This is sort of why the earlier posts were saying what we did.
Good on you for trying, but unless you organize an event for all players and ask for Three Rings to attend as if they were other players as well, then you won't really get further than walking in circles.
In the end, all you represent is yourself. The way you get the community represented is to have the community active and all in one place. Organize something of that sort and you're getting somewhere.
That sounds great and all but what kind of event? And who all is willing to help organize it? Keep in mind I am only one person ._.
I'm not saying everything that will work, but I'm listing things you could do to get more of the community around you. Being involved in a guild will give you a good starting point - contacts in various places to spread news and things.
Event-wise, make it something fun. Preferably in Haven so everyone can participate. You could crowd the snipe garden while throwing as much confetti into the air as possible. You could have a massive luck tournament where players go head-to-head in a trick-or-treat confetti competition where whoever gets the punkin head is knocked out of the "arena", and have a silly prize at the end that you've put in a gift box. Top 3 players get these gift boxes.
If you get a guild in on the action, think about having a massive snowball fight with a couple rules set up - such as "if you're hit by a snowball you must run back to (certain area) before returning to the fight". You could see how many people you can get with water balloon buckets and see how many black holes in Haven you can create.
These are fun little community events. Later if you want, you can expand it - such as those Spiral Knight Olympic folks. Make sure to get recordings of such events because players love to be on camera, and it will excite them for future events.
In the end, it's up to you to organize things, figure out rules, promote the idea... Well, not just Subchu - Anyone can do this! All it takes is a bit of imagination that can be grounded into reality.
One of these events could eventually try to have a Q&A with either a GM or a developer - someone on the Three Rings staff. By having all of this happen in game, any player who wants to be involved can be in here. Just have some rules in play for your group of people... Maybe even have players mail you questions to ask so you can sort through them and not have to worry about the chat being so full of questions and spam with no answers being given.
I attempted to reach OOO and get some sort of support and recieved this in return:
Greetings,
I really appreciate that you want to help the Spiral Knights Community. I
think there are a lot of ways that players can help encourage an active and
positive community. Unfortunately even if players voted for members of the
assembly it still gives the impression that those members have some special
access to developers or Community Managers.
I know it can be frustrating when you read the Suggestions Forum and you see
unhelpful posts. Just because someone posts a negative comment doesn't mean
that the feedback isn't passed along to our developers. We know that when you
allow people to voice their opinions there will always be disagreements, but
this wont prevent us from passing along feedback.
Best wishes,
- Cronus
So it seems we are on our own here so I guess we can at least try and organize ourselves instead of random outbursts saying OOO has abandoned us or whatever. We may not have made much progress now, but if anyone has any good ideas on how to move things along, let me know.
I tried ._.