category Ideas for the Interface

[osku844 20]

True. I sometimes for a wierd reason join to a battle witl like 3 minutes left

[osku844 20]

The ultimate version of this would be that you would set presets that on this map and this mode, you have this equipment and so on

[tubaman_the_crazy 23]

I really like that idea.  Perhaps for an added advantage to everyone, you could see the map, mode of battle, what team you are on, and what every player is equipped with, similar to how you can see what your group-mates are wearing in the group feature.  Great idea!

[blutakix 81]

Please make the black friday into Blessed Friday Please I am Muslim I know Some hate Muslim But I Love Muslims Please make this Change I does not need any more  change

We don't need PC-ism here.

[Destrod 2,634]

make it so that when you press "battle" you can see the map and the team where you will get and give like 1 minute time to choose your equipent before entering the battle

Topic Merged.

[G-Tanky 0]

Hi I like tanki and i like making cursors so i was wondering if i have the "ok" to make a tanki online cursor set. That everyone can use. And if you like you can add them in the game :)
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I have made 2 cursors tell me what you think
https://youtu.be/tikqGMFp6B8
(the link isnt meant to promote my channel it is just to get your opinion)

[NedFighter 408]

What about creating a in-game option to enter the forum? 

I already proposed this three years ago, and I still don't know why this isn't under review. It is a small option, but it can bring various benefits to the Forum. 

[Guest]

Scoreboard improvement

 

A little ping counter for each player on the scoreboard would be nice and useful for detecting cheaters and hackers. 

It would look like this:

why do my pictures always look like crap 

 

I'm not asking for much devs. Just a little quality of life improvement.

[Hate 5,582]

The scoreboard can always be improved. I hope soo.

[fordmustang12345 3,910]

What game is that

[Viking4s 10,791]

How this would work? Please explain further.

Ping? what is that? How do you detect cheaters?

[loginci 877]

I do want to see the number of crystals we will get at the end of the game. This would be a nice feature IMO.

[Aigaion 636]

I think the scoreboard could be better, like track XP earned in battle, drugs used in the battle, assist kills in battle, I support (thumbs up)

[Guest]

What game is that

Xonotic, an open source arena shooter.

 

How this would work? Please explain further.

Ping? what is that? How do you detect cheaters?

So if a player is pretending to lag (using the Ignore tanks hack) but has 60 ping, then you would be sure that the player is a hacker.

As for ping, read this.

 

I do want to see the number of crystals we will get at the end of the game. This would be a nice feature IMO.

The number of crystals you get depends on your score, which doesn't stop going up until the game ends. So you idea wouldn't work, unless the crystal value increases along with your score.

[eminem9870 605]

I agree with this idea, I also think other important things should be added to the scoreboard but this will definitely help

[BAMBIBX 178]

Cripes!

 

So...

 

When you press the Battle/Go button you should go to a screen where you can see the map, equipment and on what team you are on. (important on assault and certain maps where red and blue doesn't have identical sides)
There shuold be a garage button from where you can change the equipment.

 

After more thinking a half minute is enough. And if evryone are redy before time is up the game should just start.
Don't you wait long enough to get into games now?

 

We HAD a system that let you see who was in what battles on what map. You could not only select your equipment - you could select the map and the team! And you didn't have to wait 3 minutes, or 2 or 1 or even 15 seconds in most cases. You just clicked and you were in.

 

The limp ducks at Tanki decided "MatchMaker" was better. It was going to make battles more balanced. Make them more fun. Make them more fair.

 

It did NONE of those. Instead, it gave us unnecessary wait times, faulty launches and lots of bugs and took away our choice of maps.

 

FAIL!

 

Now you want to add something that will take even LONGER to get into a game? You're already spending 15%-30% of your time WAITING for games to start! You want to increase that? To what? 50%? 75%? Maybe if you just unplugged your computer and sat and waited you'd be happiest. 100% waiting time! Take all you want to pick your setup!

