Guide [Issue 11] Ten Ways to Maximize Experience

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

Well, we all want to be productive and make the most out of every experience and our time. Whether it's on a relaxing weekend, or just a normal busy weekday, we want to accomplish the most amount of things in the least amount of time, and have the best time you could doing those things. So, here's my piece of advice on how to maximize your experience on Tanki. If you enjoy the experience of playing lower ranked battles, you can maximize your gameplay experience, and vice versa. Here's an article that helps you have fun and make the most out of it! Divided into two sections of 5, let this help you relax and cruise through your rank with ease.
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5 Ways To Make the Most Out of your Gaming Experience

Make sure you're focused on the battle. Lots of times, when players are distracted, they regret that they were after an important event happens in a battle. Most of the time, it's gold drops, and no one wants to miss those. Having other applications or items open will also cause your computer speed to slow down, and affect your performance. Just close those, clear your RAM, and then, you'll have smoother gameplay.

Assess your FPS and manage your graphics options in the settings to make sure you have the best quality of gaming as you can. If you have all your graphic options on, it may cause your FPS to rapidly drop, and affect your overall performance. This way, you will be missing not only shots, but other important battle events. If you want smooth gameplay, FPS should not be under 30 FPS in my opinion. If you want more FPS, just uncheck everything after deselecting 'automatic graphics quality'. This will ensure you will have the fastest speed, so you don't miss a single thing!

Free up your internet while you are joining a game. Internet is easily diminished in speed if it is used in more than one page, so closing, or just pausing downloads and other pages would easily speed up your loading speed as well as decreasing the amount of lags. For example, if you have a 200kb/s internet speed, if you split it in half, it drastically decreases to 100kb/s, which in some cases would create a lot longer of a load time. Long load times are not a good thing, with the new team kick system in effect, you would be kicked.

Don't randomly jump for crystals whenever you see one drop. Not only does self-destructing take more than ten seconds of your game time, a gold box might drop while you're flipped, and you could miss it. As desperate as you are for crystals (and I'm really desperate...), jumping is proven to be a bad idea. It could only lead to frustration, anger, and other emotions leading to stroke and heart diseases.

Discover the environment in which you find most relaxing to play in. Some tankers like to listen to the radio/playlist while playing, some just like the original game sounds, and some like to focus in silence. If you can focus on the battle and listen to your favorite songs at the same time, then it would help you succeed in having a good experience. If you can't focus, and often get distracted, it would probably not be a good idea to have it on. As well, what you play in, such as where you sit, how you see the screen, and the position of your body should not be in a slouch position, since time will wear your muscles down. Take a break every few minutes to relax your muscles, so you can game for even longer periods of time.
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5 Ways To Speed your Way Through your Rank

Score multiplier passes are quite helpful in making your way through the rank much easier. They are those badge like items that you used to get when you were a recruit, or when you have been away for a month or more. They increase the score you get by 30%, making it 1.3x the amount of experience you normally get. This way, you get lots more experience for your battles, even if your battle score doesn't change. Mathematically, you get another kill for every 3.33 kills you make, and another flag capture for every 3.33 captures you make. This works out to helping you sift through your rank 1/3 faster! (But only if you battle on a regularly basis)



If you want to rank quicker, you need to set yourself a goal to achieve. It should be reasonable, so you can aim for it and hopefully be able to reach it by the end of your estimated time. This will hopefully motivate you to battle a lot more instead of being distracted. A decent goal for anyone would be at least 1k or 2k experience daily. 2k is my goal, and I've stayed up for quite a few hours battling to exceed my goal. From a Lieutenant's perspective, it works. : )

Be reasonable with which battles you join. If the battles are for higher ranks, they may not be the most suitable for you. Those battles would limit your ability to perform at a maximum, and won't allow you to get experience as quickly as before. Best choice of battles ranks-wise is if they are of similar rank. If you join a high rank battle, you would easily be frustrated by being killed, not because of insufficient skill, but because of insufficient equipment. The best battles that should help you are the ones lower than your rank, but it is not a must, since some drug battles would not be a good choice either. It really depends on your own battle taste, map, combination and ability to drug.

As well as reflecting on your capabilities, you should also reflect on the combination you bring into a battle. If it is a small map and you bring a Shaft in, it would probably not be the best idea. Depending on the size of the map, choose the best suitable gun for the battle, to ensure you will be able to kill with the most efficient methods. Isida, Firebird, Freeze in the smallest maps, Thunder, Smoky in the slightly larger maps, and preferably Shaft or Rail in the largest maps. But in the end, it is up to the player's choice!

