Let's Discuss Shards

[DarkPredator 212]

Shards! What's your opinion on shards?

Shards! Was shards a good currency?

Edited April 5, 2021 by DarkPredator

[Spy 14,687]

Topic moved to Game Mechanics

[kydapoot 570]

I love them!

The passive accumulation is great for my alt that I don't play on much - lets me still have good equipment for my rank.

On my main acc, they're also fantastic - between passive accumulation and missions, I'm earning 2-3 containers per day from shards. As a result, I'm no longer running out of supplies, and the pool of rare rewards is finally getting thinned down to just the good stuff.

[wild001 1,422]

I dont even bother to login my low rank account to collect shard container and reset for its passive accumulation.

too much pain at high rank ready for the 9999 upgrades and 9999 battles

can't go through the pain of low ranks these day comparing to old time, when supply is the only thing make difference.

now, there are augment, drone, 50% combo of all protection and OP ODs

[Xx_Wateraptor_xX 3]

I literally don' care about anything except the fact that this game is consistently going downhill. The matchmaking on it is absolutely horrible.......2k gs vs 8k gs.

[paulus2019 29]

Why can not I vote?

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

5 hours ago, Xx_Wateraptor_xX said:

I literally don' care about anything except the fact that this game is consistently going downhill. The matchmaking on it is absolutely horrible.......2k gs vs 8k gs.

That's another topic to post on and put that here.

 

Or here:

https://en.tankiforum.com/topic/384280-what-is-your-opinion-about-the-current-state-of-tanki-online/

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Shards = Good game

Removing Shards = Time to quit

[DarkPredator 212]

12 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

Shards = Good game

Removing Shards = Time to quit

Lol 

If that's the case then your a noob , because your reliance is on receiving free shards daily to receive nice gifts.

I'm not saying that shards are bad but your saying you will quit.

Edited April 6, 2021 by DarkPredator

[wild001 1,422]

11 hours ago, DarkPredator said:

receiving free shards daily to receive nice gifts.

shards contribute half of my crystal income in current tanki economy. (average 100k per week I got from shard containers)

shards give a hope of owning hull augment for free player

shards contribute most of free supplies to make free player competitive in legend battles.

shards make the game not boring (mission and done) as every day you get some surprise to wait for.

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so without shards, free player will be in a tougher situation, facing strong buyer with hull augment, better equipment, and infinite supplies,

then, why continue playing as free player once reaching legends

Edited April 6, 2021 by wild001

[wolverine848 13,097]

19 minutes ago, wild001 said:

shards give a hope of owning hull augment for free player

You mean a resistance augment?   Cuz no matter how many containers you open, you're chances of getting immunity augment are quite low.

You are better off doing Challenges, saving those 100 TKs, and buying a Battle pass to get the hull augments in gold tier.

[wild001 1,422]

56 minutes ago, wolverine848 said:

resistance augment?   

I have resistance augment (burn and cold) for all hulls (except 50% cold for hopper and 50% heat for crusade) , 17 from free containers, 1 from I bought
for hull immu, so far I got 6 from free containers, 1 from ultra container

heat immu/cold immu for titan, heavy weight for dict, cold/emp for mamthon, emp for hornet, lightweight crusade

from challenge, I got AP viking, AP titan, lightweight hopper, cold hunter, heavy hunter

Spoiler

 

Edited April 6, 2021 by wild001

[alkyng 3,080]

13 hours ago, DarkPredator said:

If that's the case then your a noob , because your reliance is on receiving free shards daily to receive nice gifts.

No, some items aren't accessible for F2P so our chances are from containers. Except if you mean waiting 2.5 months or collecting 2500 Tankoins after year is a skill-based, it's another case.

1 hour ago, wolverine848 said:

You mean a resistance augment?   Cuz no matter how many containers you open, you're chances of getting immunity augment are quite low.

You are better off doing Challenges, saving those 100 TKs, and buying a Battle pass to get the hull augments in gold tier.

From Shards update till now the best things I get are resistances only, no immunities nor a single trite turret augment even.

But I have get many turrets augments and I get Heat Immunity in my Viking before the Shards update, which have benefited me a lot and allowed me to play with Vulcan IB.

By the way from my tests and from the players rewards that you can see, resistances are very common rewards.. Though in the possible rewards from containers you see resistance augments and any other hull augment have the same probability

 

[DarkPredator 212]

1 hour ago, asem.harbi said:

No, some items aren't accessible for F2P so our chances are from containers. Except if you mean waiting 2.5 months or collecting 2500 Tankoins after year is a skill-based, it's another case.

From Shards update till now the best things I get are resistances only, no immunities nor a single trite turret augment even.

But I have get many turrets augments and I get Heat Immunity in my Viking before the Shards update, which have benefited me a lot and allowed me to play with Vulcan IB.

By the way from my tests and from the players rewards that you can see, resistances are very common rewards.. Though in the possible rewards from containers you see resistance augments and any other hull augment have the same probability

 

What I meant is that tankionline is being generous , giving free shards daily so player's can have a good chance getting good things from the container. So open as much containers every day , but it doesn't mean to quit if they stop giving free shards daily.

Remember containers are meant to be rare.

[alkyng 3,080]

13 minutes ago, DarkPredator said:

What I meant is that tankionline is being generous , giving free shards daily so player's can have a good chance getting good things from the container. So open as much containers every day , but it doesn't mean to quit if they stop giving free shards daily.

Remember containers are meant to be rare.

Now the OP things are from Ultra Containers, regular containers have lost its value.   By the way true now the free shards have passed a big chunk in balancing the game and have gave the F2P player the enough amount of supplies to use it furiously among the day.

But the game still unbalanced with or without the Shards, removing the shards will make the game more unbalanced.

Also the supplies lost their value now drones are stronger.. And crystals lost their value, now tankoins are more expensive. But for sure Shards update is still a good point in Tanki history

[wolverine848 13,097]

10 hours ago, wild001 said:

I have resistance augment (burn and cold) for all hulls (except 50% cold for hopper and 50% heat for crusade) , 17 from free containers, 1 from I bought
for hull immu, so far I got 6 from free containers, 1 from ultra container

heat immu/cold immu for titan, heavy weight for dict, cold/emp for mamthon, emp for hornet, lightweight crusade

from challenge, I got AP viking, AP titan, lightweight hopper, cold hunter, heavy hunter

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You've been quite lucky on getting immunities from containers.  On two accounts since this started I think i have 1.

[Okami 3,041]

I see literally no downside to Shards. Containers come more easily for free and from missions, meaning you get great stuff more often. In fact, just the other day I got the Flowing Metal paint from a Container that I earned through Daily Missions. 

[Fuchsia 109]

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[NikmanGT 4,362]

27 minutes ago, Fuchsia said:

archive this

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