Spiral Knights - Event Idea: BLAST NETWORK--KROGMO RETURNS! [Low/moderate dev time; more stuff to do IG; Guild activity; $ Prize Box]

Event Idea: BLAST NETWORK--KROGMO RETURNS! [Low/moderate dev time; more stuff to do IG; Guild activity; $ Prize Box]

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Tue, 05/19/2015 - 12:25

Cheshireccat

KROGMO'S BLAST NETWORK FREE-FOR-ALL! Wherein King Krogmo decides to search for the gladiators on Cradle with the shortest fuse!
An event idea using EXISTING GAME COMPONENTS in a new way, with some light development work to make it into a full two-week event! The event is repeatable and could appear several times each year!

I remember when Blast Network came out. It was the COOLEST.
1.EVERYONE could jump in and play no matter their gear
2.The bombheads were REALLY awesome--everyone wanted one!
3.Knights earned Krogmo coins for recipes
4.People love PvP
5.It was simple, straightforward fun, just like SK itself

You've already got BN in the game. You've already got bombheads. Add a couple things and you can turn this into a full two-week event:

1. Costume Reskins:

C'mon, this is a no-brainer. Add another 5-6 Bombhead reskins to the Krogmo bribe prize table.

Light dev: Add some basic bombheads in Divine, Shadow, Lovely, etc.

Moderate dev: Add two or three special bombheads, like Frenzy (with dark effects), Dazed (with a built-in Dazed Halo), Ancient (with the moss), Splash (with shadow round shades to be summer-y), etc.

$$ Money Dev: $$ Maybe make this a prize box?

Common. You could have bombhead reskins in modern colors (Sapphire, Dazed, Hallow, etc).

Uncommon. Demo suit reskins to match (making them less common will make buyers happy--more players will want the

heads than the suits)

Rare. Nitronome reskin that reuses an existing bombhead model (Plasma? Prime?)

1%. Some kind of aura. Maybe reuse the Dazed model but with little bombs instead of stars?

1%. Bomb Drakon Reskin. Use the Ruby model up to lvl 90. Final form: Concussive Firebolt uses Starry model, Meteoric

Firebolt uses Volcanic model.

Extra value. Include one of THE 34 BANDO RESKINS as an additional item. People like getting two items in a box. They're

twice as likely to get something they want and they'll buy more. :)

2. Free Bribes:

NO dev: Every game has the bribe meter filled for free. Knights will play just for the extra 1-3 Krogmo coins--but most people will want the bombheads too!

3. Temporarily increase the bombhead drop rate:

NO dev: The estimates in my experience are around 1:30 for a bombhead and 1:80 for a rare bombhead. That won't do for an event--people will get WAYYY too frustrated. Drop that down to 1:15 or maybe 1:20, max. At 4 minutes a game you don't want people playing 40 games and not getting a bomb head--they'll complain. A lot.

4. Bring Back the Super Brawl Crown!

This is only Light Dev, but is THE MOST IMPORTANT & BIGGEST DRAW FOR THE EVENT:

You KNOW that people will go nuts for the crown. :D

* You already have the code for the Super Brawl Crown.

* You already have the code for Krogmo BN winners getting tokens.

* You already have the code for bribes getting extra tokens.

* You already have the code for token purchases and a NPC to do it.

* You already have the code for expiring costume helms (Hallow).

Create a separate GvG prize table. Don't give out any Krogmo coins or bombheads. Instead, create a Super Brawl Token.

Go to Sullivan. Trade in 30 Super Brawl Tokens to get a crown. 30 is a high but not impossible number. It means your guild wins

30 games (~2 hours of winning, 4 hours at 50% wins) or 10 games with bribes (~40 minutes of winning, 90 minutes at 50%

wins).

Expire all Crowns on a date 2 months after the event ends. At 30 tokens, these crowns are hard to earn. They should be hard

to earn. It may take the full two weeks to earn and only if you're skilled. Therefore you want to allow plenty of time to show off,

but you don't want them sitting in inventory forever. Make players earn the crown again next time if they want to continue their

bragging rights. Expire the crowns like the Hallow masks.

