event «Trick-or-Treat» mini-game

[Limanda 45]

On 11/13/2023 at 12:32 PM, MEXICAN-SKY said:

On 11/8/2023 at 8:50 PM, Limanda said:

lexical

Not a clue.

Lexical simply refers to the concrete meaning of words, as defined in dictionaries or other reference works. (Conscious) lexical abuse would be would be when someone points to one definition of a word and claim that this was how they utilized it, when in fact it was not. Since Venerable has asked me to point out bad faith in his post, let's look at this one instance.
 

Venerable claimed that in this sentence:

On 11/7/2023 at 6:59 PM, Venerable said:

[Helpers] receive a compensation for the work they do, voluntarily

the word voluntarily actually ment the following :

On 11/8/2023 at 6:56 PM, Venerable said:

I'd like to clarify that the word "voluntarily" means "of one's own free will"

 

So lets look at his sentence with this definition, and see what happens:
"[Helpers] receive a compensation for the work they do, out of their own free will

Now that obviously doesn't make sense. No one has claimed or suspected that helpers are forced to work for Tanki. The word 'voluntary' can in fact not occur in conjunction with the word 'work', when utilized in this lexical meaning. That would be a pleonasm, because work is by definition undertaken by one's own free will. In the same way, there is nothing called 'involuntary work'. That would be a euphemism for slavery.
 

What Venerable did here may appear innocent, but really it us underhand tactics. It makes it very hard to go after him without seeming petty and pedantic. And if you take the bait, you will be derailing from topic yourself. This kind of diversion of discussion is just one among a whole range of more sinister methods that site reps use to distract from critique or icky subjects. And as you can see, very effective at that.

 

 

[NikmanGT 4,362]

On 11/14/2023 at 9:42 PM, Limanda said:

What Venerable did here may appear innocent, but really it us underhand tactics. It makes it very hard to go after him without seeming petty and pedantic. And if you take the bait, you will be derailing from topic yourself. This kind of diversion of discussion is just one among a whole range of more sinister methods that site reps use to distract from critique or icky subjects. And as you can see, very effective at that.

If you have a doubt regarding the actions of helpers or want to argue or contradict a helper's statements, kindly forum PM him or the admin of the respective position.

Such follow-up posts will be removed.

[Limanda 45]

No thank you, judge. I rest my case.

[Dumbledore6969 243]

I managed to pass 6 islands and I think I'll make 7

[Akame 4,577]

On 11/14/2023 at 6:33 AM, wild001 said:

I am 10 steps to wasp DC and wasp blaster module,

I still have 5 step from free daily missions

I more likely buy 3.4m crystal to get 5 extra step,

If i am lucky, i may get them free, if normal, i pay 3.4m crystal, 

If worse, i may need spend 6m crystal

So what you guys thinks, i most use medium hulls and hopper, rarely use wasp, and based on tanki history,

All hull modules may go to container rewards after they milk all the money. I can save crystal for future mini game

Last time in spent 3m in space mini game for paladin RF

Personally, I am not wasting anything for this event, note, currently I am 5 steps from checkpoint 3, I have had 4 minus 5's so far I believe, drew the short straw, but I know a money sink when I see one, the move prices are not worth the buck for a potential to go back to where you started.

[zeringo 116]

On 11/14/2023 at 11:50 PM, Dumbledore6969 said:

I managed to pass 6 islands and I think I'll make 7

I'm happy to stay on the second island....... Forever!

[DMR 675]

As a non buyer, you can reach maximum Island 3 https://prnt.sc/lZurjKutWzsI I did every daily mission that had the lollipops + the extra 200 from Trick or treat mission

[zeringo 116]

On 11/16/2023 at 4:58 AM, Soothing said:

As a non buyer, you can reach maximum Island 3 https://prnt.sc/lZurjKutWzsI I did every daily mission that had the lollipops + the extra 200 from Trick or treat mission

I have given up on continuing for this reason.

[cx2014 182]

I was very lucky this time! 

 

I have used only lollipops from some Daily Missions and from the "Trick-or-Treat" Special Mission.

 

With just 34 Steps I am now at just 8 Jumps from Island 4 and 7 lollipops.

 

Today I was at 15 jumps from Island 3 and I had 147 lollipops to spend.

When I reached Island 3 I still had 57 lollipops!

I got: 2x (+3) + 2x (+2) + 5x (+1)  in a row 

 90 lollipops gave me 15 Jumps 

 

So from Island 2 to Island 3 it was 17 Jumps with just 110 lollipops!

 

Then I launched the last 50 lollipops and I got: 1x (+3) + 2x (+2) + 2x (+1) 

9 Jumps with just 50 lollipops!

 

 

Edited November 17, 2023 by cx2014

[2shots2kills 2,364]

And then you get players like me who get -5 steps three times for no reason. Reaching Island 3 will be impossible for me. 

It's funny that Hazel said "please don't hate us too much" when they give us all the reason to do so. 

Edited November 17, 2023 by 2shots2kills

[x_Sorinel_x 552]

What a crap...

