invalid Increase pause time

[StormBringer1995 181]

yeah i agree too , 

[nouman-khan 0]

helo!
tanki online plz make pause 3 minutes because 2 mints is not enough .we can't do anything in 2 minutes

 

 

[KoKoRocha 9]

If you need more than two minutes to change your equipment, better play FarmVille instead

Sorry for double post, but I just saw this comment and wanted to respond to it.

 

Usually, I have no problem going into the garage during battle, doing whatever it is I have to do and get back to the battle. If I'm fast enough, I can change hull, turret and resupply one item before the timer runs out. A couple weeks ago, there seemed to be more lag than usual. Even reloading the tab didn't help. Because of the game play, I needed to change hulls and turrets, no supplies this time. Loading the garage took a heck of a lot longer to load. i made the changes as fast as I could. By the time I was done, I had already been timed out.

 

So, it does happen. Don't forget, not all computers are made equal. Those that are only designed to browse the web and email, don't have the power to keep up with a fast paced game. It can only hold a few packets at one time. My old computer was like that, even though I did all the dumps and kept up with all the program updates. The graphics card, which was integrated with the motherboard, gave up so I had to get a new one. This one is a lot faster, but I still have problems with lag.

 

But that's not all. Most people, when they check their speed, will do it locally. You need to do it from your location to Malta. I live in USA and to my knowledge, there are no booster generators between here and there. There are days when my speed is so slow, it's no wonder I have problems, Other days, It's right where it should be.

 

So, don't fault ByeByeBye for something that is beyond h(is/er) control. If you have no problems whatsoever, then you are one of the few fortunate ones. It may, also be his IP or how much speed ByeByeBye is paying for. We don't know his circumstances, so don't be so quick to judge.

[Fele1 9]

I think you understand what am I suggesting here by just reading a title, and something really should be done about it. What were you thinking while reducing pause time to 2 mins? It's literally useless right now. Pause is supposed to be, you know, a pause, you know what pause is, to take a break, but in here its not that, and if something happens, some error occurs, you need to act quickly, you need to do everything in hurry , and you're so afraid of fact will you make it in time. There is no pause here. 2 mins is nothing. If you join a battle you have to play it to the end, without getting up at all, and some people who has a life  behind the game and obligations to the family have to get up often. I can't do anything in 2 mins, i can't even go to the bathroom. Really. I can just go and drink a water and that's it.I remember before pause time was 5 minutes, ok maybe it was too long, but then why didn't you reduce pause time to 4 mins? Or 3? Not 2.... What happened to me is that I was reckless about laptop battery, and I was playing in pro battle that was long, and suddenly my laptop shut down for itself, cuz battery died. And when i turned it on and entered in the game I was already kicked out. Lol my phone doesn't turn on in 2 minutes, and I don't want to mention my laptop. If pause time was 5 minutes like it was all the time since the existence of the game, last 7 years, I definitely would make it on time to rejoin in a battle. That's why I came here, I didn't came so much of purpose of suggesting an idea, this is more a complain.I also had many issues before this, where I had to restart the game or computer, and i was really annoyed cuz pause time was too short. It's not the first time that i get kicked out.

 

 

 

(well I forgot to mention what's my idea here, pause time should be 3 minutes, that's it)

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

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(well I forgot to mention what's my idea here, pause time should be 3 minutes, that's it)

I found a topic with a title that matches your idea

Topic merged

 

 

 

I think it is unfair, that you like to have your team waiting 3 minutes with one player short, because you do not care about your battery in time (which would have taken less then a minute and fit very well in the pause time of 2 minutes).

 

 

edit:

maybe you like to check other ideas regarding pause time, that are more evolved. There is one for "pause time longer for longer battles" and there is one that states that you have to earn your pause time (by playing active).

[Fele1 9]

I think it is unfair, that you like to have your team waiting 3 minutes with one player short, because you do not care about your battery in time (which would have taken less then a minute and fit very well in the pause time of 2 minutes.

