The stupidest sight in tanki today

[wolverine848 13,152]

I can top it off.

 

Scenario:

 

Tight CTF game with score of 2:2, 1 minutes left on the clock. Finally getting the flag and so close to actually scoring, 3 enemy defenders following, health getting low. There is a teammate with overdrive trying to NOT help you, but wait till you die. I guess in his head, he figured, that when I die, he will get the flag and score himself. Well, I died, he got the flag, used overdrive, but couln't beat 3 enemies and died - flag was returned. Game ended with tie ...

He was hoping for 3 stars - amirite?

[u812ic 1,674]

I've asked this question time and again, hoping that maybe one of the guilty parties will answer.

 

Why do so many players, including an entire team will completely ignore the objective and play TDM the whole battle?

 

CTF: They stay at base but don't guard the flag, in fact they will be way the other side of the base from the flag.They know the flag has been stolen, but don't try to kill the carrier(s). 

 

RGB: The ball is only a few feet away, but won't pick it up, even if they are facing the ball and know it's there

 

CP: They go right past and through the cp of the opposing team but won't stop to change it.

 

ASL blue: Nearly everyone is at red base, but don't care if red is scoring one after another

 

ASL red: Half of the blue team is guarding the flag. Flag carrieres grab the flag and try to fight the entire blue team alone. But that's usually because there is no team support. Red is too busy killing everyone else except the ones guarding the flag. 

 

OK, anyone who is guilty of most of these "TO crimes" please step forward and be counted. Then explain why any of these strategies seem to be good, why you think they will win battles, and why don't you go to TDM to play since that's all you usually do, anyway?

Edited December 18, 2018 by u812ic

[CabbageRoll 3,044]

Looks like this topic got beaten so damn hard, can't compare any stupidest sights with new kit unlock ranks

Edited December 23, 2018 by CabbageRoll

[u812ic 1,674]

Looks like this topic got beaten so damn hard, cant compare anz stupidest sight with new kit unlock ranks

Yeah, that is absolutely ridiculous. My alt accounts are not buyers, they already have a tough time of it. Now this.

[ThirdOnion 4,950]

Why do so many players, including an entire team will completely ignore the objective and play TDM the whole battle?

Because . . .

 

1) Many players only really care about K/D and personal achievements / status.

 

2) Poor communication. There's really no point in playing the objective with an uncooperative team. Why are they uncooperative? Because we have players from all sorts of locales playing with each other since the servers were merged.

 

3) Tanki doesn't reward teamwork. Consider the following: you get 10 EXP for either destroying one tank or capturing a flag. You get 5 EXP for capping a CP point. If killing tanks gives you way more EXP, what's the point of capping? In terms of battle score, destroying a tank and capping a CP point both give 15 points, while capturing a flag gives 75. Again, there's little incentive for working towards the objective if you can get the same number of points by simply destroying a few tanks.

[Guest]

I saw a Magnum today without any alts who was trying to swing/rock his hull back and forth in order to hit me when I was on a higher platform.

[u812ic 1,674]

Issue 2: During almost every sale, paypal does not work on EN servers. Surprise! You stay weak, Russians stay strong. Surprise!

This is the first time I've seen PayPal down and this account is a buyer. For how many years has PayPal been down during the sales? When was the last time you saw it down, before now?

[Amagi 1,730]

 

Russianbias.exe 

axaxaxa

[pringerfinger 934]

I was cooling off a burning teammate with my Freeze but he got scared, pushed my tank against a wall and flipped my poor Hornet over.

The average Tanki player is not ready to be helped.

Thats right...cause we can deal with our own problems

 

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[u812ic 1,674]

I got "Cold" special effects for Freeze from completing tier 7 of the challenges. My Freeze is M0.0 and I have no intentions of buying an M2. Wish I could sell it and get the crystals out of it. After all, I worked hard for Tier 7, I should get something better than something that is useless. Tanki should give you a choice of special effects instead of dictating what you're going to get. Darn, I hate dictators.

Edited December 30, 2018 by u812ic

[caiosilvac 568]

I'm tired of mindless Rail players ruining pro battles, they just come in and think they'll wreck everyone, but the opposite usually happens.

[CabbageRoll 3,044]

I'm tired of mindless Rail players ruining pro battles, they just come in and think they'll wreck everyone, but the opposite usually happens.

Still better than hammers who actually wreck everyone without brain

[splitterpoint 10,990]

Still better than hammers who actually wreck everyone without brain

Aii, yes. They'll nerf it once they check the server statistics once again and decide that enough players have invested crystals in Hammers, alterations, protection modules and microupgrades. The very same happened to Firebird, Twins, Freeze and Magnum.. phoh Magnum stayed the same for over 1,5 years until they nerfed its splash damage and made the reload impractical for campers.

 

Hopefully I won't see these backstabbing Hammers with duplet alts exploiting the system although I have to admit; been doing the very same with Magnum. 

