Well, I play Spiral Knights occasionally now a days since I'm tired of grinding and have seen majority of what the clockworks has to offer. Three Rings promised us a no-grinding game on their promotional videos. But honestly, everyone's just out there playing this game to grind more crowns to make better gear. What would be really nice would be these few things that for sure make me play Spiral Knights more often than once every 3 days to do half a run.

I have some small lectures to say:

1. The way we make crowns in the game. The most populated gates are Royal Jelly gates, then comes Fire Storm Citadel, and then probably Snarbolax? Or maybe not a third. The player base is still small even if it does make up around 1k - 2k players in exploring in the gates. Before it'd be around 500 on each now it's a small max of 200 - 300 or less while the RJ gate around 500 - 700. What would be nice is if we could make around the same money of crowns on any other gate since I honestly do not like doing RJ just to farm crs. After I become T3 what's next? FSC farm grinding. Pssh. We just want to make a lot of crowns on our runs, if all runs made around 7k crowns even boss gates, then more players would explore more gates rather then grind our buttoxes off for money. I got myself an ele pass but honestly I barely even get on SK anymore since there are no interesting gates to play and RJ farming is too dull for me. What I do now if half a run and then no one will see me for at least 2 - 3 days. These 2 weeks are nearly over and i have barely used my new pass. That just shows how bored I must have gotten with SK. PvP is okay, I prefer BN due to the way I play this game w/o a mouse.

2. As a RETURNING PLAYER, it's not about adding content for end-game. That's not what the new content to be added should be. What would surely make this game funner is the experience of playing SK like I did back when I first got into the game. SPIRAL KNIGHTS IS A GREAT GAME! BACK WHEN I FIRST STARTED AS A TRUE NEWBIE, I WAS OVERWHELMED AT HOW FUN THIS GAME WAS. The surprise of not knowing anything about these maps and adventuring freely with my group/party members as we fought monsters in our way to reach that elevator and go down to that next depth was a thrill of excitement. Tier 3 is sure fun because of it's difficultyness. T2 isn't as much fun when you have 4* gear players easily killing our way out which is why i prefer playing with 2 and 3* gear players on T2. But back ON TOPIC, what this game needs now to stop it's players from leaving, to ensure that this game will not be boring enough for players to leave in 2 or 3 months due to doing everything you possibly could on here is to add more maps. Not 1 or 2 but 100 or 200 different maps that circle in the clockworks. New maps, with new different types of monsters. A lot of maps!!!!!! a lot alot alot alot alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make us players feel new to everything like we did back in those good newbish days. Maps that are hard, more PUZZLES, brain teasers. How will we open this gate, codes etc. Traps!!!!!!!!! Fun hard traps. More mini bosses added like the poison lichen that spanws in that poison field. WE NEED 200 DIFFERENT MAPS OF 200 DIFFERENT CONTENT. WHAT GAMES SO ADDICTINGLY THAT I'D LOOSE MY LIFE OVER IT ARE VAST EXPLORATION OF BEAUTIFUL UNTAMED LANDS. EVEN ADD A FEW NPCS ON THOSE 200 DIFFERENT MAPS THAT MAY GIVE A QUEST LIKE HOW IN FSC WITH THE SPRITES. <~~ FUN HARD NEW MAPS UNEXPLORED WITH NEW TONS OF MINI BOSSES. TROJAN MINI BOSS, LICHEN MINI BOSS.

Summary of my rant:
Make all gates make the same profit of 7k like RJ for T2/ depending on stratum is how much you would make compared to boss depth stratum so the need of grinding will truly be diminished and i can freely choose any gate to explore even with or w/o and ele pass. And also add around 100 - 200 new maps with different content style, more beautiful lands, hard mini bosses like the poison lichen etc hard depths, more traps and puzzles to solve things, one those 100 - 200 new maps add some few npcs on hard floors that give out a certain quest like the FSC sprite.