I'm a marshal and I still enjoy using railgun from time to time. The biggest drawback of railgun is not the "loading time" but slow reload after each shot. If you are too close to a rico or freeze you will obviously get pawned during this time. So pick a map that's not small, change the camera view and shoot them from distance! Also, railgun with DP is still useful at higher rank for defense. If there are at least 2 drugging railguns defending then almost any incoming drugger will be dead (except for a mammoth).

Pretty drastic change that seems to have fallen out of sky. While I'm happy that there are no noob isidas stealing funds and that the battles are more competitive, providing different rooms/servers for high-rank battles/low-rank battles/casual battles for everyone (should be without drugs) etc. would be much better. Nobody likes rules being forced upon. We want more choices without compromising the gameplay.

A real reason for the rank limit is to hinder power-leveling. I'd say while the rule should be more lenient for private battles, it shouldn't be without restrictions. Plus it's not end of the world-most of you must have sub-account(s) to play with your lower ranked friends.

Good argument Panzer. That's why I don't spend a penny on this game.

Good idea-should be implemented immediately!

My account was wrongly blocked (I am not even "gold digger"), and today it was unlocked again but without any notice. No reply to email or PM, no apology, no explanation, nothing. I feel that tanki online is shooting its own foot with rushed ideas like this automatic blocking that do more harm than good. Gameplay itself isn't bad but this is seriously badly run game.

When you die you are taken to your respawn point, giving you a quick bird's eye view. Sometimes you can locate the sniper this way. Once you located him kill him yourself or let your team know so someone can take care of that.

Smoky XT was only available sometime in the beginning of last year to try out for 2 weeks or so. So you can't get it anymore. Search the forum for more info.

This automatic blocking is failing spectacularly. I'm 12000 points away from Marshal so I was working hard the last few days. Today I found out with utter disgust that my account was blocked. Obviously the algorithm needs to be re-looked at, since innocent people playing fairly are also being blocked!! I already sent an email but god knows when they will reply..

Usually you can't kill noobs in your team, even though I want to sometime.

I agree with optprime. There should be more mods, especially on complaint section. The current state of complaint section is pathetic with so many reported hackers not being banned.

"happen" is not a noun. Accident investigation

If a camping spot is good for shaft isn't it also good for thunder and railgun? Also, I think shaft camping spot in Silence is pretty obvious because so many people play the map and see for themselves anyway. If I had a good camping spot I would keep it a secret..

My nickname comes from one of our guinea pigs. This is Speedy in real life.

Haha, I have patience even though my name might sound otherwise! It was almost 3 weeks ago that I sent him the message and frankly I don't expect to hear from him. I'm just curious to know who and what kind of messages Bruce replies to, because I heard from quite a few people that he doesn't, and I think it's wrong-we shouldn't waste his time, and he shouldn't waste ours.

Well I thought I had to. And I did make Team Japan. I asked Koolwalky to make the topic as "announce" and within half a day he did so. Is Bruce so much busier than Kool (who is also a mod) that he can't reply to almost all the messages?

The last message I sent him was for asking if I can set up a Japanese team for the upcoming world cup. I did this just because skitee wrote on Team Great Britain page that people who wish to set up a team should contact Bruce. Needless to say, I didn't get any reply.

How do you know how many messages he gets everyday? If he's that busy he should let us know that we shouldn't expect a reply from him. How hard is that??? As long as he doesn't do this, there will be people who expect to get a reply sometime in the future, which as far as I know doesn't happen. Perhaps they should appoint somebody else who can actually respond?

I make this poll because from my experience, and from what I heard from my friends, he doesn't reply to PM's. He might be a busy guy but I think it's kind of rude not to reply to messages. Bruce, if you can't reply then let us know so that we don't waste time writing you...

My best is 1300, 777 flag CTF at Island which took about 7hrs.

@contaminated hey is that a character drawn by Akira Toriyama? (Creator of Dragon Ball)

One word-Why? It was great that you could easily see both flags. Now more fights will take place on both flanks, and that little hill where the blue flag used to be, will have far less meaning and action. Bring the old flag position back please.

http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/84231.page

Last week I got 4 daily crystals in 5 days. Before that I didn't get any for 2 months. It's just pure luck.

Congrats to the winners! Can we have the real "sniper" contest next time? Where D/L is also counted.