this state. And all tax in this state is currently channeled to their war chest. It does not matter what any of the 50+ staff at Alternativa may think about the war in question. They of course want their game and their workplace to survive, but as this is dependent on foreign currency pouring in, it inevitably at the same time fuels the war machine. (Sure, western transactions is currently processed through a small money laundering island called Cyprus. This is just an evasion of western sanctions. You can rest assured that vova will get his share of any money you leave in the game.) 3. The f2p community equally contributes to upholding the business of Alternativa, by providing free meat and player volume. This is necessary for the game economy to work. The p2w’s will not have fun slaughtering each other – they need you. Without you the company’s revenue would go down, and there would thus be less money for the state. This is the goal of all western sanctions. I am not looking to attack anyone personally. At the end of the day, western affiliates of the game and western players alike must be the moral judge of their own actions. But if you are looking for a reason to force yourself away from the game, I think this one is as good as it gets. HEIDEGGER out.

I have logged in here for a last time to post my last thread, and I feel this deserves a short note before I go. There is no point in engaging with site representatives like this, Jeers4U. Mafs post is blatantly full of self contradictions, many of which you point out, but if you take the bait you are duped. The laughable level of reflection in Mafs post is not a testament to his stupidity, but to his unscrupulous servility to his masters. I have seen the same pattern in all threads where they try to defend the latest con, scam, or downgrade.

I am a man, and I will not be treated as a Pavlovian dog. What I learned today was the drop. I am leaving Tanki. Yes, I am referring to this: To @burak963 @MEXICAN-SKY @Cleric @Deceptive-Hope_EN.PL @JustBlackWolf @gio_the_killer @x_Sorinel_x @Jeers4U @2shots2kills @TARGET-X-ACQUIRED @Cure @ammazzafurbi @Xsader @Kimura @Gabku @yuvraj007 @rebar619 @ghost-guns @UnIeash @master_howitzer @Niklas I’ve read the complaints of you and many other old boys on this forum since I started playing two months ago. I read your posts with amusement, but also with bewilderment. Like why are you still here? Starbucks was once a single, cozy, local coffee shop in Seattle. And you all know Tanki will never return to being that again. Keys and misc. patches will not bring back the game experience you once had. Should a comet strike earth and servers be fixed, it will still be the same broken game. Because you know what is coming: Bots on all levels. More augments, shot colors, animations, casino and bling. Kafkaesque chat banning. Hell, probably submarines and weaponized mosquitoes. I see clearly that this game was once good. But staying in this game seems to be begging for your own personal death by a thousand cuts. So, I encourage everyone that fundamentally believes this to be true, to vote with their feet leave. Permanently, cold turkey. What do you say to a friend going through divorce? Yes, you say the following, even though you cannot guarantee it: Mate, you will find love again. To all mods, helpers and misc. affiliates of the game: I’ve seen you struggle in forums to defend various malpractices from devs and owners with inconsistent arguments and a weak posture. As a manual laborer, I sympathize. All work involves some degree of bending over backwards. But there should be limits also to this. @Maf may be a lost cause, but to others: please do not sacrifice your integrity and decency for privilege. If you have felt this as a dilemma for yourself; please just leave. Leave your deal and leave the game. There is good in the world. To @Indigo, and the other few good people I have come in contact with in my two months in this game: Take care, brothers! Do your best and take care of yourself. PS: Sycophants, undercover devs and the like, such as @monkeyboymania, need not reply to this post. PS2: I have an addendum that I will consider posting in 48hrs as my last action on this board. If I do, you will know by then why it had to wait.

Sure, just go and censor my one letter that i lifted from Cambridge dictionary. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/what-the-actual-**** So your boy Opex wants us to struggle. I guess he had something like this in mind?

I doubt you have missed this as a player of some experience, but since it appears that you have: supplies in shop are bought for f2p crystal currency, not $$.

QUOTE from article: "The value of Keys is higher than Containers, so conversion occurs according to the formula: 10 Containers give you 1 Key" Uhm sorry what is this yolo attitude. Why don’t you tell us what the true value formula is between key and container, so we can make an informed choice as whether to open our stock or not before conversion? Per stated info this is now a blind guess. Some ppl have a big stock.