Don't waste your time doing unnecessary things. A huge part of this is being less active on forum, putting less time in looking for a battle, and spending more time playing the actual battle. Some people have distinct battle tastes, and only join battles of a certain rank, map, mode, (no) supplies etc, but the only thing that matters is your personal performance in the battle. If you can achieve points in the battle, and there is a chance you can finish the battle on the winning side, don't find another one. Looking for a good battle takes much more time that you would lose in experience, than just staying in that game that is slightly flawed.


Conclusion
Well, that was 10 ways to help you relax in the game while getting your rank up. Taken straight from personal opinions, these may not be suitable for everyone, but these methods helped me to make me what I am today. Just find yourself in battles more than wandering off doing other things, and you will be cruising through your rank in no time. See you in the battlefield!

Edited July 31, 2017 by Hexed

[robbie56 2,403]

Congrats with your rank-up lol

[adams202 8]

G job :) loktinho

but SMP is very expensive (12500 crys )

If it equal 5000 crys as NSBP it will be useful

thnx

[Hop1337 1]

Thank you :)

[FBA966 5]

Nice bro!

[r_TRUNKS2853450 14]

+1

[hogree 4,179]

You might just have convinced me to buy a Score Multiplier.. :rolleyes:

[ThisDictator 23]

Nice job lok! I personally go for at least 3k or 4k a day.

Edited May 4, 2013 by ThisDictator

[r_AdvocatusDiaboli0 861]

Don't waste your time doing unnecessary things. A huge part of this is being less active on forum, putting less time in looking for a battle, and spending more time playing the actual battle. Some people have distinct battle tastes, and only join battles of a certain rank, map, mode, (no) supplies etc, but the only thing that matters is your personal performance in the battle. If you can achieve points in the battle, and there is a chance you can finish the battle on the winning side, don't find another one. Looking for a good battle takes much more time that you would lose in experience, than just staying in that game that is slightly flawed.

 

 

Welp! It's not like we needed new players on the forum anyway.

[fdby 4]

score multipayer passes r sooo expensive. i need my money

[Mr.SV.ENS 738]

Well, thanks to you I'm going to buy a score multiplier next sale (I guess june 4th) so that i can get hornet m3 about a month later.

[lizerdgirl108 397]

I may have read wrong but I saw somewhere that if you decrease the size of your screen (using the - button) it will increase FPS. I tried it and it worked well for me. :)

As far as setting goals I try not to earn a certain amount of experience per day because I can't quite play everyday or having enough time a day to earn a certain amount of experience.

 

I also would like to say as far as playing with people lower ranked, it sometimes doesn't work out all that well for me. I often find myself with ignorant teammates who are rude and unhelpful. They generally push and are too confused to notice that the flag was being taken away and like it was mentioned it's frustrating playing with people who are way higher ranked than you. Staying at a happy medium is usually a good idea in my opinion :)

I liked this :)

 

You get a lizerdgirl approval! ^_^

 

 

Image removed | Read rule 3.10

Edited May 21, 2013 by r_SwagBoy110

[Joshua16 780]

You might just have convinced me to buy a Score Multiplier.. :rolleyes:

I already bought one, i soared through wo 5 and 3rd lt

[6ac 162]

Yeah good but I think SMP is a waste of cry.

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

Thanks guys! I went through Captain in 2 weeks with it, and about 5 or 6k a day :D

[tankcalm 324]

Why you or any tanker would like to rank up faster? To face stronger oponents with better equipment? Unless you have enough crystals to "back up" the rank increase, is not the smartest thing to do. And if you are not a buyer, buy SMP is just dumb. Enough of ******ed tankers at top ranks without a single paint or m3 equipment because they ranked up fast (or bought the rank, wich for the purpose is the same).

Anyway, good article.

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

Enough of ******ed tankers at top ranks without a single paint or m3 equipment because they ranked up fast (or bought the rank, wich for the purpose is the same).

Anyway, good article.

You have no idea how that just made me think of someone :|

Thanks for the suggestions :)

[CompIaints 0]

You have no idea how that just made me think of someone :|

Thanks for the suggestions :)

Waiting for your next issue :)

[Raphael2 3,263]

You might just have convinced me to buy a Score Multiplier.. :rolleyes:

it seems it works very, very well... you are generalissimo :lol: Edited May 29, 2013 by Raphael2