Update 254 — Balancing of Turrets and Hulls

[koffi1234 0]

But the speed went up a little

[koffi1234 0]

But the speed went up a little for the viking

[Canadian_Eh 1,354]

I have  questions. We did they decide to make changes in the first place? Was anyone complaining? What kind of game are they trying to turn Tanki into? Now it is more like playing a racing game with weapons. Like Mario Cart. This version is now about running around as fast as you can and dying every couple of seconds, and that is with M2's. I used to justify spending money for crystals as  an entertainment cost. (like going to the movies) now you have removed the entertainment. To sum up what I see, it looks like the players that where already using the close range weapons are happy. Why wouldn't they be, all those weapons improved, except isida. I think that isida got trashed because they don't want people getting healed for free, they want you to use health packs. With all the twins running around with the space bar taped down, you can't even get out of your on base with out feeling like a ping pong ball. All the long and medium range guns have been made worse. I don't want to play Mario Cart anymore I want to play a tank game. Tanks are supposed to take a lot of damage, but now everything is instant kill. I think the dev's have taken this in the wrong direction. We need stronger tanks not weaker.

 

I would also like to apologize for some of the rude things I mentioned in earlier posts. You have to understand one thing though, as  buyers we have spent lots of money on building our garage's around the way we play the game. We all know that the 2 most popular hulls where hornet and viking. Hornet for speed and viking for protection. When the Dev's made these 2 staples of our garages undesirable, it made us feel like all that money we spent was wasted. As soon as you start talking about real cash people get very upset.  Being a buyer in the first place means we care enough about this game to spend money on it. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but lets be honest most of the English speaking countries ( like Canada, US , and Europe) have the disposable income to spend on Tanki. Many of the less fortunate countries do not. Maybe this why the English community seems to get the most upset about these issues. In the future the  dev's might use the poll system to ask if things need to change

 

It says in the OP that this is not final. May I suggest that several polls be held. These polls need to be taken over a longer period of time then just a couple of days, so everyone can get a chance to vote on what happens next.  I know that testing was done on the test severs, but this is not an accurate way to test these things.  On the test server everyone is a Generalissimo with m3's and unlimited crystals. The results there will be much different then in the real world servers. We accept the fact we will not be getting a refund, so at least let the players decide if they want to keep this version, adjust this version, or switch back to the old version. Is THIS too much to ask?

 

I'm a little confused about the poll from just before this update. It clearly indicated that Viking was the tank everyone wanted. You then put it on sale. Then several days later you completely alter it. My question is why? If it was the favourite why mess with it, and why put it on sale, get everyone to buy it, if you knew it was going to be changed so drastically. I hope that someone responsible for making decisions is reading these and not just being auto deleted.

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

ur in battle bro :D upgrade immediatly=normal+speedup

if u want normal prices go out of battle then garage :)

This is new? Never saw that before. Thank you bro.

[moshkinstein 142]

Great comment Canadian_Eh

On the day of the rebalancing, I could not play the game...I was so upset

I gave it a go today and now you see an increase in players using over powered twins. 

 

It is very upsetting about Viking. You had a recent vote of which hull you wanted to be 50% and majority chose Viking...then Tanki Developers decided to change the balance of the Viking shortly after the sale. Why is Tanki cheating us...especially the buyers.

 

What annoys me is that you invest into Micro Upgrading your Isida, getting that self-heal up...then when you are nearing the end of completing your parameter, Tanki decide to dramatically decrease the self-heal. You sit there thinking, why did I bother Micro-Upgrading in the first place. 

I saw a complaint earlier where some player bought crystals and Micro Upgraded his isida to the max...and now he feel cheated. 

Isida is now a complete joke. Once a great turret, now it is not worth having.

 

Tanki Developers clearly show they do not care for their players. 

[Titanx 2]

I Think a very simple solution that will satisfy a lot of players is if Tanki finally created a "sell back to garage" option for our turrets, hulls, and paints.

 

Have us sell them for 25% or something of what we spent on crystals for them, that way we can get rid of the things we don't want, get some crystals back, and not break the game's market in the process.

 

So many games have this option for its players, why has Tanki after all these years still not created this for their game?

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

25%? Only?

[Titanx 2]

25%? Only?

You don't want to break their currency rate, especially since they have discounts all the time (like 50% off something) so yeah.... 25% sounds more than fair, any more and you would basically be asking for a refund, which we know they won't offer...

[semyonkirov 29,038]

Tankers!

 

We thank you for being so active here and discussing the latest changes with us.

All constructive feedback on turrets and hulls will be reviewed by our game designers and will affect next changes in the game's balance.

To those of you who are not happy with the changes, just enter the game once again and play for some hours, everything new requires some time to get used to it, even if it's better than what was before.