Yes please. When even a legend 46 needs more info about augments, how do you think it is for <1mill XP players? I will add another suggestion: Please add hull, turret and augment icons to the results/ statistics section after battle. Sometimes, I miss things in battle, like what combo the no1 player had. Also, I sometimes see augment icons in battle that are new to me. What am I suppose to do, go in wiki and read about these during battle? After the game they cannot be found. It is like augments are made to be enigmatic and confusing.

I will chime in for the side against grenades. There is already too much stuff to keep track of in battle with all the augments. In higher up games, things are flying in all directions in all colors non stop. I want simplification rather than complication, and I think devs should consider this carefully. I understand the inclination to throw more and more stuff into a game that is struggling a bit. But if this leads to a degradation of the user experience, it will not make the player base grow. If you are playing 15 min on the subway on your phone, maybe epileptic chaos is ok. But if you wanna chill for a few hours in the evening, you want something less stressful. It is the these players that rack up volume, and they should be catered to. NB: for something more constructive: you were able to change the grenade bind this weekend. It was the 'drop flag' control.

I have to say I don't really see much of an improvement here. I've played a lot over the weekend, and like before it varies a lot how bad it is. There can be a streak of a few good hours, but then also really bad streaks. I had close to 10 dead shots in a game just now. It seems to correlate with general lag, which is not on my end. Also seems worse in big games/ maps with 20+ players. Refresh/ cache clear does not help noticeably.

As much as I appreciate the effort – and I really do! – I have to agree with @MEXICAN-SKY . Any text frequently blocking your aim is unacceptable. This includes ALL centered notifications. Ok the information is important, but is doesn’t have to go in the middle. We can learn to look elsewhere. For magnum users, the horizon line is basically where your aim. Can you imagine a game like CSGO with a wall of text right on your red dot? Well, Tanki is a shooter game. That sjit don’t fly. The player names is an equally imperative concern. Like what do I need them for? Give me red outline for enemy, blue for friend. A button tap could make player names appear if needed. In clusters, my view right now is like a word salad rather than a battlefield.

@TheCongoSpider Thanks, these are the numbers I was looking for. Sure, and I do open them in bunches. My question arose rather from the feeling that there was very little incentive to play as I had finished tanker’s day event, weekly and challenge during the weekend. For the coming 5 days it was then mainly just the 3 daily containers to play for. And I wondered how profitable/ costly it really was to play only for this. (I’m not going for top 100/300 in challenge again, too exhausting) Well your numbers suggest that one daily container will yield on average 5 each of BD and BA, disregarding mines, speeds and repairs. If you can do daily challenges in three games, which is mostly the case, this is what you can spend per game before tapping into savings (disregarding crystals earned). I mostly permaspam all supplies, at least with Brutus, so this profit line will obviously be overshot. But then there should always be a decent surplus of supplies from the other stuff. Long grinds outside of all missions and events, however, is not desirable as f2p user.

Big if true

Hey @TheCongoSpider, I've seen that you've kept track of your container openings for some time. Did you also keep track of your boosted armor/ boosted damage received? I'm now moving into other drones than Brutus, and man do they burn supplies. It would be interesting to know for example how much armor one can expect from the three boxes from the basic daily missions on average. (I'm convinced it is negative EV to do these missions with Defender drone, if I'm not also working towards some other mission like weekly, challenge etc. I'm not even sure it's a net positive to do these with Brutus.) An interesting number would also be 'average regular container value', counting supplies at shop cost.

Since I started playing in july, you recieve 3 weekly containers for completing the first main set of weekly missions. The content of these containers you will find here: https://en.tankiwiki.com/Containers

Why did mods remove my two other questions that I asked in separate posts? I asked kindly if you could make avaliable a graphic overview of hulls/ turrets/ augments icons, and also a gameplay question about putting extremely high rank players on losing teams as players leave. These questions are not in your sticky post/ FAQ. So why?