This is something that will encourage a guild to cooperate and play.

Making this the GvG prize means that you can also do #2 and #3

MOST IMPORTANTLY: THIS IS A TWO STEP CHANGE.

Step 1. Separate the BN GvG prize table from BN solo/LD.

Step 2. Add the crown to Sullivan.

That's practically no effort at all!

Agree with other posters. My original idea is probably too complicated. See simplifications above.

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5. OPTIONAL: New use for Krogmo Coins: Krogmo Furniture Statue!

Moderate dev project: We all know someone who LDs all the time and has 3,000 Krogmo Coins. Let's give them (and the people playing the event) something other than costumes. After the event ends they will have a new INFINITE KROGMO COIN SINK. They can't complain that the coins are "useless" when they can always buy more furniture.

5a.NO DEV: Trade in Krogmo coins to get an Enamorock.

5b.Low dev: Use the Enamorock mat in Armero's alchemy machine to make a bomb statue. Use an existing model. It could

be a spinning Heavy Deconstructor sitting on the ground or a bomb pedestal statue (Take a bombhead. Keep the

sparking wick for a cool effect. Put it on a pedestal.)

5c.Low Dev: Use four statues to make a Krogmo box or the guardian shield or the backpack flag from LD (in green or pink).

5d. OPTIONAL Use four Krogmo Boxes to make... a Krogmo Boss Statue!!

The Krogmo Boss Statue would probably have to be a completely new model. That's moderate dev time. Maybe you can come up with something PvP-related that is better/easier than Krogmo?

A Krogmo Coin sink via furniture is a really good thing; it adds new furniture to the GH and gives LD'ers a new use for their tokens.

Possibly pair this idea with this idea and make the first level Bomb statue cost no Cr to craft? :D "Free" is worth considering; it costs Cr to play PvP & Krogmo Coins are harder to earn than Almirian Seals and Jelly Gems.

6. OPTIONAL: Fix Mad Bomber, since Chaos made Mad Bomber a joke. :(

This would be a perfect opportunity for Morlin to fix some of the weaknesses in the Mad Bomber suit.

Maybe Morlin figures out how to remove the fire AND shock flaws in the equipment? Maybe it gets half a bar of Shadow or Pierce defense? Maybe it becomes CTR High/Damage High?

SK would benefit greatly from adding more content-type events to the rotation. Please consider this idea. It is assuredly less work than some of your other planned content updates, and only a little more work than a costume-type event. Thank you!
--Cheshireccat

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 18:03

Blandaxt

love your..

I love your suggestions. Every single one of them feels like you really put some thought into how it would be easy or less frustrating for them to inplement. I feel the only one that devs might not agree with is the super brawl crown just cause it was only a beta thing. There not big on bringing old things back from the past (ex: the tortodrones took forever to come and they only came out as an event and will the jelly green giant ever be unsealed?). I would be estatic to have that crown back though. It would really highlihht the guild trying their best or has the most capabilities. Although, i would change it so that all the guild members who is part of that winning guild would be able to wear it for that week So it can be fair for all the members who participated. Well again, great ideas, keep it up.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 17:12

Cheshireccat

@Blandaxt

Thanks!
I feel like the crown is the most important part of the event. It's bling. It's bragging rights. People will want to win so they can hang around in Haven and show off something that declares, "I am a badass. I win things." or "My guild is awesome. We win things."
THAT is something that will get knights to play BN for two weeks.
Maybe there's a better way to do it, or to decide who wins the crown. Maybe one day is too short (a week is definitely too long--you want people to keep playing BN to keep their crown up). I'm sure OOO would know better than I.

But you're right--I DO think a lot about how OOO could implement my ideas. I used to work for a small software developer. I know how hard it is to fulfill customer feature requests and make new content. Doing the most with the least is a reality you live with.
It's one of the reasons I defend OOO so vocally when people venomously armchair quarterback the direction of the game. :)

And if OOO thinks this idea has merit maybe they'll implement it in some form.
I know for certain that if they do, it'll be... a blast. :D rimshot

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 08:13

Ankokuflare

I love any idea the will boost BN's popularity. It'll be nice to see more than one game happened more often than not.

