In Defense of Supplies

[Phoenix.Rising 2,519]

Drugs don't ruin games; mults & noobs do. :mellow:

[Ihajkiller 39]

Drugs don't ruin games; mults & noobs do. :mellow:

Noobs are basically newbies and newbies are people who have just joined the game.Are they not? 

[DaMyAnIx 107]

I have plenty of supplies but I don't use them because I know how unfair it is. The cringey thing is that such a part of the game breaks it, making it unplayable for regular players.

[Quarks 2,255]

I have plenty of supplies but I don't use them because I know how unfair it is. The cringey thing is that such a part of the game breaks it, making it unplayable for regular players.

No, not really.

[deadmanrising 715]

Why am i only seeing this now?

[sonofchrysalis3 3,719]

Drugs truly unbalance the game. Especially at the lower ranks, I always find myself in a battle where a drugger has taken the top spot, or a drugger comes in and stealst the fund. Before I usually finished at between 5th and 1st place, but the "noobs" have overtaken this game completely, there are a lot of kit and supply buyers. It isn't our (the normal users) problem that some kids have rich families that allow them to waste money on a browser game just so they can satisfy themselves or fill their lack of skill. Or people that spend money on advantages because they can't play so good without them.

 

So, I am forced to use supplies myself if I want to have a fighting chance, I most frequently use the repair kit (which is quite expensive) and the double damage to deal more damage to druggers. I don't have anything against mines, they are indeed fun to use. I am sure something can be do, SCD doesn't make that much of a difference. I consider myself quite skilled btw so don't rush in and call me a noob or whatever.

 

If sonofchrysalis3 wants to argue he should at least bring some valid arguments to the table, look at his D/L and drug usage, that is a lot of drugs used, thus I suppose he is a bit biased.

Wow, it's been a while since this topic was posted in. Someone must have done some digging... and you know why people dig, don't you?

 

They dig because they are looking for dirt.

 

Anyway, 1.) Practically the first thing you said is that there are a lot of supply and kit buyers. That's very true. They are in the vast majority. So what does that mean? That means that the non-supply users are in the minority, duh, and therefore are imbalancing the game by not using them. If nons would use them, they'd put a check on the power of the supply user, who only has power because people don't use supplies to fight back.

 

2.) I wouldn't consider having a rich family to be a problem, per se, but whatever. And as I just said, nons are not the normal users as they are the minority.

 

Your following statement shows an apparent lack of understanding of why people play things like Tanki to begin with. Why the hell would anyone play unless he's trying to satisfy himself? You honestly think people log in to this game every day so someone can kick their butt? Sorry, but this is not a charity organization where people come to give you an easy kill and lots of crystals. You want the reward, then work for it, and you can't work without the right tools. Use the supplies you get in daily missions for pete's sake. If that doesn't give you enough then you aren't using them right.

 

3.) Forced to use supplies? Yeah, you're also forced to use a tank. Supplies are just as much an indispensable part of the game as the rest of the equipment, and I don't see anyone whining and complaining about how the different turrets imbalance the game.

 

4.) I wasn't arguing, I was stating the bottom line on the subject, but if you do want to discuss this in a suave and civilized fashion (as opposed to arguing, as that never ends well on this forum), then I welcome you to check out the other, more recent topics on supplies that I made in the newspaper section.

Edited May 25, 2016 by sonofchrysalis3

[RustyNail 1,538]

Wow, it's been a while since this topic was posted in. Someone must have done some digging... and you know why people dig, don't you?

 

They dig because they are looking for dirt.

 

That was genuine mean

 

Anyway, 1.) Practically the first thing you said is that there are a lot of supply and kit buyers. That's very true. They are in the vast majority. So what does that mean? That means that the non-supply users are in the minority, duh, and therefore are imbalancing the game by not using them. If nons would use them, they'd put a check on the power of the supply user, who only has power because people don't use supplies to fight back.

 

2.) I wouldn't consider having a rich family to be a problem, per se, but whatever. And as I just said, nons are not the normal users as they are the minority.

 

Your following statement shows an apparent lack of understanding of why people play things like Tanki to begin with. Why the hell would anyone play unless he's trying to satisfy himself? You honestly think people log in to this game every day so someone can kick their butt? Sorry, but this is not a charity organization where people come to give you an easy kill and lots of crystals. You want the reward, then work for it, and you can't work without the right tools. Use the supplies you get in daily missions for pete's sake. If that doesn't give you enough then you aren't using them right.

