Spiral Knights - Convert heat to crowns

Convert heat to crowns

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Wed, 01/02/2013 - 19:48

Sereos

Hi everyone,

As you all know is heat used to level up your equipment, but once your equipment reaches level 10, it won't get any heat anymore.
Sooner or later you will reach a point where all your equipment has reached level 10, and at this point heat will become useless to you till you might decide to craft some new equipment.

Here is my suggestion to change that:
If you finish a Clockwork level with a full set of equipment that can't level up anymore, your collected heat gets converted into a small amount of crowns.
Heat is collected from ember, which appear in small, medium and large pieces.
For example they could get converted like this: small ember = 1 crown | medium ember = 3 crowns | large ember = 5 crowns

If you don't like that idea, okay, but at least give a reason why you do so, please.

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 19:52

Zaffy-Laffy

Zaffy is Laffy

Nope.

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 20:05

Doom-Xx

The Dark Shadowlord wants to suck the life outta this

-1.
Cuz game would be too easy

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 20:05

Sereos

@ Zaffy

Why?

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 20:24

Sereos

@ Doom

How would that make the game too easy?

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 20:25

Doom-Xx

You realize CE costs

You realize CE costs crowns
So does everything in the AH
So we get gear faster and finish the game faster

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 20:34

Luguiru

Flashback to >6 months ago, wiggly visual transition thing.

Some Derp: Hoiya doiya, hey guys, how about heat to crowns because money everywhere floppy floopy doopy?

Luguiru: Heat is our version of experience for leveling up our equipment. The same equipment also has star ranks, so heat counts for two scales of levels because once you get to 3*+ the preceding item being upgraded needs a certain heat level. Try crafting a 4* helmet with a 3* that has no heat. A lot of people seem to think just because their equipment has full heat means they deserve something for their completion, but at all 5* H10 you are at the level cap and experience will no longer improve that same equipment. Nothing says anything against building different equipment but most players focus on a single set to horde as much resources (CE, etc.) as possible to line their own pockets.

Some Derp: But I want crowns because I did all these awfully hard floors that took all of ten minutes to do each and I deserve it because I want it and more crowns is good for me and this sentence is awkwardly long.

Luguiru: More crowns means more inflation. More inflation means prices are higher. Would you like >15kCr:100CE to be considered cheap? How about >10kCr for a single Wolver armor item? Just the helmet or torso, not both or with any kind of UV.

Some Derp: No, because...because you are stupid and smelly and know nothing about anything but I know everything because I said so.

And then other people walked in the room and did illegal things to their bottom. I went out for a few belches and no one complimented the exquisite sounds.

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 21:51

Sereos

@ Luguiru

That's a good point. I didn't look at it like that.
But I still think that there should be some use for heat once you reached the max level with the equipment you use.
It's just too easy to get fully leveled equipment. (except for the equipment that you can only craft in the Sanctum, because you have to beat a Shadow Lair for them)

Also, I got another random idea because of that:
How about they add "Heat Tanks". They get equipped like weapons but they only collect heat.
Once you filled those "Heat Tanks" you use them as currency to buy bound Accessories and/or Costumes.

Player could show how much time they invested into the game with such Accessories/Costumes.
Because they are bound you can't sell them and make money out of your "experience"
Three Rings could sell those tanks for some CE and make some money with them. (Not to forget that maybe that will increase the demand for weapon slot upgrades and heat amplifier)

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 22:09

Psychodestroyer

Instead of being a criticizing bucket, I'll just tell you to google search '[topic] Spiral Knights' and check out the related threads.

You'd be surprised how many times this has been discussed.

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 23:15

Zeddy

This is punishing people who are heating their equipment, discouraging people from crafting anything new as more profit would be gained from going with the same old, same old.

It would not be in OOO's best interest to mitigate the need for CE.

Thu, 01/03/2013 - 05:26

#10

Krakob

What Zeddy said.

I think there should be automatic heat sharing instead. Basically, if your gear is fully heated, your partay mates who aren't get the heat split between them. One should be able to opt out of this system, making one unable to give but also unable to recieve.

Anyway, reasons this shouldn't happen has already been stated. I like the current CE prices. They are low*. Let's keep it that way.

Thu, 01/03/2013 - 08:59

#11

Skyguarder

Then FSC daily players heated their gear already and do FSC everyday. They would get bonus crowns.

You know, I am one of those players, and I would be able to recieve 25 crowns extra every day. Now for every week. You earn 175 crowns per week of FSC. If you do twice a day, then 350 crowns. Now that's alot. Let's do a month. It would give about nearly 2k or so. That's alot. Let's say you get 2k a month. You could possibly get 12k in 6 months. In a year, you get 24k. Now that's enough for FSC players to kill the energy market

Thu, 01/03/2013 - 10:10

#12

Aureate

Processing Thoughts of You Always

Basically all this serves to do is make the rich people with their complete gear even richer than they already are.
The only way that heat pays is if someone else gives you a tip to donate your spare heat to them, and that's only done out of their own generosity. Giving out crowns instead of heat is entirely the wrong way of going about it, and will only result in increasing inflation even further. My vote is, therefore, still -1, as it has been in all the previous threads on the subject.

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