Testing of Matchmaking System on EU servers

[kpkp67 3]

This new update is totally NOT desirable for the following reasons:

 

1. I don't have an indication when I complete my mission. Earlier the Mission tab had an indicator when a Mission is completed.

2. I don't know the levels of players I am going to be playing with. The group may include lower rank players and/or higher rank players who may not be my match.

3. Waiting time - Why should a player wait, when he had the option to choose a mission of his liking ?

 

Therefore, the update is not at all friendly. Kindly revert back to the previous version.

 

Thank You.

[Capita_Haddock 0]

"...developers might decide to end this test earlier if it causes any kind of undesirable effect on the game"

 

WELL, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

 

PLEASE END THIS TEST NOW!!!

 

"Don't forget to share your feedback in the forum!"

 

HOW MUCH MORE FEEDBACK DO YOU NEED?

 

PLEASE END THIS TEST NOW!!!

Edited August 9, 2017 by Capita_Haddock

[vegan_donuts 37]

When do a matchmaking battle, every time I end up in Year 2042, I get bouts of low fps. It's making the map unplayable for me. This has happened four times. Now, when it puts me in that map, I just leave.

[Steven123098 7]

I hate it!!! I can no longer play with my fellow clan mates and friends, I can"t even see which my battle my friends are in. I have played this game for 4 years, to be honest with you, this is the most useless update ever, and its ruining tanki, please FIX it 

 

[OKDad70 862]

OMG!  Holy crap lol now lets go throw a legend into a noob battle and see who wins... nice work :D

 

Gotta love this dumb update huh? I bet that was kind of fun kicking arse and taking names! XD

I always kick butt and take names. Before The Great Leveling (last October), I was called a hacker every game (and noob-twins). I lost a lot of that, but I've relearned the skills necessary to be effective with my M4-Viking-Twins. Twins is fun. Twins suits my preferred style of brawling in close-combat. I'm still able to be at or near the top in nearly every battle. (Sure, I get outclassed once in a while. I know I'm not the best.)

 

I assure you it is much more satisfying to have Gismos and Legends calling me names as I kick their butts. It just isn't satisfying to curb-stomp inexperienced M2s.

 

I was playing my (now retired, due to this mess) General Ricosck in Legend battles. I wasn't much surprised, given that I have fully upgraded Boar Kit, and the old system always started me on server 3 or 4 with nothing but Gismo battles to choose from. Then, I saw the examples of recruits in battles with Colonels, Majors in battles with Legends, and I realized it was just dumb luck. 

 

Bleh...

 

I don't know why I keep trying. I realized I lost my give-a-damn, but somehow, I soldier on. Shell-shocked, perhaps.

[LittleWillie 3,199]

I cannot see this being real fun over the long term. Today I am a daily mission player but I used to play much more than that. But no matter how much I played and how much druggers annoyed me, I still played basic standard battles like 98% of the time. Maybe I am just unlucky but every time I look at the custom battle section I hardly see any large team games anyway. I see BP/XP Sandbox Noise ..

 

We've been over this. The point is the custom battle section offered me virtually nothing. No matter what I thought of them basic standard battles is where I had to go to find team games.

 

Yesterday I looked around the custom battle section to see if I could find a fun game. I saw the same selection that has never interested me.

 

So for me Tanki means standard battles regardless of the mission aspect. Now I love the Massacre map. I will play on that map any time I find a good game to join. Before I used to able able to make this much choice at least.

 

But no more. From now one Tanki will mean just pressing random team battle and being at the mercy of chance.

 

But not for long.

Edited August 9, 2017 by LittleWillie

[Hatty1994 819]

Can't you fix this rank issue in 2nd day also ?? What are you doing developers ?? 

 

[OKDad70 862]

I hate it!!! I can no longer play with my fellow clan mates and friends, I can"t even see which my battle my friends are in. I have played this game for 4 years, to be honest with you, this is the most useless update ever, and its ruining tanki, please FIX it 

That was something I intended to complain about, too.

 

I can see friends in the list. I can go to their servers, and if they are in player-created pro-battles, I might be able to join (if format permits), but I cannot join regular battles of friends.

 

I'm not even sure if the friends screen shows MM-created battles. I think it doesn't. Regardless, if a friend is on, I cannot join his battle.

 

That seems very counter to inducing loyal players. Camaraderie is important to games like this, and extremely critical to some of the more devoted players.

