This gamee probably won't make it into 2016 let alone mid way through cause of the money that isn't coming in anymore, this game needs to revert back to CE being the main source of everything, need to craft an item? CE, need to delve into the clockworks? CE, there was a point in which CE once costed 10,000 crowns, and now it's back to 7,000 because this game just so happened to remove all usage of CE, CE being the main reason why this game was alive and why people didn't get bored because people had to wait for more CE or buy some and if u didn't have crowns, people usually bought CE which is why i bring up this suggestion, GO BACK TO CE, keep the crystals for weapons if u want but i mean seriously, REVERT and this game might make it beyond 2017.
REVERSE EVERYTHING
If this happened I would go back to TF2....
7k is not bad having in mind that at one point CE was around 4-5k crowns, the only thing that I would agree that kind of ruined things a bit is when mist was removed, and then the game lost it's casual aspect, you were given 10 free levels per day and if you wanted to play more you had to use CE, wich would have easily regulated some events that seem to be increasing more and more in terms of grindyness, because if you would want to idk, seek black kats over and over again you would have to spend CE to try get more pages a day , or going into the apocrea mission, over and over again to get materials and sigils would have players spending CE to have better access at the event related items, and so OOO would get money with events, but the way that events work now barely get them any money at all, and some of them are just bad overall, pherhaps for this same reason?
but then there was also the problems that the old system had, like alt abuse or the fact that everyone just HAD to do the FSC to earn money because you had to maximize your profits if you were paying 10 energy for each elevator you took, leading the players to try and exploit arenas and never ever touching the rest of clockworks if possible. They could have solved this by idk, fixing the clockworks, but well the whole forge update and those big changes to the system were probably the lazy way to solve the problems, but its easy to judge from a players view, maybe arcade redux would fix the problems with the new system? idk anymore...
the SOL system is quite cool also, I HATED the way that reviving with CE would get insanely ridiculous after the 3rd revive, not that I would die that often, but it was just not worth it in almost every case except when in shadow lairs, maybe bringing back health revives, removing the free rev, and keeping the SOL system would be what i'd like the most.
for the levels in the clockworks all you would have to do is cut it in half to 5 for every level and that doesn't even count the levels with no fights cause you don't pay for those and the crystals can stay for all i care and i know the rev cost was expensive but it should be back to where it would cost about 7 each time. and i consider mist energy as the free 100 that you get a day and the stuff you buy with crowns and actual money to be CE. but this whole crafting thing is a piece of crap i: like why do i have to pay 3500+ PER ORB in the bazaar to upgrade from 3* to 4* i mean that's just ridiculous, and i feel like i forgot some things but oh well, i'll remember them later and btw player usage has hit an all time low and since when has faith ever saved something?
Reverse EVERYTHING? Build a time machine and go back to a period in time before you were born.
I can't believe that threads like these are still being made. Have some faith in this game (talk about people who absolutely gave up their hopes so quickly). CE? I'm not sure if you're talking about mist energy or crystal energy (now known as just energy). I'm not convinced that this game should go back into running mist energy. Nick specifically mentioned that he wanted to give players more freedom going into the clockworks. Also, you aren't considering the balance in Spiral Knights. If you are just wanting to revert back to mist energy for the sakes of putting it back, then consider the game completion to take two years to finish.
TL;DR: Not convinced or in for this idea. Lots of balances would need to be considered (like fire crystals, etc.).