UH.. I think I'm getting sick after reading this...

"...if it makes some of the P2P people happy, and makes OOO more money to get them closer to future updates, then yea. I'm fine with it."

I appologize to you in advanced, but this is someone that I must disagree with you on. The rest of your post is perfectly fine, more prize boxes will come out, and community suggestions for them are more than welcome given that they are for the community. But the idea of putting real items inside of boxes and using them to make the tiny percentage of whales feel better about themselves is just awful.... it's selling out. That's exactly what it is. Selling out.

Lets say that there is a 5% chance of one of these items being found from a box. This is to be fair, and show the best case for the players that want these items. If the promotion sells 1,500 prize boxes (a very innacurate but still optimistic estimate based on the number of unique "1/2100" items), there will be around 75 of these items in existence. Compared to how many combusters? How many rocket hammers? This is actual, real, live, content we're talking about, and it excludes what percentage of the playerbase?

If every single invested knight that wants the item spent 20 dollars on the game at the promotion, there still wouldn't be enough of the item for 75% of the community to have one. Compare that to Operation Crimson Hammer- 5 bucks and you've got how much content? Two new items and access to a new mission. 20 dollars worth of energy gets you 2 of almost any other item from the supply depot, right there on the spot and we all know that you're better off paying for the orbs slowly.

You're arguing for two items that come at less than a 1% chance overall. If it was at around 1%, we'd expect about 15 of these items to be found per the 1,500 prize boxes sold. If it ends up at around half and half, we'd get about 7 or 8 of each item. Do you really think, that development of the game, should be focused around feeding the top 7-8, or even 15, or even 75, spenders?

And the worst part is that there are no guarantees. Lets say that I open 200 prize boxes. 200 prize boxes would on average grant you the items you are proposing. But individually, you would have a 60% chance of finding at least those 2. There is still about a 14% chance that you won't get anything from those 200 boxes. This is extremely disheartening prospects for those buying boxes.

My philosophy, is that when you spend 50 dollars on a video game you deserve more than a 13% chance at finding the item that you want and that more than that, no one should be pressured into playing at those kinds of odds for actual advnatages in the game. It's just not right.

What about this do you enjoy the prospect of? I'm a bit short on time, so I'll come back and regurgitate the rest of the arguments we had when the mixmaster was released, but modified to fit the potential of a .5% chance at seriously powerful and cool gear that bear new mechanics entirely later, if needed.

No, I'm saying that it shouldn't be in the box without a free alternative period.

I've already posted an enormous amount about why I don't like actual gameplay elements in prize boxes-
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/104228
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/98469
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/104981

And the one that REALLY solves this whole situation-

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/104316

Like I said before, it's fine-

The rest of your post is perfectly fine, more prize boxes will come out, and community suggestions for them are more than welcome given that they are for the community.

I'll add on a bit to this-

The actual idea of a hammer that reprograms construct to be on your side is awesome. I'd raise the odds of it to be a reliable phenomenon, and probably make it a shadow themed weapon-- that way, it wouldn't damage the various construct that it would convert, and would be better suited for taking out gremlins.

As long as its charge was hard to use safely, took forever to charge up and effected only one enemy at a time, I don't see the item as coming off as being over powered, even if it had a 100% chance of converting the mecha knight or turret to your side. It would easily suffer the same flaws as something like gran faust- tiny damage output per time spent charging, but with a potentially dramatic effect on the few enemies that it hits. The only difference is that the reprog hammer would be more interesting and probably more useful.

A gun that uses triple shot as its projectile would also be a welcome sight.

Yes to cosmetics and no to special weapons.

The only weapons that are liked by the community from prizeboxes are reskins.

Rather than plain reskins why not have:

A Sudaruska Reskin with a Construct High UV already installed
A Valiance with a Gremlin Med UV already installed

These reskins would have the same power as a Sudaruska or Valiance with the same UVs thus the unboxer gets a nice prize and the community stays happy.

You mean this several month old thread that never got any love?

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/103036