Drones, Batteries and Modules Update

[sezze100 416]

Tanki is dead ...

MM nobody likes , but is implemented anyway .

Tanki birthday is coming and with the vlog saying new modules coming a lot of people were gonna buy single modules since they were cheap and could fit inside the new triple ... great deal . So tanki decided to rush this modification in ( while before they said in a couple of weeks ) just to stay ahead of people buying single modules .

Now the new pricing is in ... im lucky since i got a fair bit of high modules against a good variaty of weapons ... but imagine you now are 4 star ready to go marchal rank . The 1st 3 m3 modules costs you now 3 times as much at a wopping 750k , no upgrades . Even buying a kit now stripped you from 2 weapons protection so that price has gone up also by 500k . Upgrading it has gone from 450k to 1.35million crystals , and thats still a 3 weapon protection . Having 3 more gives you a good change , but does cost you 2 million more  . And you still got no weapon or turret m3 ...

How can they ever get those crystals besides buying them ??? It will take multiple years to get even close to it .

[wolverine848 13,097]

They handled the conversion different from what most expected to happen. What they did was calculate the total value of your new modules and the total value of your old modules. If the value of your old modules was higher, you'd get batteries for the value difference between old and new modules. In your case, the value of the old modules was lower than the value of your new modules, so you did not get any batteries.

This is so wrong.  They triple the cost of the modules then do the calculations for compensation?  Of course most won't qualify for batteries.

 

Accountants doing that would go to jail.

 

The game has just been made P2W as many players won't be able to afford to buy batteries, which will be needed in order to compete against those equipped with Drones.

 

EVERY PLAYER should have been given a moderate supply of batteries in order to start this "new game" so they can survive long enough to complete weekly missions for containers and start accumulating free supplies.

[LittleWillie 3,199]

A Tale of Two Tanks

 

They were the best of tanks they were the worst of tanks. Here's why the module conversion is a complete design disaster from TO.(Heard this tune before.)

 

This was my general development strategy for my accounts.  I would MU up as hih as possible 1 turret, 1 hull and 1 triple module. Until the LtCol / Col range. At that point I usually was able to afford a 2nd triple module. Then at Brigadier that stuff would al be MU 10. I'd then buy 3 or 4 more triple modules and the single mine module and start MUing them.  That gave me at least one protection against every turret.

 

I now have two accounts right in this rank region. One of them is getting pounded into the poorhouse. The other is in FAR better shape.

 

SkittleWillie: Brigadier. Vulcan MU10 Wasp MU 10.

 

SW developed just as described. Last New Year's sale I bought it 4 more modules + mine for total 6 triple modules.  As of today the mine and 4 modules were at MU 10. The other two were at MU 9.  SW now has 14 modules, 10 at 35% and 4 at 34%.

 

It will cost SW 200k to top off SW's protections at the max possible for rank. (full price)

 

WhittleWillie: Colonel. Striker MU10. Hornet MU10. Titan MU7.

 

WW was started later than SW. I wasted less money and WW earned better thanks to the 3x missions boost.  So WW was able to be a bit more aggressive.  It bought a 2nd hull and was able to afford 3 triple modules by Colonel not two. But that 3rd modules wa bought quite recently.  So as of now WW has 3 protections at 35%, 2 at 34%, and 3 at 31% It does not own any protections for 6 weapons.

 

In order to max tis accounts protections for its rank the cost will be as folows:

 

   100k to take the pair from 34% to 35%.

   500k to take the three 31% to 35%

   600K to buy 6 new m2 modules

1,500k to MU the 6 new modules to 35%

 

Total is 2,700,000 Crystals!!!

 

That compares to the Brigadier, one rank above, facing an expense of 200k. One rank apart, two and a half million Crystals apart.

 

Long time high-rank players think they got screwed. (They did but in a different way.) In reality the lower ranked developing accounts are screwed harder. They face astronomical costs just to buy modules. Forget about  drones. How will they simply level up?

 

The fact two accounts one rank apart can have such drastically different futures proves TOs' methodology is a complete and utter failure.

Edited June 4, 2018 by LittleWillie

[LittleWillie 3,199]

We'll get batteries from mission chains, according to VLOG 171:

 

''Same as other supplies, you'd be able to buy it in the garage and in the shop, earn by completion daily missions and mission chains, and, of course win in events''

No we will not. TO lied to us.  Again. They're Russians. It's what they do.

[KILL_BILL_CHAUHAN 2,505]

So scammer Devs decide not to give any batteries. They came up with there own formula and scam people on there face. In less then 2 year they change module protection twice. First they force players to buy there new protection module make them spend money on game and silently keep working on new update which change the protection mechanism completely. 

