Spiral Knights - FREE PIE! Pure CRIMSONITE Gate!

FREE PIE! Pure CRIMSONITE Gate!

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Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:17

Chronus

*Rejuvenated on December 15, 2010 for further use*

Everybody! Another Roby gate has appeared! I believe it is a Ruby King, or Queen, not sure exactly what it is and so I will simply call it a crown (also for the sake of newbies). We should start another red-for-red campaign. For those of you who do not know what that is, we try and throw only Crimsonite (red mineral) into a given gate, this time being the purple chess piece one with a red background (currently the newest at the far right).

Tell everyone you know! Your friends! Your guildies! Everyone!

Zone Announcement:
/z Please place only Crimsonite (red) into the red/purple crown gate! We are attempting to construct a pure Crimsonite gate for the benefit of all players. Thank you for your cooperation.

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[ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ]

PLEASE only place CRIMSONITE (red mineral) into the
gate with the purple king/queen/red background logo! You
may place your other minerals elsewhere, but please
place ONLY CRIMSONITE into this purple/red icon gate!

[ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ] ~ [ ! ]

Old Post:

We have just started working on a Majority Crimsonite Gate! We are building it at the (currently far right) gate with the purple-pawn/red background logo. Contributions would be greatly appreciated by the whole of SK! Please try not to place any other types of minerals into this gate, if you wouldn't mind doing so. Thank you.

In case you are wondering why we are doing this... it is that a majority red gate will result in something that is not Clockwork Tunnels! In case you are wondering... that is good. Also, it will help spawn Arena Levels, which are quite rare nowadays, it seems.

Remember... red for red!

Edit: Due to popular demand, players who cooperate will receive a free slice of cherry pie with each contribution of 100 Crimsonite to the Blood Pawn Gate.

Edit 2: Sponsored by d0gr0ck:
Those who do not like cherry pie may have a choice of cherry cheesecake. If you do not like either of these, then you can have a cookie.

Edit 3: I have been yelling this with the /z command across towns to promote our cause:

Please place only Crimsonite (red) into the red/purple pawn gate! We are attempting to construct a pure Crimsonite gate for the benefit of all players. Thank you for your cooperation.

Please do the same if you have the time to spare, it may help direct newbies in the right direction.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:22

cyclohexane

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RED FOR RED!

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:24

kojiden

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PONY FOR PONY!

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:27

Kharnor

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:32

Shoebox

Where, oh where, did Episode 3 go?

FOOD FOR THE GABE NEWELL GOD!

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:32

Rose

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hi im 12 and what is this

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:39

Chronus

Haha you guys...

... buahah Rose. It's called cooperation. If you do what we say, you get pie.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:44

kojiden

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If you don't do what we say,

If you don't do what we say, you still get pie, but it's instead dingleberry pie.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:47

Cactuscat

Can I pretend to put in red,

Can I pretend to put in red, but secretly fill it with green? :)

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:56

Chronus

Yes, but it will no longer be a secret...

@Cactuscat222: Yes, but it will no longer be a secret; therefore no, you may not. If you remain bent on committing such a dishonour, you will receive broccoli pie instead. :D

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:59

#10

Rose

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Down with Clockwork Tunnels!

Down with Clockwork Tunnels! RED!

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 22:32

#11

Pupu

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FUNNY JOKES

ARENAS FOR EVERYONE!

Also, set a time and date, and have everyone drop their reds and a few dusk drops at the same time, so the unwanted inferior non-red minerals stay at the top, and we can enjoy the delicious crimson bottom.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 22:37

#12

kojiden

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That's a good idea. I'll save

That's a good idea. I'll save all my reds until we have a red deposit party.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 22:46

#13

Sadiekate

But we did this before. It

But we did this before. It loses its charm after the 6th arena or so. It's like eating 6 cherry pies by yourself after dinner.

Now if you could make a parfait with an arena layer, and a graveyard layer, and some other non-clockwork layers, that would be super nummy. And some lichens too, just so I can be a party pooper.

We don't know how to do that yet, do we? Aaaaarg.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 22:49

#14

Pupu

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@skaf

>We don't know how to do that yet, do we? Aaaaarg.
Probably you have to make many deposits with dusk drops
For example, 500 reds and 6 dusk drops creates 1 (or more) red layer at the bottom, 500 blue and 5 dusk creates 1 blue layer at bottom-1, then 500 yellow and 4 dusks, etc

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 23:01

#15

Chronus

And this is wrong... why?

"It's like eating 6 cherry pies by yourself after dinner."
And this is wrong... why?

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 23:42

#16

kojiden

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Because then you get fat and

Because then you get fat and have to join weight watchers.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 23:45

#17

BehindCurtai

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... because you might be at

... because you might be at risk for diabetes?
Because you know that high carbohydrate intake ruins your sense of well-being for several hours afterwards?
Because you know that eating more than a threshold level makes it that much harder/slower for your body to digest?

