Guide [Issue 37] Getting the Most Out of Your Daily Missions

[sonofchrysalis3 3,719]

 
After weeks of waiting on the edges of our seats, the Tankionline community is overjoyed to welcome the new Daily Missions! The developers have worked many days and nights polishing the update, which promises bigger gifts and an all-around better gaming experience.
 
As is the weekly custom, all my Tanki friends from around the neighborhood brought their laptops over to my house for an afternoon of discussing all things Tanki. We were all excited about the new update, so the main topic we talked about was how to squeeze every possible gift out of the missions.
 
Two ground rules for completing them were quickly agreed upon:
 

A. Do not pay to change them.

 

My good buddy Spike the dragon opened up his daily missions and saw this:
 

 
“Aw, I hate that map!” He quickly clicked the “Change” button and got this:
 

 

“Don’t like that, either.” He hit “Change” again.
 
The poor boy didn’t realize it, but he had defeated the purpose of playing the daily missions: to make a material gain. He could've gotten 1700 crystals if he had just played the mission, but the next mission, which also offered 1700 crystals, would only give him a net gain of 850 crystals. He lost half the purpose of completing the mission!
 

B. Try to do two or all three at a time.

 

So you log in one day and get this:
 

 
What should you do? Join or create a Serphov CP and keep your eyes peeled for Double Armours.
 
You’ll get more gifts this way. I realize, some missions, like the two infamous Generalissimo XT challenges, cannot be completed in a single day, unless you happened to be named Clark Kent. But most of the missions are more attainable and can be completed in a single day, if you go about it right.
 
Keep the two above rules in mind as you tackle your daily missions.
 
Here are the different types and our advice on how to handle each one:
 

1. Earn a specific number of experience points.

 

 
Everytanki has a tip on gaining experience points, but one in particular is not useful for completing this mission: buying a score booster pass. As stated above in Point A, you don't want to spend more on a mission than you gain from it. Don't buy a 5000 crystal pass in order to win a few hundred back. The only exception is if you're trying to complete the Generalissimo experience mission.  Then you should absolutely buy a 100% booster.
 
Now, here are a few useful tips for gaining xp:
 
* Play a CTF or CP battle. You'll get a hefty amount of xp for capturing stuff, much more than you'll get in a DM.
 
* Use an Isida turret. In addition to gaining points for destroying and capturing, you'll get extra points for healing your teammates.
 
* Only play on a map that is almost or completely full of players. Capturing or destroying when your battle has less than half of its player slots filled won't do you much good.
 
* PARTICIPATE. Get out of the chat box and PLAY THE GAME. You don't get xp by blabbering.
 
Glad I could get that last one off my chest.
 

2. Finish 1st in a battle

 

 
I certainly hope that I don’t have to tell you how to win a battle.  That would be a bit sad.
 
The best advice I can give you here is to play a small deathmatch with low-ranking opponents. The mission doesn’t care if you defeat one opponent or twenty, so long as you are the top banana when the clock hits zero. Put the odds in your favor. The less enemies you have to deal with, the less of a chance of losing you’ll have.
 
Get the weapon you like the most and find a small map that you enjoy. This type of mission is easy.

 

3. Earn experience on a specific map or in a specific battle mode

 

 
These are really the only types you should change. There are some maps that some players do poorly on, so they should, by all means, try to get a better mission, and hopefully with one of their favorite maps.
 
My best friend Fluttershy got the two above missions and, by joining a Kungur CP, completed both in less than fifteen minutes. If you can find a way to combine your missions, go for it.
 
A word of advice: If possible, try to join an existing battle rather than create a new one. I understand, if you get a pair of missions that direct you to play Aleksandrovsk and Capture Point, you probably aren’t going to find an existing battle to suit your needs. But if you can find one, you will save yourself a lot of waiting for enough opponents to join. By joining an existing battle with players already present, you can get straight to completing the mission.
       

