Where are the batteries

[wolverine848 13,097]

Since the recent container/rewards update I've opened hundreds and hundreds of containers, including about 60 Ultra containers.  Out of all of that only ONE container gave me batteries.

I have 60k SB, but only about 500 batteries.  I have 7500 RKs.  With RK-Battery price set by Devs one would think the ratio of RK-battery would be somewhat close to 2:1.  But it is not.  it is 15:1.  So I'm on the verge of running out of batteries and it seems the ones I use are not getting replaced.

With so much importance placed on Drones to compete, why are we not getting batteries as rewards to power these important pieces of equipment.  Sure we can use Brutus as a fallback.  But for a Legend using that vs Booster or Trickster or Crisis or Defender... that's like a minor hockey player vs NHL player.

So I ask - why are we not receiving batteries in containers as rewards?  At Legend rank-up I used to get 40k crystals.  A chunk of that could have been used to buy batteries on sale days.  But since we no longer get that, and instead get ONE regular container - which so far - has not given any batteries I ask once again...

Where are the batteries?

[TheCongoSpider 8,957]

15 minutes ago, wolverine848 said:

Since the recent container/rewards update I've opened hundreds and hundreds of containers, including about 60 Ultra containers.  Out of all of that only ONE container gave me batteries.

I have 60k SB, but only about 500 batteries.  I have 7500 RKs.  With RK-Battery price set by Devs one would think the ratio of RK-battery would be somewhat close to 2:1.  But it is not.  it is 15:1.  So I'm on the verge of running out of batteries and it seems the ones I use are not getting replaced.

With so much importance placed on Drones to compete, why are we not getting batteries as rewards to power these important pieces of equipment.  Sure we can use Brutus as a fallback.  But for a Legend using that vs Booster or Trickster or Crisis or Defender... that's like a minor hockey player vs NHL player.

So I ask - why are we not receiving batteries in containers as rewards?  At Legend rank-up I used to get 40k crystals.  A chunk of that could have been used to buy batteries on sale days.  But since we no longer get that, and instead get ONE regular container - which so far - has not given any batteries I ask once again...

Where are the batteries?

Yes, the current container rewards are paltry, especially that the Devs still have yet to shower us with containers like they promised when they changed them. But I do have to question how you have so little batteries though. I figured the break you took from the game last year would have made some impact on your supply income but not to the level that you only have 500 now. All of my high rank accounts have 6,000+ batteries and the most active ones that always used non-Brutus drones have close to 10,000. How have you run so low and so quickly? 

Edited February 6, 2022 by TheCongoSpider

[wolverine848 13,097]

36 minutes ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Yes, the current container rewards are paltry, especially that the Devs still have yet to shower us with containers like they promised when they changed them. But I do have to question how you have so little batteries though. I figured the break you took from the game last year would have made some impact on your supply income but not to the level that you only have 500 now. All of my high rank accounts have 6,000+ batteries and the most active ones that always used non-Brutus drones have close to 10,000. How have you run so low and so quickly? 

Break was only a couple months and... the only batteries I have ever received were the ones from weekly containers - which never amounted to much.

Never bought any and I did not receive any as compensation when the paint-to-module conversion happened. had multiple protections from paints but did not meet the criteria for getting batteries at the time.

Had a few thousand batteries before the last few contests and they get used up due to completing Challenges and needing them for Top-3 missions.  Hard to get top-3 winning team by using Brutus.

Also wondering why RKs are in the Shop mini-kits but not batteries...

Edited February 6, 2022 by wolverine848

[LambSauce 1,891]

52 minutes ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Yes, the current container rewards are paltry, especially that the Devs still have yet to shower us with containers like they promised when they changed them.

Even if they did, regular containers have absolute trash drop rates despite the numbers they gave us.

More containers is not a remedy if the chances are so crap, which they are.

[ghost-guns 1,486]

I have no batteries left.

[ghost-guns 1,486]

When I open containers I almost always get 1000 crystals or 100 mines.

[LambSauce 1,891]

@wolverine848 Probably also a good idea to post this in the Question to the devs section.

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

3 hours ago, wolverine848 said:

Where are the batteries?

They want you to start buying them via dollar bills.

These devs are so desperate for the five letter word that this game has taken pay-to-win to a whole new level.