When I said two minutes is short, I meant it goes too fast, that I can't do pretty much anything during the pause time. Even for those who are playing they won't even notice when two minutes passed, because it's short amount of time. So If I am absend, they won't notice. Adding one extra minute would be quite fair, in short and in long battles. And I was never absend for full 3 minutes, I always come back earlier, so they won't wait me for full 3 minutes. But it is often more than two minutes, sometimes when I lose connection it takes 2 minutes and half to reconnect, sometimes my connection is so slow, that I get message "connection to the server lost" even if I am connected. It's all about within one minute, which is good enough to do pretty much everything during pause. I am still with my idea that pause time should be 3 minutes. It's not unfair, lol how many times we played in unfair battles? Uncountable times. Someone is always inactive, someone sabotagesz and everything. So it doesn't make difference. It's not that I want a longer pause time for my team to lose, it's like you said that I want longer pause time so I can troll my team, and make them lose. No, I want longer pause, because I want it, for me. I don't need pause to act unfair in game, I'll just be inactive and every 1 minute and 59 seconds I'll move my tank to get another 2 minutes , and I can be inactive all time. So if I want to be a prick, I'll be it. But anyway, 3 minutes of pause is still in play.

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

..it's like you said that I want longer pause time so I can troll my team, and make them lose.

I never said that.

There is a difference between thinking you are more important then your team - and trolling them.

 

Feel free to read your initial example:

What happened to me is that I was reckless about laptop battery, and I was playing in pro battle that was long, and suddenly my laptop shut down for itself, cuz battery died. And when i turned it on and entered in the game I was already kicked out.

I guess you agree, that it reads like "I was reckless with _my_ battery and the solution is to change the pause time _for_all_" (instead to improve my way you handle your battery. Your example reads like that you value your personal right for beeing reckless more then a constant team power in the battle for the sake of your whole team. .

 

But however. If that was not what you mean, then feel free to pick better examples the next time (like you did in your reply already).

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To your arguments:

- a high number of unfair battles does not validate an idea to make it even worse. This would be like giving up, while ideas are here to improve the situation.

- I am sorry for your bad connection. There are for sure quite some players with poor connections, and a longer pause time would help them to reconnect. On the other hand there are a lot of players with average connections (which are absolutely sufficient for that game) which truely preffer the shorter kick-times. If someone completely lags out, they have to wait only 2 minutes with a weak team.

- I am also sorry for your computer to crash frequently. My old computer never (!) crashed completely while playing Tanki Online (I play this game for almost 3 years now, way over 2000 hours in total). Only the flash player crashes from time to time.. and I reconnect within less then a minute. I think that it is more useful, if you get some friend that knows his way around computers to re-setup your OS completely from the scratch, and then please use the standalone flash player. This would solve a part of the problem at it's core, instead of fixing anything around it.

 

I think 2min are perfectly fine as long as we have to live with the same pause time in random battles (which last 10min) and in longer pro battles.

An other idea to make the pause time dependent on the battle lenght would solve the problem better, then your requested tweak (that will cause a lof of harm.. mults and so on).

 

Hazel (lead game designer) said back last year that he will tackle the pause times in a way, so players can have a real pause in very long games. Well, they have more urgent tasks now.. but it will come sooner or later. But it will for sure not be a simply increase, as this does more bad then good.

[Fele1 9]

I never said that.

There is a difference between thinking you are more important then your team - and trolling them.

 

Feel free to read your initial example:

I guess you agree, that it reads like "I was reckless with _my_ battery and the solution is to change the pause time _for_all_" (instead to improve my way you handle your battery. Your example reads like that you value your personal right for beeing reckless more then a constant team power in the battle for the sake of your whole team. .

 

But however. If that was not what you mean, then feel free to pick better examples the next time (like you did in your reply already.

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You seem to care too much for what happened to me than for idea that I suggested haha. The idea here is important, and not the reason why I suggested it. Yes it's true, it definitely reads like like you said it, solution is to increase pause time for I was reckless for my battery. I could bring any reason for this suggestion, it doesn't matter, like i said it already happened many times that I was kicked out, because I didn't make it on time to solve the problem that occured to me. And this about battery is the last time i get kicked out from the game because so called pause time ran out. And I was already annoyed, that's why I came to complain, because I was enough of it. But let's leave that, you wrote a really great idea there, when you said that pause time should be longer in long battles. Well unless something changes about this, I'll reduce my play time, or I will stop playing completely, befause I often lose connection, sometimes I prevail, but sometimes I get kicked out, and It's annoying.

