A spectre is haunting Spiral Knights. The spectre of energy removal. All the powers on the forums have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Fangel and Krakob, Bopp and the Game Masters, Fanboys and Developers alike.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as unrealistic by its opponents in "power"? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of energy removal, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact:

I. Energy removal is already acknowledged by all Forum powers to be itself a
power.
II. It is high time that energy removalists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Energy Removal with a manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Energy Removalists of various guilds have assembled on the suggestions forum and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English language, because that's all that's left.

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Energy and the over-grinding it produces hurt the game.

If you want people to stick around, you'll need to remove these things and instead focus on selling cosmetics.. like you already do, but on a grander scale. No cash shop, no "greed" (as that is how people see it), more players.

Fight me.

EDIT: This is what I'm proposing, because most will just think it's unrealistic, as I said above.

1.) Energy stays, as it is built into the game.
2.) Flash sales offered to keep energy valuable.
3.) NO gear, orbs, or rarities, or unbinding, sold for energy. These all either take crowns, or are not offered.
4.) Lessened grinding, especially for radiant fire crystals and 4* orbs.

This is the direction the game will head in inevitably, even if it comes in a future game that isn't Spiral Knights.