Why, o' my, this community uses the term TANKING so wrongly?

Hey, don't blame me. The term I wanted to use was losers.

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war-robots-forum.freeforums.net/thread/1255/glossary

Uugh sigh....

Tankers = people who TANK their scores to drop down in the leagues, so no it's not the mmorpg term "tank", completely different genre, with the new mm and introduction of leagues to get to a lower league you have to have pisspoor stats, and to have that with high gear (except for being braindamaged) you have to TANK your score to drop in leagues

And yes they are both losers, 「go solo」ers and special, all at the same time.

Bots are Tanks, Players are Tankers.  In this rock-paper-scissors game no bot can Tank damage in the traditional sense.  Ancilot comes close, but dies fast to Torkelot, or plasma to the back or sides.

Tanking is a broader term than gaming. I heard some ESPN using tanking to describe NBA teams sucking on purpose to get a better lottery chance.

tank
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verb
gerund or present participle: tanking
1.
fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel.
"the cars stopped to tank up"
informal
drink heavily; become drunk.
"they get tanked up before the game"
2.
USinformal
fail completely, especially at great financial cost.
NORTH AMERICANinformal
(in sports) deliberately lose or fail to finish (a game).
"the lackluster performance prompted speculation that he tanked the second set"


Hmmm to deliberately lose or fail.. sounds like people have been using it correctly

I agree with op.
Tanking in all the mmorpg I played do refer to a player who can take/withstand massive damage, usually as part of strategy for other teams members.

Here, oh well.
Tanking it is 

Note: Anci Lance would be a great tanker heh

I was just about to post the definitions then saw your post haha 

@eyepfreely but this is a game ?

Anyway, I blame it on llama for starting this topic. Maybe we should just eat him for dinner. Do they taste good? Lol

I'm too cute to be eaten. But i can give you a great al paca coat


Btw, what i find more strange, is that for this particular term the community uses the correct dictionary meaning,
while it went nuts creating funny gamer names for everything else

In the early '90s my dad was aboard a KC-135 tanker during a refuelling mission for the now-decommissioned SR-71 Blackbird.

Oh.

Just don't start with mm as in doesn't that mean millimeter?

And yay! Llama chicken for dinner!

llama4president
Sry to derail this thread and double posting, but llama is not alpaca ?

Both definitions are valid. It would make more sense to use tank since it's a common gaming term, plus mechs are basically giant walking tanks (you know, the WWII era armoured vehicles). So it was kinda strange at first to not see this usage. He's tanking, errr, what?

In sports, esp. the NBA, teams tank and lose to gain an advantage in the lottery draft. I think most other sports don't have as much tanking, only basketball since the rules are meant to make terrible teams competitive so all teams have a chance to win, and the league remains balanced. When I read about the Lakers tanking this season, I don't get confused with the gaming definition due to context.

I always thought it was strange that words can have two totally different definitions. Why not make a new word up to avoid confusion. I guess in this case, it's a collision of 2 worlds and one lost. So what do you use for the gaming one now (bot that can take a lot of damage)? I try not to reuse the word, and randomly pick other words. Also, how did tanking come to be used in sports? I'm guessing the sinking of tankers (boats that carry oil) like the Exxon Valdez, one of the worst oil spills in memory?