Other [Issue 4] History of: The Gold Box

[Tommy60 406]

The battlefield is a dizzying mixture of shells, lasers, treadmarks, explosions, and tanks overdosed with battle supplies. In the distance, you can see a golden sparkle lightly tread down to the ground, on board a parachute. Everyone stops what they are doing, and makes a mad dash to the drop sight. Those who have not already activated their supplies have just done so, engines roaring with nitrogen oxide, and weapons a-blazing. Waiting under the glorious crate, many are destroyed. At last, a lucky winner shouts a sound of victory, only to be annihilated in the ensuing moment by his angry peers. A typical gold box scenario.



History of: The Gold Box

Beyond the lower ranks of tankers, the gold box is a common conversation piece of Tanki Online. The sight of one brings excitement, hope and happiness to all. It has become one of the most desired commodities on the battlefield. But how did it come into the game? Has it always held one-hundred crystals within its wooden boards? Read on!

When the game was first started a few years back, there was no such thing as a gold box. Why should have there been one at all? There was no reason to have one drop, at a designated fund or at random. Of course, something had to happen, or we would not be enjoying the thrills of the gold box today.

A little over two years ago, during a Russian holiday, the developers wanted to give their players a special treat. What better than a golden box worth one-thousand crystals? It seemed too generous, though. So it was decided to have the box drop randomly between the battle funds of 700 to 726. The box had a tremendously high approval rate. Yet another victory for the scheming Tanki Lords! :mrgreen:

Within a week, however, the “gold boxes,” as they were called, stopped falling onto the battlefield. Players were outraged for weeks! At last, the box was brought back, and to its normal parameters; same worth, same time for dropping, etcetera. After a time though, it was noted that the game was losing a small percentage of its normal income. The loss was traced back to the boxes, which were now realized to be containing a ridiculous amount of in-game currency (Crystals.) The boxes’ values were cut by ninety percent, resulting in them being worth a measly one-hundred crystals. The players were upset for quite some time, but eventually realized that they should be happy with the presence of a gold box at all. Profits for the game continued to increase at their normal rate.



This ‘era’ of gold boxes lasted for well over a year and a half. In the English and Russian forums, players from all the ranks competed against each other in races to see who could gather the most gold boxes. The fund of 700 was considered a special time in battle, where most players would flood to the ‘drop spot’ of the box, while the dedicated players who started the battles, would take side routes, capturing flags to increase their chances of winning funds that made he gold box seem tiny and unimportant. In the end, some players had amassed well over two-hundred golden boxes.

Eventually, the dubbed ‘golden era,’ had ended. Along with an update that changed the frequency of supply drops in the game, the gold box was to be expected to fall anytime during gameplay. Many longtime gold hunters grew angry, since they could no longer be sure of when their prey would come. While some players said that the update was to make the game more fair for all, their counterparts argued that there would be some players who would stay in the same spot throughout an entire game, refusing to help their team until the gold box had fallen. While both sides had valid arguments, the developers never changed their decision on the gold box, and it has remained that way since.

Edited September 26, 2017 by Hexed

[r_nuclearbom0 62]

Well, most of it, was already known for me, but was the Gold Box first just worth 1000 crystals?? Or was it an event?

[Fjelstad1678 186]

Also, for the gold, wasnt there like a week period where on one certain map the gold was at 1000 again? It was like a contest.

[Theawesomecooldude 108]

Good job! Never knew that. :) I would have loved to catch one of those... XD

[Tommy60 406]

The 1000 gold box was reintroduced to Tanki for one week last summer, but it did not take the place of the gold box. It simply fell on the long bridge in Molotov. The normal gold box still fell in its normal spot.

[magnaboy2 656]

Well,with the update of gold box falling not anymore on 700 battle funds,i catched 15 gold boxes :D,when the update was not ready yet,i have catched 0 gold boxes :(,but,thx tanki for the update ;D :mrgreen: :thumbup: :tank:

[FBA966 5]

So it could fall on the battlefield in anytime. Well nice story. GOLDEN BOXES TAKEN= 0

[jackieee 92]

some players, who would remain in the same place in an entire game, refusing to help their team until the gold box fell ------- this is the problem that I really bother me. maybe the gold box may be of, for example 600-800 fall.

[r_almighty010 872]

The "golden era" :) that was fun.

[chriswu 25]

Nice article Tommy. :wink: I didn't actually know about its history. :oops: That is, where it came from.

[penutbutt3r 0]

i had no idea that is how the gold box was started. i always thought the gold box was part of the original gameplay. it was definitely worth reading. i have caught on and it was a little bit ago when they were worth 500

[MarcuzFire346 0]

The start of the golden box. wow never knew this info. BTW i caught an 100 box yesterday

[tankcalm 324]

some players' date=' who would remain in the same place in an entire game, refusing to help their team until the gold box fell ------- this is the problem that I really bother me. maybe the gold box may be of, for example 600-800 fall.[/quote']

 

use /vote command to call a mod(if available). It's not a perfect solution, but better than nothing

[Masterofitall 0]

My name is Michael, and i love this game and was wondering if you Mr. tommy 60 could get hold of the person who make changes to the game and tell him or her this"

"gold boxes are worth one hundred, silver boxes should be worth 50, blue boxes would be 25, green boxes could be 10 and lastly red boxes could be 5" anything like that! the piont is i would more of a variety of boxes! now obvouisly this paper is not written in perfect form but i hope u have an idea! this is for your consideration of course! :D

[Dvan123 2]

Good job Tommy!

I knew this all allong.

Can you believe I started only a few months after you and I am only a WO3?

<------- Don't belive the infomation thing. I started around 2010.

[r_Goldovik0 0]

Good job!

[Racos321 0]

I started this game no more than 3 months ago, and i didnt knew about the "700 battle funds-goldbox prediction" but now i know more about the game, i think its a bit (or a lot) unfair because now less players get it, because no one can be sure it will appear in the battle, they leave the battle and..... then a goldbox appears, right after they left the battle.

 

:x :x :x :x

[Racos321 0]

some players' date=' who would remain in the same place in an entire game, refusing to help their team until the gold box fell ------- this is the problem that I really bother me. maybe the gold box may be of, for example 600-800 fall.[/quote']

 

Thats right, maybe not that the goldbox would fall randomly, and neither that it would fall in a particular battle fund

[Racos321 0]

My name is Michael, and i love this game and was wondering if you Mr. tommy 60 could get hold of the person who make changes to the game and tell him or her this"

"gold boxes are worth one hundred, silver boxes should be worth 50, blue boxes would be 25, green boxes could be 10 and lastly red boxes could be 5" anything like that! the piont is i would more of a variety of boxes! now obvouisly this paper is not written in perfect form but i hope u have an idea! this is for your consideration of course! :D

 

 

Thats a very good idea, that way it would be easier to get crystals, a nice amount to save for the things u wanna buy, and its not excessive, i loved that idea :-) :-) :) :)

[Tommy60 406]

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[Tommy60 406]

I'm glad you all found this article interesting. :)

[Dihos 2]

Amazing. Thank you for sharing this with us! :)

[ALEXBOOT 0]

gold box

[WhiteKnight170 2]

Stop trolling will ya?

 

@Tommy, yeah, it's good and interesting :)

[Contaminated 129]

Had a blast reading!