The worst sort of tanker

And yet another thread for tanking like it will stop the tankers lol

There are two things at play here, the designer and the player. You went ahead and compared to it situation with three things at play, the manufacturer, the driver and the law. 

The manufacturer doesn't write the rules of the road. But Pixonic both designed the game and the rules for it. Going 160mph (tanking) was designed in and is completely legal in the game, as the game allows it. You don't go to jail for it. You might argue that the law here is some kind of moral code or whatever, but it has no jurisdiction here as Russel points out below.

The blame lies solely with Pixonic, don't blame players for doing what is in their best self interest. In fact, if you're not doing what is best for you in a game, you aren't playing your best, which means you are intentionally throwing.
Exactly. cmdrperalta and others think there should be rules against tanking, and that tanking is unfair. But there isn't rules against tanking in game, so tankers are in fact playing fairly.

Which is why you need to hate the game and get it changed, don't hate the players for playing by the rules.

There are forum members suggesting fixing reward increment will fix tanker problem automatically. I rejected this as a complete fix, and your post is an excellent illustration.

First thing first, I am rather pessimistic. What I believe is:

The milking with big-whales is close to completion. 

Players in the middle layer (like me) have found their sweet spot / tanking methods so that they have no incentive to increase their power, i.e. reason to pay. 

Increasing reward is an attempt to promote competition, tempting non-maxed player to pay for moving up the ladder.

The company, after being bought by Mail.ru, cares nothing but profits.

The "reasonable steps to address tanking through incentivizing stronger league play" is a by-product, resolving the tanker problem is not the (primary) driver behind. 

I hate to dispoint you: blog.secondmeasure.com/2017/12/07/whales/

What your assuming as a temporary state is more or less operating procedure.

I didn't say you said, I said you thought. Clearly, you don't think tanking should be allowed. So via the transitive property, you think there should be some rule and punishment for tanking...but I don't even need to infer this as you are literally shaming those people with this thread... you are trying to punish them because they are breaking your rule.

But you're a Pixonic apologist if you state that they have taken reasonable steps to address the problem, then continue to complain about the problem. The definition of reasonable "as much as is appropriate or fair; moderate" defies what you've said. Clearly you don't feel the new system is appropriate or fair because people are still tanking, hence why you are here shaming people. Trying to absolve Pixonic of responsibility defies the definition of reasonable and basic logic.

This is Pixonic's game, they have full control over it. So either they are being reasonable and the new system is appropriate and fair to you, or it isn't. Clearly, it isn't because you created this thread, so let's put the blame where it lies: Pixonic. But I remember you've struggled with definitions before though in the pay to win thread, my guess is English isn't your first language.

And talking about balance in a pay to win game doesn't make sense. People who pay massive bucks for an advantage destroy balance just as much as tankers. Both are legal in the game, despite the fact both destroy game balance... in fact that is a good analogy.

Imagine if I created a thread railing against the whales who paid for an advantage. Would you blame the whales or Pixonic? In the end, the problem isn't the player, it is the fact what they are doing is allowed by the game. The same can be said about unfair tax breaks for certain groups. I wouldn't blame those people for taking advantage of them, I would blame the government for providing them.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Well, there we are again with the false premise. And this one coupled with psychic powers.  Kudos.  Your appear to be confusing 'logic' with 'logical fallacy'. In this case, a strawman. You are the person talking about changing rules. All I've said is that I disagree with the conduct and plan to make a point of calling attention to it when I see egregious cases. I also think it's a childish rationalization you are making to justify screwing up games for 11 other people because of whatever selfish motivation you may have for tanking. I can totally understand why you would want to externalize the blame to pixo, society or anyone else you can in that kind of situation.



I do think they have taken reasonable steps to address the issue to encourage voluntary cooperation and reduce the marginal benefit of tanking, but at the end of the day, the ppl you are defending, like the subject of this post, will go to great lengths to game a system for a few pennies in reward. It's really actually kinda pathetic if you think of it in that light.

Ah yes. Hangars, now for faster 1-bot tanking, true that. Now people do not need to even lose time by ditching five bots.

And yes, my point on LPQ is exactly that you there only if you are relatively new to the game. By the time you reach at least level9 of your hangar you know the rules and would not get there.

In addition to that - just how easy it would be to limit Mk2 to Expert the lowest? But no, majority of players are in Silver-Gold (insiders info from Pix), with majority of weapons at 6-8 (again, official Pix info), so they allowed Mk2 to lower leagues to promote upgrade spendings. 

And I do not promote sealclubbing, (I promote playing in lower leagues with fun bots though), but let’s not be the fools and think there are “some sealclubbers”. It is a sealclubbers/whales game now, and we can either ignore it, or accept it and learn to live it

Yeah, I can't stand this player too!

How can he be at diamond with such a hanger? He should be in silver league if he does his job better, a lazy tanker.
Why do you use Molot Cossack to tank? You can't even reach enemy when spawn... either use a Orkan Kumiho, meet unload and ditch or use a Gekko Geppy, flash and ditch. His tanking skill is poor.


Jokes aside,
I hate maxed player tank too, there is no point in doing that, only reason is to bully people.

Well, I'm a event tank myself and I am very proud of doing that because it is simply a game strategy in order to get big prize with limited time of playing. I'm pretty sure that a person with a normal life is impossible to reach that Bulga if he does not tank at all.   
Pix arrange whales to kick your bumbum at certain point, and I try to avoid that and find a place that I can kick someone elses bumbum, that's the entire point of installing a competitive game and continue playing it.