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

I think that the developers are trying to add a sense of realism to Tanki with these economic changes. There is a battery shortage in the real world, and so they wanted to emulate that by creating one in Tanki too :p ...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2021/07/27/battery-scarcity-will-dwarf-chip-shortage-impact-on-global-auto-sales-report/amp/

 

On a serious note, I totally agree. Developers should add an additional row to the Shop Showcase, and we should receive 15 batteries a day as well as the other supplies (as well as the return of kits in the other 2 slots). Also, 50 batteries should be added to the "Rare" tier of containers. Having such an important supply only available from the epic tier is ridiculous.

The only reliable way to get batteries now is from weekly containers, as well as a small quantity from the challenges. But that doesn't go far. We definitely need more, batteries are too scarce.

Edited February 6, 2022 by DestrotankAI9

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

14 minutes ago, DestrotankAI9 said:

think that the developers are trying to add a sense of realism to Tanki with these economic changes. There is a battery shortage in the real world, and so they wanted to emulate that by creating one in Tanki too :p ...

Could be, lol.

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

2 minutes ago, BruhBruhThingThing said:

Could be, lol.

They must have seen also that battery suppliers were making mad dollar off the shortage, so they wanted to see if they could get a piece of the action too, with a virtual shortage. Lul :)

[LambSauce 1,891]

Yeah, @Opex-Rah, where the hell are the batteries??

[TheCongoSpider 8,957]

29 minutes ago, LambSauce said:

Yeah, @Opex-Rah, where the hell are the batteries??

There is this from the RU Forum. Auto-translated, or course. I suppose we should wait until Contracts arrive to see if the current economy comes out of the gutter. 

 

 

 

Here is the topic if you're interested. 

 

https://ru.tankiforum.com/topic/308212/ 

[wolverine848 13,097]

On 2/22/2022 at 6:55 AM, TheCongoSpider said:

There is this from the RU Forum. Auto-translated, or course. I suppose we should wait until Contracts arrive to see if the current economy comes out of the gutter. 

 

 

 

Here is the topic if you're interested. 

 

https://ru.tankiforum.com/topic/308212/ 

Contracts?

The response in that re-post is, as usual for the Devs, no explanation.

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

On 2/22/2022 at 3:55 AM, TheCongoSpider said:

There is this from the RU Forum. Auto-translated, or course. I suppose we should wait until Contracts arrive to see if the current economy comes out of the gutter. 

 

10 hours ago, wolverine848 said:

Contracts?

The response in that re-post is, as usual for the Devs, no explanation.

What the heck are these "contracts" he keeps talking about?

[LambSauce 1,891]

On 3/3/2022 at 5:59 AM, BruhBruhThingThing said:

What the heck are these "contracts" he keeps talking about?

Some sort of replacement for Weekly Missions, I believe. I may be wrong though.

No doubt that whatever it is, it will surely take a ridiculous amount of time for it to be implemented.

Until then, the only recommendations the F2P will get is “usE BruTuS DuHhH”

[iplayatankonline 102]

I used to hover in batteries between say + or - 500 of my constant supply (x) of batteries. But it always went back to (x) with a bit of mindfulness on my part. I am currently (x) - 1000, with no obvious way of getting those back. I still have a somewhat stable but shrinking supply. So I have to change my gameplay. As I can not afford to continue to lose 1000 batteries without resupply. I have a couple a months of gameplay left I'm sure... but what a silly thing to lose player base on a game resource in such a reckless way. Time to start adding 50 batteries to the special adrenaline weekend missions. 

 

Several issues here:

Games are now 15 min long. A game used to cost me 7 batteries to complete 1 game mode. I.e. your mission complete 1 game in rugby = 7 batteries. Now I must spend 15 batteries to complete that same mission. Now let's say you have a mission with 1500 score points. Usually i can do that in 2 great games, or 3 good games. Would be 7x 2 or 3 = 14/21 batteries consumed. Now the obvious math shows 15 min x2 or 3 I am using 30 -45 batteries on average.

 

Compounded onto that, the containers were trashed, so that I spend twice as much time and resources (batteries, drugs) to gain even less from these containers.

 

Resolution:

There is no clear way to solve this. A few in mind... I abandon losing games increasingly more frequently. If for example my team takes a -30 to -50 score in a game I am instantly gone even if I am in first place. First place will get me what? 1000-2000 crystals? And to keep playing if I'm at the 6 minute mark... I need to pay 9 more batteries? Just to lose the game? No. This is beyond my lowest emotion and so I leave. It will become more and more frequent in upcoming weeks. If i am down a few in juggernaut or rugby game... I really have to consider if its worth drugs, time, batteries etc to keep playing. 

 

I play less frequently. 

 

I only play on this account mostly now. Other accounts have simply lost all meaning to some degree. The game just isnt worthwhile to play. 

