under review Uncle UgNitz' Ideas & Suggestions, part 1

[UgNitz 2]

Hello everybody, UgNitz here. 

 

I hope you are all well. Thank you to the developers for all your good work and thank you to the moderators for helping to keep the game safe and fair. What follows is the first part of my ideas and suggestions about the game as it stands currently:

 

1) The Tesla Turret Weapon 

 

The Tesla weapon is an interesting addition to the game, and it has a great name, but unfortunately it is being used to kill the players on the same team. Why is that allowed? If I even just push a player who harasses me, I get banned for a week for "fighting with my own team.”  

But meanwhile players using Tesla weaponss are allowed to actually kill me repeatedly and constantly, and kill the other players on our team, and there is no punishment or discipline for this at all. Imho, this is absolutely not fair and it is my idea and my suggestion to change this in the code as soon as possible.

 

Perhaps the Tesla weapon can be re-coded so that it can not kill teammates in games where team killing is not allowed.

 

Or otherwise, perhaps Tesla players can be penalized or banned for killing too many teammates.

 

I'm sure there are many ways to fix this problem that is alienating a lot of Tanki players unnecessarily, not just Uncle UgNitz. Come on guys, let's not alienate good players, let's work together to make the game more popular. That's part 1 of my ideas and suggestions.

 

Thank you and best regards,

Uncle UgNitz

[NikmanGT 4,362]

Under Review

How does a teammate with Tesla kills his own allies ?

[Acecaddy 40]

On 2/22/2025 at 10:39 AM, UgNitz said:

Hello everybody, UgNitz here. 

 

I hope you are all well. Thank you to the developers for all your good work and thank you to the moderators for helping to keep the game safe and fair. What follows is the first part of my ideas and suggestions about the game as it stands currently:

 

1) The Tesla Turret Weapon 

 

The Tesla weapon is an interesting addition to the game, and it has a great name, but unfortunately it is being used to kill the players on the same team. Why is that allowed? If I even just push a player who harasses me, I get banned for a week for "fighting with my own team.”  

But meanwhile players using Tesla weaponss are allowed to actually kill me repeatedly and constantly, and kill the other players on our team, and there is no punishment or discipline for this at all. Imho, this is absolutely not fair and it is my idea and my suggestion to change this in the code as soon as possible.

 

Perhaps the Tesla weapon can be re-coded so that it can not kill teammates in games where team killing is not allowed.

 

Or otherwise, perhaps Tesla players can be penalized or banned for killing too many teammates.

 

I'm sure there are many ways to fix this problem that is alienating a lot of Tanki players unnecessarily, not just Uncle UgNitz. Come on guys, let's not alienate good players, let's work together to make the game more popular. That's part 1 of my ideas and suggestions.

 

Thank you and best regards,

Uncle UgNitz

I've never heard of this Outside of Friendly-fire Pro matches
What augment were they using? how where they killing you?

[Acecaddy 40]

On 2/24/2025 at 4:40 PM, NikmanGT said:

Under Review

How does a teammate with Tesla kills his own allies ?

I think what he means is that Other teslas can use your ally tesla's orbs to hurt multiple allies or something

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

It's an intentional balance mechanic that Tesla ball lightnings are neutral between teams. Seeing that it's still being rebalanced to discourage groups of players of swarming the enemy with extended chain lightnings from balls, perhaps that may or may not change. Time will tell. 

[POWER-OF-ONE 164]

On 3/22/2025 at 1:27 PM, TheCongoSpider said:

to discourage groups of players of swarming the enemy with extended chain lightnings from balls

Which was the whole point of tesla's shooting ability.

There is so much wrong with this game, no wonder it gets so many complaints, and yet they do nothing to rectify the glaring inadequacies that is turning it into a sub standard pile of manure.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 3/22/2025 at 10:40 AM, POWER-OF-ONE said:

Which was the whole point of tesla's shooting ability.

There is so much wrong with this game, no wonder it gets so many complaints, and yet they do nothing to rectify the glaring inadequacies that is turning it into a sub standard pile of manure.

By that I meant as a coordinated group. At random, fighting against a den of Tesla is bad enough but it's even worse when those Teslas in the den know exactly what they're doing and exactly which augments to pick. Pretty much the reason Dilatory Protocol stayed the way it did since release for a long time. That problem just shifted towards the status augments over time. I'd like to see where they take it now that it's back to the slow-but-heavy-hitting version like it was on release. Problem? They're taking their sweet time to make any changes. It's been 4 months since the change and no improvement for anything not named Electroturret. There is still time for Tesla to change before Shock Therapy is released to players' garages.