Same here Ice. :P

But I smell a rat...

PHOTOSHOP?

Yeah. I think someone said they mess things up with names and stuff. Like the 'driver' in storm driver being their word for the driver of a car. I'm not sure which country it is, but it's either Korean or Chinese.

Erm, I don't really play on the Asian Server, but it's pretty much behind everything that happens here. Like SLs only released recently, and DHF started today.
Are you really sure the updated crystal bomb lines hit the Asian server weeks before the normal server? 0.o

I sure hope they like their hyper inflation with E-passes being bought with CE. They'll have CE at 20K per 100 in about two months, tops.

Hmm, interesting. :o

So, supposing this is all real and you're not pulling our collective leg with this... could you also take a screenshot of the trade window, maybe? With the Crown<->CE rates? I'd love to see OCH to be payable with CE, but elevator passes? Well, I have my doubts.

"Enclavean, when was this added into the game? Because if it was in the last day or two, I'd bet they just finished it very recently and implemented on the Asian server first because their "update day" came sooner and we'll get it later this week, if not today."

You think that if we now "Busted" OOO they will try to cover their actions with that premade excuse and will implement it here too? I think OOO will of course not even bother to comment on this (i still didnt saw any comment on asian servers hosted by another site, yet there is no asian servers in official SK site game) and sooner or later some GM will come here and sweep this topic under carpet.

Enclavean... very well, I stand corrected. Looks legit enough to me. XP Curious and curiouser. I don't see the rates staying up like that for that long, unless the featured auctions over there are way more expensive to bid on and buyout (Which are the easiest Crown sinks, development-wise)

Image: Asian Server SK Game has a pretty cool font to them.

I feel like going to Asian server now D:

...What does Top Up on the depot screen do?

I think they just dump random experiments just like lab rats on Asia server then see if they survive or not >__>

How do you even access this asian server? The game lets me pick between European and USA, but not Asia :(

I'm not sure which country it is, but it's either Korean or Chinese.
...Since it's called HK/TW server it's obviously Chinese, I don't think it's hard to differentiate Chinese and Korean.

Crown->CE conversion would stabilize
Just saying, the CE price in TW server is rediculously high...

I recommend HK server if you're deciding to switch... here's a screenie from TW server, pretty old... I'd say it's even higher that 13k now.
http://imgur.com/lAs2y

How do you even access this asian server? The game lets me pick between European and USA, but not Asia :(
It's an individual server run by Gamecyber, OOO/SEGA gave them permission to run the game, and the liscense is probably 5 years... which means it's not 'connected' or doesn't share anything with our US/EU SK, which means switching = starting from scratch. There're currently Simplified/Traditional Chinese (horrible translations) and English available.

Every non-Asian T3 player is now going to be literally begging the devs to implement this into the non-Asian servers. Truth to be told, every T3 Asian can easily get this... (FSC and KOA grinds)

I tried it but I can not interact with my NA characters though the asian servers. In other words, it is as though there are two different, nearly identical games both called Spiral Knights, but which do not interact with one another.

Whelp, there goes my idea to single-handedly balance the different CE markets while making uber profit at the same time.

Would people who have no idea what the situation is like in the Asian server refrain from spouting nonsensical [Vana-censored] as if they knew the economics behind everything? The elevator pass has been purchasable with CE since the launch of the Asian server, and there are many MANY full 5* players there, yet I don't see the CR->CE exchange spiraling out of control.

Think about *why* CE is so expensive now. Craft costs and elevator costs, right? (Granted, some CE is also bought just for player-to-player trade purposes, but that CE derives its value from the primary demand.) Well, with CE-buyable ele passes, any player with 2.4k CE will only need to worry about craft costs for a month. So you have a lot more cr entering the system, yes, but you also have a much-reduced expenditure of CE in the first place.

The problem I see with this, though, is that this would seem inevitably to reduce revenue. I wonder if/why it works on the Asia server; it does not seem to me like it would work great here. You'd have both less CE and fewer ele passes bought with $, surely.

Derprules?

*Monocelha cries pitfully*

It's fine, bro.
=]

that will bring back the guy who does Spiral Spy! :D

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Unless he knows that there's a difference between getting it to work on the Asian servers where they don't have to deal with Steam.

Excess mist energy is best spent via crafting.

If you have an epass, you'll likely use up extra CE crafting your gear and otherwise buying weapon slots et cetera to get rid of and not waste your mist energy.

What this would mean, is that the game would be a bit more f2p than it is already.... and it especially would be if there was an option to get a 1 day epass.