 

Today we don't need drones but soon they will come up with a new update and force people to buy it. Mark my words 

[Champion 60]

Nice Nives i wrote a message to you on Forum a week ago about this game u did not reply but u are active on on forum Nice impression of community manager. All i can say is that you are good community manager, Sike!..

Edited June 4, 2018 by Champion

[Lo-Fi 12]

when do i get my batteries? i did not recive any battery.. rip my legacy modules but great update tho!! <3

[batatazilla 56]

Yeeehhhhh more drugs!!!!! just what we needed !!!! yyaauuuhhh (read sarcasm plz). I will be honest, I didnt test battles yet but something tells me that the dumbdrug level is going to be higher than ever before. That makes the freaking 5k cristals from pro-pass look much smaller considering what it is getting you rid from. So I guess I will just play pro until I run out of cristals (since I dont have time to play enough to get them back without missions)... Tx allot tanki, for turning a game that was based on driving and aiming skills into some crappy power up based junk like bigpoint games and other failed companies that went p2w.

[sezze100 416]

when do i get my batteries? i did not recive any battery.. rip my legacy modules but great update tho!! <3

A : you wont get batteries ... explained by some people here before

B : great update is what you think , no refill from lower ranks to legend lvl with decent garage will make this game die off rather sooner than later .

[Ninja 10,468]

Nice Nives i wrote a message to you on Forum a week ago about this game u did not reply but u are active on on forum Nice impression of community manager. All i can say is that you are good community manager, Sike!..

As you can probably imagine he gets a lot of messages daily, sometimes 50 - 60 a day and so it takes time to get through them all especially with the busy week its been with all the updates and such.

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

I like the new overdrive interface. What I don't fancy is having the chat text above this button which clutters the screen view of gameplay.

 

 

Please developers move the chat text in battles below the overdrive to save up screen space and avoid clutter.

 

Thank you.

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

Why do I have 0 batteries???????????

 

I had modules like Clay, Taiga, Zeus, Rock, Red Suit, Prodigi, Africa, Nano, Inferno, Iribis, Hohloma, Electra, Savanna and Forester ,and 7 new modules. I had MU on most of them, not M4 tho, but still.

 

I lost huge modules like Africa, I have made a lot of MU on my different modules, where are my batteries plz?

[The-Kill-Switch 30]

is this some sort of joke? take  the batteries out of the shop ot make them like 75 crystals each or make them last like 5 mins.

i should have expected this to be an almost compleatly pay to win feature, disgusting.

[N3tralRE 282]

While LGC modules have sadly passed away, at least the devs didn't rob us of our highest protections.

 

 

 

For instance, I had maxed out my Winter LGC module to 50% Shaft protection, 31% Thunder protection, 9% Railgun protection, and 9% Firebird protection.  Additionally, I had a Tundra LGC module with 32% Railgun protection as well as an M3 Kodiak T-G module (Firebird, Twins, & Railgun) with 44% protections. 

 

I initially expected the devs to give me something like 35% protection for Shaft, 25% protection for Thunder, etc. and some compensation in the form of crystals and/or drone batteries.  Fortunately, I was proven wrong since I was given a 50% Shaft protection module, a 31% Thunder protection module, and three 44% protection modules for Firebird, Twins, and Railgun. 

 

However, I reckon that this update still sucks particularly for players who invested significantly into modules with shared protection levels (i.e. a maxed out Prodigi LGC module and a maxed out M3 Kodiak T-G module).  As far as I can tell, the devs did not compensate the loss of redundant modules with crystals, drugs, or drone batteries. 

 

 

I recall buying an M2 Ocelot D-D and only upgrading it to 26% protections against Hammer & Isida, only to acquire M3 Badger T-B months later and upgrading that module to 44% protections.  After the big modules update, I have a 44% protection module against Isida and a 26% protection module against Hammer, but ultimately I was never compensated for the redundant 26% Isida protection I had from my previous M2 Ocelot D-D module.

 

 

Unless the devs have a change of heart, this update speaks volumes about the issues of investing significantly into TO.

[Hancho 3,902]

It's really sad people got scammed because they were expecting something positive to happen and the fact that today is Tanki's birthday makes it even worse. Where is the equity in this update? It's frustrating because people in Tanki are keep getting treated like piece of trash, there is no respect towards them at all.  

[KILL_BILL_CHAUHAN 2,505]

Why do I have 0 batteries???????????

 

I had modules like Clay, Taiga, Zeus, Rock, Red Suit, Prodigi, Africa, Nano, Inferno, Iribis, Hohloma, Electra, Savanna and Forester ,and 7 new modules. I had MU on most of them, not M4 tho, but still.

