Crystal boxes? Yes, yes, exactly them!

[Marcus 17,296]

 

 

Tankers!

 

A little background: From the very beginning of “Tanki Online”, well-known crystal boxes dropped in battles. November 20th, 2014 was a turning point in the history of the game: we removed the crystal boxes. For 5.5 years, one of the most popular questions was: “When will you bring back the crystal boxes?” And we gave you the same answer: “Never”.

 

And here I want to recall two old sayings: “Never say never” and “Everything new is the well-forgotten old”.

 

Yes, folks, with tomorrow's server restart, the 4th of June, we are returning crystal boxes to the game! 

 

But since now is not 2014, but 2020, their dropping principle will be different.

Crystal boxes with a value of 10 crystals will drop in matchmaking battles on maps with a rank of no higher than Sergeant-Major. Crystal boxes will drop on the same zones as the usual supplies. The drop boxes themselves will not fall in these battles (except for the Repair Kit and Nuclear Energy). 

We do this so that beginners can get used to the game, learn how to shoot and rotate the turret, decide on a favorite combination of turrets and hulls, and only then they can begin to figure out how to handle supplies.

 

And here we should remind you why we removed the crystal boxes from the game years ago.

 

At higher ranks, crystal boxes dropped more often than at the lower ranks, mainly because equipment at these ranks is more expensive. Because of this, these boxes either collected in large heaps, with several stacked on top of one another, as both teams would be fighting solely for the sake of victory, or the exact opposite would occur: players would constantly stand around areas where these boxes would drop, ignoring the actual battle, thus hurting their team’s overall performance. In the end, battles were ultimately determined just based on the ratio of crystal box hunters to actual players, which was not something we favored.

 

We tried to fix this situation by combining crystal box values of anywhere between 10 crystals and 100 crystals into one specific valued box, but Player feedback showed us that this solution did not work as intended, and players continued to concentrate on collecting crystals.To correct the situation, we removed the crystal boxes from the game completely.

 

Now, we have found a solution for the problems that caused crystal boxes to be removed from the game: players will be given experience points, in addition to crystals, for collecting crystal boxes. Therefore, players that solely focus on collecting crystal boxes will have higher performances in battles, and will rank up easily. Before you rush to collect one of these unique boxes, you will need to think to yourself: Do I really need those 10 crystals (and experience) badly, or do I want to be at a newbie rank for a little longer?

 

3D Flags 

 

Also, with tomorrow's restart, we will replace the infamously flat flags in both the “Capture the flag” and “Assault” modes, with very stylish three-dimensional ones, and we will also update the flag bases as well (to look similar to the points in the “Control Points” that were updated just a while ago). Log into the game tomorrow, and make sure you check out everything! You can only see this change in the HTML5 and Mobile versions of the game.

 

 

Automatic self-destruction 

 

As you may know, tanks can sometimes flip in battle. Now, when the tank flips, the player is suggested to self-destruct. With the new update, if your tank is upside down, self-destruction will begin automatically.

 

You can always enable or disable the self-destruction mechanism in the Game Settings.

 

That’s all for today guys! Log into the game tomorrow, pick up new crystal boxes (olds, great reason to be nostalgic) and capture the new 3D flags! Happy TO’s birthday everyone!)))

[AV-Gamers 1,251]

Nice new 3d flags and nice update for low ranks players to add crystals boxes and really like new automatic self distruction in MM battle.

 

 

[Boeing747-800plane 45]

Oh my gosh, they really brought them back

[Average 138]

bruh moment

[TheRealHZFJ 707]

This makes sense. Good update imo

[aditya_9-tanki_PRO 7]

The flags look is really good and I have a question that how many crystals are rewarded in each crystal box? 

[Joeguy 941]

"We do this so that beginners can get used to the game, learn how to shoot and rotate the turret, decide on a favorite combination of turrets and hulls, and only then they can begin to figure out how to handle supplies. "

 

As usual Tanki is spreading it on thick and the Tanki sycophants are slobbering all over themselves in approval.  There are almost no new players in Tanki.  Tanki doesn't advertise or even put forth an effort to generate organic growth.  All this crystal box hooey is to get players to move out of the lower ranks more quickly (Tanki wouldn't want anyone to actually have fun playing Tanki after all).  Crystal Boxes have almost no actual value at 10 crystals but they will come attached with XP. 

 

Edited June 3, 2020 by Joeguy

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

Will crystal boxes drop in Legend ranks?

[mjmj5558 2,346]

8 minutes ago, RIDDLER_8 said:

Will crystal boxes drop in Legend ranks?

No.

13 minutes ago, aditya_9-tanki_PRO said:

how many crystals are rewarded in each crystal box? 

10 crystals, 10 exp.

 

[mjmj5558 2,346]

I really like the new flags!

[stampey 2]

Not even going to lie i was actually thinking about the old Tanki yesterday and straight away i thought of the crystal boxes (and old madness map) and remember how people used to farm them, then i contemplated weather i should start playing Gtanks for the nostalgia. But here we have Tanki once again reading my mind..........I wonder how you do it Tanki, I really wonder. 

 

BTW please bring back old madness map

[Viking4s 10,791]

Nice Flags  - Now we need spider mines (please)

Auto self-destruct is a useless feature.

12 minutes ago, mjmj5558 said:

10 crystals, 10 exp.

