Spiral Knights - No Energy at the Lift

No Energy at the Lift

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Wed, 07/13/2011 - 18:18

Doberfrann

I would like to suggest a little improvement when people run out of energy when are at the lift.

Sometimes happened to me that I got on the lift and I didn't have enough energy, however I had mist tanks. A message box should appear and say: "You don't have enough energy to continue your journey would you like to active one of your Mist Tanks?" then click yes, your mist energy is refilled and you can continue.

Another situation is that is never clear that some people are going up and other down and often happens that you will remain in a hard dungeon in two people and might be hard to continue. Beside this that I don't know how to improve it, happens that maybe a person doesn't have energy and he decide not to continue, wether he cannot afford to buy more, doesn't want to or no one will pay for him. A message box says "This person cannot afford to go down" and a button "Continue On" is there to be pressed. What if I change my mind then? I have no choice but to go down, waste energy to be alone or in a party of two. Shouldn't we get the choice in this case wether we want to continue on ...or not?

Thanks

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 18:48

Nodocchi

The continue on is there so

The continue on is there so that if you choose to wait for the person to buy energy you can wait and not press the button. When the person has enough energy the continue on option will disappear and the party will go to the next depth. As well you can tell whether a person has enough energy to go to the next depth on the top left where it shows the status of each party member. A red energy sign means that your party member does not have enough energy to do another depth in the dungeon.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 18:57

Doberfrann

I'd like to reconsider

But then the person will not go down, and you if you originally thought that you will go with someone and you will be fine, then you realize that you will go alone and probably will not be fine anymore. I'd like to reconsider.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 19:11

Nodocchi

Just make sure before going

Just make sure before going down that your entire party is going to be following you down. If you party is unreliable enough for you to need to make sure they are all going down at every depth then you should consider making some reliable friends and doing dungeons with them.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 19:16

Doberfrann

You cannot talk when a person

You cannot talk when a person has no energy and already on the lift.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 19:25

Nodocchi

Then make sure to talk before

Then make sure to talk before you get on the elevator.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 22:17

Qnaug

make sure

ask them before u get on the elevator, i always ask others are going up or down or telling them that i'm going up or down, be patient. but for the future, i hope when we get on the lift, a message box will appear and give us 10 seconds to tell who up and down, so we will know we won't be alone in the next round.

Thu, 07/14/2011 - 05:21

Effrul

Is it really that hard to

Is it really that hard to glance at your Mist bar before stepping on a lift?

Thu, 07/14/2011 - 12:41

Ghret

Up/Down Suggestion

I would say that there would be a sort of easy way to solve that up/down... probably.
What if when you are on the elevator and the timer is counting down you click on going up, but the timer doesn't stop! Instead the symbol next to your Tab symbol next to your health bar (On the left) instead shows an arrow pointing up (to indicate you are going up). And when the timer runs out, you go up. But the rest of your party had the down arrow, indicating they were going down, and so they did. Of course you could change your mind several times whilst the counter is counting down.

I don't know whether the counter should be un-interuptable, or when a person has chosen a direction they can choose skip, and to the rest of the people still on the lift their character-box would be greyed out, indicating they have left.

What do you guys think?

Thu, 07/14/2011 - 14:08

Rage-Knight

Simple solution with mist tanks

Simple solution with mist tanks: check your energy before you stand on the elevator.
There aren't many mist tanks in the game, thus adding extra options for them would be waste of time.

If you can't clear a dungeon yourself, don't go to that dungeon.
Off-topic about equipment, to help you understand where you can go and where you should not:
1-star equipment is good for floors 1-3, will work down to 8-th floor. After that damage will be very small, any dungeon will be really hard (if you manage to get deeper).
2 stars - works great down to 8, will work fine down to 13
3 stars - works great down to 13, will work fine till bosses
4 stars - works great down to 18, will work in tier 3 dungeons (18-29), though last few will be pretty tough - damage doesn't increase after depth 23, while monster health does.
5 stars - best equipment, the deeper you go the bigger the damage (and monsters have bigger health, so you won't kill them with 1 swing).

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