Sat, 05/23/2015 - 11:51

Moonlight-Traveler

On the topic of blast network costumes...

I think it would be cool to also have a variety of bombhead-themed demo suit costumes to go with them. All it needs is the retexturing process.

Sat, 05/23/2015 - 12:03

Jungle-Sword

nice idea!

let's make PvP more interesting!! Really great Idea!
Quick question: why not for LD, I mean I have the feeling LD and BN will have the places swapped, BN will be the new hype and LD will be the meh…useless…
I agree with magmarce, we need bomb suits :D
And watch out not to give Mad bomber a HUGE buff cuz it shouldn't be better than the other demo suits (merc, volc….)

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 11:36

Cheshireccat

Bump--because I still REALLY want this! :P

I've been speed farming bombheads with friends and I've got a bunch of the fun ones--but I really wish I could just play BN and win the rest.
...I might also just really really really want more bombheads. :P

@OOO
Looking back at my idea, I think I agree with some of the responses. I think #5 and #6 are optional. They'd be awesome, but they are a bit less important than the rest.
Sadly, I see Blandaxt's point. #4 is a pretty big dev deal, and you probably don't want to bring back something from the past.
Might there be some other, easier way to integrate the crown costume?
* You already have the code for expiring costume helms.
* You already have the code for crafting/token trading for costumes.
Why not integrate those two? (Idea added into OP).

@Jungle-Sword
Good idea. Reskins of Demo Suits to match the Bombheads would be pretty easy.
Granted, I like pairing my bombheads with other costume models but it would be a neat/new idea!

Oh! Maybe make this a prize box?
(Idea added into OP).

Fri, 12/11/2015 - 11:46

Fehzor

This is exactly the sort of thing they need to do to make the game not feel like something terrible is happening behind the scenes, even though there probably is something terrible happening behind the scenes. There are a few things I could nit pick you on, like the brawl crown-- we all have our own idea of how that should work.. I like the idea of it being permanent and marked with the date when it was won... So like if your guild wins the event everyone in the guild (that participated?) gets an untradeable brawl crown with the event number on it. Players hate temporary things. But that's just me and there are obviously other ways that it would work.

I really, really hope they implement something like this. I suggested something like it a while ago, that they just make easy and fun events that everyone can partake in. This fits the bill perfectly. Hits the nail on the head.

Fri, 12/11/2015 - 17:19

Zincamania-Forum

This needs to happen

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 14:05

Dracora-Speaking

I need me some bombhead masks. I also love the idea of moar furniture.

If this takes off, I'd love to outline a pvp mode where we engage combat with Krogmo himself, the team who does the most damage wins. He is of course amused by this "defeat" and hosts it for various reasons.

On a side note, what would a bandolier made from shrunken bombhead masks imply...?

Fri, 03/18/2016 - 12:43

#10

Cheshireccat

Bump ⇧ & To OOO note

Because it is an idea whose time has come. :D
Viva la Krogmo!

To OOO: If you skip #3 Super Brawl Crown idea, this event could probably be implemented in days. :)

Sat, 03/19/2016 - 02:38

#11

Kingtinkinzar

Hail, King Tinkinzar!

oh my chess this is amazing, hats off to you ma good sir i like all of these ideas as many may have noticed im a gh design fanatic and a collector and i like bombheads but theyre so hard to get :ccc and well about super brawl i had a pretty good idea too why dont you make a whole new kind of pvp a deatmatch a big gaint circular "cage" with 4-8 entrances for participants too enter 4-8 people go in 1 goes out maybe something in the lines of 2-3 lives bombing eachother, stabbing, and pew pew their asses off :3 winner takes brawl coins :D (sort of a ffa ld)

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Event Idea: BLAST NETWORK--KROGMO RETURNS! [Low/moderate dev time; more stuff to do IG; Guild activity; $ Prize Box]