Why Tanki needs Druggers and Buyers

[TakeAShower 300]

I am sure many of us know the feeling. The feeling that that "Smoky M1" which hit us earlier had been fully MUed, even though the user of it was still at the rank of First Sergeant. Or when you see a Freeze M2 zip into your base and steal the flag. You think he does unusually high damage; your suspicions are confirmed when you press "R" or "V" and see that it is upgraded 10/10. Or last time you saw a Thunder-Dictator who had a full supply set... but not from Overdrive as his Speed Boost ran out before anything else. We all think the game would be better without these people... right? Wrong. The game would probably not exist. Tanki need these Buyers and Druggers, or they would go bankrupt. Or worse, the game would be Pay2Play, or you would need to pay a certain amount of real money to keep your account in existence. Consider this: would you prefer Tanki didn't exist to having to deal with Druggers and Buyers all the time? I would think not. A few things to consider:

 

 - 10/10 MUed equipment does not mean the player is a buyer. It only means that they have a lot of crystals in their wallet. I have not spent a single penny on Tanki yet, and I got my Striker M0 10/10 by Sargeant-Major.

 

 - Gold boxes/premium account does not make somebody a buyer. If you see a person dropping a gold, or joining a battle when they have premium, usually the chat is filled with "noob buyer" and a ton of other things that my topic would not be approved if I mentioned. You can get premium from weekend giveaways, daily missions, or contests. Same with Gold Boxes.

 

 - Drugging does not make somebody a buyer, even though supplies are a major source of income for Tanki. If you save up your supplies on low ranks, you may be able to compete at the higher ranks without playing NS all day.

 

-Buyers are neccecary for the game to exist. Now, of course, many topics have been created saying: Allow buyers to only buy cosmetics with their money. No crystals, or premium, or anything else that creates an advantage. There is a problem with this. Because the game did not start off like this, making it like this would cause many buyers to leave the game. As a result, Tanki would loose money and have to close down.

 

So, my Tanki friends (and enemies :ph34r:), I hope you now understand why Buyers are nececary for the game to exist. They are something many of us would like not to exist, but they must. They are a neccecary evil for us non-buyers (and small buyers). Druggers may be annoying as well, but Tanki has recently done what we all wanted: Nerfed supplies and upgrades, made upgrades accesable to non-buyers, and gave us this cool thing called Overdrive, which helps us combat Druggers.

 

See ya...

:ph34r:

Edited September 27, 2017 by Hexed

[Blackdrakon30 2,943]

- Fixed quite a few spelling errors (Sargent to Sergeant, Smokey to Smoky, etc.)

- Changed font size and font.

 

Approved

 

Interesting point of view. I think we've had at least one article on this topic here before. My main comment though is that you say "Why Tanki needs Druggers and Buyers", but you only address why Tanki Online needs buyers. I don't see any evidence supporting your claim that Tanki is better off with drugging players than without. I think if you either removed the "Druggers" part from the title and made it just about buyers, or if you addressed why drugging players are important to the game, it'd make your article much more credible.

 

 

EDIT: Alright, thanks for the clarification.

Edited September 26, 2017 by Blackdrakon30

[TakeAShower 300]

Big druggers are usually buyers, and supplies are a large source of income to Tanki.

[zaintahir 458]

I drug quite a bit on my account, it's just a nessacity when you reach it. I haven't spent money on tanki though, I just  saved up drugs from lower ranks and boom, I have 5k drugs. Anyhow this is a really good article.

Edited September 26, 2017 by zaintahir

[I-Hate-Druggers 192]

Actually, it's quite obvious why buyers are needed in this game. But good article though.

[Mjro7 2,837]

hmm drugs  good for parkour hard forma
after repair kit update you need to have atleast 10k of them and you will finish it in week lol 

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

So basically buyers are important because they are the game's source of income. Very informative . . .

Edited September 26, 2017 by ThirdOnion

[TakeAShower 300]

For some of us this may not be very useful, as we already know. However, the number of declined topics in I&S that say something along the lines of: Remove supplies, Nerf supplies, stop peope being able to buy premium/crystals etc shows that many people still need to know why that cannot happen.

[TakeAShower 300]

I drug quite a bit on my account, it's just a nessacity when you reach it. I haven't spent money on tanki though, I just  saved up drugs from lower ranks and boom, I have 5k drugs. Anyhow this is a really good article.

There's three levels of druggers: non-druggers, druggers and permadruggers.

[maryam98 1,171]

@I-Hate-Druggers

 

Oh yes, me too :p

 

The saddest state of affairs- someone who hates themselves

 

Actually it isn’t, but you get the point

 

[Coat 2,280]

Why Tanki needs buyers? For money ofc. If no money, why would they have created it? Nothing can work without money... To keep the game running, money is needed.

[Benefactor 6,888]

There's three levels of druggers: non-druggers, druggers and permadruggers.

What is a 'permadrugger'?

[maryam98 1,171]

What is a 'permadrugger'?

Someone who at Major rank has used 50k drugs.

[Misery 1,415]

Someone who at Major rank has used 50k drugs.

No.

What is a 'permadrugger'?

It clearly references someone who is a permanent Drugger.

Basically, always drugs.

[maryam98 1,171]

No. It clearly references someone who is a permanent Drugger.

Basically, always drugs.

