I thought of an idea which could bring back the old arcade system where people can once again deposit minerals.
There would be 3 new types of minerals: An orange one, a brown one and a light pink (Not brilliant at coming up with names although I've stuck the the traditional types "ite", "stone" and well, "matter").
Brown - Thoezite
Light pink - Light Matter
Orange - Meristone
Now the old minerals, Crimsonite, Luminite and Dark Matter, would not be able to be deposited - They would still only be used for Battle Sprite food. However, the new 3 minerals would in a sense, "replace them".
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Gate_construction
I.E The orange mineral, "Meristone" would be like the new Crimsonite (More likely Gremlin/Fiend/Construct/Fire + Anti Slime/Freeze)
The brown mineral, "Thoezite" would be like the new Dark Matter (More likely Fiend/Undead/Poison/Shock + Anti Beast/Gremlin)
And the light pink mineral, "Light Matter" would be the Luminite (More likely Slime/Undead/Construct/Fire + Anti Poison)
All of these minerals could be deposited, as well as Valestone and Moonstone, to power the arcade and thus give blue and green minerals a purpose.
Now the two ways I've come up with to encourage people to take these minerals are:
- To up the price of them from 2-3 crowns to 9-10 crowns (per mineral)
- To ratio the types of minerals 2:3. So in each pack of 5 minerals there would only be two types of battle sprite and 3 types of arcade.
So people may not necessarily have the correct battle sprite mineral, that would then encourage them to take an arcade one.
The chances of finding Crimsonite, Luminite and Dark Matter would be limited and only based off of status themed levels and no longer monster.
So...
Crimsonite: Fire = Common | Shock/Poison = Not as common | Freeze = Impossible
Luminite: Shock/Freeze = Common | Fire/Poison = Impossible
Dark Matter: Poison = Common | Freeze/Fire = Not as common | Shock = Impossible
All 3 types of these minerals have exactly the same chance of spawning in no-themed or curse levels (because they are not a main status type).
