Spiral Knights - I have a suggestion about Promo boxes

I have a suggestion about Promo boxes

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Wed, 10/08/2014 - 04:35

Silvercom

Hello everyone, and yes I know this is not the right section. But I wanted your opinion on my idea before it is placed in the " suggestion sub forum".
I have already seen in other games intelligent promotion system :

We can pay for the boxes , but if you play X hours in 1 day you get 1 free box (example : 3h/day = 1 box/day)
This system has the advantage of combining F2P and P2P. Those who want to pay for rare items (1 %) and others get a few items and have a chance to get a rare item. (very little % but if you are lucky...)

@Dev :
Try to think about it, it would limit complaints about promotions.

@Forumers :
Give me your opinion on this idea.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 04:43

Ainogommon

Gimme a cookie

How about Alts?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 04:50

Holy-Nightmare

This is kind of unfair to

This is kind of unfair to those of us with.... you know.... A LIFE!

So either you can work all day (at school or if you're and older SK player a job) and then sacrifice your sleep for a box? No thanks

Also what would qualify as play, being logged in? (you can stand in haven with a bot that wiggles your mouse every few minutes so you don't get DCed for idling and get 8 boxes a day! Gettin' stuff in Mah sleep WHOOOO!)

A better idea would be to hand out boxes every 2k prestige (I'm willing to work with the number), this means you have to play to get something, even farming boxes on new accounts would mean you have to buy orbs for weapons and such to get past HOH missions.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 05:29

Avihr

Hmm, I've fought worse.

yo, i have a better suggestion bruh, REMOVE THEM.

But seriously, everyone will just get them alts on and get boxes 4 free.

If you want to see some boxes in action though, chek dis out.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 05:44

Fehzor

I like this idea, but it isn't in SEGA's best interest to hand out free boxes.

If anything, I think every 10,000 prestige after all badges have been earned could warrant a prize box. That way, farming prestige could actually make you prestigious... But beyond that, tie the excess boxes to days played and skill utilized to maintain the rarity of the boxes and ensure that alts alone aren't producing boxes.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 05:42

Holy-Nightmare

@ Fehzor

If it's going to be 10k it better be some freakin' good items, better yet just hand out a token you can use to buy any item you want from a special prestige shop (a popular discussion BTW prestige shops they is).

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 05:50

Fehzor

Yeah, but it's how the game makes its money and it's entirely unnecessary for you to receive boxes randomly at all.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 06:00

The-Worst-Knight

"@Dev : Try to think about

"@Dev :
Try to think about it, it would limit complaints about promotions."
I don't trust to you, there are no developer comments more than year.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 09:37

Silvercom

Thank you for your opinion.

Thank you for your opinion. Use Bot seems quite problematic.

What do you say to provide a single box when connecting for the first time ?
So one box per account bound to you. In the limit of 2 per IP address. (multiple account avoided)

And now what do you think ?

(@dev = @Three Rings and all Game masters)

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:33

Vohtarak-Forum

im vohtarak, call me by that name

how about it be based on crowns? some people get money from merchanting
how about a box at 10k

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:18

#10

Flowchart

They've done something like this before with boxes in the supply depot.
So you could play enough and grind cash to buy boxes... of course this gets harder as the price of energy increases.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:40

#11

Fangel

No thanks.

I'm all for the "multiple ways to get prize boxes" idea, but all through real-money transactions. Buy a prize box with energy, or directly, or from the supply depot! People who want boxes will buy boxes directly. People who want an excuse to buy energy will buy energy for the box. F2P players who want boxes can save up and spend the energy the people buying energy are putting onto the market. Basically, it's a net zero of energy being in the game, but promo items show up in mass and players across the board are liking it, plus that's three forms of revenue Three Rings is making from one promo!

Granted I'd love to have there be three different boxes with some prize overlaps... Like if Operation: TWACK and Operation: ZAP were on at the same time but one through the depot and one through direct boxes, and have the drakon reskin be in both boxes... That would have been a great approach.

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