[Steven123098 7]

I have ONE thing to say, REMOVE

[OKDad70 862]

I cannot see this being real fun over the long term. Today I am a daily mission player but I used to play much more than that. But no matter how much I played and how much druggers annoyed me, I still played basic standard battles like 98% of the time. Maybe I am just unlucky but every time I look at the custom battle section I hardly see any large team games anyway. I see BP/XP Sandbox Noise ..

 

We've been over this. The point is the custom battle section offered me virtually nothing. No matter what I thought of them basic standard battles is where I had to go to find team games.

 

Yesterday I looked around the custom battle section to see if I could find a fun game. I saw the same selection that has never interested me.

 

So for me Tanki means standard battles regardless of the mission aspect. Now I love the Massacre map. I will play on that map any time I find a good game to join. Before I used to able able to make this much choice at least.

 

But no more. From now one Tanki will mean just pressing random team battle and being at the mercy of chance.

 

But not for long.

The saddest fact is the overdrive has ruined team games. Most of the time, whichever team gets ahead first wins because of the advantage provided by the overdrive feature and the ever-increasing positive feedback loop of effectively using and sharing it with the team that is ahead.

 

At this point, I only join team battles when I have a mission for a team battle, or when there is a friend I can join. (But can't join friend's battles now.) I'm playing mostly DM, though CTF is my favorite by far.

[TankiRonin 0]

Issues:

 

1. Cannot pick map, or a set of acceptable maps

2. Cannot pick range of ranks to play against

3. When game is imbalanced, can't trivially switch sides to make the match even

 

You should take a lesson from poker sites in how they do matching.

[TwinsRRUs2 11]

If you are having a problem with no one wanting to join the losing team, maybe the reason is because you changed the crystals amounts so that the losing team barely gets any crystals at all. Why would anyone want to join the losing team when they get nothing for it? 

 

That older update probably caused the problem that you are trying to fix with this new test update.

 

 

By creating the mission chains (complete a mission for 7 days in a row, get more prizes; prizes get bigger for consecutive weeks; etc), you have made T.O. very addicting as everyone wants to complete the missions 7 days a week for every week of the year. That update surely increased the loyalty of your players.

 

Now missions are very important to most players, therefore adjusting the rules and play for mission battles is going to make most players hate the changes. Telling them to play PRO battles does no good because everyone wants to complete the chain of missions every week.

 

 

I like to click on the "friends" button in the top right corner and join their battles. If they are doing a MM battle for a mission, I cannot join them. Making friends on T.O. and playing with those friends makes the playing experience that much better. Do not take this away from us.

 

From the sounds of it, there are a LOT of Legend players. I am probably alone on this thought, but I hate playing against players that are ranked more than 3 or 4 ranks ahead of me.

Sometimes I think the battles allow too wide of ranks to play each other. Legends shouldn't play against Generals as they have twice the XP. 

 

 

A suggestion for a different forum topic: Ending a battle early when one team has 50% less players is okay by me, BUT when one team has two players and my team has one player, it ends right away if I am losing. Maybe the 50% rule shouldn't apply to only 2 players on a team. It should start when there are at least 3 or 4 players on one of the teams.

[sticky_liquid 0]

Okay, having spent a few hours playing the game on this test, I have thought the following....

 

The good changes:-

• Some of the changes to some aspects of some of the maps - There are still a good number of maps I have not seen yet.

(Well, that was a short list)

 

The bad changes:- Pretty much everything else I am sorry to say. The following is a list of things I really do not like.

• Waiting times to enter a battle - too long
• Finally entering a battle but with just 10 seconds remaining and getting thrown back out to select a new game (twice this morning)
• Playing DM battles (or any other battle tbh) to complete missions against tanks that are 6 or 7 ranks higher - I would not choose to do that unless I was drunk.
• I had severe lag yesterday morning (do not normally get any, or very little) but not certain if that was down to the Tanki servers or not as this morning has been okay.
• Lack of choice of maps that are suitable for chosen turrets and hulls for missions.
• Not being able to remain in a certain map on completion of a battle.

I can understand to a degree as to why Tanki may have tweaked the Missions as it was open to abuse (to make mission very easy to complete sometimes) but I can't help feeling that they have used a 10lb lump-hammer to crack open a soft-shelled nut. There has to be a better solution/compromise but I am not paid to have the answer to that - Pay me well and I will  ;) 

[Aggitated01 0]

I have previously made purchases to support your game and now I can't even bring myself to log in with these unfair mismatches!!!

