Let's discuss the Developer's Plans!

[FaaiqBilal1 795]

FEATURES WE ACTUALLY WANT:

 

Requests for next version:

 

1) Keyboard keys - PLEASE let us configure our own keys. The ZX or >< thing is so freggin annoying, I always miss hitting the right key at the critical moment. Also, please seriously consider us to use our mouse for shooting and aiming. Using arrow keys is so 1980's.

2)  Opponent health visiblity - I want to see my opponent's health level. In real world battle you can see if the guy is wounded and roughly how much. For humans and especially tanks/cars/planes. I also want to see my opponent's Mx status for tank/paint/weapon

3) Speed up the tanks! - Every tank is too damn slow. Can we speed up the entire game about 2x?  (I know, probably wishful thinking)

4)  FAST suicide - In real life suicide can be much faster. Please stop wasting our time waiting 10 seconds to self-destruct.

5) Pivate game messages - TEAM messages that are actually private. I want to communicate things to only my team, but I think right now it gets broadcast to everyone.

6) Message Macros - like in quake... we could hit F1-F12 with pre-programmed macro text messages (i.e. "Cover me", "Blue flag, left side", etc)

7) Fix message history - After I type a message, I lose visibility to all the previous messages. Why? This should be an easy fix, no?

8) Game Auto-balance by default  - Please create an auto-balance feature for game creation. Very often one team dominates heavily, after the game restarts, the same players are on the same team... unless you are playing Clan battles, by default there should be an auto-balance formula applied to the new game heavily based on who did how well in the previous game.

9) BITCOIN - Can you please allow the purchase of crystals with bitcoins/litecoins and/or dogecoins? It's very easily to implement and you can get paid directly in cash with 1% fee (cheaper and faster for you than paypal, visa etc and NO chargebacks!). See bitpay.com (North America) or bips.me (europe). You never have to actually handle any crypto/virtual coins yourself, you get paid instantly in cash.

10) Game Calculators - Please provide calculators so we can make better decisions. See my post here:

http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=208923

11) Self-made Tank/Paint Kits - How about you let *us* create our own tank/paint kits to purchase at 50% off? If your goal is to make $, then it will be highly likely more people will buy kits if you let them create their own. You can still have your weekly/monthly specials, but please let us create our own.

 

Thanks!

0verKKiLL

 

PS. Love the weekly video and contests, very creative stuff to keep your userbase engaged. Cheers.

1) The keys are perfect, they are perfectly suited and majority don't need a change, get used to it.

2)Wouldn't that be a giveaway? I prefer it right now, when you move to the higher ranks, you will automatically be able to judge the amount of shots you need to kill a person.

3) Yeah, speeding up might make it more dynamic, but aren't the maps too small for that?

4)Ummm no. That would be just everyone avoiding getting killed but just hitting self destruct during a fight.

5)Press ctrl+enter to give a team chat message

6)First thing I agree to, but there will be a language problem

7)Press enter to see your previous messages

8)Auto balance is a feature enabled in most battles, it is the choice of the creator to keep them in use

9)I think this was denied earlier, someone suggested it, not sure, but someone did suggest it.

10) If you go to noobblog.net you can find a calculator for discount and total garage worth, it is made by 

11) For custom combos, they give separate sales at specific times. Kits are already enough of hell...

[Cluanar 15]

Lovin' It, especially automatic battle creation, I'm kinda sick of all of the sandbox, polygon, and silence maps. Just sick. Anyways, everything is good, except for the drugs part. Seriously, do you really want to piss of buyers? And just typical people who just feel like drugging for fun one day? It just lessens the dynamicity of the game. It makes the game dull, you won't have a challenge anymore, simply petty "pickup" like powers. I enjoy destroying druggers cause it gives me joy to kill such "hard to kill" players. This will take away my happiness.

What makes you think buyers are just druggers, I donate $$ for crystals for 1. to show my appreciation for the game and 2. To upgrade my garage.

 

What is making me and my friends considering not to buy is the druggers. A balanced game of skill is more strategic and fun then a burst of fake skills due to drugs. Any M0 can become an M4 with 150 crystals. BS.  Those who can't skill, drug.

 

I want to correct myself. I have seen plenty of very skilled tankers using drugs but the point was there is no need to make druggers "God Mode".

Edited June 28, 2014 by Cluanar

[JaggyBunnet 80]

I haven't been playing for very long, but the single most annoying thing I have found in the game is the imbalance created with constant use of supplies by many players. Such a player could join a 100 kill game half way through and still win, spoiling the game for the majority who have just wasted their time. This " pay to win " mentality is the reason I have left many games in the past and this looks like it could be heading in the same direction. 