The way I see it, that's pretty much what I said. Maybe not in the same way, but with the same meaning

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

For some of us this may not be very useful, as we already know. However, the number of declined topics in I&S that say something along the lines of: Remove supplies, Nerf supplies, stop peope being able to buy premium/crystals etc shows that many people still need to know why that cannot happen.

Players say this because supplies create a P2W situation. When a source of income interferes with game balance, that's bad.

[S-H-A-R-V-A-N 84]

I am sure many of us know the feeling. The feeling that that "Smoky M1" which hit us earlier had been fully MUed, even though the user of it was still at the rank of First Sergeant. Or when you see a Freeze M2 zip into your base and steal the flag. You think he does unusually high damage; your suspicions are confirmed when you press "R" or "V" and see that it is upgraded 10/10. Or last time you saw a Thunder-Dictator who had a full supply set... but not from Overdrive as his Speed Boost ran out before anything else. We all think the game would be better without these people... right? Wrong. The game would probably not exist. Tanki need these Buyers and Druggers, or they would go bankrupt. Or worse, the game would be Pay2Play, or you would need to pay a certain amount of real money to keep your account in existence. Consider this: would you prefer Tanki didn't exist to having to deal with Druggers and Buyers all the time? I would think not. A few things to consider:

 

 - 10/10 MUed equipment does not mean the player is a buyer. It only means that they have a lot of crystals in their wallet. I have not spent a single penny on Tanki yet, and I got my Striker M0 10/10 by Sargeant-Major.

 

 - Gold boxes/premium account does not make somebody a buyer. If you see a person dropping a gold, or joining a battle when they have premium, usually the chat is filled with "noob buyer" and a ton of other things that my topic would not be approved if I mentioned. You can get premium from weekend giveaways, daily missions, or contests. Same with Gold Boxes.

 

 - Drugging does not make somebody a buyer, even though supplies are a major source of income for Tanki. If you save up your supplies on low ranks, you may be able to compete at the higher ranks without playing NS all day.

 

-Buyers are neccecary for the game to exist. Now, of course, many topics have been created saying: Allow buyers to only buy cosmetics with their money. No crystals, or premium, or anything else that creates an advantage. There is a problem with this. Because the game did not start off like this, making it like this would cause many buyers to leave the game. As a result, Tanki would loose money and have to close down.

 

So, my Tanki friends (and enemies :ph34r:), I hope you now understand why Buyers are nececary for the game to exist. They are something many of us would like not to exist, but they must. They are a neccecary evil for us non-buyers (and small buyers). Druggers may be annoying as well, but Tanki has recently done what we all wanted: Nerfed supplies and upgrades, made upgrades accesable to non-buyers, and gave us this cool thing called Overdrive, which helps us combat Druggers.

 

See ya...

:ph34r:

I guess you have already started to save up your supplies as a WO2 itself for future use? And why are buyers necessary? I guess you won't be able to give me a suitable answer.

Edited September 30, 2017 by S-H-A-R-V-A-N

[Magenta 5,165]

Totally agreed. I have 1k of each drug (2.5k mines cuz I don't use them much. And I must have wasted at least 700 mines in parkour battles already.), 10/10 Twins M2 and 8/10 Viking m2, waiting for sales to give those two remaining MUs. I also have a lot of good paints which were not cheap. Yet, I haven't spent a single penny yet. It's mostly been contests tbh :P

[Magenta 5,165]

I guess you have already started to save up your supplies as a WO2 itself for future use? And why are buyers necessary? I guess you won't be able to give me a suitable answer.

The whole article was the suitable answer. 

PS: Stop quoting the whole post, it lengthens this page and reduces user friendliness. Instead, delete the contents of the quote, or delete everything except a certain paragraph that concerns your post.

[Misery 1,415]

The way I see it, that's pretty much what I said. Maybe not in the same way, but with the same meaning

There are people lower than that and have used more. So,

[Benefactor 6,888]

PS: Stop 

This phrase, I like this.

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

Totally agreed. I have 1k of each drug (2.5k mines cuz I don't use them much. And I must have wasted at least 700 mines in parkour battles already.), 10/10 Twins M2 and 8/10 Viking m2, waiting for sales to give those two remaining MUs. I also have a lot of good paints which were not cheap. Yet, I haven't spent a single penny yet. It's mostly been contests tbh :P

my garage is unbelievably noob, I've seen a first lieutenant free player with 8 times more M2s than i do. but i don't care, noobs are still noobs, losers will always be losers, equipment can only take one that much further.

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

Most of the frustration towards buyers and druggers comes in when a non-buyer/non-drugger is playing a match for say 2 or 3 hours, then suddenly these druggers/buyers come in and win, and despite all the effort put in by the non-buyer/non-drugger, he/she still can't win because it simply isn't possible.

[S-H-A-R-V-A-N 84]

The whole article was the suitable answer. 

PS: Stop quoting the whole post, it lengthens this page and reduces user friendliness. Instead, delete the contents of the quote, or delete everything except a certain paragraph that concerns your post.

I don't think if the page is longer, it's a problem. And what about the answer, then i guess you haven't read my question itself.

[Magenta 5,165]

I don't think if the page is longer, it's a problem. And what about the answer, then i guess you haven't read my question itself.

I don't think you have read the article itself.

And it is a problem, it makes us scroll a lot more. Nonetheless, it's against the rules.