You cannot buy any other token in this game. You must play the game in order to obtain said token. If you really want tokens get some friends together and play blast network.

You cannot get krogmo coins if you go idle in Lockdown. I think after so many minutes of idleness it either kicks your or voids your ability to get rewards, shown by the red name and "X" next to it on the rewards screen. Not sure if you just have to move to get the rewards or not.

You may not like PvP, so just play it for fun and try out some tactics. You're having as much fun being AFK anyways (AKA, not having fun), so you might as well spread panic among the enemy team by hitting them with recon signals and walking away. Maybe even capture a point or two. No need to go full srs mode in a minigame you don't really like anyways.

Having a pay to win (in this case) tactic of getting recipes when it's based around devotion to the game and playing one of two minigames is bad design. If you don't like lockdown, play blast network. If you don't like either, suggest a new, fun PvP game that could take place in the coliseum so you can earn krogmo coins that way.

OOO mentioned a new PvP mode called "Challenge Mode" two years ago in their to-do list. You might like that.

Those tokens expire after a set time. All items bought via those items are entirely cosmetic and have no effect on gameplay. You also only buy the end item once, and if you want another buy it again.
With recipes, you need to play the game to get them, be it clockworks or PvP. Yes, lockdown is rather... Special. Hence, I say play blast network with your friends, or with guildmates. You'll earn krogmo coins that way and not that many players play it, plus the only "unfair" factor in that game is internet connection, whereas connection is one of the many unfair things in lockdown.

I would love more PvP games to make the krogmo grind a bit more interesting. I am against krogmo recipes being purchasable, especially since that would not only make the recipes on a Pay to Obtain level (which no other recipe is on, mind you. Auction house is reselling, not the source. You do have to pay crowns to buy the recipes, but you have to play the game to get to the point where you can get that recipe, be it Basil or the right Hall of Heroes), but also it would make the Winterfest prizes unbalanced, at least if the tokens cost anything less than 1k-2k crowns.

You can't get a crest of almire without grinding through vanaduke for tokens and then grinding basil for the recipe (or buying either one off of someone else for obnoxious prices, but they obtained it through those means), so why should you be able to get a voltedge without grinding through PvP games for tokens then paying up to Sullivan?

The system in place is fine. Lockdown itself is its own problem.

The main issue with Spiral Knights PvP in my own opinion is the server lag. Why? If you have a higher connection then you have faster reaction times. With faster reaction times, you can counter-attack and talk to the server faster, thus letting you hit as you see it.
The amount of times I've been strikering away from someone only to have them swipe at me from now 6 tiles away and kill me is rather infuriating, but I understand it's beyond my control as of now.

Bottom line is that skill will triumph over money when their skill isn't also high as well. A tier 1 player in lockdown with end-game amazing gear would be demolished by even a laggy cobalt knight who knew how to play the game.

My position is that you play PvP for your own enjoyment, and find out what's fun in the game. I hate the Lockdowm meta as my brain calculates everything and when I have to take into effect all the variables of a striker (i.e., my lag, their lag, auto-target, positioning, speed, dodge, where I actually am and where I can be hit from, shield bar, teammates, enemy teammates, map control...) it just gets to be too much for my brain. Recon is mind games and super fun to me. Guardian with a team working together is also amazing...
Difference between Spiral Knights and TF2 is pretty giant, but one that stands out to me is that Spiral Knights in Lockdown are really weak by default, and there's no real way to counter it effectively. We're all equal amount of sponge too (guardian has as much defense as striker by default), so it makes the game entirely about dealing damage because you can't really prevent damage. Move over to TF2 where the Heavy class can take multiple rockets to the chest and still be firing whereas many other classes can barely survive one rocket and you see the balance trade off.

TL;DR - stawp comparing TF2 and Spiral Knights. One of the games is a minigame and the other is the full game. Server Connection > money spent. Tokens still need to be earned, not bought.

Playing LD takes time. Grinding for money so you can buy what you need also takes time. I'm not seeing the issue. If you hate LD then it's the perfect solution. In fact, it might end up being cheaper to buy it because considering the time it takes to heat, get orbs, and whatnot because you spend that time doing PvE instead of PvP (which you hate). Time is money.