 

Sure I could pay 5000 crystals to join a pro battle, but from what I have seen, there are not that many of them around. Whenever I have received the 24 hour battle pass and looked for a game, the supplies were activated and the ranks were well above mine anyway.I have considered buying crystals the closer I get to M2 levels, but the whole issue of constant use of supplies is the one thing that will stop me from doing so.

 

As Cluanar points out in his post, any M2 kit will be outclassed by someone using supplies. So until the game is more balanced, I shall be keeping my money in my pocket.

[Death735 0]

i believe that there are to many rules they need to shorten or simplyfy them  :huh:

[Death735 0]

way to many to read

[Crusader 198]

In the end it will all be a disappointment, just how it always is.

[canadarules 1,938]

http://en.tankiwiki.com/Development_Plans

found link to it if you are wondering

the best of these is spectator mode so that the players themselves can learn to stream player made tournaments :)

Edited June 30, 2014 by canadarules

[JaggyBunnet 80]

Just to confirm what I said earlier. I just completed a DM with a 250 kill limit. I had approx 100 kills when a player joined with a rail and drugged up constantly throughout the game. ( I would name him if I was sure it was not against the rules) He won the game with a lead of around 30. This cost me and a lot of other players a lot of crystals in the prize payout.

How can this be allowed to happen? If players are not happy with this kind of bad sportsmanship and severe game imbalance, why don't the developers put a stop to it ? Yes there are plans to stop the use of all 3 supplies at the same time, along with a cool down before re use, but I'm not convinced this will be enough. Such a player would still be able to drug more than others if he chose to. Sure the progress would be slower, but the advantage would still be there.

We need the choice to ban the use of supplies in every game that's created, not just those created with a pro pass. There is just not enough of them to warrant buying the pass. That way, if people wish to avoid the game spoiling tactics of those with no skill, they can.

[BlitzPanzer12345 241]

Just to confirm what I said earlier. I just completed a DM with a 250 kill limit. I had approx 100 kills when a player joined with a rail and drugged up constantly throughout the game. ( I would name him if I was sure it was not against the rules) He won the game with a lead of around 30. This cost me and a lot of other players a lot of crystals in the prize payout.

How can this be allowed to happen? If players are not happy with this kind of bad sportsmanship and severe game imbalance, why don't the developers put a stop to it ? Yes there are plans to stop the use of all 3 supplies at the same time, along with a cool down before re use, but I'm not convinced this will be enough. Such a player would still be able to drug more than others if he chose to. Sure the progress would be slower, but the advantage would still be there.

We need the choice to ban the use of supplies in every game that's created, not just those created with a pro pass. There is just not enough of them to warrant buying the pass. That way, if people wish to avoid the game spoiling tactics of those with no skill, they can.

form alliance against druggers in DMs

[Crusader 198]

Just to confirm what I said earlier. I just completed a DM with a 250 kill limit. I had approx 100 kills when a player joined with a rail and drugged up constantly throughout the game. ( I would name him if I was sure it was not against the rules) He won the game with a lead of around 30. This cost me and a lot of other players a lot of crystals in the prize payout.

How can this be allowed to happen? If players are not happy with this kind of bad sportsmanship and severe game imbalance, why don't the developers put a stop to it ? Yes there are plans to stop the use of all 3 supplies at the same time, along with a cool down before re use, but I'm not convinced this will be enough. Such a player would still be able to drug more than others if he chose to. Sure the progress would be slower, but the advantage would still be there.

We need the choice to ban the use of supplies in every game that's created, not just those created with a pro pass. There is just not enough of them to warrant buying the pass. That way, if people wish to avoid the game spoiling tactics of those with no skill, they can.

How many times do people have to say it?! Play No Supply battles and stop whining about it. Drugs keep this game alive. What will you suggest next, no more buying crystals? Go cry somewhere else -_-

[JaggyBunnet 80]

How many times do people have to say it?! Play No Supply battles and stop whining about it. Drugs keep this game alive. What will you suggest next, no more buying crystals? Go cry somewhere else -_-

If you took the time to read what I wrote, you would see just how poor an argument you put forward. But just for you I will write it again and underline it to make it a little easier for you. The pro games are scarce. Even if you do find one, the chances are that the supplies are turned off are small. Even then if you do find one, you then have to hope that it suits your rank to join.  

 

You mention I may suggest no more buying crystals, Why would I do that when I already said I was thinking about buying some.  Hmmmmm.  Along with no skill (habitual drugger) you obviously have a problem comprehending written English. 

 

I await your retort.......or on second thoughts, possibly not. 

[swede1 1,726]

As a player who is almost a Generalissimo, I can still remember my humble beginnings in Tanki.

When I started it was very exciting, hulls and turrets were quite inexpensive to purchase as M0 even with the tiny funds given at low ranks and basically not a drugger in sight.