Step: 41. Need 3 more jumps to reach Island 3. But for what ? Waste crystals to buy lollipops ? Got Vulcan UT skin so don't need it. Maybe to get those 75 tankoins and 18 normal containers ?

Edited November 18, 2023 by x_Sorinel_x

[krokorok 837]

Lemme show you my statistics.

44 steps

2x -5 literally on the first round to Island 2

2x -5 already from Island 2 to Island 3

And on top of that... 43x +1 and only 1x +2

Right now I am like 10+ islands from Main Island 3

Thanks a bunch for casino style event..

Edited November 18, 2023 by krokorok

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

On 11/18/2023 at 12:26 AM, 2shots2kills said:

And then you get players like me who get -5 steps three times for no reason. Reaching Island 3 will be impossible for me. 

and me conveniently getting -15 2 steps away form 4th island.

[Envy 28]

On 10/25/2023 at 10:08 PM, Marcus said:

 

 

https://tankionline.com/en/?p=40061

Terrible event, one of the worst this game has, why don't they reformulate the way this works?

[Dumbledore6969 243]

I managed to do the whole thing  

Edited November 19, 2023 by Dumbledore6969

[Damage45854 62]

On 11/18/2023 at 5:46 AM, Kimura said:

and me conveniently getting -15 2 steps away form 4th island.

Same,........-5 3 times

worse than a rigged  carnival fair...... Calling shinanigans! 

If it was  actually possible to  + 5 with even odds  I'd consider that fair. 

 

Furthermore They're giving away holiday prizes of  electronic smoke that cost them noting ......Only reason to rig it like that is to be sadistic jerk. 

NIce work....real nice. 

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Damage45854

[yuvraj007 302]

Quoting youtuber Jumper who completed the mini-game:

used 1380 Lollipops

Spended around 140k tatnkcoins (overpriced) +4 million crystals

 

now do the maths:

$1610 for 140k tankoins

$1058 for 4M crystals (if he bought using tankoins)

 

If only 10 hardcore buyers completed the event, that's easily over 25k dollars in revenue. 

Hazel knows what he is doing. 

[zeringo 116]

I got a lot more than you! Take a look!

 

[Tekken 374]

On 11/8/2023 at 12:14 PM, Cleric said:

That's the kind of augment that is in the "better than nothing" tier.

Not really explosive rounds for vulcan are imo top 3 augment for vulcan.  For me its better than rubberized roudns because you can ricochet your ammo at 5 degree not 10 like in rubberized augment which is a huge advantage, most of the time I killed someone with ricochet was at angle 5-10 degree and most of the time you can not effectively use more than one ricochet because its really hard to calculate, its good only for specific areas.  Also splash dmg is great bonus and sometimes you deal a lot of dmg.  

I dont know about shredder but from what I have seen its hard to play with but its effective.  So explosvie rounds aug. is really great and it is making gameplay with turret unique. Of course pulsar is better but I am having more fun with explosive rounds, the only situation where I change for pulsar is probably when lot of players have protection then its uneffective.  

 

 

[MEXICAN-SKY 308]

On 11/19/2023 at 4:34 PM, ArmagedomX said:

errible event, one of the worst this game has, why don't they reformulate the way this works?

Because the devs know for a 100% undeniable fact that no matter how many players complain, those same players will keep doing what they want them to do, which Is playing the mini game, or doing super missions, or just blindly playing the game out of a bad habit which has destroyed their free will over years of mental compliance.

The players are the one's that motivate what the devs do concerning "UPDATES", not the other way around.

Most players are like  blindly following the devs over the cliff of doom, but unlike the   the players do not possess a  unless they buy one for 10,000 TK.   

Bottom line. The devs know the mindset of the players and take advantage of this at every opportunity.

Most player just like  keep coming back.

The only players they care about are the ones that buy parachutes.

 

 

 

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

On 11/20/2023 at 8:40 AM, yuvraj007 said:

$1610 for 140k tankoins

$1058 for 4M crystals (if he bought using tankoins)

Now we'll translate it into russian prices. 16$ for 140k tankoins and 10$ for 4m crystals. Remember that russian buyers get everything like 90% cheaper cuz of how international transactions work in the internet

[Attack-Minded 155]

On 11/18/2023 at 6:07 AM, cx2014 said:

I was very lucky this time! 

 

I have used only lollipops from some Daily Missions and from the "Trick-or-Treat" Special Mission.

 

With just 34 Steps I am now at just 8 Jumps from Island 4 and 7 lollipops.

 

Today I was at 15 jumps from Island 3 and I had 147 lollipops to spend.

When I reached Island 3 I still had 57 lollipops!

I got: 2x (+3) + 2x (+2) + 5x (+1)  in a row 

 90 lollipops gave me 15 Jumps 

 

So from Island 2 to Island 3 it was 17 Jumps with just 110 lollipops!

 

Then I launched the last 50 lollipops and I got: 1x (+3) + 2x (+2) + 2x (+1) 

9 Jumps with just 50 lollipops!

 

 

All we want to know about your rest of the story.