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Tanki Online is a browser-based Massively Multiplayer action game developed and supported by AlternativaPlatform company. The game was first presented in May of 2009 at the Russian Game Developer's Conference where it received several awards, including "Best game without a publisher" and "Best technology". The game is currently in open beta testing stage, the latest release having been released on December 25th.

Gameplay
Somewhat similar to the 1985 video-game “Battle City”, which was created for the Russian game console as the “Dendy”, players command tanks, for which they can buy upgrades and bonuses with ingame currency in the form of crystals that are allocated to players, relative to the amount of points a player scores in a match. Crystals, and other bonuses, can occasionally be found on the battlefield itself. The game features several game modes - Deathmatch, Team deathmatch, and Capture the flag. Another feature is a rank system, indicating a player's skill and the upgrades they have access to, but also allowing players to organize evenly-matched battles based on the rank of the players in the game. Various aspects of matches can also be adjusted, such as imposing a time-limit or a fixed amount of frags needed to win a battle. Battles can also be restricted to allow only players with specific ranks.

Ranks and Points
The game features a rank system which gives access to new items and upgrades. Points for kills are calculated according to the player's and your enemy's ratio, in the range from 0 to 20. All in all there are 27 ranks.

Garage
The garage contains three types of armors and different colors which can be bought for crystals. Weapons and tanks are upgradable, both featuring three tiers.

Shells
The wasp is the basic tank which is given to every user after registration. Being lightweight, it very vulnurable but at the same time has the smallest LBH. Wasp            Base    M1      M2      M3    Price:           0       +50     +150    +500 Health:         30      35      45      60 Speed:          4,0     4,5     5,3     7,0 Maneuverability: 80     90      106     140

Hunter          Base    M1      M2      M3    Price:           10      +70     +210    +700 Health:         45      52      70      90 Speed:          3,5     3,85    4,4     5,5 Maneuverability: 70      77      88      110
 * Hunter — A medium tank compromising between speed and armor.

Titan           Base    M1      M2      M3    Price:           20      +100    +300    +1000 Health:         60      70      90      120 Speed:          3,0     3,2     3,5     4,0 Maneuverability: 60     64      70      80
 * Titan — The heaviest tank available, providing perfect protection and steadiness, at the cost of speed.

Dictator        Base    M1      M2      M3    Price:           150     +500    +1500   +5000 Health:         60      70      90      120 Speed:          5,0     5,6     6,5     8,0 Maneuverability: 100    112     130     160
 * Dictator — The most expensive tank available, having the biggest LBH and as a consequence it is easy to be shot at.

Turrets
Smoky              Base    M1      M2      M3     Price:              0       +30     +90     +300 Turn Speed:        1.0     1.1     1.3     1.8 Damage:            4-16    5-17    7-19    8-24 Reload (sec):      2.0     1.9     1.75    1.6 Range:             under 50 m — 100%, over 100 m —  20%
 * Smoky — Default turret assigned to new players.

Firebird           Base    M1      M2      M3     Price:              5       +40     +120    +400 Turn Speed:        1.6     1.8     2.2     3.0 Damage per sec:    12      14      18      24 Reload (sec):      20.0    17.86   12.5    10.0 Range:             under 15 m — 100%, over 20 m —  0%
 * Firebird — A flamethrower, doing excessive damage in close combat.

Twins              Base    M1      M2      M3     Price:              10      +50     +150    +500 Turn Speed:        1.3     1.45    1.7     2.1 Damage:            3-5     3-5     4-6     5-7 Reload (sec):      0.44    0.38    0.37    0.33 Range:             under 40 m — 100%, over 60 m — 0%
 * Twins — A quick, double-barelled cannon that both disrupts enemy targeting and does excessive damage.

Railgun            Base    M1      M2      M3     Price:              100     +350    +1100   +3700 Turn Speed:        0.6     0.7     1.0     1.4 Damage:            30-45   34-51   42-67   55-85 Charge (sec):      1.1     1.1     1.1     1.1 Reload (sec):      6.4     6.2     6.0     5.8
 * Railgun — A gun with a very long reload time and shot delay. Aside from taking out Wasp tanks in a single shot. Since it penetrates targets, it can damage multiple enemies in one shot.

Isida              Base    M1      M2      M3     Price:              300     +700    +1800   +4500 Turn Speed:        1.3     1.45    1.7     2.1 Damage per sec:    12      14      18      24 — adds 50% of enemy health Heal per sec:      12      14      18      24 — gives in 2 times more scores, than damage Reload (sec):      20.0    17.86   12.5    10.0 Range:             15 m
 * Isida — A limited-ranged weapon that takes away health from enemies, and when used on friendly tanks, heals them. Health taken from enemies is transferred to the user. The most expensive weapon in the game.

Supplies
In the garage you can by the so-called supplies, they are temporary upgrades of your tank. They are also landed on the battlefield and have no reload after usage, but they have twice as less lifetime. The consumable reloads for some time when it gets fully utilised. There are four types of supplies: Supplies are received every day.
 * First Aid — immediately restores the tank. Price: 15 crystals
 * Double Armor — doubles your tank protection to one minute. Price: 5 crystals.
 * Double Power — doubles your weapon power to one minute. Price: 5 crystals
 * Nitro — doubles your tank speed to one speed. Price: 5 crystals


 * Double score — doubles received points to 6 or 72 hours in realtime; costs 500 or 1250 crystals accordingly. It is not given out and can be only purchased.

Coats
Players can use custom coating on their tanks, some coats giving adding extra resistance to certain weapons. Such coats are available from sergeant rank and minimum cost is 500 crystals. Coats characteristics:

1. Resistance to:     Smoky       Firebird    Twins       Railgun     Isida 2. Dirty                          10% 3. Swamp                                      10% 4. Carbon             10% 5. Winter                         10%         5% 6. Safari             5%                                  10% 7. Alien              5%                      5%          5% 8. Tundra                         6%          6%          16% 9. Dragon             5%          15%         8% 10. Roger              16%                     7%          5% 11. Digital            20%                                 25%         5% 12. Jaguar             10%         30%         5%          5% 13. Electra                                    25%                     25%

Technology
The game uses technologies of the company, browser-based 3D game engine “Alternativa3D”. The engine supports dynamic lighting, shadows, relief mapping and bump mapping, sprites, and physics simulation. The engine is adapted for use with the Adobe Flash player.