Nope not going to work
Why ?
Because 1 OOO has plans to follow and also this petitions have been done so many times and they never worked and if i remember correctly due to petitions or complains bomber(shard bombs ;~; ) have suffered a great negative change.

But one thing you could do is to do podcasts for sk or create a youtube channel where weekly you express yours and others ideas which you guys have on sk,this will also unite OOO and the players.

How to help OOO:
Don't type stuff up it will only make OOO's job harder since they wont have a clear clue of what the players actually wants not to talk about how they will make it with the short amount of staff they have.

If you have an idea show an actual reliable plan which can easily help OOO make the plan come true, for example create a well structured sketch of how something might work,this will be easier for OOO to understand and script and also makes their job more enjoyable than just reading a to do list.
Another way is to create a prototype of your idea by using simple 3D shapes such as cubes..ecc which shows the possibilities on how something works.

Or find a group of players who actually have some spare time to script or help OOO to script in java since OOO really lacks staff.

What you want is the suggestions forum. That is where all of us who are forumers who have ideas for a better future pretty much hang around in. For sure someone will wander in there every so often who thinks that first person spiral knights or dual wielding are new and original ideas, but that doesn't mean that every thread in there is like such.

There are many other ways to talk with the "important people" as well. Send in emails or support tickets to have your message put into queue with other important messages.

One thing a lot of players don't seem to understand is that the gamemasters aren't necessarily working on the game's internal functions. They're the ones that make sure the game we have right now is fun and exciting for everyone! They aren't the ones to go to with ideas for the future of Spiral Knights - the developers are.
Now, I'm on board with a weekly or monthly discussion thread with the developers/game masters to make them all more human to us players. As of now, we look at them as some sort of high and mighty power - if you've ever seen a game master in Haven you know what I'm talking about. I'd love to talk more person-to-person with the game masters or developers, and about anything really.

But bottom line is saying things isn't going to make things happen. If you get in contact with a GM outside of the forums, and they agree to do such a thing, then we'll have progress and you can get a following. If you don't do work on the side, this idea is only going to be just that - an idea.

goal in mind: helping Spiral Knights get back on its feet again by direct cooperation between admin and knight.

I would love to see this happen. It's laughable and I can't see this happening in a million years, but I'd love to see it happen. The developers are like, scared to talk to us or hate us or think that our input is meaningless 99% of the time or... something. Honestly though, I'd just uninstall the game and leave if I were you. The game most likely isn't going to ever just "get back on its feet". The Herex plotline + arcade redux could change the whole radiant fire crystal situation, so I'll check in until it comes out + disappoints me and then I won't bother with this place any more.

please don't bring negativity here unless you're personally helping things

We're helping you to understand why this isn't going to work because we've seen this sort of thing before and realized the outcome.

OOO already said no to some players willing to help out (sir pandabear is one of them), I don't think they are willing to take help from a group.
besides, if they wanted more help to the developer/programming side, they'd be hiring programmers, because it's way more safe than asking the playerbase.

From one Chu to another, I'll support you! :D

"It's better to stay quiet and only have a few people mad than be open and have everyone mad at you."

Which is why the playerbase (and not the few very loud and obnoxious positive-attitude forumers) is in love with how development is going.

Most of the issues stem from the community

And what should we be doing to "solve" these issues? Hacking into the server and updating it?

As a general rule of thumb, game designers will always have ideas that they'd want to implement but can't for various reasons. So going up to a developer and saying "I have an idea" is like spitting into an ocean. If you want their attention, then I'd follow Glacius' suggestion and apply for a job.

Also, I take it you've never participated in the Testing Feedback forum? It pops up when OOO opens up the testing server and it plays out almost exactly as you describe. The suggestions/criticisms are legitimate, and the developers listen/implement them.

A good start is understanding where OOO is coming from as they have to read your ranting everyday.
Pretty sure, as a company, you open yourself up to criticisms and vulgarities from your customers. How you deal with it is completely company-sided. I'm sure that no-one at Three Rings would take criticisms of their games as direct insults to themselves personally.
If you work at a company or organization, taking company things personally is a sure-fire way to get yourself out of a job, especially if you publicly act on it.

Like really Fehzor. What are you accomplishing with your posts? If you can't fix things yourself, don't bring that here.
Ouch. First step of getting people to listen to you is not to bash on the people you want listening to you. That plus the very juvenile argument of "why don't YOU go fix it!" is never appropriate. Does Fehzor work at Three Rings? As far as we all know, no, nor do they work for Three Ring's parent company. They have as much power in this as you do, but a different outlook on life.
Don't try to change people. Make a movement that people want to follow. If you can't create a movement then, well, tough luck.