 

No, what Tanki should do is GET RID OF MATCHMAKER. But beyond that, make the garage pretty much irrelevant. Just have a little button in the corner you can click that gives you a drop-down menu. For each option you have a selector. You configure your tank on-the-fly and keep going.

 

But that's AFTER they get rid of MATCHMAKER - which should be their TOP priority!

 

 

A good chance those players are going to visit the garage anyway - so might as well do it before the battle starts.

 

And a good 25% (or more) of the battles start before all players are actually loaded. Have played many battles where it is 8 vs 5 to start.
This "lobby" will help mitigate that issue.

Oh if only that were true. But I doubt Tanki pays much attention to what's said here. Or anywhere, for that matter.

 

In case you haven't notice, MatchMaker has made everything worse. More people bailing on battles because, well, hell - THEY didn't choose the battle. If they're not winning, why stay?

 

But some of the more recent mission objectives are particularly laughable. Remember when the objectives had something to do with actually DOING something? An achievement? Now more than half the time one of your missions will be to "finish X games" or "use Y overdrives". These are just attempts to get players to stay longer in games. But they are fails, just like the problem (MatchMaker) that caused more players to start leaving early. And it's easy to see why.

 

Finish a game doesn't mean you have to DO anything. So that's why you're seeing so many players log into a game and just SIT there! We used to call them "Mults". Now they're Tanki constructs - something that Tanki is encouraging. So they sit around and wait for 3 or 5 games to end and mission complete!

 

As for overdrives, this may cause players to camp near an overdrive drop point, but more often, they just sit there until the overdrive is available. Then they pop it and leave. Reason is, they're not likely to get a SECOND overdrive in a game unless they pick one up, so why waste the last 2-3 minutes? Just quit, join another game and do something else for a few minutes until the overdrive is ripe - and pop it.

 

Note that NEITHER of these is an "accomplishment" in the sense of "capture 3 flags" or "rack up 50 kills". They're just Tanki exercises in marking time, and like MatchMaker, the problem that gave rise to the "fixes" - a mistake, a defect and a waste of time.

[Guest]

[rant]

Hate to break it to you buddy, but you're screaming at a brick wall at this point. The big buyers like it, so tanki keeps it. 

 

I agree with everything you said, but if they remove MM, they will need to remove the trashy battle button crap that came before it.

Edited January 8, 2019 by Guest

[BAMBIBX 178]

True. I sometimes for a wierd reason join to a battle witl like 3 minutes left

That IS weird!

 

I'm betting it's when you're got a "Complete X battles" mission and not when you have a "Place in the top 3" mission.

[SageoftheSixPaths 215]

Add back option to view others' MUs

 

I am not asking to remove GS. But can Tanki reintroduce the option to view other tankers' MU by pressing 'V' or 'R' button?
There can a option in the settings to toggle between showing GS and showing MUs.

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Topic merged.

[SageoftheSixPaths 215]

Is this declined? For example when developers removed the map name for pro battles, they added it back without remov8ng the ability to give custom names. Similarly, I think GS and the aforementioned idea are not mutually exclusive and both features can exist in harmony just like in the example.

[Aigaion 636]

agreed

[Destrod 2,634]

This isn't declined, the idea itself is valid but this has been suggested(partially) in other topics and is, hence not a completely original idea. The concept of keeping the merge tag is to promote discussion in a, somewhat approached topic and choose whether to keep it open if discussion is contributing enough.

[Immorality 0]

I like the GS system it is a unique concept, but for those who are just getting into the game or those coming back after a long break it can be a bit confusing (almost like you have to be a mathematician just to know how many micro upgrade steps your team or enemies have on their equipment) before I recall being able to see the exact steps and mach of hull/turret by pressing R or V or whatever you've set your controls as, I'd like to see that brought back it would add a layer of nostalgia for the older players as well as make it easier for the newer players to understand

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Topic merged.