fork over the money then they will do it because it seems to be a bit out of their price range at this time

OK, for the last time (ha ha! No it's not), lag can occur at any point on the signal chain, and SK is currently hosted on Amazon's servers, so their server traffic could affect SK's as well. Dedicated servers might fix this, but they are super duper expensive for an operation of this size. Maybe they'll happen one day, who knows?

As for "balancing existing content", well, I agree, if I've got your meaning right - ensuring that everything that's already in the game works properly is more important than adding more stuff for the sake of it. But Tazurin, what do you mean, exactly? What specific beef do you have with the game as it stands?

Personally, I think certain weapons could do with a wee boost - the Cold Iron Carver is virtually functionless when the Leviathan is available at the same price, the Troika line swords are cruelly underpowered, the Stagger bomb series are pitiably ineffective...I could go on, but there are many, many other threads on these subjects. I think the enemy balance is about right, or at least, I've not noticed anything particularly glaring; enemies that might initially seem under- or overpowered started making sense pretty fast, once I'd grasped how the damage system worked.

The thing is, adding new content can address balance issues. Before the introduction of the Flourish sword and Shard bomb classes, pure sword-users/bombers were at a significant disadvantage versus Piercing-vulnerable enemies. As it stands, players with a preference for Heavy swords are still at a disadvantage. I agree that there's a lot of stuff on this board that's totally unnecessary at this juncture - new areas, gameplay fluff like (ugghhh) pets, new PvP modes - but a lot of additional content suggestions are there to address stuff that's actually missing.

Stuff like p.E...:

• venom veiler, stagger storm vs. ash, tempest vs. shivermist => boost stun / poison?, maybe nerf ice
• retrodes vs. other mobs that they can replace in the same "spawn" => nerf retrodes hp OR fix their "spawn role" so they take the places of equally strong mobs
• status alchemers vs. pulsar => maybe alchemers could use a 100% status chance for the second bullet or something
• troika line vs. sealer swords => increasing the range of troika or something and giving it a good charge attack
• candlestick vs. other lvls=> candle has fewer rewards and (for most players) higher difficulty
• treasure vault vs. everything => wtf? Is this supposed to be a reward or a punishment or what?
• nitronome vs. BaB vs Irontech =>The role of BaB needs adjustment (maybe double-explosion? with 2 different radii?), Irontech needs to be put out of its misery (maybe remove it from the game and deny it ever existed, ask FBI for help)
• chaos set vs. other armor => Maybe it could use an extra "ctr low for everything" or something like this, to make it as much fun as it sounds (increase malus if necessary) and a valuable addition to one's arsenal when compared with other armor
• gunslinger armor vs. bomber armor vs. wolver armor => gunslinger armor boni sucks compared to the other "classes" sets. Bomber has only elemental defense available.

Just examples, there's lots of things like that all over the suggestion forum and also descussions on the details of pretty much everything that might or might not really be imbalanced.