Because I've learned all of these things in Turkey Days of years past? :-) (Well, risk for diabetes comes from having both a mother and a sister with it, so I'm at least a 50% chance just from basic genetics, more if my Dad was undiagnosed instead of a carrier.)

Now back to your regularly scheduled topic on single-color gate construction.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 00:01

#18

Rose

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"Now back to your regularly scheduled topic" not yet

Hello, I'd like to talk to you about...

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 00:08

#19

Chronus

... more pie for me!

All I've taken from my warnings so far: more pie for me! YEAH! Diabetes here I come!

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 00:22

#20

cyclohexane

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I'd rather get fat than have

I'd rather get fat than have to do another clockwork tunnel, srsly.

EDIT: RED FOR RED RED FOR RED RED FOR RED

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 00:26

#21

Rose

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Knights revolt! Down with

Knights revolt! Down with Clockwork Tunnels!

red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red for red

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 01:04

#22

Chronus

This needs to be bumped.

This needs to be bumped. It's too bad I would feel guilty about doing something like that...

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 07:10

#23

Evolution

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count me in :P

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 09:20

#24

Pauling

One color is old hat. Mix it up a bit!

Pure red has been done, and all arenas + difficulty rebalancing = doom!

We should start working on two-color combinations; I know that some people are trying to make this gate a Blue + yellow combination.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 09:34

#25

Evolution

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Red + green? The most right

Red + green? The most right one seems to have a lot of both already so far

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 09:35

#26

Evolution

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Red + green? The most right

double post due to lag D: ignore this one

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 09:44

#27

cyclohexane

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Pauling- if you're referring

Pauling- if you're referring to Nooblar's thread the blue/yellow combination is meant for the gate that rotates in when green skull rotates out thus giving us ample time to collect blue/yellow before we need to put it in a gate. Also red has been done before but as you noted prior to the rebalancing. By rallying for a red gate again we can A. see if an all red gate creates the same levels both times (maybe they added things that aren't arenas), and B. give the devs valuable feedback on how arenas work with the rebalancing. Plus I figure this is the easiest gate to make all red... as it has a red background :D

Also REDFORREDREDFORREDREDFORRED

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 10:41

#28

Burninat0r

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Stuck in 114 red or

Stuck in 114 red or so.

DISLIKE WHOEVER IS PUTTING GREEN IN IT, THAT IS ALL

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 11:09

#29

Chronus

Yeah, it's more green than red right now I think.

Yeah, it's more green than red right now I think. I've been seeing people, who were also politely asked only to place red, throw rainbows in there (which is mostly green, as expected). Broccoli pie of them.

As for the blue/yellow gate... I too thought that was supposed to be later on, so we'd all have lots of time to collect hundreds of blue/yellow each. I'm almost at 100 of each mineral, after which I will be collecting solely Blue/Yellow (unless there's no satisfactory crystal to pick up compared other colours, of course).

Much thanks for the cooperation so far. Did I mention that whoever is willing to sit by the gate for prolonged periods of time and spam to only place red in the blood pawn gate will have a chance at winning a years supply of cherry pie.

Edit: I'm thinking... maybe we should put some purple/yellow/blue into the blood pawn gate just so that it evens out with green? Right now green is far above those 3, with red definitely in the lead. But I'm wondering, since the bars only show the distribution, if we should balance out the 4 we don't want so that red will seem in the definite lead. This might help to direct newbies, or just other players who don't know about our plan, into putting red into this gate be default. Perhaps because they see it has a red icon, and all the red, they might think "Oooh red, I will put my red in here!". Is it a waste or do you guys think it might help (and look better)?

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 11:09

#30

Dogrock

No can do, I don't like

No can do, I don't like cherry pie. I'm more of a cheesecake person myself.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 11:12

#31

Chronus

But cherry cheesecake, mmm...

I enjoy Cheesecake as well. I also love pie, especially cherry pie. But cherry cheesecake, mmm...

By the way, check my original post again.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 11:16

#32

Pauling

Color theory

According to Boswick, the gate colors/symbols serve no specific meaning, beyond to help visually distinguish between two gates. So the gate color (red background) does not have any bearing on whether the gate will favor red minerals.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:17

#33

Chronus

No haha, that's not what we meant.

@pauling: No haha, that's not what we meant. We mean that it's red appearance is favorable as to signify it's (expected) contents. So that players, perhaps newbies upon seeing red, as well as other players unaware of our cause, might see the high amount of Crimsonite, as well as the red logo, and decide to "go with the flow".

Aside from that, have some cherry pie. -gives a slice-

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:19

#34

Saphykun

No Crimsonite on me

What if I don't put anything in? No pie for me?

