I don't know the total players in the game, but ever since the big variety of content in the game, it's hard to find someone doing the same mission, especially now with the divided IP's.

Okay so ever since today, you can only join a team at a party lobby, terminal or at the start of any floor beside the ones after the terminal (well you sort of get the message even if I make a mistake in that description). But in my opinion, the party joining system doesn't work well anymore with such divided content through 2 IP's. The chances of joining someone or getting someone to join you in a mission is very slim, unless you have guild mates and friends who would wanna help you. Probably if the game was played by around a 100k people at once, it wouldn't be as noticable, but this isn't the case so. I don't like soloing. The apeal of spiral knights for me was that I was always part of a great company, so for me this kind of sucks.

So my suggestion would be, since there's so much content divided by 2 IP's, how about letting players be able to join whenever/wherever... well except for "after the terminal". Yes it sucks wasting 10 energy, but it should be worth it to at least being able to join a team. Even for the crimson hammer expansion I think this should be a good idea, since not everyone owns the expansion.

Anyway so in short, would it be a good idea for them to adjust the team joining mechanics?

Edit: Oh and it'd be great if the game would suggest to search a party on the other IP if it wouldn't be able to find a party on your own. Please 3 rings do this because I play mostly at night