[T.O.R_Skyline 111]

I ran across some guy called Intestine today... ew
How can you name yourself like that?! 

[Katydid 98]

Red and blue full teams. We were getting spawn killed. I looked around for anyone to heal, but all I saw were 4 players, not including myself. I kept looking for them, but they didn't respawn. I guess they spent the rest of the battle in the garage. 

[wolverine848 13,152]

Today, Magistral (which Is not one of my favorite maps anyway) 3 mults on my team. No one voting them, no one saying anything to them, just 3 sitting. I left immediately. If you WANT to lose, do it without me.

Yup... when you look at scores and half your team is close to 0 - time to bail.

 

(I like Magistral - has a bit of everything)

[AncientFire 1,898]

I am enjoying reading these.

What surprises me is that non-buyer Legends that have thousands of supplies are still complaining about buyers... even though they already have all that good gear, this makes no sense to me.

[wolverine848 13,152]

I am enjoying reading these.

What surprises me is that non-buyer Legends that have thousands of supplies are still complaining about buyers... even though they already have all that good gear, this makes no sense to me.

Sure everyone at higher ranks has lots of supplies - unless there's massive mis-management.

 

However, not everyone has multiple m4s, all modules at 50%, all the powerful alterations and... upgraded drones with enough batteries to use them regularly.

 

But the real issue I'd say is not at upper levels.  It's more at low to mid-rank where $100 makes a much greater impact.

Having full m2 kit at W01 backed up by drones and 35% protection modules can make a big difference... no?

[AncientFire 1,898]

Sure everyone at higher ranks has lots of supplies - unless there's massive mis-management.

 

However, not everyone has multiple m4s, all modules at 50%, all the powerful alterations and... upgraded drones with enough batteries to use them regularly.

 

But the real issue I'd say is not at upper levels.  It's more at low to mid-rank where $100 makes a much greater impact.

Having full m2 kit at W01 backed up by drones and 35% protection modules can make a big difference... no?

mmhm

[Lose 882]

Sure everyone at higher ranks has lots of supplies - unless there's massive mis-management.

 

However, not everyone has multiple m4s, all modules at 50%, all the powerful alterations and... upgraded drones with enough batteries to use them regularly.

 

But the real issue I'd say is not at upper levels.  It's more at low to mid-rank where $100 makes a much greater impact.

Having full m2 kit at W01 backed up by drones and 35% protection modules can make a big difference... no?

i can say that this is completely true

[AncientFire 1,898]

i can say that this is completely true

I KNOW THAT YOU ARE JUST POSTING RANDOM STUFF JUST SO YOU CAN HAVE A higher post count than me, IK THAT!!!

[Lose 882]

I KNOW THAT YOU ARE JUST POSTING RANDOM STUFF JUST SO YOU CAN HAVE A higher post count than me, IK THAT!!!

i cant tell if you are joking or not... GG on the duels we did yesterday btw

[CabbageRoll 3,044]

I am enjoying reading these.

What surprises me is that non-buyer Legends that have thousands of supplies are still complaining about buyers... even though they already have all that good gear, this makes no sense to me.

I am not a legend but got over 15000 of each supply & 8 m3s & 35% protections. Why do I complain? People can now buy m4s right from this rank since a while ago. Any legend who is not a buyer cannot have all m4s or doesnt have drone, which all buyers do have.

[wolverine848 13,152]

You know, the most fun I ever had in this game was at Captain. I had a souped up Viking/Rico and lived on Rio on the roof. I loved the 30 minute and 1 hour ones. Killed everything that moved. The roof was MINE. Come if you dare noob!!!!! Now that was fun. Tanki ought to seek to provide that kind of fun again. Some things are really fun in tanki but I just miss those days at Captain! I even had a paint with TWO protections. Ahh what fun.

Oh I enjoy the mid-ranks more as well.  (how is it that no rail was sniping you from the green hill?)

 

Just saying $100 goes further at mid-ranks than it does at Legend.

[u812ic 1,674]

I know this isn't the stupidest thing in Tanki since it's so commonplace.

 

CTF Blue......Most of our team stayed pretty close to base, though spread out. They shot at everything that came close to base, except the Red Wasp and Hornet that waltzed into out base without any supplies activated, not even SB, and took our flag. Between the Wasp and Hornet, one hid near our base and when the flag was returned it came out of hiding and took it. Meanwhile, the other tank did the same thing. I shot at the flag bearers, but those little boogers can out run and out maneuver me any minute of the day. 

 

I saw some of our teammates at Red base and I thought I'd help them steal the flag. WRONG!! The weren't there to steal the flag, they were there to play TDM....AGAIN!! Same-0, same-0 story. If they want to play TDM, why don't they go there and let those of us who want to play the other battle modes do so. It's hard enough to get into a battle to begin with.