I AM DIRECTING THIS POST STRAIGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF HEAD DEV-HAZEL. In your V-log. Regarding bots and rank spread. And I quote. "Create a new account and see for yourself." Now my idea of reducing the number of players way above your rank, with no need to make a new account and dispose of useless bots. 1- More XP needed to rank by a factor of at least two across all ranks until you reach marshal. This suggestion will greatly reduce lower ranks going up against ranks 4/5/and 6 times above them. 2- More crystals than XP acquired in every battle by at least a factor of two. This 2nd suggestion will ensure that players can earn enough crystals to upgrade their garage before the next rank, thus giving players the ability to be on a level par with other players, augments from containers not withstanding. These two suggestions will vastly improve MM by a huge amount and the need for bots either reduced, or taken out the game for good. Also re-introduce protections for all ranks. Currently not being able to acquire any protections until General is just a joke.

It just gets worse with every passing day. I want to know why lower ranked players can't have protections available before GENERAL. It's pathetic going into battle with no prots, or at the very most 1/3 prots. I see no point playing my warrant officers accounts, I have 3, just to get obliterated by players that are usually way higher than my rank. They are all on hold until prots become available for lower ranks. Also the price to upgrade is way to high for everything, not just prots. TCSOTO now = 3. Bring back protections for the lower ranks.

The current state! I hardly play now because It's becoming tedious. Get rid of augments and the trash cans and it will be less of a unenjoyable grind. As for actual battles, still glitching, but not as bad. The mark has went up a few notches from 0.50 to a 4. It will "NEVER" reach 10. The best it will ever get from me is a 6, maybe a 7 if they erase augments and trash cans from the game. Even the forum is dead as a coffin nail, much like the game itself. Get rid of trash cans, get rid of augments, lower your huge price tags in the "JOKE SHOP", start acting on genuine player feedback and see a marked difference in the game as a whole across the board. The game (less glitches/errors) may have climbed the dizzy heights out of 10 to a 4, but the enjoyment factor has, for me, nose dived considerably, hence I'm not even bothered about completing missions or any special mission and as for their cyber tank event, not a chance. TCSOTO-it's never been as bad, but I'm sure it will get much worse in the coming months.

I used to rank every 2 weeks maybe 1 or 2 days after that. Ever since trash cans and augments came into the game, including other OP useless updates I probably rank on my main every couple of months now and that's if I use that account on what I class (now) to be a regular basis. Acca is a slave to the game and doesn't even realise it, sad really.

No surprise there then. Without question. Here, here.

@RIDDLER_8 You never cease to amaze me with your ability to always have your finger on the TO pulse. It's incredible how you always seem to manage this without any effort. There will only ever be 1 @RIDDLER_8 ?

TCSOTO=0.50 Servers down, bugs, glitches, getting error every time, all premium wasted, access to sales wasted and on top of all that, the game is just far to expensive to upgrade to any sufficient level as you go through the ranks. Unless you are a HEAVY BUYER and I'm going to guess that maybe 1/50 players are, then ranking in this game is very detrimental to your garage. When you start getting to the business end of the ranks, colonel/brigadier, MK6/7 when MM throws you in with very high ranks a lot of the time, the amount of crystals needed to upgrade all protections, your favourite combo and maybe maxing out your favourite drone is ASTRONOMICAL. I have just worked out on a brigadier account how much it will cost WITH A 50% SALE to max out my modules only. I have not included spider or the ULTRA.... (USELESS, because of augments)....expensive armadillo module, which are both at zero upgrades. I added up all my upgrades for each module and divided it by 16, which gave me an average of just over 16.50% per module, so lets call it 17%. That is 511.000 x 16 = 8.176.000 crystals or 12.782 tk and that's just modules. My favourite combo's, I have 2, are maxed out at MK5, which against my own ranks, give or take 2 ranks either way is adequate, yielding decent results in battle. The conundrum here is that trying to achieve the IMPOSSIBLE, (acquiring enough crystals for upgrading) means that you are only going to rank way, way beyond your capabilities to compete with each new rank you achieve and never, ever have enough cry for the upgrades you need. It's a vicious circle, which unless you spend a load of cash, WILL CONTINUE to be a vicious circle, regardless how good you are. Let's remember that this IS NOT factoring in tankoins needed to buy the early access MK7s from the shop and then needing millions of more crystals to upgrade the newly acquired MK7s/turret/hull and that is just 1 early access combo, not two. This is on the premise that you have any TKs spare for the shop. Unless you are a heavy buyer or already have a maxed out or highly upgraded LEGEND account, then this game is not really viable to play with any amount of competitive, enjoyable game play for those players at the low to mid ranks. The economy of this game is SEVERELY BIASED against these ranks and I for one will not spend huge amounts of cash just to compete in a game that 1, changes it's parameters/mechanics on a frequent basis. 2, Has major issues with errors, and 3, never acts on any player feedback that would enhance the overall experience, balance and enjoyment of the game. I have already stated NUMEROUS times how game play for the low to mid ranks can be drastically improved by increasing the amount of XP needed to rank by at least a factor of two and by giving twice the amount of CRY/XP in battles. This would categorically and undeniably also improve the woeful MM system. This is because every player would have more time to save crystals and because of the longer period of time spent at a specific rank, your chances of competing against your own rank is vastly increased. I would also add that because your playing against your own ranks, it would incentivise/encourage players to maybe spend some cash, knowing that it will be worth it because of the ability to enhance your garage because of the changes I have proposed. This would offset any cash spent on the game because your getting more for the cash you spend and in my opinion, it WOULD NOT break the economy of the game, rather it would enhance it, because more players (I include myself in this) would be inclined to spend, because it would be worth it. I can't put this any more clearly.?.....? The game at present is a error ridden, OP cash infested grind and just not worth the time and effort you have to put in to basically go BACKWARDS every time you rank.

