Let's Discuss Hopper!

[cool12345 123]

The Hopper (Flying Monkey) on my team keeps stealing the Rugby ball from me - I keep blocking the Flying Monkey from scoring. What a crappy way to have to play Tankionline! 

[TricksterRick 18]

This crappy hull doesn't make any sense in this game, in 2009, the project TANKi online was started, for a long time it was good. but when they anounced the new HTML 5 client, the game began to die. they began to add flying hulls, they removed a lot of things, and they added alot of things, to make it "BaLaNcEd". but with the time of today ALL the flying hulls, especially hopper, are TOO OP. the game is called TANKi online, not airship online. Just bring the old game back! 

Edited April 7, 2021 by rick-2006

[TricksterRick 18]

On 4/3/2021 at 9:16 AM, At_Shin said:

Topic Merged.

The developers intended hopper to be the best hull at catching gold-boxes. 

Now the question is, why they did that, in the old days there was skill needed to take a gold flying trough the sky, that was the best way to take golds, not with a flying musquito

[jerry2975 56]

Hi...  I'm a viking player for long time ago. I have a questiobn? how an hooper player with 2000 hp (ptotect max) can restist of 3,4, 5 fire of my railgun, hammer and shaft? useless to speaking about my vulcan and ricocher .. tanki is a joke I know it but now... I wonder if hopper player need to wait to use overdrive. Looks like all hooper pklayers have the right the use it every mintues. Thanks to read...

Edited April 11, 2021 by Spy
Kindly refrain from using inappropriate language.

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

27 minutes ago, jerry2975 said:

Hi...  I'm a viking player for long time ago. I have a questiobn? how an hooper player with 2000 hp (ptotect max) can restist of 3,4, 5 fire of my railgun, hammer and shaft? useless to speaking about my vulcan and ricocher (the worst against the ****)... tanki is a joke I know it but now... I wonder if hopper player need to wait to use overdrive. Looks like all hooper pklayers have the right the use it every mintues. Thanks to read...

I'm sorry I can't quite understand.

[jerry2975 56]

11 minutes ago, FrozenRailgun said:

I'm sorry I can't quite understand.

Don't be sorry... U can"t unstand. Like TO :)

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

14 minutes ago, jerry2975 said:

Don't be sorry... U can"t unstand. Like TO :)

No offense but your words are incomprehensible to me. Not only misspellings but also lack of capitalizings.

Edited April 10, 2021 by FrozenRailgun

[alkyng 3,080]

That calls Defender drone, which give them 1.5x armor. So Hopper has 2000hp, with Double Armor it's 4000, with Defender it's 6000.

[SporkZilla 1,775]

@asem.harbi I agree

Was just in a battle with a low-for-its-rank GS Hopper that was using Defender drone. Hard to kill, and had a lot of Isida on its team too.

[jerry2975 56]

I just bought the defender drone with the 30% sale...
No regtets...  but I regret. Still so many batlles to upgrate it for the best effect. I'm so tired... and so poor lol

[jerry2975 56]

A last thing i want to say, I stopped playing tanki online for 2 years. I came back 2 months ago. And the game is better. Before, u need to play one year to get so poor results. But, I'm still frustrated ... ---> hopper ... however , go TO.

[Snafu 139]

10 hours ago, jerry2975 said:

I came back 2 months ago. And the game is better.

Just curious, what do you think is better now? Faster rank progressions?

[E_polypterus 2,374]

36 minutes ago, Snafu said:

Just curious, what do you think is better now? Faster rank progressions?

The rate at which crystals are earned.

[Spy 14,687]

16 hours ago, jerry2975 said:

 

Topic merged.

Please use this topic to talk about Hopper.

[cool12345 123]

I don't like Hopper.  In the history of mankind there has never been a Flying Tank! 

[antillis 138]

Ridiculous conception.

[Alklines 1,751]

i like to fly

 

[cool12345 123]

There is no question that Hopping Tanks ruin the game balance.   Many games end in under 3 minutes with the "hop scoring".  If my team wins because we had a Hopping Tank, I feel we cheated.  I miss the old Tankionline.  

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

Generally, I don't mind about Hoppers because I like its uniqueness of jumping. I do agree though, it does increase the chance of blowouts on Rugby, CTF and Assault (and for the 5th+ time, it should not have Hunter + Firebird traits when jumping).

 

Yes yes, Hoppers snatching gold boxes left and rights but I don't care when they do that.

 

How to fix the issues? I say when capping flag/scoring goals, the tank (not just Hopper) have to touch the hitbox of the flag point/goal, not above a tank (when it is sitting on it). 

 

Someone also suggested that when Hopper jumps, it goes "Phantom" mode, meaning if one is in midair via jumping, it would automatically drop the ball/flags and cannot pick up any boxes.

Edited April 18, 2021 by FrozenRailgun

[raze_avenger 221]

8 hours ago, cool12345 said:

There is no question that Hopping Tanks ruin the game balance.   Many games end in under 3 minutes with the "hop scoring".  If my team wins because we had a Hopping Tank, I feel we cheated.  I miss the old Tankionline.  

completely agreed. rugby, assault and ctf give people with hopper hulls a big advantage. Also not to mention that catching gold boxes with hopper is way easier.....

[Alklines 1,751]

1 hour ago, raze_avenger said:

completely agreed. rugby, assault and ctf give people with hopper hulls a big advantage. Also not to mention that catching gold boxes with hopper is way easier.....

Hopper itself isn't that OP, but when it's paired with Crisis drone where it becomes a huge game changer. (Defender drone too, but on a lower level)

[cool12345 123]

There Is A Solution To The Imbalance Of The Game Due To Hoppers.   Hoppers were introduced to make money for Tankionline which I understand.   However, it has obviously made the game very frustrating for the rest of us.   The Solution is Hoppers get their own separate game.   That way it is a fair fight and the rest of us go back to the old Tankionline which was fair and fun!  

[Blutaar 1,904]

13 hours ago, Alklines said:

Hopper itself isn't that OP, but when it's paired with Crisis drone where it becomes a huge game changer. (Defender drone too, but on a lower level)

Even without those two drones it is still an overpowered hull. It's mainly the relatively high speed and strafing that makes Hopper annoying and disturbing to fight against, not to forget the detonation jump and corresponding status effects. I often use the hull with Magnum AGLM and Booster, occasionally with Gauss EMS without drone or Shaft APS. Nerfing Hopper is being waited for since it's very release, but finding a suitable and realistic approach for doing that is rather hard. 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, cool12345 said:

There Is A Solution To The Imbalance Of The Game Due To Hoppers.   Hoppers were introduced to make money for Tankionline which I understand.   However, it has obviously made the game very frustrating for the rest of us.   The Solution is Hoppers get their own separate game.   That way it is a fair fight and the rest of us go back to the old Tankionline which was fair and fun!  

Yeah, the space mini-game thing we got can be further worked on to be it's own Hopper-only game :D
 

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

2 hours ago, cool12345 said:

However, it has obviously made the game very frustrating for the rest of us.   The Solution is Hoppers get their own separate game.

Disagree.