Very low DPS? That is incorrect. m3 Thunder. If you say it does 36 damage per shot, it does 961.2 Damage Per Minute. m3 Twins. If you say it averages 6.5 damage per shot, it does 1181.7 Damage Per Minute. m3 Freeze. 32 damage per shot times 8 seconds. Than wait for the 10 second full reload. = 256 damage per 18 seconds. divided by 18 = 14.2222222 damage per second. Times 60 = 853 Damage Per Minute for m3 Freeze Just by looking at these you discover that m3 twins actually has one of the highest damages in the game.

If you feel you can win a lot of matches with what you have now, I would save up the crystals and get Viking when Viking becomes available. After that, use Viking + smoky (And drugs) to become the rank for Ricochet. Than just use Viking and Rico.

As a shaft user, I can tell you that I love being Red on Silence (both) because you can pick people off right there. I believe this is a bug since I can't see the Shaft, but I really love to pick people off while they are so close to their spawn. It really balances Red vs Blue a lot more in my opinion.

Dictator or Viking

They are allowed to bring the weapon they want to bring.

I would probably go with the Viking, just because of the 15k paint. If you already have a really good paint, go with the Mammoth.

Nope.. Look at the name above the firebird. If you paid attention, he is Blue, that name above Firebird is red, you don't see enemy names, the name is in red, and ever heard of messages? Look where the picture is cropped. Look at the name. The hacker obviously had said a message that happened to end up right above the firebird.

If 1 crystal for every 10 XP existed....

Fiasco. It comes from the English word "fiasco".

I found it more easy to earn crystals a lower rank. Often nobody else knew what they were doing, and I would steal 80 crystal rewards almost entiry for myself(Like 78) on numerous occasions. My tips for higher ranked accounts to earn a lot of crystals is to not snipe, and not support. You either need to defend your flag and get all the score from those actions, or capture the enemy flag and get all the scores from those actions. Once you have all the score you are going to get a decent reward, assuming your team isn't getting destroyed.

It really depends on what you want. If I was in your shoes I would go with the Viking.

I personally believe Isida can never be powerful. It can just go from annoying to super annoying. Heck, I have m2. I might as well get m3 just to piss people off.

Considering only one shot hits your target, your doing 595 damage per minute for 36500 crystals. To put that in perspective, it is basically equivalent to an m3 smoky.

Obviously it depends on the map. However, if the player is smart, it is amazing. Heck, I got the most kills in a silence 2 yesterday using m0 Shaft . If you can afford the upgardes, you deserve the epic weapon.

I wouldn't call that as unknown.... What about Kolhoz? In an organized battle capturing is difficult. Edit : Still, I agree Solikamsk is a great map that needs to be played more often.

The issue is the flash... and guys, stop hating on the developers. If people are unhappy and quit, the developers are out of a job. Why not have people come together with possible solutions?

Really? :? I'd often thought about using eight of the same weapon, but the only weapons where I think that would be ok would be thunders or ricochets. Even then, they have some glaring mistakes and flags can easily be caught. It'll be very annoying for the opponents but just the same. The thing about eight shafts is - imagine a tribute 8v8. One Freeze hides behind a building, and can easily take out any shafts that come to get the flag. So there goes any chances of shafts capturing a flag. Shafts also can only kill one person per shot at best - so if a shaft is outnumbered, the shaft will lose. As for defence, even the best defences aren't perfect. Eventually an average team will capture through the shafts - how can a team of shafts return a flag: unless they play like smokys I don't see that happening. And no matter how many opponents they kill, eventually the mixed-up team should be able to capture a flag. Every weapon has weaknesses, so I think it is sensible to try to cover for weaknesses. I think that a team using all the same weapon will be seriously annoying - even playing against five railguns on one team is annoying enough - but at the same time it is weak and just won't be able to capture the flags. It'll be annoying, and quite probably a solid defence. But even the best defences can be breached, and if there is no or little potency in attack, it is asking for defeat. A mixture between all of the same weapon will not be able to attack - a group of shafts can be destroyed by a freeze or two, a group of ricochets can be destroyed by two thunders, a group of freezes can be annihilated by one or two railguns and shafts, a group of thunders can be destroyed by a patient freeze. No, the best attack must have a range of angles to attack via, otherwise they can easily be stopped. In defence, a group of weapons can do it - but there's no point going 100% out for defence when there's no attacking hope. As in any sport, a team playing for 0-0 normally ends up losing 1-0 or 2-0: it is the same in tanki. You have another great arguement here. I was imagining a Shaft behind the Red Lines. You know the area left of the long bridge that is grassy? I was imagining a shaft or two there, covering those spawns, as part of my evil spawn trapping idea. Final Note : This idea might not work for clan battles, but I think in a random no supply tribute 8 v 8, an unorganized team would be absolutely demolished.

:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: Well, you are really a fiasco, dude. Read again what you have written. And think about. BTW - please answer on this 3 question. 1) Team with 8 M3 shafts...? 2) Can you answer what is a goal at "flag capturing"? 3) Are you aware of side effect of thunder and rico? Let's took the case you have given us, even though almost all agree there would put one shaft (not two) and one rico or thunder more. (But I would have additional isida in crew so...) Yes - with 6 shaft you can cover all 3 approaches to flag - theoretically. But ... (we'll return to this later) How you will capture flag with shaft? Shaft in attack hasn't any chance (especially non-drugged) against frezz and isida which will accept you at the their flag... if any shaft will even reach that flag, what is not highly possible. Beside of that - you have only two. Remember? Other 6 cover flag. Mind - that 6 shafts must be hidden enough deep or they will be killed from blind angle. So... Simple truth is, that "balanced" opponent will own all territory but the place with your flag. So you can't win! Best result you can get is draw. BUT YOU WON'T! You will lose. As soon as 2 thunders, 1 freez and 1 rico will assemble below your sight angle and do mass-attack on one approach (2 shafts) - your flag will be stolen. You make a pretty compelling arguement. However, I envisioned it more as the Shaft's not be hiding deep as much as spawn trapping. It would take work to get to the spawn trapping level, but once the other team dies when they get placed, the shafts would dominate. Also, I don't know how you were thinking about it, but I imagined it on the blue side. The blue side can basically constantly overwatch the red flag, so with good organized timing, the shaft would be able to capture. Anyway, 1) Yeah, it is highly unprobable, and most clan's probably don't even 8 m3 Shafts. 2) The goal is to capture the flag. 3) Can you please elaborate more? I am not trying to sound cocky or arrogant, even if my typing may appear that way. I just felt like saying my opnion.

Blue Side isn't OP, Red is. Red just needs to drug up there and jump off a cliff.

Truthfully, the notion of covering for other weapon's weaknesses is a terrible idea in my opinion. Imagine a Tribute 8 v8, where one team is 2 Thunder, 1 Isida, 1 Rico,2 Freeze, and 2 Shaft. That team is "balanced". Now imagine another team with 8 shafts. Tribute has only a few spots where tanks can move, and atleast 2 shafts can cover each one. Talk about completely dominating the other team. With an organized effort one shaft could get the enemy flag while the rest of the team continues to spawn trap.

It only applies to the title, Prehistoric Tankionline to now. And yes, I was never good enough to actually be those m3 rail, m3 dictator, digital players either. I had the m3 rail and was saving for the m3 dictator when the new hulls and weapon came.

I wish the new upgrades had never come out. It killed Tribute and Brest, and turned the game from being a ground war into a drug war. When everyone used m3 rail, m3 dictator or m3 Isida, Tundra, or Digital, It was pretty balanced. It really took a lot to capture a flag. Either that, or one person drugged and nobody else was smart enough too. Anyways, once the new stuff was added, all the balance completely dissapeared.

Get Viking.

Tribute really is a great map, but the new weapons have killed it.

Personally I dislike all those huge maps full of camping druggers, so seeing the FPS's on those collapsing doesn't really concern me.