First, thanks J_A_S, I do try to notice what could be better, as I do with most things.

Anyway,

-New Starter Gear

Hear me out on this one. If youre trying to make a diverse game with different types of moves and the armor needed to buffer, why not start people out with various 0-star armor for shadow, piercing, elemental, as well as normal (or maybe after the initial normal armor up to Haven) to show them the different types and how important they are later. Not many people seem to grasp the difference it makes early on and seem to learn from dying (which isn't all that bad, but understanding is better than frustration).

You organize by saying, normal T1, Half-(shadow/elemental/piercing) half-normal T2, then heavy s/e/p T3 right? I may have just generalized, but that may leave some players in the dust while they try to settle into how the game works. Also, what are your plans for expansion past this? just the gates?

-Guild Bank

Guild bank would be nice, store stuff for later and maybe act as somewhat of a store in the theoretical market system. But just anything to improve the guildhall, I've seen other topics so I won't delve.

-Active Mapping

I'm very careful not to miss anything, hell, even some levels wont finish unless you travel all the pathways. BUT I do miss stuff sometimes, or backtrack unnecessarily only to find that my key is to another key, etc etc. Why don't we have something that keeps track of the whole unique level and knows where we've been, can tell us we've already been there or are heading in the correct path. It may diverge at points and shouldn't lead you to the end, but just outline all possible paths and those left to be adventured in.

Also, to that same effort, I would like the minimap to be bigger. Maybe I havent figured it out yet, but I have never seen the whole level laid out. It would be a simple solution and could unfog (like old SC) as we go along. But I certainly think that would help things.

-Trending prices

Energy and Crowns are related to each other like any other currency. I feel tired of dissecting how much im actually spending each time I create something, give someone a material or even just go adventuring/need to rez. Give us some active pricing whenever money is in the question. I'm not sure why you didn't combine it into one currency since they are virtually treated the same (and you can buy it IRL, which is a cunning way to do it). It's just kind of boggles me when people can be paid in two types of currency. It does lead an interesting dynamic, but for the purposes of a browser based game like this, I don't feel the need for it unless we were two separate countries warring.

Anyway, off topic there a tad, what I mean to say is that if you are going to include 2 currencies in this game, at least actively tell us how much they are worth with respect to each other in order to calculate total costs for crafting. I do know you put best offers of 100 energy to x- crowns, but it's not useable viable on the fly.

-Armor Sets

No not the Wolvar set, or vog-cub stuff. I mean the ability to change armor sets for fire/ice/shadow/piercing/slime/whatever at a moments notice in a crossroads. organizing them would be simple then, and we would be able to see gaps in our overall armor sets rather than just the listing of them all.

That's all for now. More to come.

To finalize my thoughts on a trade system (for now of course) I need a way to display to other people what I can make. Like some, "hey look what i can do."

We are stuck saying WTS this or WTB that and its rare we might meet up in the haven that actually has buyers/sellers of what we need. (I hope I'm not wrong in that assumption but I do believe it's how that works). Whatever you guys do actually do as far as trade, a few suggestions other than the ones above would be when I'm meeting with someone, allow me to find them more easily and allow me to link or show what they need (maybe mats or energy/crafting costs) and possibly even a little tip reminder. That's only to improve the current working system of player interaction.

If you make the trade system game-wide then I'm sure I will critique it somehow later.

It will be much better when people don't have to keep seeing huge paragraphs of what someones selling or buy. If I need a recipe, the best I can do is shout my lungs out and hope it's luck or a very common recipe. We definitely need to establish some sort of way to allow players to list what they want/need (think shopping list meets wishlist) to better garner information and establish trade as part buying/selling. Again real-time updates on prices and comparing deals (similar to energy/crown transfers) would be best.

I know this isn't easy at all to implement quickly or overnight but it would highly improve this game's character interaction outside battle. Program away! and let me know if I should put my thoughts towards other problems the game seems to be having.