Spiral Knights - Missions and how it carries new players and free to play players.

Missions and how it carries new players and free to play players.

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Fri, 02/10/2012 - 23:06

Hollafamer

I am sure most of you on the forums have read info or seen pics about missions. I want to talk about the potential impact for those of you who don't want spoilers then stop reading now.

I have played a good chunk of missions so far and even tho its only a sample i came away with a few ideas of just how good its gonna be. One of the things i noticed right away is it gonna teach rookies the ropes. One of the things this game lacks is a tutorial of really explaining what is what and how to do what. I mean a lot of learning about spiral is on your shoulders but now thru missions you are really gonna know what things are and how to fight them. I think that part alone is extremely excellent to new players. One of the things i noticed is how difficult it is to go from t1-t2 if you are free to play.

1. You run on mist which gives you ten levels of playtime.
2. You have no idea how to rank up
3. You have to do a lot of grinding
4. Really you have to balance how your cr is spent either on more energy to keep playing or a new weapon or amour and so on.

There is more but i cant think of them off the top of my head. What if i told you thru missions just erase those 4 lines forget about them they are no longer worries for you.

Would you want to stay and continue to play i am sure you would. This is gonna be great for holding onto those new players and making them stick to playing spiral.

Free to play players.
Cant afford to craft/ buy recipes/ want to buy that shiny calibur
Forget that too

Because completing missions nets you rewards. What if i told ya you be getting an entire t2 set for no cost to you besides the mist or ce to play the missions. Yes im sure you are getting very excited. Great thing about being a t2 player is that it allows you to do jelly runs and gun puppy boss which give great rewards from tokens.

Simply missions are gonna do so much for the game in way it needed to.
Address a lot of issues that the game has and makes them go bye bye.

This is simply my two cents but this is exactly what i wanted the game is moving in the right direction by starting to lend a hand to it's player base.

Pay to Play players
Oh and don't worry pay to play players we get something out of this too LESS BEGGINGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 23:11

Metagenic

Hmm

Hope the mission system brings back all the players who were previously turned off by the energy system.

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 23:20

Kwizzy

One of the things i noticed

One of the things i noticed is how difficult it is to go from t1-t2 if you are free to play.

Direct new players to buy the following from the AH:

Brandish (~1000 cr)
Wolver Coat (~1200 cr)
Wolver Cap (~1200 cr)
Owlite Shield (~1200 cr)

That's one day's 100 mist in T1.

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 23:32

Hollafamer

@kwizzy

kwizzy: Yep but the thing is you cant convert mist into cr so basically its the cr you made on your runs that go to those items that you listed but after you get them what now you are sitting and waiting for mist again. You are right those items are cheap and can get ya to t2 I forgot about that. That being said tho shouldn't have to make sacrifices like that to the extent that it forfeit your playing for the day. What i should have said is how difficult it is to get from two star amour to 4star which launches you into t3.

@Metagenic: Well i hope so too but that's whats make the game stand out and its too late to change the system now. That being said I hope the missions make people want to stay and not get turned off by energy system because of it.

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Missions and how it carries new players and free to play players.