If someone throws words your way that are negative, you should look into them for a grain of truth - usually there is at least a speck of truth hiding behind anything negative. What various players have said is that you're dreaming big with this idea, and it's better to act now and come back showing us what you've started. If the entire operation is futile, like the many ones before it, then we do not want to exhaust our time and energy into it. If the project gains some ground you will definitely find supporters.

People constantly bashing you is a problem with yourself, but people bashing your ideas or attempts to fix things is because those fixes have problems or errors in them that those people are pointing out to you now so you don't run into them later without some knowledge of how to deal with them. Taking offense to someone critiquing you is a quick way to get people who are trying to help you to immediately disregard you. Pushing help away means you won't find help when you truly need it.

I appreciate the effort, and sincerely hope that something can come out of it, but from simply from reading this thread, I'm not sure I'd want you being a representative between the community and the company. We have plenty of players who I'm sure old-time forumers can point to (Such as Zeddy or Luguiru) as examples of players who share the thoughts of many while still being reasonable with fellow forumers, dissenters, and Three Rings. Your personality doesn't seem to match that of these players, but rather one of a young and eager fighter. We need those young and eager fighters, but we don't want to have them as generals because not all battles need to be fought.

Sk deaded or no? 13.0

my name is Noobcub and I am a Noobcub, I heard the forums call desperately for me.

PS: keep dreaming.

We all want to see the game overflowing with people again. Some of us have just been here longer :P

Welcome to the SK forums, where everythings made up and the suggestions dont matter.

@Fehzor
"Which is why the playerbase (and not the few very loud and obnoxious positive-attitude forumers) is in love with how development is going."

That is amusing coming from you and your satire threads.

@Fangel
"If someone throws words your way that are negative, you should look into them for a grain of truth - usually there is at least a speck of truth hiding behind anything negative."

That is your [flawed] opinion. There is no good reason to listen to every little angry ranter [ex: SK dead or no threads]. Please tell me the speck of truth hiding in those threads for anyone unfortunate enough to open them.

This whole thread in a shellnut.

I couldn't even attend this game's 4th anniversary, but outside, I still wanted to support this game. I've lost my time playing this, as content grew shorter, and even less frequently checked the forums, afraid of being disappointed. Plenty of these topics have been made, all with the outcome of failure or rejection, but by all means, any type of support left in this community is something to applaud for. It's the one thing every MMO needs- people who still care.

Thereby I support this thread, foolish or not, no matter the inevitable.
And thank you, TC, for still caring for this game with this topic; dreaming for a possible future in which a hole this game has made may be too difficult to climb out of. But I doubt communication will ever rebuild again after "it" happened...

Hope is that tiny switch in Depth 29 that is impossible to hit, more or less if it even exists.

Again, I have respect for anyone that has a goal then sets out to do it. If you, Subchu, can collect a group of knights and get in direct contact with the Three Rings staff, then I assure you many knights will follow your ideals. If you want to be the head but have someone else do the talking, that's what the others are for.

I don't lose respect for people who say they'll do something and then don't follow up on it, but I don't really pay them any attention. A lot of us are dreamers, and only a few of us turn those dreams into a reality.

But yes, I would love for more developer communication. The GM communication is fun and all, but it's not exactly enlightening to all of us. Heck, I wouldn't really even be mad if the developers straight up said "Yeah we're working hard on creating this other game over here while still supporting Spiral Knights on the side. Once we release this game, we'll definitely try to punch out a few bugs over in Spiral Knights!" That would be communication, and although it would make some players mad, it would lower my expectations for more content. I mean, I've always been someone to live in the moment, so loving a game for what it is right now comes naturally.
I wouldn't even mind if the GMs made a stickied thread in general discussion a week in advance, we post our questions, then Friday afternoon the devs take an hour or two to read over and respond to us. Would be a lot of fun, and take a bit of stress out of Fridays (if y'all over at Three Rings try to stress yourselves out occasionally).

Could there be a representative for the LD community?

That's condescending. Just because the sad and immature people tend to be louder doesn't mean there aren't sensible people who play LD. That being said, the opinions are so divided on various matters you won't be able to have any kind of meaningful representation of what the LD community really wants. If one is even needed, pretending that this idea has any legs.

I have been here sense like ld came out or was it bn who came out first. Well whatever. Before steam and when wolvers had the auto homing bites. yeah that should explain my age in this game lol. I have not been posting sense i started, but i have seen the game change and grow sense i started. This also includes the forums.