 

The only people this benefits are those that are fully M4 kits!!!! Why put me in battles with people that clearly have played 5x more hours than I have???

 

Drop this NOW!!!

[ScoobyDew 11]

No matter what system you use, Scoby Dew is still going to crush everone

 

 

Signed,

Tired of losing to Scooby Dew

[Noorullah-K 63]

The Crystal Distribution of New matchmaking system is Very Unbalanced.

 

By this way only Druggers can make the highest crystals and can become first, second and third.

 

LOLL, I don't like it this way.

[Hatty1994 819]

Stay in deep sleep developers --- R.I.P. 

 

[insane_grg 113]

Hey When the test Server Restarts will all the crystals i earned in the test server period disappear?

If you jerk developers are so worried about taking advantage of missions why dont just remove it instead giving us this CRAP ? I know those are just public words .all you  want to make people to use more drugs and get money .

 

I have never hated and legends in my life the way i hated them in past 2 days.who knows if i see any russian in my country i might kill it for real.

Edited August 9, 2017 by Ninja
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[jjg_the_dark 455]

Stay in deep sleep developers --- R.I.P. 

 

 

 

Ahahaaaaa! Do not expect any reply from the developers! Hazel Rah and his incompetent programmers have passed out next to a few empty bottles of Stoli ( or whatever cheap vodka they drink) after celebrating the success of their wildest dreams: putting tanki out of business!

Edited August 9, 2017 by Ninja
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[antani3 0]

ugly update, i want to choose the map without waiting in the queue

[Sency670 0]

I say the system is kinda bad, because I really wish that we can see the missions while in-game, and also, really, really continue in the same battle and not have to join another. And also, I want to play with more friends and not just 4. plus, most of them are already in groups so i cannot play with them at all. Im a guy who plays to complete missions daily. You developers had added the missions to keep many people active, please don't spoil it for them now.

Edited August 9, 2017 by Sency670

[00110010 12]

I've been reading the Russian and German forums on this implementation and they hate it too...obviously.  

 

I'd hate to be the dude who made the video for this 'update,' I would suggest to those who run 'Tanki' to keep him away from any new videos anytime soon unless it's to post an apology to all the players for screwing up the game they like to play.

 

I hope the Tanki Management and Developers learn from this screw-up of pushing these crap 'updates' (temporary or not) on the whole system.

 

Use better judgment, first, test it on just 'one or two' servers and test it out on several different ranks of players to see how it works with each group, then after you're done testing and gotten loads of feedback, you implement the parts that are good and scrap the parts that aren't.  

 

This is similar to how Coca-Cola and McDonald's and other successful companies test new products and marketing schemes.   They test a new product in 'select markets' to see if the customer likes the change before they implement it throughout the whole company.  

 

Coca-Cola actually made the same mistake Tanki did when they rolled out with 'New Coke' in the mid to late 80's.  Coke pushed this new product on the whole market thinking it would double their sales, instead, it failed, after just a few months of falling sales, Coca-Cola brought back the old formula as 'Coca-Cola Classic' because everyone hated the taste of 'New Coke and wanted the old Coke taste back. 

 

Like the Coca-Cola management of the 1980's, the Tanki management and developers have come off as amateurs of business by testing this update on their whole market, I hope they learn from this because if they don't, they'll destroy Tanki.  

[sugar-and-spice 59]

Can you even believe tanki is moronic enough to carry this lunacy on after the restart this morning? Well they can foxtrot oscar if this becomes reality. I am up to here with stupid updates and this is the worst of all........

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

It took me literally an hour to complete my kill 50 enemies mission which is way too long. My standard is to complete it in no more than half an hour at the most, if I can complete it in 15 minutes, then perfect. But 50 kills in an hour is just pathetic. I mean come one, I can do 300 kills in an hour in the old system if I wanted to.

 

The matchmaking system has many other flaws like it puts you in a battle where many have protection against your turret, and the server and daily mission is not at the top where we can use it for our convenience, and the rank ranges are just enormous.

 

And what kind of logic were you thinking when you thought it was a good idea to test it on flash instead of waiting for HTML5 to be released into the game first?

[Cool0411 3]

This sucks, have to wait for minuites on end to find a match, then I am placed in a match which has only two minuites left to go. I am also often placed with ledgends.