 

3.) Forced to use supplies? Yeah, you're also forced to use a tank. Supplies are just as much an indispensable part of the game as the rest of the equipment, and I don't see anyone whining and complaining about how the different turrets imbalance the game.

 

4.) I wasn't arguing, I was stating the bottom line on the subject, but if you do want to discuss this in a suave and civilized fashion (as opposed to arguing, as that never ends well on this forum), then I welcome you to check out the other, more recent topics on supplies that I made in the newspaper section.

 

But please, keep accomplishing autogoals :D

"You honestly think people log in to this game every day so someone can kick their butt?"

That's one thing we agree on. But it cuts both ways, and honestly, it cuts more our side than yours.

 

Apart from this..

So, if you, dedicated druggers are the majority why don't you agree with us, the minority, so that Tanki makes pro battles more accessable to low ranks so that we can have our own battles? That way, you could enjoy drugging battles without us, "whinners" to bother you. Huh? :mellow:

Edited May 31, 2016 by CooperO
Please refrain from insulting others.

[werty8763 1,483]

 

 

My friend Lollytwist has been on Tanki for exactly one week longer than I.  She has always played twice as much as me, even back when Tanki was all I ever did.  The poor girl rarely leaves her house.

 

And she is a Warrant Officer 2.

 

“How could such a thing be possible?” you ask.  I’ve played this game far less than she has, yet I am miles above her in rank.  It isn’t because I use a score booster pass.  I don’t need one.

 

I’ll tell you why she is so far behind:

 

She is as stubborn as an upside-down bottle cork.

 

I love Lollytwist like a sister.  When I first fled to Canterlot, everypony shunned me because I come from such a wicked breed of monsters.  Not Lollytwist!  She accepted me for who I am on the inside, and her trust in me was soon noticed by the princesses.  The rest is history.

 

But she is still a very stubborn individual.

 

She refuses to use the supply power-ups that fall in the battles.  She will drive her tank right around them, and she actually downgraded her keyboard to not include the number pad so that she could “resist the temptation to press the number keys during a battle”.  She believes that there is some sort of moral problem with using them.

 

Tankers all over the world are shaking their heads and laughing.

 

Please, don’t look down on my friend for her decision to not use supplies.  It is her playing style, and she is entitled to play as she wishes.  But this decision has some very noticeable effects on her Tanki experience:

 

1.)    She never does well in battles.

 

When Lolly first started out, she was the tanker in charge.  Notanki was safe from her devastating barrage of Twins fire.  Deathmatches saw her win with a D/L percentage of 10.00 or more, and her crystal wallet grew enough to buy the Firefly kit before she even unlocked it.

 

Then, when her opponents started using those supplies, her successful streak ended.  Nowadays, she can play for thirty minutes on a packed-full Noise DM and be lucky to make five kills.  All while using an M1 Firebird against M0 enemies!

 

2.)    She has never caught a Gold Box.  Ever.

 

She is one of those tankers that screams “NO KILL!!!” in the chat box as soon as the Gold siren sounds.  She begs everytanki to not shoot, because if they do (and they always do) she’ll have no chance at grabbing the Big Box.  If she used a repair kit, she would’ve caught one by now.  She probably would’ve caught quite a few.

 

3.)    Everytanki laughs at her.

 

To many players, nothing in Tanki is funnier than hunting an anti-kit tanker.  Poor Lolly gets spawn-camped in practically every battle she plays, because she is the easiest kill on the battlefield.  In fact, she was hunted by an M0 Wasp Firebird at Cross DM about two months ago; the player killed her 27 times in fifteen minutes.  Lolly never made a single kill.  When the battle was over, the Railgun said “Best DM I’ve ever played LOL”.

 

That Railgun was Rainbow Dash, a Sergeant Major at the time.  Lolly was a Warrant Officer 2, using her Firefly kit.

 

4.)    She gets extremely frustrated.

 

It’s tough to be the only tanker in the universe who doesn’t use supplies.  Sure, there are others out there who shun kits, but she never sees any of them because they are so incredibly rare.  All she ever sees is the Double-Damage shell from a Thunder as it shrieks into her hull and pops her like a balloon in a frying pan.  That gets pretty upsetting.  In fact, she had to buy a new keyboard last week because she put her old one through a window.

 

Of course, her new keyboard has no number pad.

 

5.)    She never ranks up.

 

She has been a Warrant Officer 2 for over two months, despite the three hours she spends on this site each day.  A tanker can’t rank up without actually making a kill or capturing something.

 

I ran a few numbers as I was typing this.  If she continues performing as she is now, she will reach my current rank of Third Lieutenant in 124 years, assuming she continues to play three hours daily.