[Fele1 9]

:)

[OICU812 32]

It won't change. I've seen several times in the forums that Tanki Dev's will not reverse what has already been changed. So, slow computers, slow connections, the physically disabled/handicapped, etc. will have to accept what is or quit. Some choice, huh. If a Dev or a Staff member suddenly had a problem that is not within his/her control, you better believe it will change. But until that time, we are stuck with it. 

 

Oh Wait!!!

 

Do the Dev's even test their own changes by actually playing the game? I mean, do they actually have working accounts that they can use for a standard battle? 

[D.a.n.t.e 475]

Not without a balancing system that let other players take you place, so the team is not affected.

[Crimson_Tank 285]

2 minutes is a bit short. 

[Aunty_Entity 245]

Don't forget, video games require a powerful computer

lol

[TO_King 818]

Topic Explains everything but another reason is
2 minutes are less
3 minutes pause time is best
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I did an experiment. After joining the game i paused it and started drinking my Cup of Coffee and the coffee was too hot that it took more then 2 minutes to finish. I left the battle joined another battle with 2nd cup of coffee this time I turned off heater in my room and it took 30 second to drink coffee Thanks to -3 Temperature Outside of my room.
Moral of the story: Increase Battle timer to 3 minutes and let Noob Players drink a cup of Coffee  :rolleyes:

[Maf 32,326]

 

Topic merged

 

That experiment though  :lol:

[mhh.2000 888]

10/10

[Wes.Is.Just.A.Digger 1,712]

          Never thought about buying a premium just to increase the gained score/fund for a bigger battle than default one. But, I must admit, player creativity goes sometimes beyond our normal imagination lol.

          Personally, I don't like player whois idling in the battle with W.C excuses. Why? Because while the player is afk, we, others in the team, must support the battle for the mult :ph34r:  as well, we must spend more drugs, play more and even in xp classic format 4 v 4 we have to endure unfair loss or being killed more by the opposite team. The reduced idling time to 2 minutes is one of the very good updates. Go look at any battle list and check ongoing battles and see how unbalanced score most of them have. If you want to sleep on a map, join silence ctf parkour, and leave your tank there, it will get killed enough times until you will be back from w.c, I promise.

           On a more extended note, I would really love to see players automatically kicked from battles if they don't even turn their turret for 2 minutes starting at certain ranks and achievements   :lol:  :D

[sensei_tanker 3,098]

We should have 3 minutes of pause time. BUT, the pause time doesn't reset every time you exit out of it and then go back into pause. You have 3 minutes for the entire match. So if I pause for 1 minute, my next pause counter will start at 2:00, and then if I decide to go use the bathroom for a minute 30 seconds, my next counter will start at 0:30. 

[TankiNoob2000 231]

2 minutes is the current pause time we have in the current TO. My idea is the time is increased to 5 minutes because some people would take more than 2 minutes to do stuff and if they're too late, they lose all their score.

 

With this new feature, you can remain in pause mode 3 minutes longer so you will get back to your battle without being considered inactive.

[sensei_tanker 3,098]

My idea is to add [under Review] in front of the title of this topic. 

[TankiNoob2000 231]

I made this too but anyway nice idea

[Maf 32,326]

2 minutes is the current pause time we have in the current TO. My idea is the time is increased to 5 minutes because some people would take more than 2 minutes to do stuff and if they're too late, they lose all their score.

 

With this new feature, you can remain in pause mode 3 minutes longer so you will get back to your battle without being considered inactive.

Topic merged

[iWon 0]

iWon ~ Pause Mode

 

The game pause mode would be much better if it took five minutes instead of two minutes!
Not the first case i was in a long battle, and i had to go toilet! I couldn't finish it in two minutes.
It was just an idea by me, thanks for reading! Keep it up.

 

~ iWon

[Hate 5,582]

 

Topic merged.

[Zunoo 0]

Hey guys, i think it will be good to increase time of pause in normal battles (not MM), because if you're in top 3 for example with more than 3k score, you also sometimes need to go on toilet of course, if game takes so long to end, but sometimes you can be on the toilet longer than 2 minutes (some problems), then you lose your score, place and crystals, it's bad. In MM it doesn't matter, because the game is fast and it's not long as normal battle.

 

Thanks. 

 

Edit:
Maybe make it like each 500 score will add 20 secs or 25 secs to pause time

So, if you have for ex. 1200 score, your pause time will be 2 mins 40 or 50 secs and so on.

I think it sounds fair. And of course, after end of game or just leave, it resets again to 2 mins.