Declined 3 or four different tanki versions

[ShaftBusted 23]

Make tanki great again draw some of the 300,000 gamer's  you lost back. 

 

Make a version 1 like it was in the beginning free to play and no upgrades.  Be able to pick your own maps and ranks to play with. Have boxes fall from 1 to 10 crystals and forget the big gold boxes that fall now.   There is no real need for them as you don't need to upgrade.   Bring back a timer to the game so players can play more than 5 minutes but not infinite time like we had in the old days, max time 30 minutes.  Capture the flag games most 20 flags and control point  100 and  DM and TDM cap at 300.  The game would be fun again and some might like to try your other versions.  It would be the best way to get former players back having a version 1 and 2.  

 

Version 2 bring back 2014 style upgrades.   Where you could change individual parameters of the tank with same features of version one add more gold boxes but not to the degree of today's levels.  Version 1 and 2 should be played on the same servers and maybe separate them into 2 English 2 Russian, 2 German and 2 Polish and 2 Spanish servers each.  This way people could make friends and allies in your game and actually have fun without becoming gangs.  They might even want to join clans if they had time to talk during a battle.  Better for you and it would make a better game.  Version 1 and 2 should have access to the old version of the maps like massacre and highways.  They should also be able to go from version 1 to version 2 after reaching Warrant officer 5 in version 1 Starting from rookie in version 2.  It would be nice if you could parkour in version 2 and not blow up when getting on top of your teammate. 

 

Version 3  all of the features of Version 1 and 2 but retire some weapons and graduate those to some of the new ones.  For instance Twins until a player has earned 4-6th rank then give him a Rico or Vulcan.  Rail is my favourite weapon but since you seem to think the thunder should have more power than it already does and replace Rail at warrant officer 1 with Guass.  Limit full power Hammer to 2 tank lengths away and make it a mine layer.  Make fire and freeze more realistic ( they have to be aimed at the enemy tank).  Take all of the super over drives away in version 3 give.  You could use this as a version you make subtle changes to, to test in real world new things for your current game of bomb the tank as it is not a real tank game anymore.  It is a game about who can bomb whom first and how many times can we stop the other team from killing us with bombs. 

 

If from my last sentence you understood my inference that I dislike your current Tanki, you would be correct!  I haven't like Tanki since late 2014.  I started many accounts in Tanki but the last 5 years I started them to see if a new player could without  money be competitive.  I was not a new player and since last year 2018, if you don't know something about tanki before you begin it can be a pretty hard game.  If you cannot spend money on the game odds are you will leave.  Players leave from the frustration of not being able to find out about game mechanics from people in the same game that understand their team cannot be as strong as the other team if their teammates don't know how to do something. 

 

Yes you have a forum and messages floating by when joining games but anyone who just wants to play will not see them.  I didn't see them until my 3rd year in Tanki.  Most of what I learned was by watching and talking to teammates.  The games are so short today and some shorter than others as MM puts you in a game already in progress.  In the old days when one could talk in a game and pick their ranks and even how many joined you could take the time and teach someone new, something about the game and give them a reason not to leave the game.  Due to frustration and being last and beaten up.  I trained many players in the use of rail.  I trained some not to use power ups not because they were not good but because they were a pay item and later in the game you could not be competitive without them.  That was the first reason I started new accounts because at warrant officer 5 everyone seemed to have many power ups. 

 

Today power ups and upgrades don't do anything, no today you need a bunch of real world friends to play at the same time as you and to form a group and you can take on everyone else whom has no friends in Tanki.  Not because they don't talk in the forums but because they have no chance to make friends in the games.  So those guys that have actual teams are the raiders of old the reason I originally asked for match making.  match making never really worked as intended but today it sticks you in groups of players with 6 to 7 ranks above you whom have had time to upgrade and buy all nice toys so you cannot even kill them save the nuke.  Oh but wait the nuke can be cancelled and you left immobilized but not if you are in a wasp rail!  Once the most powerful gun and it really is in the real world but that doesn't seem to matter to you the powers that be.   Your game now as it stands is a sham of a tank game it is more like drop the nuke and shelter in the energy dome and every other tank and hull has more power and weapons than the rail and wasp.  I was already upset that I did't get to work my K/D up to a great high number when you started changing things in 2014.  Today I am lucky if I can get a 4:1 ratio and keep it until warrant officer 1, in the past I kept a 7:1 until Warrant officer 3 without power ups(drugs).  Cheats essentially. 

