Seeing that everyone's home is Haven,
I have a feeling that Haven and many other places
are going to get filled up when Spiral Knights is released.
And our characters may be hidden in the pool of characters,
like a needle in a haystack. Not to mention that low-end
computers will have great issues with loading everyone's
equipments onto their memory.
So my suggestion is to have an option and a shortcut button
to toggle the display of Strangers, meaning those not
in your Buddy list or Guild will be hidden.
Yeah so, this is the end of my post. ^^
Haven is instanced. Last I heard after about 50 people exist in Haven the server spins off anther instance of Haven. This setup doesn't make it possible for a sea of characters.