Why are modules so expensive?

[Virtue 207]

  Hello! I was just looking through the wiki and deciding if I would buy some protections, but then I realized that you have to buy every modification up to mk7. The total price for this is 380,000 crystals, compared to the old sum of 250,000. I thought they said when they made the 'MK' update that there wouldn't be any price jacks? a few years ago you could buy 3 M3 modules for 250k; now you can only buy one for 380k!?

  This is absurd! It is almost cheaper to just buy a kit with that particular module in it (385k) than to buy the module by its self! (380) and get an mk7 turret and hull for just an extra 5k!? But what about sales you may ask? With a 30% sale it's still a massive 266k!

  Now old players with 50% prots have a HUGE advantage over other players who have to work three times as hard to get good protections. A lot of players are not even bothering about buying protections because they would rather have another 14 upgrades on thier turret or hull than a wimpy 35% protection! This is taking a lot of strategy out of the game because new players only have 4-5 good protections, not giving them the option to change depending on other turrets in battles.

  This also gives them a disadvantage in different eSports formats such as medium, setups, hard, exotic, and especially TOF Tandem.

  I know tanki doesn't accept suggestions for change of prices, but I wanted to at least alert them to this major issue.

 

             Thanks!

Edited March 18, 2020 by Virtue

[Virtue 207]

 I mostly meant buying the module up to mk7. I know upgrading is just about the same as any other mk7 turret/hull

Edited March 18, 2020 by Virtue

[Virtue 207]

But yes, thank you for that info. Upgrades also need to be reduced I think.

[Virtue 207]

Yes, but before, if you were the right rank, you didn't have to buy M0 M1 M2 to get to M3. You could buy it directly. If you chose to buy M0, M1, M2, and M3 as you progressed up the ranks, then yes, it would be the same price. But now they are forcing you to buy all of the other modifications before gettign to the highest one, even if you are at the right rank

Edited March 18, 2020 by Virtue

[Virtue 207]

You still get 3 modules for the price of one. Then when they had the new update (not mk, but the single module system) Those who had bought Triple modules would get to keep them, but all players who wanted to buy modules after the update would have to pay the same price as before for only one module (hence, the advantage for older players). But now with the newest update (mk) you still get one module, but the price is also increased by 65%. Things have gotten progressively worse.

Edited March 18, 2020 by Virtue

[Virtue 207]

Exactly my point

[NooNooHead 121]

Yes, protection module is part of strategic game play and they are expensive to buy and MU. However, in practice, you can only use 3 modules  At most, you can only switch your protection once in a MM match. Otherwise, you're wasting too much time in the garage. Most of the times, I don't even bother switching as the game has probably been decided after one change. My suggestion is to go to rankings and find out what modules top tankers are using and stick with those to start. Somebody also posted what combos are used most often by top tankers.  Go through that list and pick the modules against turrets most commonly used. It is more important to find out what protection the other side has and pick your turret accordingly.

[Toby 2,938]

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[T879 151]

I'm one of the people who put most of his crystals into Modules because I think it has / had the most room for improvements (and also because I always found high % cool lol).

I was unfortunately far away from maxing them all out - although I really would have liked to - because they are expensive. The math can also explain why Modules are so valuable:
Example: An enemy player has Shaft M2 10/10 (2912 damage) while you have the max of 35% Shaft Protection. The damage gets reduced to 1893 (or 3786 with DD).

Now, with the Mk Update, you both are able to upgrade further, resulting in 3300 Shaft Damage and 50% Protection. The damage on you then is 1650 (vs. 3300 with DD)... which is less than before despite the hefty Turret dmg upgrade!

Besides, some modules only become really good when you are above the 35% (Firebird, Freeze, Mine, Ricochet, ... Vulcan (?) ).

Otherwise you'll still get killed by Compact Tanks users, by Freeze's high damage, clustered Mines, Plasma-Torch Ricochets (maybe standard ones as well).

This is the reason why I will still upgrade my Modules as much as possible before proceeding with the "more fun" upgrades for Hulls and Turrets 

[wolverine848 13,097]

Ignoring the need-to-buy-all-mk-versions issue (because ALL items suffer this)...

 

Modules are very expensive because they have a significant impact on play.  Protection versus the most dangerous or numerous turret for entire battle can't be understated.  Can take enemy 2x as long to kill you, or you can survive what would normally be a kill-shot - maybe allowing you to complete a game-breaking CAP.

 

I always buy as many modules on sale as I can.  Then, when you get to ranks where it's more prudent to MU vs Buy-next-mk, you get to upgrade multiple modules (once) on each sale.  Saves a ton of crystals while you keep improving your defense.

[Tidebreaker 1,669]

12 minutes ago, wolverine848 said:

Ignoring the need-to-buy-all-mk-versions issue (because ALL items suffer this)...

 

Modules are very expensive because they have a significant impact on play.  Protection versus the most dangerous or numerous turret for entire battle can't be understated.  Can take enemy 2x as long to kill you, or you can survive what would normally be a kill-shot - maybe allowing you to complete a game-breaking CAP.

 

I always buy as many modules on sale as I can.  Then, when you get to ranks where it's more prudent to MU vs Buy-next-mk, you get to upgrade multiple modules (once) on each sale.  Saves a ton of crystals while you keep improving your defense.

Even then, this doesn't explain the massive jump in prices for upgrading Mk5 and 6 modules. Mk7 module upgrade prices have remained the same as pre-update, but it costs 67,000 for a single step. That's simply absurd.

[Virtue 207]

I think tanki really needs to bring back the old system (buying mk7 directly instead of buying up to it). It has done nothing but hurt players, and i don't see any good in it at all.