valid Cheetah Drone / Trickster Drone.

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

Many of us were very annoyed that following the most recent patch, Trickster Drone has been changed so dramatically that it no longer resembles its former function in almost any way. Never in the history of Tanki has a drone been changed so radically - yes there is a drone called 'Trickster' still in the game, but apart from the fact that it uses additional speed boosts it bears basically no resemblance to Trickster drone at all - Trickster has effectively been removed from the game, and what we have now is a new drone that is not Trickster. The new Trickster ISN'T EVEN a support drone - it is another ASSAULT drone - and there are already too many assault type drones and too few support drones - now all we have for those of us that like the support drone playstyle is Mechanic/Engineer/Supplier, which sucks.

This is very disappointing, because while the new drone is cool and useful in many ways, for myself and a lot of others Trickster was our favourite drone which offered a unique playstyle not offered by other drones, and we are disappointed that this gameplay is now gone - and also this is not the drone we paid for.

So what I propose is the following (which I feel should have been the case from the beginning with the new patch) - the introduction of a new drone, the Cheetah Drone.

Cheetah Drone:
Available at: Commander (no drones currently available at Commander)
Price: 200,000 crystals (same price as other drones at this rank)
Function: Exactly the same as the current Trickster Drone.

And along with this, Trickster Drone is returned back to its previous form before the patch. IF the developers were unhappy that Trickster was overpowered in terms of giving bonus score - then nerf the bonus score per ally to 5 score instead of 10, but at least - give us Trickster drone back, please.

At the time of the Mk conversion, Tanki offered parkour players a chance to revert their wasp hull to Mk1 if they filled in a special form by a certain deadline, to solve a unique problem created by that update. If the following change is made, then I think Tanki should offer players a chance to ask to have their Trickster Drone converted to the new Cheetah drone instead (at the same MU level) by a certain deadline - this would be necessary to account for those players who recently MU'ed Trickster as they wanted the new form of the drone.

So following these changes, we could have the following consequences:

1) Trickster Drone is back in the game, and the new Drone is here too - those that liked and used Trickster will now be happy, and those that wanted to use the new drone will now be happy. There is an increased speed drone in the garage to help non-buyers have a chance against Crisis players, as the new drone offers - but not at the cost of the loss of Trickster from the game.

2) There is a new drone players have to potentially buy and MU (developers like this sort of thing, as it keeps players playing more).

3) The name 'Trickster' does not make sense for a drone which increases speed, Cheetah or another suitable name would be much better - now sorted.

4) There are once again more support drones in the game for those that like to play support - as there should be - and not an excess of assault drones as we have now.

5) If the developers felt that the old Trickster was overpowered, score gained from allies is now reduced to 5 rather than 10 - so it is now surely not more powerful than Mechanic drone for gaining additional score. So this balance issue is solved - if that was any reason for the recent change.

I know that suggestions for the reversion of updates are commonly not accepted - but I also know that ideas which are good ideas, as I believe this one is, are sometimes accepted even if they go against the typical rules. Many players are annoyed about this, and it is a good solution which would please everyone. Additionally - I am not entirely suggesting the reversion of an update, I am suggesting the implementation of a totally new drone - which the new Trickster effectively is anyway, so this would be much better than the current situation.

Edited May 5, 2021 by DestrotankAI9

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Valid

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 5/4/2021 at 5:37 PM, DestrotankAI9 said:

3) The name 'Trickster' does not make sense for a drone which increases speed, Cheetah or another suitable name would be much better - now sorted.

Exactly XD

[LambSauce 1,891]

@DestrotankAI9 Your idea is cool and all, but unfortunately the devs are too busy releasing crappy skins that nobody asked for and P2W augment bundles to please their buyer-friends, so it's a big no-no I'm afraid.

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

12 hours ago, Spy said:

Under review

OK, thanks for taking this idea into consideration :) . I hope the devs will do something like this, because it would please many players who were disappointed with this change while annoying no-one, and offer a wider variety of gameplay.