 

Your game is just another Fortnight clone.  I would like to thank the original creators for the game of Tanki, and the fun I had up until 2014.  I think the game sucks now and know no one will read these suggestions and certainly no one will implement them not to save your game from going into extinction.  A game that once had 300,000 players any time of the day and the best i have seen in the past 5 years is 12,000 players; but mostly 2,000.  It is pretty hard to run a game with matchmaking if you don't have the players.  It is also not a good way to get newer players to stay if they always have to fight super tanks at higher ranks than them.  I don't like playing super tanks that you cannot out run or kill and then they team you real fun for the person not winning, no incentive to stay in your game.

 

Bye bye from ShaftBuster  Pfffffff  it is not a TANK GAME it is a nuclear war game!  Shame on you for making a world class game such a Horse Hockey(BS) game.

[Maf 32,318]

Declined

 

Separating the game into different versions will divide the already small player base even further, and it will become much harder to find a suitable battle with enough players. Not to mention the enormous costs and effort required to restore older versions to a playable level and maintain the servers required to run them all. It would be a terrible business decision.

[r_Given6 859]

Lol wut

:mellow:

Players move on. Most games that are 10 years old have lost a lot of players, not because they're bad, but because there are newer and modern trending games available. It's surprising to see that a game that was just supposed to be an example of what the Alternativa editor could do has lasted this long, and still has such a big player base.

I feel that the current game may not be as simple as it was a while back, but is much better than the crappy one where you had to collect crystal boxes.

Those 300,000 players have all grown up, and moved on with pleasant memories of this game. They're not going to leave everything and come back to play an older version of a game.

[CabbageRoll 3,018]

I feel that the current game may not be as simple as it was a while back, but is much better than the crappy one where you had to collect crystal boxes.

bruh, the real crap you can see is literally the game today

[r_Given6 859]

bruh, the real crap you can see is literally the game today

Imo, the older Tanki was worse, with just drugging Mammoth Ricochets dominating. I'm not saying that the current one isn't P2W.

Opinions are different for everyone.

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

Version 3  all of the features of Version 1 and 2 but retire some weapons and graduate those to some of the new ones.  For instance Twins until a player

If from my last sentence you understood my inference that I dislike your current Tanki, you would be correct!  I haven't like Tanki since late 2014.  I started many accounts in Tanki but the last 5 years I started them to see if a new player could without  money be competitive.  I was not a new player and since last year 2018, if you don't know something about tanki before you begin it can be a pretty hard game.  If you cannot spend money on the game odds are you will leave.  Players leave from the frustration of not being able to find out about game mechanics from people in the same game that understand their team cannot be as strong as the other team if their teammates don't know how to do something. 

What in the actual?? :huh:  :huh:

 

You do not need to spend $$$ to compete.

 

And crystal boxes, that was for mults.

 

Dude, I liked the old version but there are some new thing I liked as well. Overdrive is one particular example. 

[u812ic 1,629]

Personally, I preferred the older version where it was a non-buyer's game with the option to buy. Now, it's a buyer's game with the option not to buy. 

[Initiate 1,306]

Today power ups and upgrades don't do anything, no today you need a bunch of real world friends to play at the same time as you and to form a group and you can take on everyone else whom has no friends in Tanki.

:blink: Man, are you insane?

That was a rhetorical question.

Drugs and MUs do nothing? What are you thinking? If you take, for instance, an XP/BP battle where it's 3 v 3 and one side is a clan, they have voice chat in battle, and they have flat M2s, and face them off against players ofequal skill who have never played before, but these ones have M2+(M3) and full drugs all the time, I put the question to you, who will win?

[CabbageRoll 3,018]

Imo, the older Tanki was worse, with just drugging Mammoth Ricochets dominating. I'm not saying that the current one isn't P2W.

Opinions are different for everyone.

I agree it was crap at some parts but it wasnt p2w at all, i somehow managed to get to warrant officer 5 as m1 against m3 (big rank gap) now i cant even beat anyone while drugging (not 24/7 drugging but moderate) with equivalent tank

 

for year of playing i barely managed to get around 1k of each supply while now i get thousands per month (until devs decided to invert containers), but i dont see any benefit in killing 1 tank with 4/5 supplies used so the stock just grows up