I love hornet so much, I never even bothered to buy and upgrade any other tank :) So to answer your question... YES! However, it does depend on the maps you like to play.

Prodigy! Without a doubt the best paint for Hornet...

A lack of respect for the dead has nothing to do with it! It's the lack of respect for LIFE that pisses me off, because how on earth can you respect the dead if you don't respect the living. By throwing a Nuke you clearly show that you have no respect for life at all, yet many countries still own them. As for all other weapons I feel quite the same, they won't do the world any good. Live and let live is my motto! You can't expect the rest of the world to be the same as you, but when you respect that... love, peace and happiness will be all over the place 8).

Nice try, but your propaganda has no effect on me. Fact is, that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place months after the war in Europe ended.

There are just a few issues I have with the new Tanki, biggest of all has been explained perfectly by SilentShadow... In addition to that I would like to add the following... Intentional or not, the bushes in the maps used to be more transparent. Now when I drive trough them I tend to lose aim more easily, since you can't see your turrent anymore. I would love to see that adjusted! Also, the fog is nice but in combination with the fact that paints are not easy to read... well, you can't tell from a great distance at all. Another thing I would realy like to know is, did they slightly alter the camera view? I got a feeling it used to be different (page up - page down that is).

You're both welcome :)

I myself had some trouble with certain combo's, so try these for example... Drive forward, turn turrent left or right, shoot and turn left (the left turn don't work, while a right turn is no problem) Drive backwards, turn turrent left or right, shoot and turn left or right (both turns are impossible) Glad this is history now, just ordered myself a Filco Majestouch 2 with brown cherry switches :twisted:

Some, or perhaps many of you players know the fenomenon of key ghosting. "Ghosting" is the problem that some keyboard keys don't work when multiple keys are pressed simultaneously. I found a nice test to see if your keyboard causes trouble with certain combinations, try it and find out for yourself... http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/KeyboardGhostingDemo.aspx

Nice effort, but still I think this new feature is doomed to fail. Why you may ask? Well because of 2 reasons.. Firstly, because there are 13 million players of which less than 330 thousand registered at the forum. The forum is as far as have seen the only place where people are notified of this new feature. Everyone can do the math from here... Secondly, 50% of all players +1 must complain before action is being taken. Well, imagine yourself in a CTF game 10 vs. 10, and you have a mult on your side. This means at least 2 persons from the opposite team need to report a mult on the other team as well. Unlikely to happen if you ask me. I know I would, but seriously... based on my experience lots of people like to see a mult in the opposite team. In addition I have one thing to add. If action is being taken against mults and such a video must be recorded as evidence. I think it's a bad thing to ban people solely based on the observation of just one admin.

LOL +1

+1 :mrgreen:

I don't agree with you on this one. I have done it many times, with success! If it wouldn't pay off that well, I would not have played with this combo and liked it so much, since flagging is the only game I play with rail/hornet... As long as you know your surroundings very well, know where the shafts are at, know when they are occupied and when they just took their shot you have a great chance of getting away with the flag. Of course you can always take 'em out first yourself. Lets be honest, almost no tank will withstand a 180 hit from shaft since most tanks don't have full health when reaching the flag. So, what you're actually saying is that it's always luck to capture flags without drugs. Sure there are more tanks to worry about, but not all are defending the flag. Plus it is not a 1 vs 10 game, you have a team too with often more than one going for the flag. Good teamwork creates great possibilities. 8)

From my own experience I can say railgun is definitely compatible and beneficial up to the highest ranks. I started late with the use of railgun myself. From Brigadier up to Marshal (400K exp.) 99% of all the battles I fought were CTF with Hornet M3, Railgun M3 and Prodigi. Not because I didn't have any other options, but because I found this combo to be epic. For me it is the ultimate combo for capturing flags!!! It got me many first places, with or without the use of drugs. If you got the skill down, you can play with it forever...

Same here. I take it, since it is a bug and not lag, it will be fixed soon?!

Yep! It really seems like we have exactly the same problem. Question is...what to do, what to do?

Yep, but note that this is happens only with Shaft! That makes it less likely to be lag IMO. I have a clean cache in flash, have hardware acceleration working, a good FPS, but I still have this problem. Is it only Shaft which bugs you, or do you have more problems?

OK! I'm fed up with this problem and I wonder if I'm the only one around here... Every time I try to take out a Shaft, whether it is from mid or close range, there is no way I can anticipate on its movement. Why? Because nearly each and every time the Shaft turrent (and tank) starts spinning in strange directions. If it shoots to the left I'm dead, if it shoots to the right I'm dead, even if it shoots in the opposite direction I'm dead. Shaft overpowered, NO! Shaft overpowered due to this problem, YES! I would like to know where guns are aiming for, if you get my drift. Anybody else here with the same problem?

Even without drugs hornet-rail is perfect for capturing the flag 8)

ROFL! Yeah, you can still aim and shoot... :wink:

EPIC bump! I LOL'ed...

At first glance the idea seems perfect, but then again, try to look at it from a different perspective... Tankers that are in a battle from the start will have a disadvantage, because they can't make use of the feature you suggest. Basically the last person to enter a battle will have the biggest advantage. So I say no, bad idea!

This is a rare occurrence. True, but this behavior enhances team spirit + score wise there won't be any major gaps between players, therefore it's more unlikely for players to leave the battle because everyone seems equal. When great gaps between scores exist, much players with a lower rating tend to leave the game when they feel only few or no crystals can be made. Chances that new players enter the battle become smaller and smaller when left over players have very high scores, which often results in losing the battle. So one might say... there is more benefit to it than you think :wink:

And your point is....... only to flood this topic?