Stars temporarily removed from the Shop

[numericable 2,375]

23 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

Players were making fraudulent purchases (for example, buying stars and then refunding the purchase). While such accounts were blocked as per the game rules, the stars purchased would still count towards the event.

Very nice theory, i dont understand why TO block people that refund the money, they could simply take off what they bought, this way, they would save a player from leaving the game. I remember in 2016, there was a big buyer who purchased lile 10M crystals at that time then he got refund and his account got banned forever and he left TO forever. I dont understand why they do this because imagine if someone buy for you in your account and then get refunded, your account would be blocked. I also won a youtuber giveaway in 2016, i imagined how bad i would feel if he asked for refund thanks god he didnt, he was a good guy but in this world there are bad intentioned people too.

Edited February 11, 2022 by numericable

[LambSauce 1,884]

22 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

Players were making fraudulent purchases (for example, buying stars and then refunding the purchase). While such accounts were blocked as per the game rules, the stars purchased would still count towards the event.

So, if that’s the case, removing stars earned by blocked accounts would have been a more simple solution.

[Thankxtu 286]

11 minutes ago, LambSauce said:

So, if that’s the case, removing stars earned by blocked accounts would have been a more simple solution.

more work for them..... . But hey at least they are going to get their physics right soon.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

2 hours ago, numericable said:

Very nice theory, i dont understand why TO block people that refund the money, they could simply take off what they bought, this way, they would save a player from leaving the game.

What happens when a player uses what they bought before refunding the purchase? For example, what happens if a player buys a container, receives premium account, uses that premium account to complete an additional challenge tier, receives an augment from that tier, uses that augment to earn crystals, uses those crystals to buy a turret, etc, and then refunds the purchase?

2 hours ago, LambSauce said:

So, if that’s the case, removing stars earned by blocked accounts would have been a more simple solution.

Are you sure that it would be more simple?

[numericable 2,375]

14 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

What happens when a player uses what they bought before refunding the purchase? For example, what happens if a player buys a container, receives premium account, uses that premium account to complete an additional challenge tier, receives an augment from that tier, uses that augment to earn crystals, uses those crystals to buy a turret, etc, and then refunds the purchase?

Sure that looks way harder to punish them but they still dont deserve a permanent ban, maybe 1 month ban and what they bought and what they could get thanks to what they bought, totally removed. In the case you mentionned, the crystals, the battle pass' reward etc 

Or even, all in-game rewards earned since the buying date are taken down + what they bought + 1 month ban. This would be the appropriate solution.

 

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

1 hour ago, numericable said:

Or even, all in-game rewards earned since the buying date are taken down + what they bought + 1 month ban. This would be the appropriate solution.

Restoring account state can also be problematic - suppose a player makes two purchases and then refunds the first purchase. Will the items bought in the second purchase be removed as well? If they are not, then there is still a need for tracking how items are used over time. In the end, state restoration and item tracking systems require considerable development time with little to no benefit for the company. Blocking accounts is much easier.

[Ada_Wong 2]

On 2/10/2022 at 3:59 PM, Marcus said:

This announcement is about preventing some individuals from affecting the event results with illegal ways prohibitted by law. 

And can I find out the article, the number of the law and which country?

[LambSauce 1,884]

2 hours ago, ThirdOnion said:

Are you sure that it would be more simple?

Just a simple subtraction..?

[Classic 67]

On 2/10/2022 at 12:59 PM, Marcus said:

This announcement is about preventing some individuals from affecting the event results with illegal ways prohibitted by law. 

Man who snitched on me?

[V-vulcan 18]

On 2/10/2022 at 6:24 PM, Marcus said:

There will be an event and a contest to earn missing stars. 

Some tankers who completed Chinese New year missions on Friday January 27th (fully or partially) will not complete 

Se freeze 5000 stars,they will be short of 200 to 900 stars. Without buying stars,they can't complete it. Those 140 stars only help some. Not everyone  

[Crazyface22 19]

4 minutes ago, V-vulcan said:

Some tankers who completed Chinese New year missions on Friday January 27th (fully or partially) will not complete 

Se freeze 5000 stars,they will be short of 200 to 900 stars. Without buying stars,they can't complete it. Those 140 stars only help some. Not everyone  

Yup. 140 stars isn't enough. I need 300. I wish they boosted stars so it's easier to get them from MM. Getting 1~3/10 minutes is way too slow for me to get 300 stars. It's such a pain because if the event was extended by 1 day I would've gotten the skin :(

[x_Sorinel_x 552]

13 hours ago, tank7 said:

Even with avg luck about 10h(I calculated not just random number) of play per day for next two days will make you reach 5k stars. 

Are you crazy ? 10 hours ? People got other things to do. Not play Tanki 24 hours daily. When event started, I played just to finish daily missions, then weekly ones. After that the special missions. And, in the last day, was going to buy the remaining stars with tankoins to reach 5000. But, surprise, stars removed from the shop... Crap crap crap.

[YauChiHim 30]

27 minutes ago, x_Sorinel_x said:

Are you crazy ? 10 hours ? People got other things to do. Not play Tanki 24 hours daily. When event started, I played just to finish daily missions, then weekly ones. After that the special missions. And, in the last day, was going to buy the remaining stars with tankoins to reach 5000. But, surprise, stars removed from the shop... Crap crap crap.