 

I lost huge modules like Africa, I have made a lot of MU on my different modules, where are my batteries plz?

you are not going to get any batteries. Scammer devs did calculation and give batteries only to those who had many m4 modules, 

[LUCIFER1_the_dark 1,230]

Is anyone else having issues activating drugs.. seems there might be a problem. I activated my shield and that was ok but then after I got killed it should have reactivated  to full strength but it did not do it and I had to wait for it to reload to full strength again.. this happened three times in a battle . also got only 2 kills in a battle which we won and had 18 kills on me in a CP battle .. that's not right

This is indeed a bug, the developers are aware of it.

Are you sure its a bug becus it was same in the test servers and even is right now.

I think its fair because of the drone Assault.

 

Consider spawning and activating DD and then after 10 seconds teh drone activates and in next 35 seconds you kill someone so basically you get the DD affect extended again.

If after every spawn the supplies are ready to use again it would cause advantage to Assault drone users.

 

I think it indeed is an update but as you said it may be a bug(cus the devs are really dumb to realise this, that quick).

[Mr.SkiIIZz 244]

They handled the conversion different from what most expected to happen. What they did was calculate the total value of your new modules and the total value of your old modules. If the value of your old modules was higher, you'd get batteries for the value difference between old and new modules. In your case, the value of the old modules was lower than the value of your new modules, so you did not get any batteries.

That explains why I didnt get batteries.

I mean you pay 250k for 1 protection m3. It used to be 250k for 3 protections.

So they should x3 the old price and than calculate it to the new value.

 

 

Ofcourse I have a brain and see you can now make more combinations with the modules. So when you buy 4 modules in the garage  you have 4 protections for 1000k. If you would buy 4 protections before the update you have 12 protections in total. But you only have 4 options.

Now you can have 4 protections but alot more options. So now if you buy 4 protections you actually have many more.. ( som1 who is good at math help me here plz xD) 

Edited June 4, 2018 by Mr.SkiIIZz

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

you are not going to get any batteries. Scammer devs did calculation and give batteries only to those who had many m4 modules, 

Omg really?

Edited June 4, 2018 by ControlledChaos
Kindly refrain from using profanity.

[cddsc_1977 11]

take it easy. you have the individual protection. they were just split. at least is what it looks like in my garage.

 

now i have several M3 protections at diverent upgrade levels.

Edited June 4, 2018 by cddsc_1977

[LUCIFER1_the_dark 1,230]

That explains why I didnt get batteries.

I mean you pay 250k for 1 protection m3. It used to be 250k for 3 protections.

So they should x3 the old price and than calculate it to the new value.

 

 

Ofcourse I have a brain and see you can now make more combinations with the modules. So when you buy 4 modules in the garage  you have 4 protections for 1000k. If you would buy 4 protections before the update you have 12 protections in total. But you only have 4 options.

Now you can have 4 protections but alot more options. So now if you buy 4 protections you actually have many more.. ( som1 who is good at math help me here plz xD) 

Now you have 4 protections so by using Combination

You can make 4 different sets of triple protections now.

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

All the crystals I have spent in Clay, Taiga, Zeus, Rock, Red Suit, Prodigi, Africa, Nano, Inferno, Iribis, Hohloma, Electra, Savanna, Forester, Griffon T-D M3, Griffon T-H M3, Lion T-F M3, Ursa T-B M3, Badger T-H M3, Ursa T-H M3 and Shark T-E M3...

 

All the modules are gone, I just have 13 single modules. And I get 0 batteries? What is that joke.

[LUCIFER1_the_dark 1,230]

All the crystals I have spent in Clay, Taiga, Zeus, Rock, Red Suit, Prodigi, Africa, Nano, Inferno, Iribis, Hohloma, Electra, Savanna, Forester, Griffon T-D M3, Griffon T-H M3, Lion T-F M3, Ursa T-B M3, Badger T-H M3, Ursa T-H M3 and Shark T-E M3...

 

All the modules are gone, I just have 13 single modules. And I get 0 batteries? What is that joke.

Thats business my friend.

A dirty one indeed.

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

 

Did anyone else get any of these? Equates to 1200 hours worth. Not sure I want to play anymore though.

at least finish your drugs and batteries before you stop playing... i heard from @Maf you 're basically a god with the drones and drugs... don't you wanna relive your days as an invincible drugger like back in 2012?

 

 

Edited June 4, 2018 by GuidoFawkes

[Mr.SkiIIZz 244]

All the crystals I have spent in Clay, Taiga, Zeus, Rock, Red Suit, Prodigi, Africa, Nano, Inferno, Iribis, Hohloma, Electra, Savanna, Forester, Griffon T-D M3, Griffon T-H M3, Lion T-F M3, Ursa T-B M3, Badger T-H M3, Ursa T-H M3 and Shark T-E M3...

 

All the modules are gone, I just have 13 single modules. And I get 0 batteries? What is that joke.

You actually have more modules now. You can now make more modules with those single modules. You can still make your old protections. You have 0 cons. Or they all where m4?