Well, I remember when they "rebalanced" rico and it did help a bit. The biggest problem I have, and I don't feel like they did anything ever, was that its ability to slap tanks around is absurd. I use Hornet and one rico is hard to deal with , but it is impossible to deal with them when there are a few rico's in a game. I get bounced around like a rubber ball! It is like they tuned it for going against Vikings and Mammoth and forgot how small a Hornet is. With those plasma balls bouncing off everything, a Hornet might as well leave.

If you are so concerned about people being exposed to bad words, why did you just re-publish this here for all of us to read? You posted this, right? So then you are posting bad words for us al to read instead of PM ing someone about this?

Heh, you don't have to apologize, but you CAN help us to figure out how to deal with all the drugging :mrgreen: If you do that you will certainly gain some friends real quick! PM anytime, but I don't check them too often, so don't take it personal if it takes a while to get back to you.

I have noticed this week has more lag than usual. I understand your frustration. I don't know if its their servers or if it is a bandwidth issue, but we have seen this before and I hope it is short lived. If you have played before this week without lag, then I doubt it is anything you can do now. Lets hope it gets fixed.

I'm not sure, but what you describe sounds a lot like a bad connection. If your latency (ping) gets too high from your computer to the server, it may appear to freeze because no data is getting thru in a timely way, but you have just enough data getting thru to keep the connection alive. What may happen is a "backlog" of data kind of "catches up" and all the stuff that was happening while you were frozen looks like it happens all at once. My advice is try to play at various times of the day and see if it any time is better than the other. Good luck.

Complaining is how things get fixed. I feel sorry for you that you are so very young and misguided. I will assume you have the best intentions, however, eventually you will start to understand that things in life do not fix themselves. If there is a problem, and you recognize the problem, you should not simply sit by and accept the problem assuming someone else will take care of it. If you choose to go though life with blinders on that is your own business, but do not think for a second your naive attitudes will win over any friends. Those of use who play Tanki do have fun, and we also have been an integral part of the seemingly never ending development of the game. Well over a year ago, when many of the weapons you now take for granted were unbalanced and annoying people, we were there to complain and suggest solutions. That is how problems get fixed. The strength of various weapons and Tank bodies have ALL been tweaked at one time or another. Many other aspects as well, but I wont bore you. Well, I can't speak for Snyper22, but do you think I would play Tanki for almost 2 years if I did't enjoy it??

:shock: :D Hallelujah !!! Now we need to get back to figuring out what can be done about it (if anything) BTW - I think its a class act to post this. After a week of druggers h*ll, you didn't have to post this here but you did anyway. Nicely Done man! I hope this is a lesson to some of the others in Forums who never seem to get the hang of using these threads to communicate ideas rather than shout at each other for the sake of shouting.

huh what a coincedence, same here, ruined 2 hrs of work for 84 crystals lmao that was a fail Gona play more No supply games from now on. Cool, let us all know how your experience with trying to find and play no-supplies battles goes. Considering I have tried that route and found there to be almost no games to play or a few games with a few players only, I am interested in your experiences.

Perhaps your computer assumes you are a new player due to your newb-like play?? :XD:

I'd save for Viking M2 or M3. I upgraded to m3 hornet and was not all that impressed with its speed advantage over like m3 vikings. It IS faster, just not by much unless you NOX. I guess I just expected a bigger speed advantage but I think the specs and reality are 2 different things. It is supposed to be 25% faster than a Viking M3 yet it hardly outruns one in real life.

I know the feeling, it sucks but it is becoming all too common in Tanki these days. :( Its like druggers, there is no honor or sense of fair play anymore, and not much can be done about that. It is too bad that whoever starts a battle doesn't get total control over the game.

iNubCake just used the best weapon, his mind !!! :mrgreen: Seriously, the "best weapon" is not as powerful as tactics, and teamwork. The Viet Cong beat the Americans not with better weapons or more firepower, but rather with tactics , dedication, and teamwork. Afghans, Mujahadeen did the same to the Soviets... on and on it goes. I like twins actually for its finesse ;)

Again you miss the point here,,, I am not "complaining" about anything, I am merely stating the obvious, (at least to me and a bunch of other fellow players) that there should be drug free servers or something for people that wish to only use drugs that fall on the ground, it's really a very simple concept... I don't want to waste my time on here for 3-4 hrs playing a battle with skill, to have higher rank players with tons more drugs and superior weapons just come and take the gold box and all of the fund... I've paid some money on here to upgrade some of my tanks e.t.c... and I reserve the right to win some matches and receive my fund as much as anyone else, but yet it never happens that way very often, I have to play in battles that are timed and are under 1 hr or so or "jerks" that have no business taking our fund come and do so... if you do not see anything wrong with that, then you are a dolt, and you think that you can take whatever you want without consequence... I can only hope you do not live your personal life this way, and I certainly hope you do not teach your children this attitude... I think that in some small way, Tanki is inadvertantly teaching young kids to think like this, it is time for change, let druggers and stealer/robbers play together and let players that only want to use skill play together, problem solved!! Good day to all... To add: Please stop trying to convince me you went to Harvard, it's really quite pathetic... Again, we make the same points and never get any debate on the points made, only more ad hominem attacks. :roll: I guess debate was not a class he took while at ... um... ehem.... Harvard.

