So we get a new prize box with neat looking stuff in it. It's shock and has a great description thread, but it leaves at least a few people feeling like they're out of luck when it comes to new content updates, even though we had one of those like a month ago and the devs are working their hardest.

Why not add a new prestige mission to the lineup to celebrate the new artwork? Nothing new to the game, playable once per day, containing some levels that players want to play and will really appreciate. Just as an act of good will.

As an example-

Prize box gate is designed for: "Surge towards victory!"

Prestige mission: A shocking discovery

Description: Levels in the clockworks construct themselves in strange ways, often incorporating parts of other worlds rewritten. As part of our initiative to explore and learn as much as possible about this strange phenomena we're inviting you, [name], to explore an unknown and unreadable location near the core. Tread with caution, as the only thing we've observed coming from below are strong electrical signals surging outwards.

Conditions: Unable to see level rotation, cannot see mini-map.

Level 1 (depth 23): Random rotation: 1x first level of ghosts in the machine, 4x shock decon zone
Level 2 (depth 24): Random rotation: 2x first level of ghosts in the machine, 3x shock decon zone
Level 3 (depth 25): Random rotation: 2x first level of ghosts in the machine, 2x shock decon zone, 1x treasure vault
Level 4 (depth 26): Random rotation: 2x first level of ghosts in the machine, 2x shock decon zone, 1x second level of GitM
Level 5 (depth 27): Random shock themed arena: 1x Slime, beast, construct, gremlin, undead
Level 6 (depth 28): Random shock themed arena: 1x Construct, 2x undead, 1x fiend, 1x GitM's treasure level

Mission rewards: 180 prestige + 1 spark of life

(Optional)Incredibly rare treasure box drops: Prize boxes instead of equipment drops. This would probably give out like 3 prize boxes overall. Not a big deal at all and certainly not going to jeopardize the sold prize box that's being hyped. Might even make people want it more.

This requires almost zero work on the part of developers.

Though it would be AWESOME if work were done on this kind of thing (e.g. add some shock bombies to the decon zones), all of these are levels that exist in the game and really it would just take sticking them together and putting it out there with the boxes. No more whining about how nothing but boxes comes out, good feelings all around, a new and interesting means of getting loot, levels that people like in general.

EDIT: THREAD HAS BEEN UPDATED

I updated this thread a bit, and have posted some new ideas for how this could play out here-

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/108062#comment-1013432