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Gamemasters Please : Bring Back Slime Lockboxes

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Mon, 07/20/2020 - 10:42
Rakaraka's picture
Rakaraka

We have had many Golden Slime Casinos since the QQQ Slime Casino in which the boxes only lasted for around 30 hours!
We reported this and you guys did not do anything to make the boxes come back.

A discussion thread was made here that already goes over some points: https://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/123155
But nothing was done about it

The response that most of us got from this was that, "We don't disclose how the system works" and "I've passed this along", there were boxes one day, and then none the next day. This has not happened ever before.

Regardless of whether you guys bring back QQQ Slime Lockboxes, the defining feature of the Golden Slime Casino ARE the Slime Lockboxes, it was advertised that way. So what's the purpose of running a casino without any boxes? There's no incentive besides exchanging your Golden Slime Coins for Crowns. It does not even function as a proper crown sink.

I believe there have been three or four Golden Slime Casinos since the amazing QQQ Slime Lockboxes. NONE of them had boxes, this is over the period of about 4 months.

What is the purpose of not running boxes? To make sure the drops stay rare? Well at the moment, the drops seem to almost not exist except for the final few scraps of QQQ. They'll be getting very scarce over the next few months.

I would like to let you all know that, all the rare color node items, such as Hazardous, Shadow, Wicked, Hunter, Glacial, Gemstone Colors, etc. Are almost no where to be found in the community, apparently the people who spun casino back then aren't playing now and as such the supply of those serial numbers are practically extinct, meaning us players cannot obtain some of the more rare and illusive numbers.

The perfect way I think to handle casino is the begin rerunning all of the boxes.
Do it once a month.
1. Run a Gemstone Serial Number based on the Birth Month, so for example: A1H(Diamond) in April.
2. Run another alternate box that you can grab, maybe you can make this a rarer drop: Such as Hazardous, Dangerous, Wicked, Shadow. These colors tend to be more demanded than the Gemstone colors.
3. Make sure the boxes last for the entirety of the casino like it always has.

If any other knight has their own input, it'd be great if you could put it at the bottom of this post. Reminder the Golden Slime Casino's Drop Table is something the Gamemasters handle, not the developers, so changes regarding this should be easy to get across, I hope.

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 11:31
#1
Tyvod's picture
Tyvod
yes pls

A lot of people don't want to roll if there are no boxes to be gained. So this is a crown sink lost for you guys :) .
#MakeCasinosGreatAgain

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 11:32
#2
Fangel's picture
Fangel
i do love me these boxes

I'd personally love something like a "slime surprise lockbox" where you can open the box itself for free and get a random previous slime lockbox type.

I'd also like to see 50E and 509 boxes return since they contain the wicked and shadow slime lockboxes inside, which are incredibly rare and amazing looking pieces. These box types never had a dedicated casino, meaning that you'd have to get incredibly lucky to get a box for it, and then incredibly lucky again to pull the special box out of it. I'd also like to see 403 return because I've only had one confirmed case of that box existing and my data table for it is incredibly lacking.

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 11:38
#3
Nitronicx
"Boxes last for the entirety of the casino"

I think this isn't true. Several times the drops changed midway through the event. One example is even mentioned in the calendar on the wiki (entry 28). The sapphire lockbox was dropping that event, but near the end emerald lockboxes started to appear. The next event dropped just the emerald boxes.

I agree there should be boxes (or appropriate substitute) available.

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 11:42
#4
Fangel's picture
Fangel
I don't think they always change

From what I can tell, there is a "common lockbox drop", and a list of uncommon ones. For example, during the dangerous box drops, I got a hunter box drop, despite hunter being from the previous casino. This is also the only way people have been able to get 50E and 509 boxes, since there's been no dedicated casino to them.

Not to say they can't change mid casino, but if it's all coded in and they're just listed as "uncommon" than it wouldn't surprise me that they cross over between casinos (when the boxes are actually active at least).

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 13:22
#5
Flowchart's picture
Flowchart

if it's a gm issue then it should be mailed to support as per the forum rules.

Is what Cronus might say

Tue, 07/21/2020 - 04:55
#6
Earth-Nd
It is high time something

It is high time something changed in this game, people are not requesting a massive content update that would require a lot of work, in the contrary, just adding slime lockboxes in casino, which shouldnt be a big issue but would have a massive positive impact on the rewards of those lockboxes which are now extinct. I believe thats the minimum that should be "added" to the game

Tue, 07/21/2020 - 22:44
#7
The-Ancient-One's picture
The-Ancient-One

I always cringe a bit when I see players demanding they get to gamble so that they can gamble for costumes that are just rare colorations of other costumes. We're like dogs lmao. Real low. Begging for attention. And they don't even care enough to read it most of the time :joy:

Mon, 07/27/2020 - 13:02
#8
Noxiousnarwhal's picture
Noxiousnarwhal
Agreed

It does seem pretty nonsensical to not include boxes. The company makes money off of players buying energy for keys, the players get to chase the elusive msi trinket, and there's more content for people to sink time and crowns into.

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