4. Deliver a specific number of flags

 

 
To capture flags consistently, you need a Double Armour kit, a safe path to your base, and a Draft (ally who follows you and catches the flag if you die). Don’t cry if you are killed and your Draft captures the flag. You participated in the capture, so you get a credit towards your mission.
 
May I suggest some good maps to visit in your quest to complete this mission? Thanks. I knew you wouldn’t mind.
 
1. Island: The tiniest map in the game has the shortest possible distance between two flags. Unless your teammates fall asleep, as they usually do when I play, a round here should take a nice chunk out of your mission.
 
2. Cross: The map I first started playing Tanki on has several short, safe routes to the flag. If your opponents lose sight of you for even a second, the surrounding walls and buildings will keep you hidden while you head for home.
 
3. Madness: The keys to playing Madness are: Hornet; Railgun; drop to the ground level when you spawn.
 
READ THIS!!! Are you paying attention?! DO NOT stay in the upper levels to shoot at enemies! This is not a Deathmatch!  You are in CTF because your Daily Mission told you to C some F’s. GOT IT?!
 
Sorry.  Madness is aptly named.
 
4. Brest: The uncontested king of the CTF maps. I will argue this point with you ‘til the galaxies vanish. Noise and Silence are garbage compared to the sheer flag-capturing purity of Brest. You will not convince me otherwise!
 

5. Capture a specific number of points

 

 
For this mission, pick the biggest map you can find, like Dusseldorf or Madness. DO NOT GO TO POLYGON OR ISLAND. You want a map with lots of points and lots of breathing room. To play a cramped, single-point map like Poly is to spend an excessive amount of time on the mission.

Like the CTF mission, participation is all that’s required. You don’t have to be the only tanker at the point in order to get credit for your mission.
 

6. Destroy a specific number of opponents.

 

 
Destroying enemies is as simple as falling and bumping your head, but you need to destroy lots of them in a quick and efficient manner. Grab your favorite equipment and visit a big deathmatch. Polygon and Massacre are two excellent choices.
 
I also suggest you use Double Damage more than any other kit, even Repair. You’ll destroy twice as many enemies and complete your mission in half the time.

 

7. Gather supply kits.

 

 

There are two ways to go about this. One is to create a Brest DM and wait for sometanki to drop in (supplies collected on an empty map don't count toward your mission). This map has 4 Repairs, 4 D. Damages, 4 D. Armours, and 12 Speed Boosts.  Not quite as many as other, bigger maps, but the kits are all in easy-to-find locations, as shown below:
 

 

The second way is to tuck the mission in the back of your mind and complete it as you pursue other missions.
 
A word of warning: if you do this, be sure not to use 10 speed boosts as you try to win 9. It's easy to get caught up in the heat of battle, forget about your mission, and waste the kits you were trying to gain, which is why I first suggested creating a slow map on which to gather kits.
 
There's also a mission that requires you to catch a Gold Box. Entire forums have been built on the subject of Goldhunting, but the three topics that will prove most useful in completing your mission are:
 
MAFIOS0's "Gold Box Drop Locations"
 
My "Gold Boxes that You're Practically Guaranteed to Get"
 
S.C.Y.T.H.E's "Goldhunting"

* * * * * * * *

The Daily Missions update is, like all other updates, intended to make the game more enjoyable for everytanki. Some players, myself included, will miss that cute little gift box that popped up each day, but we can certainly appreciate the extra gifts that our missions will provide.
       
As time passes and memories of Daily Gifts fade, the Tanki Online community will recognize another reason to appreciate the update. Working for your gifts, rather than having them simply dropped in your lap, makes receiving them even more satisfying. When you complete a mission and click that "Claim reward" button, you can sit back and bask in the successful completion of the challenge you faced.

Edited July 29, 2017 by Hexed

[Cor7y 13,862]

Nicely done, bro ! Congrats on becoming a reporter ;)

[BuriedSky 1,319]

Nice Work! Great Article...

And yes...congrats on becoming a reporter...:D

[Darren4Turbo 4,913]

Well written!

