Kits purchase for crystals

[Rudosaurus 0]

Hi, is it still possible to purchase kits for crystals? In the shop, I can buy a kit for Tankoins only.

[Spy 14,736]

The following sentence was mnetioned in Patch Update #677;

• All the old special offers are removed from the Shop’s showcase.
  • Note: You also no longer can get equipment kits from the Shop’s showcase. However, the kits will be returned later with the «Contracts» system that will be added to the Shop in the new interface. Stay tuned!

 

[fghjkl54 1,520]

since this update it became impossible to buy kits with crystals but it will return with the new interface soon^TM

[LambSauce 1,890]

27 minutes ago, fghjkl54 said:

since this update it became impossible to buy kits with crystals but it will return with the new interface soon^TM

How soon? Didn’t the devs have a fully working new interface last spring?

It’s taking far too long - same with HD skins being released only once a month - considering how much cash they are making.

[fghjkl54 1,520]

1 minute ago, LambSauce said:

 

it still work in progress but soon means either near future or far future

[LambSauce 1,890]

1 minute ago, fghjkl54 said:

it still work in progress but soon means either near future or far future

I understand, however it’s frustrating when they have been saying the same thing for almost a year.

It’s not like theirs is a small dev team with very limited funds, in fact it’s pretty much the opposite. Remember that the whole Tanki X team moved to TO? Yeah, well, guess that didn’t change a thing.

[Abellia 504]

2 hours ago, LambSauce said:

I understand, however it’s frustrating when they have been saying the same thing for almost a year.

It’s not like theirs is a small dev team with very limited funds, in fact it’s pretty much the opposite. Remember that the whole Tanki X team moved to TO? Yeah, well, guess that didn’t change a thing.

The problem is that there is a large dev team, but most of them do not understand how to make changes without screwing up the many, many mechanics that they have introduced. Mechanically speaking, everything was relatively simplistic prior to the introduction overdrives, their conversion to status effects, and the critical system. Prior to that, everything could be tweaked without much worry, except because of the way they went about with their development, by turning overdrives into status effects and reusing their code, there are some sensitive interactions that they didn't plan ahead for. Similarly with the critical system, crit chances for Smoky were screwed up rather badly recently, and the mechanics of supercharge are not fully known yet. There is also the matter of the way they have coded things reusing objects, where tesla balls were using the same "template" so to speak as ares, and thus they checked if they were in proximity and then tried to make each other explode, but they weren't programmed to explode and so just kept on checking against each other, causing mobile players to lag (fixed now).

Basically, spaghetti code.

Oh right, about the new interface  - from what I can tell, it's just going to be a giant reskin for the most part. The REAL update there is going to be whatever they do to the economy with contracts. I think the recent changes might have been prepping the game for those, and they knew players would react negatively, and so planned the interface as a way to compensate all of the people who are easily distracted.

Edited February 5, 2022 by Abellia

[LambSauce 1,890]

8 minutes ago, Abellia said:

Oh right, about the new interface  - from what I can tell, it's just going to be a giant reskin for the most part. The REAL update there is going to be whatever they do to the economy with contracts. I think the recent changes might have been prepping the game for those, and they knew players would react negatively, and so planned the interface as a way to compensate all of the people who are easily distracted.

So it's taking them a year to basically reskin the user interface? What a joke.

Considering they make AT LEAST tens of thousands of euros every month (the various Tanki funds contribute a lot to that), it's unacceptable that their development is slow AF.

[Abellia 504]

1 hour ago, LambSauce said:

So it's taking them a year to basically reskin the user interface? What a joke.

Considering they make AT LEAST tens of thousands of euros every month (the various Tanki funds contribute a lot to that), it's unacceptable that their development is slow AF.

They could have released it by now. They're holding on to it to drop it with whatever the heck they have planned for contracts. I'm guessing kit prices are going to be much higher than they were in showcase and they're not going to give us back the supplies we lost from containers and dailies, and THAT is why they need the interface to appease people.

Edited February 5, 2022 by Abellia

[NikmanGT 4,375]

We can't know for sure when the fully functional interface will be announced, Devs have already tested it out through Test servers meaning it's in Last stage development or last bug fixing process. As soon as the new interface pops up, we can see the comeback of interface and many more items.

[Spy 14,736]

Answered, closed.