Alterations, Kits and Supplies Kits!

[varraccio 44]

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Edited October 1, 2016 by varraccio

[LaserShark 2,095]

haha there's a sneaky "F" with the "YOU!" in that image

That was noooot deliberate. Supposed to be a pocket.

 

Edit: Fixed.

Edited September 25, 2016 by LaserShark

[TheBlackChick 319]

I'm fine with the introduction of alterations. They can offer slight changes in gameplay so that's interesting. We should wait for some people to get alterations and review them and see if some of them are worth buying. In my opinion the firebird alteration is OP in the right hands but several changes to alterations can be done in the following weeks so I wouldn't rush buying one of them yet since they can still get nerfed.

 

Many complained about druggers especially in the middle ranks so this is the way chosen to solve the issue. Theoretically drugs are now less affordable so there should be less drugers but if the update will actually solve the issue....well.... only time will tell. We'll see how things are going in a few weeks or months.

Probably after this update buyers are going to spend just a bit more money and get the drugs they need to keep wreaking havoc. 

There are also a few things a non buyer can do:

1. Not drug and play with other non buyers that don't drug with the risk of becoming cannon fodder for buyers if they enter the battle

2. Get XP/BP and a pro pass and play mostly XP/BP (if you don't have crystals for XP/BP try to be competitive in regular battles by using drugs, all of them, and earn enough to get the combo on a sale or with a kit)

3. Choose battles smartly. Choose the right team considering the rank of the players in each team and which team is winning, try to be in the same team with hardcore druggers you know so you have more chances of winning the battle. Also you may consider getting into battles where there are almost no druggers at all so that you don't need to use many supplies. Drug. but not excesively. Drug as much as you need to win the battle and get a decent portion of the fund. Do all your missions every single day. The ideea of this tactic is to always get enough crystals to buy 100 Supply kits and not run out of drugs. You may not have spare crystals for MUs or other turrets/hulls/protections but as long as you have M3s and drug you should be fine against buyers, let alone regular players. (This is similar to what I have been doing since I started playing, that's why I have M4s and thousands of supplies without buying...Honestly I have no ideea if it works but I think it's worth trying)

I've just tried to show that there is still hope for non-buyers and gave some suggestions so that they can still have fun playing. They may not be that good but at least I tried :/

 

Now I'd like to say what I am going to do after this update. Since I was planning to leave the game anyway (not really that soon) I will try to get as much fun as possible out of this game. I will try to drug moderately in the forseable future but when I feel that quite a few people can not afford drugging anymore....I will always try (with some friends or hardcore druggers I know) to enter battles with non-buyers that don't afford drugging and ruin the battle. I just think it's really fun to do that...drug, spawn kill everyone,  drug more...

I don't mind entering battles in which everyone drugs, although it's a bit more difficult to win such a battle, it is still very fun and possibly very intense. When I'll run out of drugs I'll just leave the game as I planned.

[AshsPikachuDwij 1,035]

I'm fine with the introduction of alterations. They can offer slight changes in gameplay so that's interesting. We should wait for some people to get alterations and review them and see if some of them are worth buying. In my opinion the firebird alteration is OP in the right hands but several changes to alterations can be done in the following weeks so I wouldn't rush buying one of them yet since they can still get nerfed.

 

http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=336452 I have made this topic and there are some people who have reviewed on alterations! You can check it

[Indian_Tanker 468]

Alterations should be free as they already come at a cost...

[TheRollingSlab 803]

When will the next batch of Alterations come out?

[Phoenix.Rising 2,519]

Put large supply kits back in garage for only.... :angry: :angry: :angry:

[Maf 32,314]

We have Alterations for turrets. Why no Alterations for hulls? Stuff like (alteration for mammoth) +35% speed but you lose 50 HP (fair trade .added speed for loss of health). Or alteration for wasp . +40 HP but you lose 20% speed or your turning speed goes down. Stuff like that

Topic merged

 

No point having it separate in the I&S section. I guarantee you that developers already have this in mind and it will either be added in the future or there's no point in it because all hulls are similar (so by adding alterations you'll just change one hull to be more like another).

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

At least make a 500 drugs kit at 70%, available for crystals only. Seriously. This update just shows that you only care about your wallet and buyers. And it's just a giant spiting to our face, us, the non-buyers. What would happen if all the non buyers would quit the game?