Lockdown is its own problem. Lockdown is terribly unbalanced with certain pay to win abilities (however, again, skill will trump that any day), and we've thrown ideas around time and time again in this subforum. Buying tokens doesn't make lockdown better, and it's the same principal of time = recipes anyways.

If you want coins, buy krogmo coin boosters and play blast network. Your grind will be over quickly.

And guardians have the exact same defense value of a striker. Shields modify health, but a guardian with no health boosts will have less health than a striker with multiple health boosts. I say "same amount of sponge" because defense values are all at 100 by default in tier 3, where strikers should have less with guardians having more. Because you know, balance.

Your enjoyment of lockdown comes from you playing lockdown. If you're saying "omg i have to grind this AGAIN so i can get a stupid recipe to use", then don't play that minigame. We have two of them with the same rewards anyways.
Sounds like you're not playing Lockdown for fun, and since you're not looking for fun you won't have it. That really applies anywhere, if you don't seek out what you find fun you'll never really find the fun. Sure, it might not entirely be fun, but maybe you shouldn't be running striker and mimicking the other ones with max damage and ASI with +12 health plus perfect connection because, you know, you don't have that stuff, so it would be foolish to act like you do. I have more fun protecting teammates and planting traps than I ever have zipping around and slicing people with a flourish.

This thread is why we cannot have nice things. PvP doesn't have to be for just the try-hard extreme nothing but PvP genre of player, it can be a casual and fun game as well and failing that you can play bomber man for an even more casual experience. Would you rather get unique and cool rewards for trying out this change of pace for a while, or mediocre ones?

We need unique ways that go against the standard hall of heroes + farm rarities route to earn items and PvP is one of them. I would even go so far as to say that providing these unique ways of earning gear could be used to solve the bulk of the game's gear-crafting problems. For example, the original sealed sword was more literally a SEALED sword, and the player was to be required to unseal it seven times some which way. That sounds like fun to me... you know what doesn't sound like fun to me? Grinding for rarities the 20th time. It was fun to grind them for the first 2-3 weeks. The events are a great example of this, or would be if they were on more often. Like most weekends on more often.

Why do you keep talking about TF2? They're completely different games, with different target audiences, different budgets, different game design and different forms of "fun". If you think it's fun, go play TF2. I personally think SK is more fun. I don't understand people trying to talk down SK when you obviously still come back on this forum as if you're above everyone else.

He's trying to compare growth.
And he's right, SK is not where it should be.
Things have only been worse after Nick left.
I always thought SK had the potential to be the next tf2 or League of Legends
But by a combination of ignorance and moneygrubbing I guess they will never learn until all the players leave

Well spoken.

TF2 does not have a progressional gear system. There is no "end-tier" weapon. You also are stuck with a certain type of weapon in certain slots (i.e., heavy with a minigun, medic with a medigun, spy with a knife, etc). See Spiral Knights where you have a progressional gear system where certain gear will always be better than it's previous version, but if you want to bring 4 different flourishes do it.

Spiral Knights' paid content is mostly cosmetic, however you can pay for free gear or to get it faster. In doing so, you are cheating yourself of learning how to use such a weapon, plus you can't just skip to the end-game (must be a defender elite to use 5* items). Similarly, you can pay for a certain weapon in TF2 from the store instead of waiting for it to drop in the system. In the end, if you really want that final item, you really are just paying to speed up the process. (It took me ages to find a Rocket Jumper. I kept playing to find one, similar to how I play Spiral Knights to get crowns to use on my gear)

Since TF2 is not an RPG progressional system, it can use a certain weapon as a "base" (see: stock weapons), and make them super useful in the main game, which is PvP.
Since Spiral Knights is an RPG progressional PvE game, it has the "standard" gear, however it isn't always the best, and is not used as a base for a system. Gear also has to be good in its final form, or at least useful in some way, and hold its own as a weapon.

Spiral Knights is not based around PvP. Spiral Knights is based around making, upgrading, and min-maxing your gear so you can be super powerful and also suit your own playstyle. Spiral Knights PvP is only similar to TF2's PvP because they are both PvP, and both of them can have control points.