Me too

[tank7 320]

40 minutes ago, x_Sorinel_x said:

Are you crazy ? 10 hours ? People got other things to do. Not play Tanki 24 hours daily. When event started, I played just to finish daily missions, then weekly ones. After that the special missions. And, in the last day, was going to buy the remaining stars with tankoins to reach 5000. But, surprise, stars removed from the shop... Crap crap crap.

 I know that 10h is a lot ,I am sorry if I hurt you in any way .

[Crazyface22 19]

45 minutes ago, x_Sorinel_x said:

And, in the last day, was going to buy the remaining stars with tankoins to reach 5000. But, surprise, stars removed from the shop... Crap crap crap.

Exactly. I play ~2 hours day and I'll only be at 4750 at the end of the event. They need to extend the event by a few days to compensate for the removal of star purchases.

[Cor7y 13,862]

2 hours ago, Crazyface22 said:

Yup. 140 stars isn't enough. I need 300. I wish they boosted stars so it's easier to get them from MM. Getting 1~3/10 minutes is way too slow for me to get 300 stars. It's such a pain because if the event was extended by 1 day I would've gotten the skin :(

Play CTF, you’ll get 3 (or 6 with premium acc) stars in like 3-4 mins if there’s a group of 4 people in your battle running Paladin + trickster.

That’s where I got a large portion of my stars from lol 

[x_Sorinel_x 552]

On 2/11/2022 at 5:37 PM, x_Sorinel_x said:

Crap. Wanted to buy stars with tankoins (8174) to reach 5000 stars...

Got 4038 right now. Another 300 stars from 2 days daily missions. Another 50 tomorrow from destroy 50 tanks with viking. Another 150 from supermission. Crap crap crap...

Daily mission finished; got 4549 stars. This s...s... At least I will get 50 normal containers and 30 ultra containers from the winner team. Like I said, stupid bad idea to remove stars from shop.

Edited February 13, 2022 by x_Sorinel_x

[Dopamine 2,161]

18 minutes ago, x_Sorinel_x said:

Daily mission finished; got 4549 stars. This s...s... At least I will get 50 normal containers and 30 ultra containers from the winner team. Like I said, stupid bad idea to remove stars from shop.

It is just a skin. The prize is very nice anyway. Wish you luck with the containers!

[LambSauce 1,884]

2 hours ago, frederik123456 said:

It is just a skin.

It’s literally just Freeze HD with a towel placed over it…

[Crazyface22 19]

2 hours ago, frederik123456 said:

It is just a skin. The prize is very nice anyway. Wish you luck with the containers!

Same situation for me. Am at 4800. Unfortunately I bought the paint first day and picked a losing team. :( I don’t use freeze but I kinda wanted the blanket skin.

[YauChiHim 30]

1 hour ago, Crazyface22 said:

Same situation for me. Am at 4800. Unfortunately I bought the paint first day and picked a losing team. :( I don’t use freeze but I kinda wanted the blanket skin.

Me tooI am now at 4540 stars. I really want to get the skin as I often use freeze. 

Dear developers, could you make the stars we buy tomorrow also count towards the total number of stars we collected individually while the average stars of the whole team not being affected? I really want to buy stars to get the skin.

[fghjkl54 1,517]

4 hours ago, frederik123456 said:

It is just a skin. The prize is very nice anyway. Wish you luck with the containers!

well now it's ultra containers

time changed sir...

[cdiddy2000 48]

On 2/10/2022 at 12:54 PM, Marcus said:

There will be an event and a contest to earn missing stars. 

Hi Marcus,

I am confused still after reading all the posts. Is the extension to Feb 16th for the 50 Tier Challenge or the YouTuber Challenge? How can you finish the Youtuber Challenge then with no way to buy stars??  It's almost impossible unless you play all the live long day! but who can do that? It is not a fair thing to force players to do.

 

 

[cdiddy2000 48]

2 hours ago, At_Shin said:

The extension is for current challenge Feb-A. Youtuber war event ends at the scheduled time on 14th Feb.

OK, thanks. Please let the developers know that this removal has upset many players who are legitimately trying to earn the Freeze SE skin. Some are  very close to it but need to buy maybe 300 stars for example. Punishing ALL players for the plot of a few bad players is unfair and it is very frustrating for the regular players working hard for two weeks so far to earn this item. 

I think, like others have mentioned, that the stars should be put back in the shop, then... IF anyone shows suspicious buying behaviour then ONLY those players should be sanctioned for their actions., and their actions then be reversed. 

OR

players should be able to ask the developers to credit their account with as many stars as they would have been able to purchase with tankoins in their account, so they can reach the 5000 star achievement for the Freeze SE skin. (the developers should do the transaction for them upon request, if the player account has the tankoin funds to cover the stars they want added for them for this purpose). There HAS to be a fairness to this. LOTS of good honest players want to earn the Freeze SE, and this is now impossible for many.

Some players need 1000 stars, some 500, some 300 etc...

300 stars alone would take around 12 hours of playtime to earn. 15 minutes to earn 6 IF you are in top places. 1 hour gets you 24 stars and then 12 hours around 300 IF you managed to get first in losing team or top 4 in winning team. It is a HARD ask for the developers to place on players.

AND... As it is the final day, this wont be possible for anyone. This is a game after all, but it seems to be getting policed as though it is life-affecting or something.

Please can you or someone pass on the feedback to the developers for this matter, it is a real massive disappointment for everyone who is affected. Thanks.

Edited February 13, 2022 by cdiddy2000