well i just want to say the game is amazing but i have one problem with it........... well a few accually and i was wondering if you might be able to fix them
1. i dont like running out of energy in the middle of the clockworks so the clockworks and creating things showed NOT cost energy make it cost crowns and i know you make most of your money by people buying energy but use energy for reviving and other things but i would like it if the clockworks at least cost crowns if not free and please dont make it tons of crowns. now other things that would be cool would be more vendors and a better and easier way to earn crowns but i see that pvp is on so i like it now i would like what i said for you to think about it cause i probably would invite more people to play this game if it was more free
1. Wrong part of the forum (should be in suggestions)
2. The energy system is fundamentally designed to limit playtime unless you supplement it with Crystal Energy. In this model, your given enough Mist energy to play for about 2 hours everyday, and anything beyond that is pay as you go. In order to avoid a mandatory pay wall, the game has an internal CE market system that lets players easily trade Crowns for CE with other players. If your going to be playing long term, you need to understand how the energy market works.
3. CE is the primary source of income this game has. Subverting it would cripple funding and force the game to shut down... servers do not come cheap.
With that in mind. You need to make the effort to convert your crowns into crystal energy, and conserve that as much as possible. It seems like a backwards approach compared to most other games, until you realize that its possible to access all the content in this game without having to spend a single dollar if your patient about it. There are very few games that allow for something like that.
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Energy_Depot
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http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Mist_Energy#Mist_Energy
The basic idea with Mist energy is it regenerates 1 point for every 13.2 minutes, and its no mistake that it takes 22 hours to refill a tank (2h play, 22h to regenerate). Mist energy and Crystal energy serve the same functions in the game. The main difference is Mist energy is obtained for free and can not be traded to other players.