LOL, why he gold box is not like this ? 1000 crys and 1000 xp

 

21 minutes ago, RIDDLER_8 said:

Will crystal boxes drop in Legend ranks?

 Sergeant-Major will be the last rank whre the crysals boxes will be available.

Edited June 3, 2020 by Viking4s

[TheRealHZFJ 707]

12 minutes ago, Joeguy said:

"We do this so that beginners can get used to the game, learn how to shoot and rotate the turret, decide on a favorite combination of turrets and hulls, and only then they can begin to figure out how to handle supplies. "

 

As usual Tanki is spreading it on thick and the Tanki sycophants are slobbering all over themselves in approval.  There are almost no new players in Tanki.  Tanki doesn't advertise or even put forth an effort to generate organic growth.  All this crystal box hooey is to get players to move out of the lower ranks more quickly (Tanki wouldn't want anyone to actually have fun playing Tanki after all).  Crystal Boxes have almost no actual value at 10 crystals but they will come attached with XP. 

 

They don't advertise the game because it would be stupid to advertise a game which runs on Flash ( since Flash is gone in 4 - 6 months ) which is already not supported on Chrome. That's why they are doing HTML5 and the new interface. Yeah, it is stupid to have xp attached with crystals, but if they do it like it was before they removed it back in 2014, everyone would just camp in MM for crystal boxes, while for people who actually play MM for daily / weekly / special missions or challenges ( for people who still do them ), it would be a nightmare for them seeing their team lose just because people AFK for them. 

[The_Pakistani 16,768]

I think tanki did this to see more lower rank accs. 

Edited June 3, 2020 by The_Pakistani

[Harry321 67]

I've always disliked the crystal drop boxes because of the players concentrating on boxes only and leave their team in battle. Anyway this doesn't affect my rank, just saying 

[Steals_Your_Skills 1]

Lmao, what even the idea of adding XP to the boxes if you DON'T want players to hunt them obsessively..? You just want the low ranked to move faster to the high ranked so they won't be able to enjoy the low ranks..? (what is btw the only good and fun thing this game still has to offer). Now the games at low ranked battles will be EVEN MORE unbalanced because everyone will DO hunt the boxes because you just ADDED xp to them INSTEAD of JUST MAKE THEM NORMAL CRYSTAL BOXES.

I will say even more, old players that are tired of the game and want to play low ranked over again (because it is much more fun than high ranked battles) - will just open new player and hunt crystals boxes without playing the actual game. "Why?" you may ask - Because after Sergeant-Major, these crystals boxes won't appear in battles any more, and old players know it, they also love it (VERY MUCH). Then they will just hunt them and will not play the actual game, also best way to make crystals (there are a lot of drop zones if I remember correct lmao).

This is the month which every old player will open new player to play the low ranked and hunt crystals boxes obsessively. Get ready and enjoy this as much as you can, I will be there as well

Anyway, the "balance" you talk about doesn't matter if the players doesn't enjoy the game anymore. Also it is anyway unbalanced because of buyers, so crystals are also a thing I guess. Just let them be

[Blutaar 1,904]

Interesting update, I might make a new account to see and experience these updates. 

The new flags look amazing!

[frankionline1 50]

wow man, really respect for tankionline 

man I've been waiting a lot of years for the crystal boxes coming back........      AND HERE IT IS!!!!!!!!!

thanks tanki

btw; really nice flags 

[Spinister 1,192]

@frankionline1it wont be for ur rank according to the info given by other tankers. Sergeant Major would be the last rank in which crystal box will drop, but i am still waiting for official conformation, as there is nothing given about that yet.

EDIT: It is confirmed that it wont be for ranks higher than Sergeant Major.

Edited June 3, 2020 by Spinister

[frankionline1 50]

1 minute ago, Spinister said:

@frankionline1it wont be for ur rank according to the info given by other tankers. Sergeant Major would be the last rank in which crystal box will drop, but i am still waiting for official conformation, as there is nothing given about that yet.

yea man, but I can always make another acc to experience it again how it is to play with it 

[Spinister 1,192]

Yeah that is correct.

1 minute ago, frankionline1 said:

yea man, but I can always make another acc to experience it again how it is to play with it 

 

[frankionline1 50]

3 minutes ago, Spinister said:

btw, i had a confusion coming at my mind when i saw the Tanki birthday topic, whats this: http://prntscr.com/st225d ?

that are the reward that you can get from the coinboxes right??

[Mr.Kenan 1,331]

Very intrigued to see how this will effect gameplay at lower ranks.

[Spinister 1,192]

oh yeah , sorry, got it now.

[jjg_the_dark 455]

Haha more useless stuff instead of fixing the real problems! Seriously? Automatic self destruct? Who the hell wants that especially if you are the Jug and you are upside down? you do not want to be automatically self destructing! Oh, yeah you can turn it off, so there another thing to remember to do before you enter a battle like change the supply drops to numeric keypad and the OD to Right Shift! Or even turn off the idiotic music song!

OK. Whoever really needs to catch a box for 10 cry and 10 XP needs to find another game to play! Seriously? you are going to fight over a box of 10 Cry? You can make more than that by killing all those idiots who will be fighting for 10 cry!

Never mind that the REAL problems still persist! But hey who cares, here comes another sale!