Stranger Prize box discussion

True it's another prize box but hey at least it brings some new models into the game. Good to know that OOO isn't just recoloring armor costumes and accessories.....
And the chances are pretty well spread out. The only comment I have other than "Give me some playable content" is that the Snipe Perches seem to point towards more future costume recolors.
Fern
Lavender
Lemon
Peach
Rose
Sky
Vanilla
Hopefully these are just different names for existing colors.... but I doubt it...

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Stranger_Prize_Box_Promotion_November_2015
We're looking at two entirely new costumes- i.e. more than just a hexidecimal tweaking as the common get, with 2% for the aura and a 23% of getting a snipe perch. This is one of those boxes where missing the moon lands you among the stars, which is definitely something that makes me feel good about buying into it... so if you've been waiting to show your support for the game (and don't want to flat out buy wealth), now would be an excellent time to invest a few bucks.
Know your odds:
Getting zero accessories (per box): 75%
5 boxes: 24%
14 boxes: 2%
Getting at least one accessory (per box): 25%
5 boxes: 76%
14 boxes: 98%
Getting an aura (per box): 2%
5 boxes: ~10%
14 boxes: 25%
Divine/Prismatic/Volcanic/Shadow costume -or- an accessory (per box): 52%
5 boxes: 97%
14 boxes: 99%
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Which is to say that this is HIGHLY unlikely to bite you, and that's what I like to see... as well as a snipe aura! In the past, these types of snipery have been like finding water on the sun; 2% is incredible, and 10% per 20 dollars means it's highly attainable.. especially considering how epic the other stranger items look.
I'll post my results later when I get home.
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EDIT:So I actually spent a good chunk of time writing this and everything, only for it to get shot down by Aphrodite (and now I feel awful about it). I was really hoping that we could use it for the OP of the discussion. I'd love you forever if you changed the thread to look like mine-

Slightly off topic, but to those of you that have just been redirected from other similar threads, you will know what I'm talking about. A GM speaks on the forums without having to be coaxed out of the 'property of SEGA' box by the community, and what is it that is spoken? A message telling us to go have our conversation elsewhere!
P.S. sorry if I'm derailing, but I needed to vent like all other forumers have at some point and this did not deserve it's own thread.

It's not Aphrodite's fault, it's their job to make sure our conversations are consolidated. When I wrote my thread there were no others in existence, otherwise I would have just posted here. Really we should be glad that the GMs are doing their job and be happy.

I didn't say elsewhere! I said all in one place. Having multiple threads all about the Stranger Prize Box is messy and makes the conversation difficult to follow. :D

I suppose, but I wonder why they went to all that trouble ( at the very least, OOO makes it appear so) of posting on all of the other threads if they won't A. respond when we call them with anything more than "..." B. Act on the majority of our ideas, ironically especially the major/good ones
NOTE: sorry for the confusion, I wasn't specifically going off at Aphrodite, just OOO's forum policy in general
EDIT: ah Aphrodite you beat me to it, I'm a slow typer!
EDIT the second: Oh! sorry for the confusion, when I said elsewhere I meant over here, sorry for the incorrect wording, but I'm sure people got the gist of it.

My thread got a cease & desist from our favorite love puppy for being a literal minute late to the party.
But hey I can graveyard it and save up some space on the front page. Woo, fangel cleanup crew!
I am digging this promo though. Once we get the $20 bundle up and running I'm gonna have a new little stranger bathrobe... Thing.

Someone on steam pointed out that this was actually from a suggestion!
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/112178
@Aphrodite
So what do you think of the stranger prize box? Do the GMs buy into the boxes at all on their player accounts?

guys.
GUYS.
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/112178
GUISE.
(devs ily)
(oh and fehzor if that person's name is Glacenoir, that's me)

A question about the stranger hats, are they the third or fourth appearance of the already existing stranger hat, or are they a new item albeit in different colours?
P.S. while I was typing this the page reloaded and said it was down for maintenance, when I clicked the reload page button all of three seconds later, the website was back up, was this just a regular scheduled sweeping of the website, and if so is there a way I can find out when these happen so I don't have to retype my post again?

