A rarity indeed. Can't see that ever happening. There will always be "stupid" in this game. But you can blame the person for bringing them into the game with the bare minimum of programming as though a half wit had done it. This unfortunately is now the norm. Players rely to heavily on augments. This has created a sub standard player base who can't engage in battle with any semblance of skill. Again this will continue to be the norm. Just goes to show how much the game has nose dived in recent years. From gimmicks to bots, to flying tanks, to a diminishing player base constantly replaced with bots and sub standard players. The game is now beyond any hope of changing for the better. They will milk it until it no longer becomes a viable option to sustain. The state of tanki online is dire and will not improve, but get consistently worse as the months go by. Again this has been the norm for a long time now. Just played a battle were the aimless bots got me killed three times and the enemy capped twice because of it. I think using the term "half wit" was probably being overly generous.

The clan system is a waste of time, especially as you can only invite one term mate to a battle. Also what is the point of being in a clan, because I can't think of a single one. The ranking system has always been bad, players just didn't realise how bad until the developers made sweeping changes to the ranking process across the board. An example of these changes would be the inability to acquire any protections until Marshal rank, I think it's now general, i would have to check, but it's a very high rank before you can get protections, regardless which rank it might be between the two. You mean hull/turret combinations. The only thing concerning the actual hull/turret combinations would be the flying tanks, (hulls) that have infested gameplay and basically rule the cap battles like rugby and ctf. Unfortunately these hated hulls are probably here to stay. Containers have systematically being nerfed into the ground over the years. They mainly produce useless fillers like shot effects and paints. These useless fillers diminish in time but stay with a player well into Legend rank. All I can take from this is that you must not play often, so i do not understand the "grind" involved. Getting to WO1 would take me about a week with steady gameplay, and i never grind anything in this game. Unless you have an account from way, way back (when the very low ranks could actually acquire protections) then yes, your WO1 will indeed "feel like" a sergeant rank, because there really is no difference at all between these ranks as far as strength to your combination goes. With the exception of maybe maxing out brutus, or having more supplies, or getting extremely lucky with a container and getting a high end augment for a combination you actually use, the difference between the very low ranks is non existent. All the low ranks achieve (IF you are a new player) is get you used to how the game plays out in it's simplest rendition. Trying different combinations, using supplies, getting to know maps and their layouts, this is a learning curve all players must at some point have to be able to understand/learn and do without thinking. This of course is not factoring in the huge amounts of augments (per hull/turret) all the drones (which have been downsized in numbers) and the grenades (which have increased in numbers.) All of the above (except augments) takes a huge amounts of crystals to upgrade, and the supposed "powerful" high end drones drones take way more. For the lower ranks, i agree. This of course will never happen, which i will explain in my next and last quote to your post. Far from it. What you call "stupid" I call maximising the cash making ability of every single aspect of the game. It's only stupid if you realise this strategy they employ, and yet still continue to spend for the sake of vanity. It makes you feel good/special in battles, that is stupid. Of course the game wouldn't be what it is without a bit of "stupid" in the mix.