OMG. Are you that desperate and brainwashed that you put that much time into trying to enter a game that has been broken in more ways than one for years now. Seriously, get a grip. The devs will never fix their servers because they are cheap and don't give a toss. As long as YOU keep giving them cash, they will gladly keep taking it off you. I'd call that a stroke of good fortune. Long may it continue, because I really have had enough of this crap.

What little premium I had left is now gone, along with the chance to complete daily and weekly missions. It is quite clear that the devs can, if they want, update the player base on the reasons why the game has only been working on an intermittent basis, causing players to lose out on making good use of premium (if they have any) and the discount that was available in the garage. I do not care about any TOA they might give players, not interested. I want a game that is "stable" and "balanced", also a game that does not ask for ludicrously high cash/tankoin demands for purchases in the shop or any event they might bring out. TCSOTO is abysmal, this is a undeniable, 100% FACT. So what are the main reasons why TO has turned into a load of bull crap for most players, I do not include the brainwashed buyers for obvious reasons. 1-Trashcans. Unfair advantage. Not going into it, been there, done that, can't be bothered, 2- mobiles. Unfair advantage. As above. 3-Constant OP updates, usually cash grabs. 4-XP to cry ratio. This more than anything reduces players (non legends) garages to garbage. 5-The ranking system. This coincides with XP/CRY ratio. Players need to stay at their given rank for much longer in order to amass enough cry to strengthen their garage at the next rank. 6-MM. NO.4 and NO.5 would greatly reduce the severely un-balanced nature of this "FAILED" system. 7-Information. When bringing out new updates, especially the one's that change the mechanics of your garage, make it comprehensible/understandable, so that ALL players can understand "FIRST TIME" just what you are implying, because the only one at present who can work out your updates first time around is @TheCongoSpider and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't first have to take a degree course at some university, in order to work out what your updates actually imply/mean for the player base. Example- co-efficient. I wonder how many players (apart from congo and a few others I know) actually know what this word means/describes in your game terminology. There are many more reasons why this game has declined in popularity among the players that still play it. I have gave my most compelling reasons why this game is failing miserably and how to correct the one's that in my opinion, have the biggest negative impact on players.

Still can't load to use premium i got on TO birthday, only got 4 days left, wasted 4 days because of errors. They can't fix the errors but can still role out useless updates-1/10.

Error ridden 2/10. What a joke and they want you to spend cash on this trash ?

Lots of questions, no answers.

Armadillo is already useless, augments have seen to that. TO is infested with to much crap and augments are the main cause of this. Also the constant changing of the mechanics, (the nerf/buff cycle) and the floating hack trashcans have ruined the game, along with the ever present useless MM and a host of other stuff have made the game almost impossible to play/enjoy at every level for most players. TO needs a "MAJOR" overhaul if it is to be enjoyed by most players. The devs need to start acting on player feedback, if they do not, this game will become less and less appealing by the day. The changes they have brought in over the years have degraded the game and have not been welcomed by most players. TO just isn't worth it anymore.

4/10 if it doesn't lag/glitch.

You either fall for the scam, or you do not. I will not participate and spend cash on any useless event they bring out, not unless a few changes are made to the entire game. If these changes ever come about then I will reassess my commitment to this game, so until hell freezes over then!

That my friend is @TheCongoSpider role in tanki, to explain the gibberish they spew out that 99% of the player base can't understand. I include myself in this at times.

10K tankoins and how many players have that much. I will give you "HAZELS" solution to that. SPEND CASH. These events have one purpose, to force you to spend cash if you want the decent gear. Seriously, when will you lot ever learn.

Not really his fault. The system for ranking across the board is pathetic. The rewards during ranking and actually ranking are pathetic. The entire game is geared towards scamming as much cash from players as possible, this includes forcing players to spend to upgrade their garage because the rewards are so miniscule. I gave a solution to rectify this 100% and it got ignored. Hazel's philosophy:- cash rules, stuff the player base. Seriously. Totally agree. Again, agree. Every good idea put forward by players will "ALWAYS" get ignored if it affects their precious economy. The game is a joke run by scam artists who will do anything and everything to get your cash.

Nothing.

You being serious.

There's always one that vindicates hazel by no-lifing these scam events. Way to go sport.

Going on past updates, events, mini-games, trophy missions, etc, etc it will either be cash grab stuff, or play for 10.000.000 years to get 1 nerfed container. Excited indeed, only a mod would post such a comment, I really do despair at times. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA! Big Belly Laugh. no they're not. They'll either delete anything that might offend the biggest snowflake on the planet but then promote gambling in every way possible so don't even bother with the "protecting the kids" argument. the comments that survive the Great Filter get ignored! Maybe they'll pretend to care by interacting with it then forgetting about it 10 seconds later LOL "biggest snowflake" ? "Maybe they'll pretend to care by interacting with it then forgetting about it 10 seconds later".....So very true. I've noticed that hazel and that woman with the annoying voice (so cringe) never answer real questions that affect game play, just dumb (who cares a crap about that Q) Some things, meaning most things never change with this scam game.

Apparently not.

? Mini-game, not a chance. I wonder how many players will fall for this one "AGAIN".

BORING. At Legend rank (by this I mean proper Legend and not some cardboard cut out with a 5/7K G/S) there really is NOTHING to play/aim for. I do not count the useless cash grab events, or that pathetic out of reach trophy mission. The game has become a stagnant, op cash grab with crap servers and no fixes for the many, many glitches that still infest most battles. I have now ditched 3 good accounts because of the numerous updates that have crippled them. I refuse to spend cash on them so they become effective/competitive again, just never, ever, ever gonna happen. Nice one hazel, keep up the good work.