Really? What class are you and which professor? Harvard is pretty heavy into critical analysis for many of its syllabus'. That sounds a whole lot more like a Pastor than a Professor. What school did you attend at Harvard? That ... umm... "Professor" kind of ripped off the old adage "don't forget to stop and smell the roses" don't you think :lol: :lol:

Repeatedly asking IS begging... :P

Actually, it looks like they are using JForum 2.1.8 ;) I think phpBB is better, but oh well.....

This is by far the best advice I have seen here. I completely agree. I have posted points time and time again, and the only response is to ignore my posts in favor of engaging in name calling or trolling, or to simply ignore them. It is a shame people like kingeoin14 seem to thrive on getting under peoples skin so much. You would think someone who graduated from Harvard would have better debating skills. On page 4 of this thread he replied to me that what he is doing is "debate" not trolling, then spends the next 3 pages trading insults and pointing fingers. I think it DOES have to do with age and the ability of the internet to hide oneself. Petty flame wars are always the sign of a losing side trying to derail an argument. Listen: In life someone always has something you don't. Another point: You think drugging is unfair, yes? Well, you have to do what have to do to win in life. Panzer-runner, I'm not trolling, I'm trying to win a debate. A/N Jerks. Win a debate? Really? Then why have you not responded to any of my points (or really to any of Snyper22's from what I have read)? I will remind you of points I brought up that you have not responded to, that are valid, and are open for debate: Maturity and age are not synonymous. And yes, you certainly have shown you can keep posting, even after repeatedly saying you were done with this thread. :roll: Dude, when I first meet you, you was WO1 and and was Lieutenant Colonel. You are now WO2 and I'm Marshall with over 1.2 mill points. For the same time you barely got 40K. Advice from you is worthless, so, please, dont reply anymore. Just for discussion, I dont wanna be killed by some buyer-drugers or what ever other mental disease they have. Bwaa ha ha ha SMACK :!: :XD: Oh, and as iff all that isn't enough, we now have God being brought into the kiddie pool for no reason at all. God? Really? The last bastion of the troll, when all is lost they always turn the argument to effin' God! Sheesh! I wonder what kind of paint God likes best for his Tank? Well..... Maddog? Which is it? :lol:

This is just to play with models and textures for your own fun, right? I mean there is no way to use any custom paints in games is there?

Snyper22, they are just trolling. You have made the same valid points over and over and those like kingeoin14 just troll and troll and try to make everything personal. There is no point. I have yet to see anyone provide an answer to why people must PAY for a pass to get a clean battle, and those that want to play a brainless drug war can do so for free. Because it takes a Pass to play a no supply battle, there are no games or very few, and even fewer players which leaves us all having to deal with druggers. Drugs are part of the game, true. Another part of the game was balance. The balance seems to be way off as people get higher ranks and use scams and their position to simply load up on drugs and turn Tanki into a brainless 1234 1234 fest. There is something wrong when people jump into the start of a CTF game to 7 flags and right in the beginning start pressing 1234 all game. When people use up hundreds of crystals worth of drugs each to gain a small portion of a battle fund that is like 38, there is something wrong. This shouldn't be about who likes druggers, but rather why are the two styles of play not fairly treated. Why do those that want to play "clean" have to pay, and druggers can plunder hard earned games from us for free. That is unfair. Let's see if any of the pro drugger whiners can debate these points or let's see if they just continue to scream insults or "its part of the game, deal with it" etc. The ones that have large stockpiles certainly don't want things to change, but if they don't, I think Tanki will see an exodus of players leaving for other things to pass time with. I hope not, but the way things are going, I will be one of them. I don't believe in the "just drug back" non-sense. Games with everyone drugging are some of the most boring, brainless things I have seen and Tanki did not get popular to that, rather because it was fun AND you could use skill to win. Hell, why not add a super atom bomb drug that when pressed destroys everyone. That would be really fun, riiight? :roll:

Hehe, I hope you wear your hip boots because the s*it gets deep :lol:

I know its like beating a dead horse around here, but..... It really is not about if you like using drugs or not, its about the balance and fairness of play. As it stands right now, drugs ARE part of the game and that is just fine. The problem is that many like to play long games and build up the pot without having to worry about some jack*ss joining and ruining it for everyone else who is in the game. One person presses 1234 and it is suddenly an all out brainless drug war. As of today, you can BUY a pass to play without drugs, but that seems unfair. Why should the people that want to play "clean" have to PAY while druggers get a free ride to jump in and steal and plunder ??? Make the pass free, and have no supply games start to pop up as often as regular games, and this is no longer a problem. No one is saying DONT USE DRUGS. Many are saying "Give us a choice to exclude druggers" Tell me in honesty how many games you see with the little "no supplies" icon next to it at any given time?? I actually got a free 1 day pass and couldnt even use it since there was no games to play

You are pretty ignorant to post this. This is against the rules. It doesn't work and gets you in trouble. And believe me, an angry Dingus is terrifying... You may be right...I wouldn't know, I tend to keep my Dingus happy 8) :lol: 8)

I totally agree with these points. I think it allows for balance and everyone would be happy. If you are a drugger, cool drug away in games that will be drug zones. If you like drug free, drug-free zones would be available to everyone who desires it. What could be simpler? :D

Also, Smoky is great to slap people around with just to annoy them. There is nothing more satisfying than hitting a rail shooter or thunder just before they fire over and over and watch them miss and miss and get frustrated that they can't get you with their M3 Thunder :mrgreen: It's not a "Power" weapon, rather a tool of the skilled ;) or to quote Star Wars... "This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."