I am very sorry if my questioned had been asked before, I do not keep up with commonly askwed questions and developer statements. I am simply asking as a dedicated fan with a fear of one of my favourite games having an end and never coming back in any shape or form, hopefully that will not happen.

What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

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Any chance you could put some permanent versions of the paper masks (i.e. doesn't expire) into the slime casino when it possibly comes around again at the end of the month? Shhhh, don't answer. Just do. Mmmmmmhmmmmmmm gooooooddddd.

Plans to Lockdown? What about Blast Network? BN needs some new maps & changes, along with having more new players in, ya know.

Cronus, hope there's some time to, at least, place in a new map to either Blast Network or Lockdown. We need to breathe back some life and excitement to them sometime soon.

On a different note, would there be new boss themes to certain bosses only someday, like, Herex, E.G.? I'm fine with many bosses sharing some boss themes, yet, I would like to hear new boss themes played to certain bosses only.

Sure I guess blast network could get looked at too. I don't really enjoy it personally but it still deserves to exist. The problem LD has over BN is LD requires t3 gear to play it (t1 and t2 are legacy modes basically now) so for anyone new to SK they will have to play for dozens of hours to be eligible and even then they will probably only have basic pve gear.

I'm not disagreeing with you but at least with BN new players can jump straight in without that gear-check. But imagine if some big name streamer/youtuber wanted try out LD, they just wouldn't be able to. As fun as LD is it's really a very exclusive game right now. I know games don't last forever but there's a few things they can do to open it up as a more inviting game to keep it going.

Eh ok. Although the whole after so many games thing AA being auto disabled means that it would tax the servers more on keeping track of every single knight's record of number of games played.

IDK the mint chocolate chip is a pretty substantial balance update imo. I usually don't eat ice cream or mints but mint choco chip is an exception.

Do you have any idea what Nick's number 10 was?

Since we're going down the food route, here's a question that honestly hits close to home.

Which is worse: expecting a chocolate chip cookie and getting oatmeal raisin, or expecting oatmeal raisin and getting chocolate chip?

And since I should probably also ask a game-related question, can we be expecting any more random throw-able item buckets in the future? Like, say, a bucket of buckets. We've got to get those endless buckets of snowballs from somewhere, so a bottomless bucket of buckets seems to be the next logical step.

I've actually had the experience of grabbing an oatmeal raisin cookie on my way out the door as a quick energizer only to learn it was oatmeal chocolate chip. I guess that makes me weird for wanting the shriveled fruit.

But I suppose my statement about purple battle sprites already was crazy talk so this shouldn't be a surprise.

And my goodness, if we do end up with staplers in buckets I sure hope we also get Devil-IT versions. I'd love to chuck memory and motherboards at people.

The lowest hanging fruit I'd like to see in lockdown are changes to GvG queue:

- Allow 4v4 and 5v5 GVG matches. It currently takes the entire community involved to arrange a 6v6 match, and almost always includes substitutes from other guilds.
- Allow a guild to make multiple GvG teams to queue into so a single guild can do its 4v4 match internally (and add no points to the leaderboard) rather than create a proxy guild to shove members into to play.

Are updates to Lockdown and GvG even on GH's radar or is the focus primarily on PvE? For some of us, lockdown is the post-game once we are done with PVE challenges and the reason we log in to play.

Any chance of the Overcharged Mixmaster and Celestial Orbitgun getting craftable "generic" versions open to everyone?

I was wondering, in the future would there ever be a 2x drop event like other games have to offer? And would Danger Rooms and Danger Missions ever have a change in rewards something like an addition of "Danger Tokens" which would involve a Recon Rangers Token Shop? Thank You.

I almost forgot to ask you this one question.

Would the Test Server be up again someday? I think it's been way long since the last time the Test Server was up.

Well, normally, the periods between their inactivation lasts months before they're active again, that is only when OOO, or presently, GH, is ready to open the Test Server again, however, the Test Server's been inactive in such a long time. I hope that one day, we may see the Test Server up again.

There are many people who still wanna try out some new content & changes before they go to Live, & they've been waiting to see the Test Server up again one day.

Why don't you guys ever do small balance patches? You tend to test quite a bit in production anyway, so it would make sense to just kind of wing it and then respond with more changes. That's how a lot of companies do it and having a constant stream of small balance tweaks would give us something to look forward to.

A few more things I'd like to ask:

1. Is Gray Havens planning on doing anything related to stabilizing the crown to energy economy? as it stands, the market has been inflated up to over 300% of what it once was a few years ago, making it incredibly difficult for new players to try to trade in their crowns for energy to purchase things without being forced to run vanaduke and jelly palace for hours.