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:28

#35

not_shiro

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I wonder what nets us the

I wonder what nets us the other Scarlet Fortress levels and Vanaduke. Perhaps some kind of red/yellow or red/purple?

Either way, RED FOR THE RED GOD, SNIPES FOR THE SNIPE THRONE

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 14:54

#36

Chronus

No, you get nothing pie.

@Saphykun: No, you get nothing pie. I think that's logical enough.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 15:51

#37

cyclohexane

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Pauling- Yeah I didn't mean

Pauling- Yeah I didn't mean red background will help make red gate via game mechanic, I meant red background might help make red gate via human psychology.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 17:22

#38

Chronus

Great job so far!

Yeah... so ... this definitely is not meant to be a bump, but the gate seems to be doing pretty good now. It looks like it's down to only 1/4 Vale, basically a sliver of the others (probably because they have to show), and the rest is a huge bar of red. Great job so far!

Edit: AHHH! Who keeps putting all this Valestone rubbish in our Crimsonite gate?! Almost 80 Crimsonites only did this much. Tell every Spiral Knight you see of our cause!

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 19:16

#39

not_shiro

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There is seriously way too

There is seriously way too much Valestone in circulation. I somehow managed to end up with 50 of the stuff when I just picked up whatever was biggest for a while.

As a result, I'm not picking up a single piece of Valestone for the foreseeable future.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 21:32

#40

Chronus

Yes, far too much Valestone. Speaking of Valestone...

Yes, far too much Valestone. Speaking of Valestone... I seriously think someone is trying to sabotage our mission. Is it just me or is the Valestone much higher than before? There's now 7 Crimsonite cells (same as a while ago), 3 Valestone cells, and 1 of each of the rest... I wonder if it's newbies thinking it's best to have the bars balanced or something?

Promotional zone chat: Please place only Crimsonite (red) into the red/purple pawn gate! We are attempting to construct a pure Crimsonite gate for the benefit of all players. Thank you for your cooperation.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 20:12

#41

Rose

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I am an American. I demand pie. And freedom.

Who is this mineral terrorist and why are they trying to take away our freedoms?

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 20:37

#42

Shoebox

Wikileaks is dumping the green minerals!

Time to nuke the internet.

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 20:38

#43

not_shiro

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Valestone is secretly

Valestone is secretly kryptonite!

No wonder there's so much of it! Every two-bit Superman villain's dumping their stock on Cradle!

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 21:37

#44

Chronus

...

Oh... the cruelty... so... cold..... agh.......

Edit: Well, in the past hour it's done much better. By inspection, I'd say the curse'd Valestone has gone down a good 30%. Keep it up!

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 23:02

#45

Pupu

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Comic

>mineral terrorist
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/images/4/41/Mineral_terrorist.png

Wed, 12/01/2010 - 05:22

#46

Bolgron

Green.

Heh...

That person must be a REAL jerk...

Wed, 12/01/2010 - 05:29

#47

Evolution

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or a person who doesn't read

or a person who doesn't read the forums.. which includes most people who play the closed beta I think? (atleast that I hope, else we don't have a lot of players on the beta :P )

Wed, 12/01/2010 - 06:23

#48

kojiden

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I can't say for other people,

I can't say for other people, but a lot of people I see in Emberlight I've seen on these forums too.

Wed, 12/01/2010 - 09:18

#49

Saphykun

This is just a hunch, but

This is just a hunch, but maybe the culprits can be found in Haven. I'll be returning to Haven (I need to renew my TP to Moorcroft and do other Wiki stuff) and I'll spread the word there.

Wed, 12/01/2010 - 09:48

#50

Chronus

I'm not blaming the newbies/people who don't read the forums...

@Pupu's Comic Strip: Haha nice. How true it is... curse'd Valestone.

I'm not blaming the newbies/people who don't read the forums, it's jut a pity they can't be fully aware. I've been shouting that phrase with the /z command every time I log on until people yell at me to stop spamming (Fire). I do this so that those stated can at least be somewhat aware of our effort. I think, and hope, the fact that it's a red logo and a so-far mostly red gate, people might get the hint.

A good way to spread the effort is through guild chat, since it's an easy and direct way to communicate to multiple people at once; much like the /z command. Also, I would encourage people to explain our effort to anybody they might suspect is not aware of it, such as random passersby for example, in a grammatically correct and authoritative manner. This seems to work for me.

... buahah.

An example of grammatically correct and authoritative phrase, for those who are not familiar with utilizing such tactics: "/z Please place only Crimsonite (red) into the red/purple pawn gate! We are attempting to construct a pure Crimsonite gate for the benefit of all players. Thank you for your cooperation.". Tell every newbie you see! Tell every guild mate, every friend! Tell your mother! Tell Horton! What the heck, tell the Snipes!

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