There are now so few true support drones in the game, this is very disappointing. As a player who likes to play support, often with the one healing turret and augment in the game (Nanobots Isida) I notice this a lot as Trickster was one of the few good drones for Isida - drones such as Driver/Assault are totally useless for Nanobots players. Now the choice of drones for Isida players is very bland - I don't want to be another Mechanic drone user, Defender is boring, and Supplier sucks.

Not only was it awesome for Isida - it was also really good for almost any combo and made gameplay more fun, and there is no other drone with a similar play style to replace it. So its removal sucks on many levels.

Edited May 7, 2021 by DestrotankAI9

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Status changed to valid

[yellowghetto 3,206]

On 5/4/2021 at 2:37 PM, DestrotankAI9 said:

Many of us were very annoyed that following the most recent patch, Trickster Drone has been changed so dramatically that it no longer resembles its former function in almost any way. Never in the history of Tanki has a drone been changed so radically - yes there is a drone called 'Trickster' still in the game, but apart from the fact that it uses additional speed boosts it bears basically no resemblance to Trickster drone at all - Trickster has effectively been removed from the game, and what we have now is a new drone that is not Trickster. The new Trickster ISN'T EVEN a support drone - it is another ASSAULT drone - and there are already too many assault type drones and too few support drones - now all we have for those of us that like the support drone playstyle is Mechanic/Engineer/Supplier, which sucks.

This is very disappointing, because while the new drone is cool and useful in many ways, for myself and a lot of others Trickster was our favourite drone which offered a unique playstyle not offered by other drones, and we are disappointed that this gameplay is now gone - and also this is not the drone we paid for.

So what I propose is the following (which I feel should have been the case from the beginning with the new patch) - the introduction of a new drone, the Cheetah Drone.

Cheetah Drone:
Available at: Commander (no drones currently available at Commander)
Price: 200,000 crystals (same price as other drones at this rank)
Function: Exactly the same as the current Trickster Drone.

And along with this, Trickster Drone is returned back to its previous form before the patch. IF the developers were unhappy that Trickster was overpowered in terms of giving bonus score - then nerf the bonus score per ally to 5 score instead of 10, but at least - give us Trickster drone back, please.

At the time of the Mk conversion, Tanki offered parkour players a chance to revert their wasp hull to Mk1 if they filled in a special form by a certain deadline, to solve a unique problem created by that update. If the following change is made, then I think Tanki should offer players a chance to ask to have their Trickster Drone converted to the new Cheetah drone instead (at the same MU level) by a certain deadline - this would be necessary to account for those players who recently MU'ed Trickster as they wanted the new form of the drone.

So following these changes, we could have the following consequences:

1) Trickster Drone is back in the game, and the new Drone is here too - those that liked and used Trickster will now be happy, and those that wanted to use the new drone will now be happy. There is an increased speed drone in the garage to help non-buyers have a chance against Crisis players, as the new drone offers - but not at the cost of the loss of Trickster from the game.

2) There is a new drone players have to potentially buy and MU (developers like this sort of thing, as it keeps players playing more).

3) The name 'Trickster' does not make sense for a drone which increases speed, Cheetah or another suitable name would be much better - now sorted.

4) There are once again more support drones in the game for those that like to play support - as there should be - and not an excess of assault drones as we have now.

5) If the developers felt that the old Trickster was overpowered, score gained from allies is now reduced to 5 rather than 10 - so it is now surely not more powerful than Mechanic drone for gaining additional score. So this balance issue is solved - if that was any reason for the recent change.

I know that suggestions for the reversion of updates are commonly not accepted - but I also know that ideas which are good ideas, as I believe this one is, are sometimes accepted even if they go against the typical rules. Many players are annoyed about this, and it is a good solution which would please everyone. Additionally - I am not entirely suggesting the reversion of an update, I am suggesting the implementation of a totally new drone - which the new Trickster effectively is anyway, so this would be much better than the current situation.

Cheetah sounds weird. No other Drone is named after an animal. That goes for Modules.

I'd say Nitro Drone is better.

I'm pretty sure someone else made a topic regarding a Speed Drone.

[cosmic666 1,055]

Not that i'm against your idea but, what about all the players that initially acquired vulcan because of it's gyroscope effect, which now is useless.