 

Congrats on being a reporter  ^_^

I think that you'll be the future Reporters Admin :)

Edited July 31, 2015 by Darren4Turbo

[BlazingCoder 108]

Great well written guide:

  

P.S Congratz on becoming a reporter.

[Guest Maserati]

One of the best articles out there :) Keep the excellent work up!

[TriNitroToIuene 4,765]

One of the best articles out there :) Keep the excellent work up!

Seconded. This is a totally different, refreshing genre than you used to write in the Off-Topic Discussion. Nice to see you've ditched the pony reference! Amazing, keep writing like this and you'll go places!

[sonofchrysalis3 3,719]

Seconded. This is a totally different, refreshing genre than you used to write in the Off-Topic Discussion. Nice to see you've ditched the pony reference! Amazing, keep writing like this and you'll go places!

Thanks for the complement.

 

Now kindly explain what you mean by "ditching the pony references".   :angry:

[TriNitroToIuene 4,765]

Thanks for the complement.

 

Now kindly explain what you mean by "ditching the pony references".   :angry:

Oh, snap.

I mean, you used to mention ponies a lot in your earlier articles... kinda on the verge of irritating........ if you know what I mean...............

But honestly, articles without ponies tend to be better. 

[sonofchrysalis3 3,719]

1. I am a pony.

 

2. You want to remove the ponies from the articles.

 

Therefore, you want to remove me.

 

:( :( :(

[CTaen 214]

1. I am a pony.

 

2. You want to remove the ponies from the articles.

 

Therefore, you want to remove me.

 

:( :( :(

Who remove ponies

Dies

Who remove @sonofchrysalis3

Gets crushed !

[thunderousrailgunner 1,934]

and 1 more tip :-
When you are off from playing for some days or week , make sure you log somehow into tanki and use the Free change button for a Supply Mission. Each time the server restart , you have a chance to change your mission free . 
and by this i finally got this (I Still hate that experiment of cutting rewards by 50% though -_- )

Edited August 1, 2015 by thunderousrailgunner

[tankkipankki 72]

Let me tell you a funny story. Jekamix (famous TO youtuber) spend 700k on mission to get XT mission but guess what he didn't get it :/ and then M4D_GENIUS (famous TO youtuber) changed his mission for free and got XT mission :D 

[canadarules 1,938]

it called common sense idk why people need an article on this.. it states the mission and you complete it.. how hard is it to read English  :mellow:

[Hypocrisy 6]

Nice article.

How is there a gold box mission? That doesn't work for me. I never even caught one!

[PetertheGeniusGamer 74]

What I do for completing a finish in 1st palce mission is go to a lame battle that is about to end and has very few temmates and wait till da battle's over and be first :P

 

And congratz on being a reporter.

[Penguin40 1,714]

Nice article.

How is there a gold box mission? That doesn't work for me. I never even caught one!

I think that is only available once you reach Major rank. However, this is not confirmed, though I never heard anyone say they had a gold box mission below Major rank. 

[Heles 9,220]

thnx for the tips 

[Guest]

nice

[Lhamster 4,081]

nice

If you have nothing better to say, then please say nothing. You post this on every article each month, which makes it seem like you don't really mean it, and are just trying to up your post count or something. Its also basically spamming.

[TriNitroToIuene 4,765]

If you have nothing better to say, then please say nothing. You post this on every article each month, which makes it seem like you don't really mean it, and are just trying to up your post count or something. Its also basically spamming.

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Tell that to @dilsharox, please!

[classyplebs 1,786]

You are in CTF because your Daily Mission told you to C some F’s. GOT IT?!

 

That part was my favorite! I said it once and I'll say it again. I love this guys writing! :D

[Typo 1,299]

Well the best thing to do for those come first missions is to play 1 kill pro battles. It'll be done in like 1 min. And nice guide dude your writing style is awesome.

[Sacrifice 2,278]

Good job !! I enjoyed it. Congrats on becoming a reporter !! I know I am a bit late to say this, well I am too late to say this... But congrats and good luck ... ;)

[AbsoluteAlphaZero 2,027]

I already wasted 60k cry to find xt