 

My offspring will have formed their own nation by then.  I’m not even married yet!

 

I asked Lolly exactly why in Celestia’s name she refuses to use supplies when it’s obvious that she needs them so badly.  Her arguments against them, and my rebuttals, are as follows:

 

1.)    “They give an unfair advantage.”

 

You are using an M0 Wasp Smoky with no special paint, and your opponent is using the same.  You are sitting in front of each other, blasting away.

 

EGADS!  He just used one of those dastardly Repair kits!  The fiend!  Call the marines!  Call your lawyer!  Call Sylvester Stallone!

 

Or just use your own Repair kit.  DUUUH!

 

2.)    “Tankers rely on them to help them win.”

 

Hmm.  Now, I am pretty new at this game, so I MAY BE WRONG, but I’m pretty sure you, anti-kit tanker, rely on a hull and turret to help you win.

 

A POX UPON THE TURRETS!  OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

 

3.)    “Tanki’s money-grubbing executives want you to blow all your crystals on temporal supplies and not long-lasting equipment, that way you’ll HAVE to buy crystals when you need better guns and hulls.”

 

Oh, good grief.

 

If those “greedy old executives” who made the game you obsess over really intended the evil you accuse them of, then why do supplies drop in the battles?  They don’t cost you a thing.  Neither do the kits you get as Daily Bonuses.

 

Why does Tanki put equipment on sale if they’re trying to dupe you into spending your money on them?

 

Have you considered the possibility that the people who run Tanki might NOT be out to get you?

 

4.)    "They detract from the spirit of the game."

 

And what, pray tell, do you believe the spirit of the game is?  I’ll wait while you come up with an answer.

 

* * * * * * * *

 

I’ve had a bath, eaten dinner, cloudwatched for an hour with Fluttershy, and knitted three blankets.  Do you know yet what the spirit of the game of Tanki is? 

 

No?  Let me help.

 

“Enjoy the company of like-minded friends around the world and around the universe, even as you are blowing them to bits.”

 

How is a Speed Boost kit going to hinder that?  It isn’t going to, unless you got up this morning looking for a reason to be a grouch.

 

5.)    "Only cheaters use supplies."

 

CHEAT ~ verb (pronounced “cheet”)  To deceive by any artifice, trick, or device, with a view to gain an advantage contrary to common honesty; as to cheat a person at cards.

 

Definition taken from the 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language.  You humans ought to be proud of that book and the guy who put it together.  Now, here’s the definition of a supply kit: “A power-up that Tanki created and provides its players with.”

 

* Cheating is to break the rules.

 

* Tankionline lays down the rules.

 

* Tanki created supplies.

 

* Using supplies is not cheating.

 

WHOOPS!  Did I just use... oh, I can’t even say the dirty word... LOGIC?!

 

I am so sorry.  I’ll be more careful from now on.

 

 

* * * * * * * *

 

 

I am inexpressibly thankful for my friend Lollytwist.  Without her, I would’ve been cast out like the vicious wretch I was.  I don’t come close to deserving the kindness she has shown me, and I will always be in her debt.

 

And she has her own style of playing Tanki, which may make zero sense to me, but she seems to be fine with it.  That’s all that matters.

 

Supplies are to Tanki what Super Mushrooms are to Super Mario and what Medkits are to Dying Light.  They are simply one of the game’s fundamental components.  Yet there are some players who, like Lolly, refuse to accept the supplies as legitimate.  Many hold to the arguments I have listed (and defeated), and some have other reasons.

 

I speak for all supply-using tankers when I say this to the ones who don’t use them: we respect your decision to not use them.  Tanki is one of the most successful free online games of all time because the players can choose any fighting style they want.  Your unique style is what you are happy with, and we are happy that you are happy.  But don’t repay us evil for good.  We are tolerant of your anti-kit stance, so don’t be intolerant of our usage of kits by hating on us, or by trying to make Tanki take them away.  That sort of hypocrisy violates the atmosphere of camaraderie and fellowship that defines the spirit of our beloved pastime. 

 

 

 

*applause*

 

Very well written post; could you teach me how to write like you? :D

[Barbie_Thug 65]

I am a drugger. And as an addition to your topic my dear. I only drug when it counts. Because if you waste supplies against people that aren't a match or in a cold battle. You'll just gain hate from these players. I do not want anyone to hate on me. So i keep them stacked up and use them only when i need to even the odds. But every player and his playing style. I honestly like to drug. But i don't like to make others mad. Even in a video game

 

 

I'm a troll with conscience LOL

Edited May 31, 2016 by Barbie_Thug