Then came the first shock, only enough crystals saved for a couple M1s, what to buy, and why did I buy all the M0s. I finally decided on hornet, rail, and thunder.

Broke again, working night and day battling for hours and hunting crystals and the occasional gold box that fell without warning "that was the most fun in tanki to see that gold box just suddenly appear before you".

Then the Druggers came into the scene, and I was forced just as you are now to look endlessly for games where I was highest rank so that I could avoid the main drug wars, I almost gave up Tanki all together. I didn't think I could ever get any further in the game, and I couldn't understand how or why these guys could drug non-stop in battle.

I couldn't afford a no supply pass, still with very small funds for each battle and with less chance than ever to actually win without 100 or more drugs to use for each battle to combat the higher ranks.

My pleas were heard by a few nice players,@EVISITORS was one of them and he said "don't give up hope, join a team and make some friends, so I tried it and I started to have fun again in the game, we played together, and against other teams without the druggers, we also teamed up in random battles and got quite skilled to combat the druggers with great success using teamwork. It was some of the best times in Tanki.

Finally I was able to buy firebird and a few M2s and a couple paints. Still not enough no supply games to warrant getting a no supply pass and the ever increasing cost of M2s and paints became totally out of reach again having spent every crystal I had saved up for many months, and the huge need to acquire M3s that were emerging in all the battles I was getting into at this point. I was feeling very out gunned.

This was my second major Tanki career decision, Quit Tanki or Buy crystals to compete, well I guess you can see which option I chose, at this point I was totally hooked and had invested too much time to give up the game I grew to love. $40 with a DCC and I was rolling in crystals, went on a shopping spee and got a great garage, even got some drugs for a little payback.

This is where I hoped the game would get interesting again, I Joined Top gun, it was great and very much like playing with the team before, ran a well organised and friendly group, we had lots of fun and had members of many ranks. we started getting into some great battles against well known players of high rank in established clans, we practised together regularly and had played with honour and pride.

But this was not to be the way of clans and teams of the future, Tanki created our first tournament to divide the clans into leagues, braking up into groups based on garage, and segregating the Generalissimos from the rest of the high ranks and mid ranks and so on, all of a sudden we were being discriminated against for not all being Generalissimo buyers with full garages and all the clans were in upheaval pushing all their players to buy so they could move up into higher leagues or even fight to stay in the league they were placed, this changed the landscape of the clan system, from friendship to greed and the clans started shopping for players enticing the good ones to switch clans, and kicking out players who didn't meet the standards or participate enough, others looked at their team mates, if they weren't all buyers or as high a rank, they made the decision to run to a stronger clan. These were hard times for clans and many great players left the game because of it.

More and more of this has continued over the last year with many, many disputes, ill will, and spiteful behaviour among clans and members, many clans closing there doors forever.

With the arrival of this newest tournament system being moved away from this forum, and basicly the closure of all clans as we know it in Tanki, the forum will lose its most active members voices and the forum will become just a place to complain about violators and the occasional contest.

But getting back to druggers and equipement, as you get into higher ranks the rewards for winning are much higher and your daily gifts of drugs and crystals are much greater giving you the ability to partake in drug wars and buy things much easier.

Edited July 1, 2014 by swede1

[UAA619 97]

With the arrival of this newest tournament system being moved away from this forum, and basicly the closure of all clans as we know it in Tanki, the forum will lose its most active members voices and the forum will become just a place to complain about violators and the occasional contest.

What do you mean the closure of all clans? :huh:

[JaggyBunnet 80]

I enjoyed reading your post Swede 1, it was very informative. I agree with you on the excitement the game offers at the beginning. Everything is new and very inexpensive when compared to the M2's / M3's. I know the decision I will have to make soon is do I buy crystals to compete at the higher ranks or begin again. Starting over will avoid me having to quit the game and at the same time allow me to enjoy the game as I did when I first played. If the forum does lose it's most active members as you think may happen it will be a huge loss. As with other online games I have played in the past, and others I still do, it's the prime source of information and help that these members can offer. I often find that posting a question within the chat window is a bit hit and miss as to whether or not I will receive an answer. That's not to say that people are not willing to help, it's just that there is so much posted in a short space of time ( a lot of it which should never see the light of day) , it can be hard to pick out.

 

Just wondering if you have a fairly full garage now yourself, and would you say that it would be possible to compete at M3 levels with just one good tank / turret / paint combo, or possibly even a choice between two turrets ?