 

Based on what theyve done in shop: i.e. 75 crystals for 30 drugs of any supply. Id make a dirt cheap way of getting drones in the shop daily. 

 

I recommend a daily option to buy 50-100 batteries for 750-1500 crystals. Huge discount. A good portion of that would get consumed daily by playing. But youd be able to stock up again. 

 

 

[wolverine848 13,097]

18 minutes ago, iplayatankonline said:

Games are now 15 min long. A game used to cost me 7 batteries to complete 1 game mode. I.e. your mission complete 1 game in rugby = 7 batteries. Now I must spend 15 batteries to complete that same mission. Now let's say you have a mission with 1500 score points. Usually i can do that in 2 great games, or 3 good games. Would be 7x 2 or 3 = 14/21 batteries consumed. Now the obvious math shows 15 min x2 or 3 I am using 30 -45 batteries on average.

Wow - I never even considered this.  But it's absolutely true.  Finishing many of the missions can consume > 2x amount of batteries compared to before.  Combined with fewer ways to get batteries players really are getting shafted.

Glad I quit this game - it's just another reason for that.

[NikmanGT 4,376]

Exotic Opening 

Long time since I got batteries in containers.

My batteries have certainly been draining since that update, the only way now is the sales. 

[Arjun24 156]

41 minutes ago, NikmanGT said:

Exotic Opening 

Long time since I got batteries in containers.

My batteries have certainly been draining since that update, the only way now is the sales. 

I never understood why people were so crazy about using drones. I always used Brutus (except for a few times) on my Legend account which doesn't consume batteries and I always did fine. Now I have more than 10000 batteries saved up and now other people are struggling with barely having any. Not to think little of those people, but just wanted to say that I didn't use batteries and now I have a ton saved up.

[NikmanGT 4,376]

23 minutes ago, Arjun24 said:

I never understood why people were so crazy about using drones. I always used Brutus (except for a few times) on my Legend account which doesn't consume batteries and I always did fine. Now I have more than 10000 batteries saved up and now other people are struggling with barely having any. Not to think little of those people, but just wanted to say that I didn't use batteries and now I have a ton saved up.

With this argument, the debate about Brutus vs all other drones would start up. It's about the basic thing that other drones have some specific characteristics in the gameplay, people won't use Defender, Booster or Crisis over Brutus because it consumes batteries but because that drones give you significant advantage in battle unlike brutus, but that does not mean you can't perform well with brutus, it's about specific game style preference, and due to the consequence of using that drones, our batteries drain faster than ever.

[TheCongoSpider 8,957]

My battieres have been going down much faster than they've been going up, but I still have a large reserve of them that I've built up when the game economy wasn't in the ground. 

 

Speaking of...

 

 

I take all of your batteries for myself.

 

[SporkZilla 1,775]

I'm not short of batteries, my account that uses Hyperion has more than 20,000 from saving them up before I started using Hyperion full-time, but they will run out eventually now

I'm not really bothered by that because I don't think players being able to hoard so many batteries and other supplies what was the devs wanted, but new players are never going to get enough batteries to compete with older players that have benefited from the old economy so much

[Arjun24 156]

9 hours ago, NikmanGT said:

With this argument, the debate about Brutus vs all other drones would start up. It's about the basic thing that other drones have some specific characteristics in the gameplay, people won't use Defender, Booster or Crisis over Brutus because it consumes batteries but because that drones give you significant advantage in battle unlike brutus, but that does not mean you can't perform well with brutus, it's about specific game style preference, and due to the consequence of using that drones, our batteries drain faster than ever.

I'm sorry for not phrasing my post properly. Now that I read it back, it sounds like I'm trying to justify brutus vs other drones. My actual point was that people who don't have enough batteries now can use brutus and then save up again if they want. My original post doesn't seem like that all so I'm sorry for relaying the wrong point.

[wolverine848 13,097]

11 hours ago, Arjun24 said:

I never understood why people were so crazy about using drones. I always used Brutus (except for a few times) on my Legend account which doesn't consume batteries and I always did fine. Now I have more than 10000 batteries saved up and now other people are struggling with barely having any. Not to think little of those people, but just wanted to say that I didn't use batteries and now I have a ton saved up.

Changes in the past year have made it much harder to compete without using a drone that consumes batteries.

And the silly missions like Top-3-Winning-Team are pretty much impossible to complete without using batteries.  Many players get those regularly.

You will be shocked at how fast your batteries deplete as you use the potent drones more regularly.  And 15-min battles doubles the depletion rate for many missions.