I haven't been in game yet, but I can answer your question with about 90% certainty-
Notice the knight wearing a brand new hat!
And then-
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Stranger_Prize_Box_Promotion_November_2015
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Sniped_Stranger_Hat
"Stranger Cap"
vs
"Stranger Hat"
Has brand spanking new and glorious written all over it.

SEE? the devs and GM's secretly listen to us!
@Fehzor, If you look at my first post on this thread, you will notice that I already mentioned this, sorry for not putting in the link though good to see someones paying attention!
@Umbra-Lunatis Oh, it WAS you! I thought I had an inkling of who it was but I couldn't put my finger on it. Props to you for thinking of it!

@Fehzor We love snipes and are always pestering the devs to put more in the game.
This box (and several upcoming events (NO SPOILERS!) ) are the result of brain sharing between the GMs and devs.

That's really cool that you and the other Game Masters are working together with the developers on content updates. Sounds really neat; can't wait!
(actually, I can wait, because patience is a virtue ;D But as far as the upcoming events you mentioned, sounds like SK's in for a ride)
EDIT: @Professor-Ego, thanks! I'm really happy that the Robes were added. What's even better is that it was so well-recieved.
Course, all the actual credit goes to the SK team for putting 'em in :D

Well that's really awesome to hear, actually.. and if you do come back and read this, big happy bomb please. A yellow smiley that behaves like big angry bomb, but makes flowers come out and smiles gleefully as it explodes. My wallet desires this so much you have no idea.

Aphrodite did you just confirm ACTUAL GAMEPLAY CONTENT? If so I need to go bow down to the Nick statue and thank the Impostocube because my prayers have been answered.

It's small stuff, so don't get tooo hyped up.
*takes away the sugar bowl*

Heh, that chain bridge in Shadowplay was also small, but it was easily one of my favorite things about that mission. I think that anything you guys put out is gonna be great.

Awwwww well I suppose anything new is good, even this new promotion! Heh, see that, we are back on the tracks ladies and gentlemen!
*Slowly reaches over to the sugar bowl*

The overall designs and textures of those robes... fills me with determination.
All-in-all, I'm really happy about this promotion, and even moreso about the new content Aphrodite is going on about, even if it is "small". The small things are usually the best things, even if it isn't anything too special or too catchy.

Hmmmm, when you say small, do you mean like, Nick statue small, or big but we don't know how big so we wont say anything so we don't get over-hyper over something only to figure out that it's just new Kat items?
EDIT: yes I derailed again deal with it XD

Oh no! What sort of small?? I can think of a lot of small stuff that would be pretty huge.

Okay people, let's not pull a gunner update and hype something we know nothing about.
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Okay I'll admit I'm excited too but let's not praise our love puppy overlord into the stratosphere. Gotta save some of the love for when they hit the ground and need someone to kiss the impact boo-boo.

@Fehzor You are right, anything is something at this point
*Scoops handfuls of sugar into mouth*
@Fangel I personally wasn't bothered by the over-hype of the gunner update, though I am one of 5 guys who considers pathfinder armor a viable choice and actively wears it

So, how about those snipes?
I hear the game is updated and all the box packages are available for sale!

Jumping in right now Aphrodite, sorry that I'm too poor to get anything immediately, but that's where Echo Of Silence comes in eh?

i've set my sights on getting a dusky stranger robe already. Too bad it's too early for them to be circulating :P
(oh, does the stranger cap actually make snipes flock to you or is that just a part of the flavor text? just curious)

Still haven't seen that Q/A between the employees and the community on the future of the game. Don't know why anyone would spend on the game until that occurs. The lack of engagement with the community has given the impression of a game shutdown, so I don't know why we'd continue to spend. But that's for other people, for me I stopped after pris vees got mishandled. I simply don't want to spend until I'm shown they value someone like me.
@Professor-Ego
I like to think they do listen to us, but they try to find ways to undermine us with plausible deniability to make life harder when marketing in SK. Stuff I don't mention in /2 or to other people tends to occur more, while stuff I do mention gets rescheduled to another date. This has been done calculated as above statistical significance.

