A Shaft augment where you can move the tank while in sniping mode.

I respect the effort. It is hard to judge the parameters accurately without in-game testing and how each OD will perform and work in different situations, but overall I do think that ODs do need big/new changes other than tweaking and tuning the parameters, specially some ODs like dictator's. I highly doubt they will do big changes to the ODs but your ideas can be a starting point if they do, although I bet some of the visuals will be hard to implement.

After successful milking in Classic's early access. This early access is no suprise to me. It seems every new stuff from now on will be following the "early access" META.

Ok, but i don't see how that is related to my point. Nevertheless I will answer your question. Gaining profit is not a necessary condition to have fun, so some players don't take golds for profit they just do for the fun of it. Just like Parkour players, they keep wasting supplies for 0 profit but they keep doing it because thats how they have fun playing Tanki. Some players do take golds for the profit even if their garage is maxed out, maybe because they want to feel safe if they needed to spend crystals for supplies or a new turret and a new module. Even when you are rich, having more money is always nice. The motive is not simple, so it is always a mix of both for all players, they play for fun and also they play for the profit.

What do you mean by that?

"A balanced game is a state of fairness and strategic variety where no single strategy, character, or item dominates, ensuring that all options are viable and victory depends on skill rather than overpowered choices. It maintains an equilibrium between player challenge and skill, preventing frustration while allowing for diverse" What you said was definitely one of the worst things that has been said to defend the game state. Players don't "cry" because they don't take golds, they "cry" because of hoppers existinece which is two different things that you had them mixed up. April fools and golds events exist way before Hopper appered late 2020 and not every player was able to farm and take golds just like now, but suprisingly such "crying" was not there before. A bronze ranked player will lose becuase of his poor skills, therefore he won't blame the game. However, if that same bronze player lost becuase of unfair matchups, he will rightfully so blame the game for his lose. Forcing an option to take golds is the opposite of balance. Players don't mind not taking golds, I don't think we will ever see a player criticize by saying: the event is bad because I did not take x number of golds.

it is obvious that the design philosophy of turrets has been shifted towards designing simple repetitive core turrets and then adding new mechanisms through Augments. From a business standpoint this is understandable since augments generate more revenue, but from quality of design standpoint it is bad. Augments do not really add something new and unique to the turret, it just tunes the parameters. there are few exceptions such as: Thunder's nano tech, Shaft's Healing Emitters and Shock nanobot injection for isida. In general Tsunami is a bad design and a boring turret, if there is still a chance to rework it before the official launch then please do.

Well, this is just objectively wrong. Hovering mechanism is far more stable than tracked mechanism in every way. One of the ways where Hovering mechanism really shines on stability over tracked mechanism, is having the ability to control the tank while being mid-air, so despite having no ground support whatsoever you can still give inputs to your tank and adjust it mid-air, while tracked mechanism requires direct contact with the ground. You can test both mechanisms by simply falling off any tall place and trying to adjust while being mid-air. This is without mentioning the free and immediate movement of hovering mechanism in any x,y direction compared to the limited tracked mechanism.

Considering how common cheats are these days even among esport players and how suspicious your gameplay looked, I don't see this as a surprising outcome.

So my guess of the cause of these issues would be the server's tick rate. Tanki has 20Hz tick rate (50ms) according to the last patch that mentioned the tick rate. Poor tick rate can cause severe desync between player position and server reality, which does explain the first image you sent. A famous game with a 20Hz tick rate is Apex legends, you can google "Apex legends tick rate issues" and you will find many videos and players complaining about the servers. Now it can be optimization issue of the servers rather than "server issue" if the tick rate is unstable due to poor optimizations.

Tooooooooooooooo late better than never I guess. I'm guessing it won't be a pure nerf, it will be a mix of a nerf and a buff.

I see. I thought the same but the wording of the patch throw me off. By the way it is 8 seconds for the duration and 22 seconds for the cooldown according to the wiki.

It is 10s at max.

Practice range for testing purposes and trying out different Augments and combos will be so useful. instead of having to bring a friend or another account to test stuff out. I think having bots ready now will make implementing a Practice Range similar to Overwatch's Practice Range much easier.