I say if they act on your idea then vulcan also, along with a lot of other things they have (CHANGED) should also be looked at. Only fair, don't you think so.

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

1 hour ago, yellowghetto said:

Cheetah sounds weird. No other Drone is named after an animal. That goes for Modules.

I'd say Nitro Drone is better.

I'm pretty sure someone else made a topic regarding a Speed Drone.

Sure if there is a better name then Cheetah, feel free to suggest - I didn't put a lot of thought into it, just as long as we have both drones still in the game that is what is important. Cheetahs are the fastest living land animals, so it makes a lot more sense for a speed boosting drone to be called Cheetah than Trickster, surely. Nitro Drone is certainly a possibility too, although AFAIK I thought speed boosts are sometimes nicknamed "Nitro boosts" so that might be a little confusing - perhaps not.

 

1 hour ago, cosmic666 said:

Not that i'm against your idea but, what about all the players that initially acquired vulcan because of it's gyroscope effect, which now is useless.

I say if they act on your idea then vulcan also, along with a lot of other things they have (CHANGED) should also be looked at. Only fair, don't you think so.

Well, from your first sentence here you are talking about players who purchased Vulcan - are you implying there should be some form of compensation given changes to Vulcan? If so, I think this is a totally different scenario, as if developers did implement the suggestion I propose here then effectively the old and new versions of Trickster would both the in the game - an older version of Vulcan has never been introduced alongside a newer version.

I'm not proposing any compensation, but instead a swap, which would be fair given that many players will have recently invested a significant amount of crystals (and possibly real money to acquire those crystals) MU-ing the 'new' Trickster drone, given the recent changes making 20/20 drones much more essential, and because they chose to invest in the new Trickster as they wanted a speed increasing drone. However, it would not be fair if their drone was changed to the old Trickster (which they would not have wanted to MU) - and the same drone they had just invested in was re-introduced to the game requiring to be re-purchased and MU-ed again. That would be something that hasn't happened in Tanki before, and it would only happen since both Trickster and Cheetah have been at one time the same drone. The only similar scenario was with the XT and non-XT versions of hulls, in which case Tanki offered a swap for Parkour players - and I think a similar thing would be right to do here.

As for past changes that could be looked at again - I think it is always good to raise them if you think it would be better if old mechanisms be brought back. They have done that with Isida self-healing with the new augment, and (to some extent) crystals boxes, so it seems they are sometimes willing to re-introduce old mechanics.

Edited May 8, 2021 by DestrotankAI9

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14 hours ago, yellowghetto said:

Cheetah sounds weird. No other Drone is named after an animal. That goes for Modules.

I'd say Nitro Drone is better.

I'm pretty sure someone else made a topic regarding a Speed Drone.

Sprinter would fit 100% but sadly there is already a drone named like this which has nothing to do with sprints.

[kydapoot 570]

10 hours ago, numericable said:

Sprinter would fit 100% but sadly there is already a drone named like this which has nothing to do with sprints.

Sprinter drone is pretty weak though as it is (and useless in some modes), so it could just be the one to be replaced with the speedy effect instead of Trickster

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

On 5/9/2021 at 8:09 AM, kydapoot said:

Sprinter drone is pretty weak though as it is (and useless in some modes), so it could just be the one to be replaced with the speedy effect instead of Trickster

Sprinter definitely would be a better candidate than Trickster to be replaced by this new speed increasing drone - it is much less useful and much less used, and yes it has the perfect name. The current Sprinter is an interesting drone, but yes only usable in certain modes - and it has the disadvantage of putting you repair kit on cooldown when you pick up flags and balls for a short time - which can make it counterproductive at certain times.

Replacing Sprinter would be another possibility, and I don't think many players would be annoyed.

Edited May 10, 2021 by DestrotankAI9

[Blutaar 1,904]

Literally 2 out of the 5 support drones do not bear a support function. The context of support may vary, individual or collective support, but at least make it more coherent throughout the type

[USMAN468 54]

Flash drone will be a good name for today's trickster drone and developers should release a new drone named trickster who's function will be same like old trickster drone