Towards the games growth, i would have to say it was very minor compared to the actual creation of the game and how much they have added into it. I mean having 3 to 4 main bosses and not changing that system sense like 2010 or 9 to not 15 is a pretty long time. When i mean changing that system, i do not mean removing the bosses, i mean like adding variety to those bosses like having them learn a little from fighting the players for so long and improving to improve game play would make the bosses that much more dad but. But it is still a fact that the game has changed from where i started. So it's not that the game is not growing, it just that this game if it survives, will only get some real recognizable change from me by the time i turn like 40 and i'm in my 20's hahah.

The way i feel about the game now, i just really not expecting much or anything at all out of it anymore. Sure i still like the game which is the reason i am still playing it, but i won't be as giddy and awed in wonder as i was back then when an update or event comes around. So so far, i feel like i will just finish my goal of collecting every non pay to play gear in the game then move on to ever quest next or dragon nest or vindictus or to some new indie game i have been following like origin's of malu. Cause those games have things that attract me, but i do not like leaving things unfinished. i like closure.

The forums itself well at least the suggestion forums which is the only forums i use, and i really rarely venture into the general or treasure vault or baracks forums has improved a bit. I mean there use to be a huge negative feedback when i started here. I mean sure i wasn't the most courteous poster/new forumer back then, but fighting against a wave of negative feedback as a new forumer really hit me to the core. It told me that not all communities are nice and it told me how to reflect negative feedback and not have it hit home like back then. I mean, i was pretty pissed off when i started to post and all the feedback i was getting was a +1 or -1. When i post, i post to get people to share their ideas of why they agree or disagree. Not whether they agree or not with me. Cause the why is what really gets me to understand the good points and the bad points of that post. Also there was a huge excessive bumping of post back then. I mean that was kind of annoying when the thread was suppose to get reply's. I mean if your gonna bump, make it a reasonable bump where the starter of the thread declares a an end date and shows how many bumps he would do before closing the thread. Anyway, that is how i felt about the suggestion forums back then.

The way i feel about the suggestion forums now is a lot better. Although most of the major dedicated forumers have drifted off like hexzyle, that shard bomb guy, and some pretty old forumers some as old as when the game got started, the forums hasn't died. Some really good changes are that people have stopped the old useless fashion from my opinion of posting a -1 +1 on threads and are actually replying to them. The negative feedback has decreased by a huge amount to where people don't troll not very good threads and keep them on the first page just to make fun of them. My old nemesis, forgot that guys name phantom or whatever hasn't posted on the forums. And people with ideas are still coming in fresh out of the bakery trying to get the developers to smell their good cooking and see if they will take a bite. The only reason though i keep posting in the suggestion forums is too kind of support the new forumers that are posting, support a little of the old forumers, and to just post things that i feel most people would agree on. My days of big huge idea posting of revolutionary or even individual ideas of new monsters ect i feel are over. I feel the energy has been drained from me and a deep gray could of rainstorm takes over me when ever i think about posting huge original ideas. And i feel the developers/staff have kind of given up on the suggestion forums, but i can still see us fighting the good fight and not giving up on one of these days one of our ideas will go reach home.

Like how those minor height changes and minor accessory changes to your knight function in the game came from the forums. And i think there was a a few guild hall ideas that were from here that made it in. Either way, back then was kind of a good highlight for ideas making it in, but it doesn't change that now some might still make it in even if nick had to leave 3 rings. I only mention nick because i felt he was a great initiator when it came to communication between community and developer. And sense he left, not much communication has happened besides the regular don;t post that swear or maybe some other communication happening in the general forums. I totally agree with you that the more communications the better which is why i had great idea for the devs to do that in a nonchalant way where they would not get affected by any negative criticism. Though that idea is for another thread.

But back to the topic, i feel the only way to reignite any sort of communications is to just not try to aim for it. Basically what i mean is, don't focus on what the devs are doing. Start your own thing here and get a lot of people to get involve. Let it grow to the point that people from the actual game actually want to be here in the forums more then playing the game. If you can get this thing that you started that big, then no matter how you look at it, the developers will have a very very high possibility of getting involved in the ting you started. Basically lay bait for the fish to come to you, and don;t try chasing after the fish. eheh plain terms. Anyway, yeah i'm done writing. Time for me to sleep, it's like 4:25 am and i have to get some kind of zz's before heading to work. sigh......

I do believe there is at least one unbiased LD player that could fit the niche.

Is there a point in electing a representative that OOO will not recognize?

I like the communication points. I do not, however, think we should form some group that has more influence than the players as a whole. No matter how unbiased you perceive them to be, the election process would be a popularity contest and the player is likely to pursue their own interests and bias.

I still think that they should hand out free Doritos.