Will never happen. The self-interest is too strong. I'm getting tired of poison and freeze too, though. Good thing my new skelly suit resists both of them~ :3

At this point in time, I feel pet foods would lend the community more benefit that crafting into shards. Unless things have changed significantly since my time, shards don't have much use beyond low level recipes, and after that, they just take up space.

EDIT Reviewed recipes. But honestly, when do you ever find yourself running short of shards?

People are probably only seeing green and blue minerals. It happens sometimes so when it does all you can do is just pick one and then they probably deposit that in since they can't use it yet. Still You should save it just in case since it barely provides any extra money and it might be worth a lot more later if OOO does release a use for them.

I used to only pick up red and green crystals, because that is how you make a Beast Strata. Green and yellow get you slimes.

So... if you don't have a Drakon, hoard up red crystals and get some beasts going. If you don't have a Seraphynx, hoard up yellow crystals to get some jellies :D

Anyone hoarding blue/green now is going to be laughing all the way to the bank when the wild/cosmic food gets added.

I'm just going on what Zeddy said (or speculated). I don't think it's a case of completely nullifying the chances of getting the minerals used to create the stratum, but just nudging the numbers towards greater amounts of the other three colours. If I could remember where he said that (the above are not his words, FYI), then I'd post a link.

The type of stratum depends on what minerals you put INTO a gate, not what you pick up. It's just people use their unused Valestone and Moonstone for gates since they use the other minerals to level up pets. Check the wiki people.

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Gate_construction

Still, I do think that something needs to be done to balance the gates. I don't have a problem with it, but it still is a major flaw that should be corrected. I know GMs can change gates how they want with special minerals, but we shouldn't need that. The game should be made that we shouldn't even have this problem in the first place.

I'm fairly sure that the stratum theme does indeed make it less likely for the minerals which made it to appear. It isn't that great of an effect, but I'm fairly sure sufficient research was done to confirm its existence.

Also, how are you trading Sprite food?

Dun dun duuun

The type of stratum DOES NOT DETERMINE what minerals you get.

As I said, I was just going on what Zeddy said (and to be honest, he's one of a VERY few people I trust here).

And in my experience...and i've been running the arcade continueously LOOOONG before the sprite update while you were all looping KoA....

Fair enough if it's in your experience, not so much with that assumption that everyone does KoA full stop: I only did it just to get the CoA.

the minerals you want are in stratums made up of the minerals you want. So.....even by that rational you should be building gates NOT made of blue and green to up your chances of getting the other minerals.

Mechanically, that doesn't make any sense what so ever: on paper, put into practice, players would have a larger chance of getting, for example, fire stratums (stratii? strata?) if there was a heavy increase of the required minerals, which would then continue for a noticeable while, effectively making it a self-feeding loop, only broken by the "Thou shalt not have two Strata of the same Type" rule. Long story short: on paper, a less extreme version of the current blizzard.

Also, the "the minerals you want are in stratums made up of the minerals you want" argument I think is in contradiction to the first sentence.

Welcome to the graveyard, here you find Undead beasts, the me! The person who stalks all the posts in the game =D

Do I post too much? If I do please tell me!

(If I do then Cirnothebaka does also..... Just they've been at it for forever, and me a few days...)

Dude, I know what the Graveyard is. I was just ticked at how Clwnbaby, in effect, ragequit this argument and left me hanging on how to sell Sprite food. I won't bother asking anywhere else, as it seems a trivial matter; I have tried various things, to no avail.

And, in fact, you do not post enough *content* for your number of posts. Your posts are often shallow and uncontributory to the thread. I'm not awesome at that either, but that's part of the reason that I stay quiet.