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

We have Alterations for turrets. Why no Alterations for hulls? Stuff like (alteration for mammoth) +35% speed but you lose 50 HP (fair trade .added speed for loss of health). Or alteration for wasp . +40 HP but you lose 20% speed or your turning speed goes down. Stuff like that

It already exists. It's Hornet.

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

I hope M3 alterations will be available for purchase in crystals...

Edited September 25, 2016 by Phoenix.Raised

[varraccio 44]

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Edited October 1, 2016 by varraccio

[VaudeVille 1,428]

It's true, without the ability to get large amounts of drugs at 70% off or more us never-buyers will lose interest pretty quickly because we'll be nothing but helpless ants compared to the buyers ... then the game will be only buyers playing only buyers.

 

Tanki's smart, I wonder if this is actually what they want. My Q above wasn't just rhetorical -- I really want to know whether tanki even wants non-buyers here anymore ... maybe not?

Check this topic, it might be a useful solution.

http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=336666&do=findComment&comment=5780449

[varraccio 44]

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Edited October 1, 2016 by varraccio

[PopChaser 60]

In the first year I played Tanki, I spent US$200 on crystals.  After that, the price of crystals was effectively raised, "50% off" sales on crystals disappeared from all the holidays, and my prepaid card was devalued by 20%, but I could not spend the card anywhere else so I spent $100 in the second year.  That annoyed me so much that I have not spent any real cash since.

 

I think the problem is partly that they have far more staff than they need, and are now scrambling desperately to find a way to pay them.

 

Realistically it seems unlikely that I will ever play Tanki again, but I enjoyed the game as it was four years ago so much that I find myself checking back every few days.

[varraccio 44]

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[Real_Uchiha_Sasuke 189]

Oooh no use saying  ........ devs aint listening

[AbsoluteZero 3,729]

At least make a 500 drugs kit at 70%, available for crystals only. Seriously. This update just shows that you only care about your wallet and buyers. And it's just a giant spiting to our face, us, the non-buyers. What would happen if all the non buyers would quit the game?

 

The idea behind it is to slow down the overall usage of supplies. At Gissmo level, players don't have anything on which to spend their crystals, and this leads to mass purchase and consumption of supplies.

No offense but what a complete pile of bovine excrement that is! That has to be the most lame excuse ever. I know it's hard but you need to be more creative and inventive than that. We all know the reason why so please quit the facade. If you ever wondered why Tanki is losing credibility with players then just look again at that one sentence.

 

It's all about getting players to buy them for cash instead because the price has been slashed from 105,000 crystals to the cash equivalent of 45,000 crystals. Cedric, you know perfectly well that nobody will buy 15x 100 kits at the hugely inflated cost of 262,500. You know precisely why this was done and it is all about money.

 

If tanki were seriously worried about the over consumption of supplies then they'd do away with the 1500 kit altogether and make 100 kits available in both the garage and the shop, pricing them the same.  But most players who have spare money in their pockets won't think twice about using their credit cards whereas non-buyers will probably end up leaving the game shortly after their supplies are exhausted.

 

A couple of years ago we saw 120k players at peak times for Halloween. At this rate we'd be lucky to see 50k.

[varraccio 44]

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Edited October 1, 2016 by varraccio

[ChrisandStefanPRO 379]

IT IS A NICE UPDATE NO MORE DRUGGERS I HATE DRUGGERS

[varraccio 44]

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Edited October 1, 2016 by varraccio

[R3L3NTL3SS 47]

My only complaint is that the ridiculous freekin laser on shaft is still there. Its about time TANKI gave us the choice of using it or not. The qhole point of being a sniper as opposed to sniping is to remain invisible

[kayitsiz 621]

meh, not only is this off-topic but you've been here long enough to know that without the lazer shaft was waaaay too OP

I was using Shaft without laser, It was never OP.  -_-

[VaudeVille 1,428]

I was using Shaft without laser, It was never OP. -_-

Shaft still has laser

[AbsoluteZero 3,729]

The idea behind it is to slow down the overall usage of supplies. At Gissmo level, players don't have anything on which to spend their crystals, and this leads to mass purchase and consumption of supplies.

I had an idea http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=275554&hl= to, "slow down the overall usages of supplies", but I was mocked by Hazel and several staff members. This idea is still far better than what was just forced on us. When are you lot in tanki going to listen to your players instead of continuously doing the wrong thing for wrong reasons.  Somebody should reopen that topic given this recent update.