[swede1 1,726]

I enjoyed reading your post Swede 1, it was very informative. I agree with you on the excitement the game offers at the beginning. Everything is new and very inexpensive when compared to the M2's / M3's. I know the decision I will have to make soon is do I buy crystals to compete at the higher ranks or begin again. Starting over will avoid me having to quit the game and at the same time allow me to enjoy the game as I did when I first played. If the forum does lose it's most active members as you think may happen it will be a huge loss. As with other online games I have played in the past, and others I still do, it's the prime source of information and help that these members can offer. I often find that posting a question within the chat window is a bit hit and miss as to whether or not I will receive an answer. That's not to say that people are not willing to help, it's just that there is so much posted in a short space of time ( a lot of it which should never see the light of day) , it can be hard to pick out.

 

Just wondering if you have a fairly full garage now yourself, and would you say that it would be possible to compete at M3 levels with just one good tank / turret / paint combo, or possibly even a choice between two turrets ?

Yes, my garage is almost complete with many 200k+ paints in my garage. to answer your question; Yes it is possible to battle at high ranks with one combo such as hornet/rail, or viking/freeze but it will get very boring and limit what maps you play, The access to garage in battle has changed the landscape of the battlefield and having options will benefit you greatly. If you go into battle with rail and your opponents find you dangerious, they will all put on prodigi and greatly reduce your ability to be effective, so waiting for them to change then change to another turret like smoky/ thunder/ or rico will make you victorious very quickly.

Edited July 1, 2014 by swede1

[JaggyBunnet 80]

Does anyone have any idea when the new re balance is due to take place, and info on the release of the new turrets ? I'm looking at buying some M2 equipment but would hold off on it if the changes are due soon.

[UAV1997 48]

Does anyone have any idea when the new re balance is due to take place, and info on the release of the new turrets ? I'm looking at buying some M2 equipment but would hold off on it if the changes are due soon.

it's been today,go check developers news forum section

[Crusader 198]

[Dev's] [plans] [are] urprisingly good, even t[h]ough they haven't gven much [t]hought to them in the past.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Crusader

[pizzaslad 471]

Why do you think the devs haven't given much thought????

[HichigoShiiro 4,378]

Drugs can't be used at the same time? ._.

 

The whole Arabic community will quit tanki, I guarantee it. 

[r_DidYouKnowThat0 1,662]

Hey, but I've been thinking about this. People say how not letting people go full-drug will get many current players to quit.

Hello? What about the people who quit BECAUSE of all the mad x3 drugging? They could come back, and thus, compensate for the loss players,

and maybe earn even more.

 

After all, in my opinion it could make the game look better in a way, instead of letting people drug mad x3. Lol. It could give a more sense of order, all the while keeping the game dynamic still. Also, the restriction to one drug at a time could make it more strategically implemented. Which drug will you use at that given time? Have to use that brain, and even predict. True, you'll need that Double Power to kill those 2 tanks at the flag. However, would you rather save that opportunity to use a Double Armor to safely run off with the flag, and try to take down the two tanks without Double Power? And so on . . . .

 

The Devs will find more ways to keep the game dynamic, no doubt. And I'm sure they'll find a way to compensate for the mad druggers.

Hey, they buffed Hornet due to popularity, and we all know how . . . ."popular" drugs are, and how they're important to Tanki finance-wise.

 

Not to mention buffed the Health Kit, and Isida. I find it quite amazing how Isida and Healthkit can now cure Freeze/Burn affects.

Not to mention, I do believe Druggers would become even more broken, x3 Druggers to be precise, with the future Healthkit.

 

They can ward off freeze effects AND heal big chunks. How deadly is that? God_Mode_On definitely. LOL.

Edited July 4, 2014 by r_DidYouKnowThat0

[pizzaslad 471]

Oh shoot. Godmode_On with that health kit? GG

Edited July 4, 2014 by pizzaslad

[BlitzPanzer12345 241]

Oh shoot. Godmode_On with that health kit? GG

Good idea.

:lol:

[HichigoShiiro 4,378]

Hey, but I've been thinking about this. People say how not letting people go full-drug will get many current players to quit.

Hello? What about the people who quit BECAUSE of all the mad x3 drugging? They could come back, and thus, compensate for the loss players,

and maybe earn even more.

Those players are non-buyers. They wouldn't give tanki anything for what tanki has done to them, of course they'd play the game, but will the pay? No. Tanki will be covered in adverts if that's whats going to happen. 

[LiquidGold 1,370]

noo i didnt want to use 1 supplies at time

if you watched the vlog it explained that you will not be able to use all of them at once, i expect mines and first aid will be as and when but with the addition of one more you probably wont be able to add one more on top of nitro nuke and armors so will have to choose to forego one of those to use the new one

for example

 

armor , nuke, new supply

or nitro to get where your going then deploy nuke and armor , when  nitro runs out then you might be able to deploy the next vacant spot for the new supply

 

this is a guess ofc