@Petater
IDK that looked like a bit of Q/A right there- they clearly have some sort of event they're preparing for you to devour. I mean it's small but that doesn't mean much, since small changes can have huge impacts for us to study.
A bigger Q/A would be awesome and probably necessary but I'll take what I can get.

The stuff above is too vague. Also it's an event mentioned, not a permanent boss and group of maps. I'm not spending until they show that they value me and re-add me back to the steam group for sk which they kicked me from during the pris vee incident. I know it's a small thing, but it's where I draw the line. I'd accept it as it is, but I was told I was abusive on the steam forums, even though I never really even posted there (two comments total) and wasn't, and that it was a way to censor a player for pr control. What happened was I got kicked immediately after I posted a screenshot on steam community of me getting banned for pris vees, and then they removed me from the steam group and they listed the screenshot as breaking tos, even though it doesn't. If it does, the gms need to go back and censor all the other hundred copies people have posted on steam. But I know I was only removed because my screenshot was at the top of steam community when the three rings employee logged on. I've consistently asked in support emails to clarify what the abuse actually was, and was told they weren't going to continue discussing it.
Oh and did I mention I only bought the pris vees because it was 4 am and large numbers of a pointless thing are funny? Also I never intended nor sold a single vee, because that'd would be the abusive point of buying vees. But yea, apparently spending the day or two prior with real money and avoiding actually profiting off pris vees wasn't enough. Apparently they'd rather make a person permanently mad than resolve differences with him/her to get said person spending on the game again, and said person having spent hundreds of dollars in the past on said game.
oh and here's the screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/nCqRYu8.png
edit: here's a screenshot of all my past comments on steam forums: http://i.imgur.com/fUHejVV.png

Yo, tatertot... You did break the ToS by buying into those pris vees. Granted a lot of us did and any banning from places is kind of uncalled for after it was all fixed, but if they don't want to talk to you about it anymore it could be more than just that incident.

SK TOS, not steam TOS. I was explicitly told I was abusive on steam and that's why I was removed from the steam group ( Screenshot of being told this http://i.imgur.com/QCdDZPb.png ). I also obviously got unbanned within SK. The funny thing is that I can still post screenshots on steam. Also the SK steam group is opt-opt only, so one can easily post on steam alts there for sk steam forums.
This is not a protest. I just want the facts on the steam group removal to be lined up with what I was told. It's the fact the response and past facts don't correspond which is why I'm permanently pissed and re-iterate it. If the facts do line up with the punishment then I'd be fine with it. I want them to review it and give me an answer that makes sense, not to undo the steam group removal (Although that is a pre-condition for me spending on SK again).

Hi Aphrodite.
Wait
New event confirmed?
mews happily

Hey guys! check on the auction house, this stuff is popular! It's been out for 4 hours or so, and we have 2 pages of the stuff!

New content? Possibly some new missions? OOO, my faith has been restored. TAKE MY MONEY.

If you did violate Steam Terms of Service then you should take that up with Valve, not Three Rings. It sounds like Three Rings does have your back, potentially.
Granted Steam support might be its own problem to trudge through, it's what you should go through to get a ban lifted from Steam, even if it wasn't directly issued through Steam. Providing background and evidence, as you are doing here, would further your case.

That was the first thing I did. I was told it was done by a three rings employee and is up to them. I was even told the name of the three rings employee who did the removal and it seems he doesn't even work at three rings anymore.

@Petater
I thought you were done complaining about OOO taking away your 150k prismatic bolted vees.

