So you're saying I could put in 500 Gel Drops and get a Voltedge? That just seems wrong. >_>

It would be better if you needed 5 star mats for 5 star equips, and not all the same mat. Like you can't use 500 of mat x, you need 100 of mat x, y, z, a, and b, all of which must be 5 star. This would give people reason to run other levels other than boss stratum too. of course, 100 of each 5 star mat can be ridiculous.

i see you are a loser, this guy is throwing out ideas and your asking what is wrong with you? for shame on this community

i apologize but your post was broad =/ still great ideas from the op, i think he edited it cause hes receiving feedback

We didn't start the shame war...

That "Didn't read" meme always makes me fall out of my chair every time i see it XD

@Aemicus Oh darn it, I wanted the spine. Can I tear out the ribs then? ...Slowly? ...With my bare, draconic claws?

Mats + CE to Random Equip: No, I'm definitely not for this, for various reasons, one of them being the game has enough gambling in it as is. Instead, allow for a lower CE cost in crafting if you use double (more or less? Discuss?) the original required amount of materials. For your 'favorite idea', it's certainly the one I'd think players would react most negatively to. And again, too much gambling.

Boss Healthbars: This has been suggested over and over and over; you weren't the first person to think of it. But, still, yes to healthbars.

Rewarding veterans: I don't think veterans need to be rewarded much more than perhaps access to special costumes that are no longer obtainable/only bought from other players (Groundbreaker, some Rose Regalia), but accessories could work as well. No, the main problem is that veteran players need to stop getting 'cheated'; new players now have access to the vendor-acquired height and eye mods, as well as free basic accessories on their Proto gear, while veteran players don't get anything but the ability to spend 50k to make individual changes to height and eyes... and, well, no guaranteed chance for the Proto adjustments.

Mist fountains: No. Just... no. I would be for harmless little secrets/background information on the plot besides randomly generated Scenario Rooms, but don't get me wrong, those are pretty cool too.

Lowered prices on elevators on weekends/events: Been there, done that. Power Surge events. Without a huge list of when these power surges will come out weeks before they actually happen, players with elevator passes may feel... cheated. A possible solution might be to generate, ehhh, 5 mist per level played with a pass in a Surge... Just a thought; I don't know if that'd be entirely positive or entirely negative.

Accessories/costumes for playing the 'arcade' Clockworks: No... I'd like more incentive to play the original Clockworks than a chance at getting an accessory, Lockboxes are bad enough. Instead, I'd like harder, more diverse danger rooms that don't just throw an obscene amount of monsters of similar 'species' at you at once (don't even get me started on arenas...); perhaps they might even cost more to enter and yield even more rewards. Speaking of which, extend danger rooms to more than just clockwork tunnels; I find myself constantly waiting for the gate to change to a tunnel above all other levels save arenas for the chance of getting a DR.

More feminine wear: ...No comment, besides there's more to a 'feminine' look than puffy hair and a skinny frame. Valkyrie set, look at that.

Vanaduke lag issues: That isn't lag, that's an FPS drop from your computer not being able to handle so many animations at once (or just Java, try running 64bit Java. Works much better than SK's 32 bit). Even so, there needs to be a 'Very Low' graphics setting that removes most/all 'mist' effects, like the Core's ambience and fog effects, the dust generated by Vanaduke's falling ceiling rafters, huge amounts of Gremlin Demo bombs, etc.

Achievement list: It's an okay idea, but I don't see the point in making it because it has so little use and so much effort required to make. Maybe it could be built into the game at a much later time, but right now I think we can all agree that the one thing SK needs right now is more content; fancy numbers and costumes can come later (unless it doesn't interfere with the development of the... you know, GAME part of the game).

@Flaming Resolve: Iron wasn't so much 'throwing out ideas' as opposed to pointing out an extremely exploitable flaw; if anyone's bringing shame to the forum it's you for being so quick to jump on criticism and flag it down as completely rejecting an idea altogether.