Spiral Knights - Mini-Factories as Farms?

Mini-Factories as Farms?

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Tue, 03/29/2011 - 11:12

Arthie

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Excuse me for my english, guys. Isn't my first language. :(

Well basically, you know how all these new games have houses and farms kind of stuff to get money/special resourses and other things? Well, why not to make a farm system in the Spiral Knights? But since it's more machinery themed world, let's turn farms into mini-factories or something of this sort? Just like arcade levels, the factories can be charged by minerals gathered from below the surface. The factories could make energy (maybe not a lot, but still) or CE, or also maybe some materials that are needed for crafting some of the weapons/armors.

Well, that's my idea basically. Thanks for reading. :3

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:24

Njthug

Hmm

Well the idea is pretty popular in many games, but honestly, I dont think its needed currently in Sk. I think we should focus more on Guilds before we start adding more complicated systems.

Sat, 04/02/2011 - 00:25

Cien_Tao

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no for that, at all

actually, i saw some problems in this method:
-using crystals to do the job. Unless it is a freaking huge amount of crystals, to compensate thea mount of money you would not do by using them in the arcade;
-Getting energy back or CE. It would forcefully benefit players that stay logged in many hours a day, what is the exact contrary point of the energy system, that was made so people don't stay days through without sleeping. And, even if is the method of "leave it there and wait for the results", the actual crystal price for the factory would need to be huge (for example, i saw someone selling cheaply 500 CE for 10k Crown, what equals to 2k crystals. But, it was cheap, and doing it at this rate would only crash the economy of the game, so, i would suggest at least 5k crystals if you can make, in the period of 3 days, 100 CE, with a chance of failling, everything to compensate the fact that you will not be helping the people to build arcade floors so people can play the game.
-Getting material. More? materials are plenty altogether, and the rarer ones you can buy with tokens now, so, i don't see much benefits here.

Now, it isn't a bad idea, if changed to something used by guild members to create guild feautures, using spare materials, instead of crystals, to make furnitures, useable gimmicks, even teleporters, if we get new areas besides haven as main floor cities, and other little things, but using materials, and some time, if OOO wants to put some minigames into the game, like puzzle pirates.

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