*logs on, sees new update, sees it is Stranger related*
ALL MY LIFE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VERY MOMENT! ALL. MY. LIFE.
Th-th-thank you Spiral Knights crew. Truly, you made my life right know.
*faints*
Sorry for caps, I'm just so excited I can't contain myself. Huge Stranger fan in case you didn't know. :D

I never cared about the pris vees in of themselves. I just am being told one thing and seeing something else still. I shouldn't even acknowledge you since you've admitted it in game you actively troll bait threads.
I'll let it go when I'm told they blindly trust what an employee did a long time ago as the reason given, or actually provide an answer that matches reality.
Edit: I'm really digging the interlaced cheerleading in between this. It's so disconcerting it's hilarious.

I demand giant rucksacks (such as the one toted by Basil and the Bazaar vendors) and Crow Snipe Perches (black snipes, such as the ones who roost upon Bulky and Maskwell during the Dark Harvest Festival) because John Snow knows nothing. Also, where are the gobblesnipes? Next week maybe? Also, why are the color names so weird? Why not match the already existing furniture items? Vanilla looks pretty white to me. Could we have the perches show up in the tooltip, instead of just a snipe butt on an otherwise empty blueprint head? Or have the snipe animate on the perch, instead of always...eerily...staring south...no matter which way...its...host...turns....ack..something...soft and fluffy...landed on my head...help! mprhreprehrph!
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I love everything in this box. Everyone should buy this box so that snipes and love are everywhere for all.
I also really appreciate those green and purple snipes in the depot, thank you OOO!

tbh i was expecting a magnus reskin that fires snipes but i can work with this
also i like how the devs put in the effort to give snipes their own separate colour schemes and names

-magnus fires prismatic snipe shots
-instead of exploding, the snipes fly around the target in a circle once, somehow dealing damage before flying off
-charged shot expels a trio of snipes that fly right through the target before flying off
Perfect. though maybe a mixmaster reskin might work, because instead of the Spur discs you could have flying snipes.
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I'm gonna go and replace the Piercing bullet model with a snipe in a few hours and see how that works out with a Blitz needle.

Just to clarify - the stuff I'm excited about is a new something for an upcoming event *sneezewintersneezefestsneeze*, not a totally new event. Phew, snipe feather tickling my nose.
Also, please keep this thread on topic - OMG CUTE SNIPES!

santa_snipe_is_coming_to_town.mp4
Are we gonna see our migratory turkey friends this month?

Saw some of the snipes in-game and omg snipe aura is adorable. Would be kind of cool if the feathers were prismatic instead of the same color as the pillow sword, but I can let that slide.
One thing I did notice is that, at least on the "Sky" themed perch, that only the Prismatic Snipe Perch is an actual 3D model. My sky one just stares into my soul because it's a 2D sprite that doesn't move, while a guildmate's prismatic one is curious and looking all about - another guildmate's sky snipe also was frozen in place as a 2D sprite so it's not just a "on your character" thing.
Don't know if this is a glitch with the perches or with just the sky perch, but I did submit a bug report. I want my 3D snipes!

So I purchased 6 boxes to show support, and unboxed..
2x stranger robes (volcanic/divine/shadow tier)
1x stranger cap (ordinary tier)
3x snipe perches (accessory tier)
Which is fairly lucky. The odds of this happening were 16% that I'd get 3/6 accessories and 30% that I'd get 2/3 "nicer" stranger robes, so I really can't complain... even though that aura would have been absolutely epic to get.
In this case I definitely plan to use all 3 of the snipe accessories since those are pretty amazing. The stranger caps in particular are majestic and the stranger robes look kind of amusing in shape.
@Aphrodite
Oh. Well that's disappointing for me- I visit family during the winterfest season and so miss out on the vast majority of those events, even though they're some of the best that we see all year. It'd be really nice if we just got like, a bomb/sword update instead, or if Winterfest ran in July for absolutely no reason.
I NEED! these accessories are what we've (more specifically me and the forums) been waiting for, a promotion that actually makes sense lore-wise, looks amazing, and actually adds new items (all of the recent birthstone promotions have added like, 1 new item, the floating shoulder gems) besides, these items were actually suggested by the community (albeit a very long time ago)