2. does the Gray Havens team ever plan on adding a "purchase with energy" option for prize boxes? I'm sure I and many other people are deterred from wanting to buy prize boxes because the only way to obtain them is through shelling out pure money for them, it would be a nice alternative to save up some energy and maybe buy some more for the sake of purchasing prize boxes.

3. Is there any consideration into looking into changes with orbs of alchemy? As it stands, obtaining elite orbs is an incredibly difficult task, arguably more difficult than eternal orbs, which are their higher up tier, will there be potential for a quality of life update that would allow us to break down our higher tier orbs into lower tier ones, similar to what we can do with fire crystals?

I don't think GH quite knows the impact AT has in lockdown, only because they don't play it as much as the players. As such, it will never change. I'd say, accept LD how it is now, cause that's never going to change. In a perfect world, LD would be AT free, everyone would have 1ms ping, all weapons would be balanced perfectly, all armor same. But, you know, this world is far from ideal, so you have to deal with what you have, especially if it isn't a huge issue in the first place.

Not to mention 90% of LD players are hypocrites, and turn on AT when in a pickle despite being against it. Yeah, I can see why GH ignores the LDers for the most part, I would too.

@Cronus: Does Grey Havens have any intentions of maybe bringing back old items or monsters like sloom slimes or stuff like that? Not stuff like the forging system, but actual mobs and items. Thanks!
~Gus

I wonder....what could possibly incentivize GH to remove AT from LD?

I was spectating some matches, and (can you guess?) AT came up. With that came the usual toxicity, urine fights, and all the wonderful interactions that we all love in LD (sarcasm). We also know that AT has been a complaint since..2012? 4 years. It can be inferred that, at this point, GH has no intentions to remove it in face of numerous contrary opinions from the players. All this means is that they have no incentive.

So, to encourage some thought, what could change their mind? Obviously GH won't answer a question like this, but tossing around ideas is always fun.

Money?
Official Polls?
Promises from individual players to donate $X amount of money if AT was disabled in LD?
Videos of people spewing hate in LD just because of this feature?
Videos of people making personal insults just because someone uses the feature?
Donations?
A group funding page for new servers on the condition that AT is removed?
A promise of a truckload of funfetti cupcakes if they do it?
Screenshots of the urine fights that are the LD chat after AT crawls its way into the text box?

The only other idea I can think of is if the code is so poorly managed that they can't find the one line that enables AT. This is definitely possible, because I have worked for places where the existing code was impossibly scattered, and finding simple inputs and outputs was a headache. If this is the case, perhaps they could recruit some help from the community to sift through?nothing wrong with asking for help if needed, many bright people play this game. Who knows.....

I've come to expect the usual brain dead replies to questions like these. Hopefully I am wrong.

From what I remember hearing from certain guild-mates, the guy who worked on LD left a long while ago. So my theory is that the current team are all filthy casuals who don't know what it means to 360-no-scope valiance charges while furiously typing omg at nub l2p plz into chat. Jk don't ban plz. What we need to do is find that guy, kidnap him and force him to remake Lockdown but exactly how we want it. Who's in?

What i do find funny is they did add a new feature fairly recently on the sly. When you die the minimap now gets fuzzed out so you can't watch events while respawning. I thought it was a bug at first, something to do with the Apocrea events leaking out into the rest of the game. Great feature.

If you get a job as a Grey Havens programmer we'll never hear from you again! Nobody knows where they keep them held. :D

...For some reason, Ultima, that made me think of not submarines but...sub sandwiches. The mental image is beyond strange...

So it's been a couple of weeks. Do you guys have a direction yet? Maybe one that you can't tell us about but that exists as a definite "Ok we'll make content now"?

Have you thought of lowering the price of Fire Crystals at the Supply Depot? As they are, they're criminally overpriced.

Other than that, my only real question that hasn't been answered already, is if any of the GMs read the Suggestions forum. You've said you read the forums, but you guys mostly reply to just the General forum; I'd like to know if you look at any of our suggestions, and if you take any of them into consideration

mfw GMs are so scared of making any promises due to hype, then again, I guess GH is learning from Hello games (*cough* No Man's Sky *cough*).

Before the gunner update, swords have reigned free and true for a long time, though Bombs do need some much, much needed love. Though, basically everyone knows that.

In the case of the armors though, the gunner armors do tower over all the other armors. Well, even the bomber armors tower over the swordsman armors since there's basically only the wolver lines.

Much agreed. I mean, I'd really even be fine if they just got rid of the very-end monster type variants of each of the armors, or if they made these armors somehow not belong to Basil's stock...