You could put a limitation to the amount of plays per hour, such that they would have something to do, or until the player becomes completely bored by the game and would become as monotomous as the Jelly King Run

@Demu

OOO already was prepared, you can only make 3 accs on one comp.

Unless players are either wagering their own CE or a significant amount of Crowns on these minigames, I can't see them being implemented; Three Rings are not in the business of giving that stuff away for free.

Minigames have come up a fair few times before and, frankly, I think it's padding. It's not real content; it doesn't add anything to the game, it's just fluff to keep people hanging around the servers. I for one do not care to hang around on the servers when I'm not actually playing Spiral Knights. That's what I'm here to play, that's what I care about playing. I'd rather see the game refined in its current form than loaded with claggy extras that don't contribute to the mechanics and atmosphere that actually make the game.

The thing is, I have no interest in introducing minigames to Spiral Knights. I think part of the game's beauty is in its simplicity, its economic design; you log on, run some floors or craft items, until you've spent either your daily ME or ME + however much CE you wish to spare, then go about your day. It's an MMO that doesn't encourage you to hang around, that doesn't try to lure you into frittering away hours at a time playing it - or if it does, you have to work for it, or pay for it, and either way it's always on the understanding than you are making a choice between improving your gear and using your gear. I have a job, a girlfriend, a social life, very poor impulse control, and a serious distaste for cheap addiction tactics in game design; an MMO that has built-in safeguards against rinsing an entire day on it is a breath of fresh air.

The problem with getting tangible rewards from minigames is that it opens up the possibility of players who only play the minigames; if you're good enough at a reward-driven, skill-based game to win consistently, then you could conceivably raise the funds to get top-level gear without so much as setting foot inside a dungeon. If they're chance-based, you've got another problem: if it's to be any more interesting than a button that flips an imaginary coin, either rewarding or punishing you entirely arbitrarily, you've got to include some measure of skill. And then you get the first problem again.

The problem with excluding rewards from minigames is that they become pointless timesinks in a game weighted for progression. When I want to play games that don't in any advance me in Spiral Knights, I play another game.

So I won't be suggesting improvements to the idea, because I think the spirit of the game would suffer if it were implemented. I don't think people should be hanging around the Spiral Knights servers if they're not playing Spiral Knights, or at the very least interacting with other players. Would you include a Whack-a-Mole game in Street Fighter, so that you'd have something else to do when you don't want to fight? No? What if you could beat Street Fighter by getting good enough at Whack-a-Mole? Do you see?

I don't really see a problem in this if it had some limit.

What it WOULD add to the game is another way to get energy before T2 where a dungeon run can let you buy energy + profit a little. If the most you could squeeze out of the games were 50 ME a day, then that's fine. People leave this game because of the Energy prices. This gives them a reason to stay. People now have more buddies and playtime, a bit less energy troubles, and OOO gets a larger playerbase (150 ME a day won't stop people from buying CE).

Also, I don't think Street Fighter is the thing to compare this with. You can play ALL YOU WANT in Street Fighter. It doesn't need the extra "fluff" as something that can possibly limit you.

i say that we keep the idea to restore CE, however the restoration can only be done once a week, as well as obtaining a token in order to participate. The token can be either earned as a very low drop from certain monsters in clockworks, or it can be bought by a vendor for 10,000 crowns or something.