I was browsing the 'Tube, and saw these ads. At first, I thought it was like most of those other games(crappy).

Then the Launch Trailer....

And I downloaded it.

Ever since Late april/early may.

I hate MMO's, as i usually hate people in general. I've worked retail, and call center, and have a general disdain for the public. My brother eventually talked me into playing by telling me i could run with him, and him alone, and that would be fine. A couple of our IRL friends joined as well (steam launch) and then we were 4. For lulz, we created a guild, and once we ran out of mist, we sat around haven chatting. Ended up meeting some chill people, and our guild grew.

Flash forward 1 year, and our guild is now at 90 people...

Weeell..I was looking up game websites on google (dont ask me why) and I found this one named Miniclip. They had Hundreds of games and each day I would play a different game except for some days where I would replay a game I had already played before. I did this for a couple o' months.

Then I found the multiplayer games section one day.

Spiralknights was one of them. I read the description of it and thought it would be interesting. I tried it out and got addicted. I like Daarke liked to figure things out on my own..the only time I ever asked for help was what kind of armor would be good for a swordsman.

I met another player who was a 3*. To me at the time, he was a wise and really good player. He became my friend after we did a few depths and talked a bit. Then he wanted to do a T2 run with me. And he realized I was still T1. He gave me 8k and I ended up buying a whole 2* loadout from the AH. I logged on the next day and I was excited to tell him about my new armor. He wasn't logged on. Then I tried the next day. Again, he wasn't on. Everyday I would see if he would log on but he wouldn't. Then one day I looked at the friends list. I found out he hadn't logged on for 2 months. I gave up. Before my friend had quit, he had invited me to his guild. It only had 6 members but I made friends with everyone in the guild.

I would talk to the still online members alot. Then, one day, they all just..vanished. All the members seemingly quitted at the same time. To never log on again. I still stayed in the guild though because I had no place else to go. There was only one member still alive and one day, he vanished. But I was still in the guild up until I had achieved full 3* stuff. Then I made my own guild. My guild got off to a good start. We had about 20 members total. Then it started to fail.

The guild was losing members and it could no longer sustain life. I promoted my most trusted and faithful members to Guild Masters, then quit the guild. I decided to join another guild. This guild would later burst out with tons of members that are very active and loyal. This guild was called Aegis Team. A friend I had met in Lockdown invited me and the guild was great. We had like 30 members who were very active and friendly. The guild consisted of mostly friends so it wasn't a very popular guild and it wasn't very well-known. Until I made a difference. I made the wiki page.

Once I made it, I was on a roll. I made a forum page too. And I got 13 new members into the guild and they were very nice and awesome. The guild was becoming a family. I became very popular and was promoted to veteran. The friend who had invited me was named Chrizmaniac.

Now, I'm a relatively new player. I started out in the beginning of January, 2012. I'm mostly 4* but I have 2 5* items and I'm working on a 3rd. I'm a Free-to-play player and I don't plan on paying anytime soon. I am still in the guild Aegis Team and we are flourishing slowly but surely. However, to this day, I have never met the mysterious good samaritan who invited me to my first guild and gave me cr to get my 2* loadout. This was all before the missions, so it was much harder to achieve T2 at the time. The good samaritan's name was Jkerouac. If he could see me now, I'm sure he would be amazed.

That student he once met on a run is now the sensei.

If I could meet Jkerouac one more time, I'd say Thank you.

I started playing Spiral Knights because I wanted a free hat in Team Fortress 2, back at the end of July last year (2011). A couple of my friends also played TF2 and were attracted by the prospect of a free hat, so they joined me in Spiral Knights. As we played we were reminded of the style of gameplay present in the 2D Legend of Zelda games, and we enjoyed it. By the time we got our free TF2 hats, we had gotten into Spiral Knights enough to keep playing it.

Back in my day, we had Power Surge Weekends and hourly CE giveaways.
Back in my day, we had a Royal Jelly that was legitimately difficult to beat without the right set of equipment and vials.
Back in my day, Lockdown, Howlitzers, Polyps, Shadow Lairs, Drones, and accessories didn't exist.
Back in my day, there were only two styles of Danger Rooms.
Back in my day, Alpha Wolvers, Zombies, and Retrodes were enemies to fear.
Back in my day, 6000cr was a price for 100ce that was high enough to complain about.

I remember always being behind in my equipment because I wanted to make a guild for all of us. I wanted to give us all a cool label to wear proudly under our names, so I had to save up what seemed like a lot of CE. About two weeks into our Spiral Knights adventure I created the guild <Bear Cavalry>, population: 4, highest equipment: 3*. We were pretty excited.

Another two weeks later a couple of my friends had reached Tier 3. I remember how crazy difficult it seemed - Lumbers would take out a shield in one smash, Wolvers teleported and were seemingly impossible to dodge, and Gun Puppies (there were no Polyps or Howlitzers) shot five bullets. I remember having to ask my friends to bring me into Tier 3 and they would gladly oblige because I had a Pulsar and knew how to use it. Times were good.

A month later, I finally decided I should upgrade to a full Tier 3 set. From there we just kept grinding Tier 3, kept trying to become skilled enough for a successful Vanaduke fight. A couple of us were getting bogged down in school work, so sometimes we just used our mist energy to craft goods to sell. Come January, one of my friends and I became the first members of <Bear Cavalry> to defeat Lord Vanaduke, with some help from two <Kage no Senshi> members. After that, Vanaduke became something like a hobby.

Two months of grinding Vanaduke and we were getting bored. None of us particularly enjoy Lockdown, and we had a lot of the costume items we wanted. By the time missions came out, one of my friends (the one I'd beaten Vanaduke with that first time) had already stopped playing altogether. Another friend went back to crafting every day. One by one, <Bear Cavalry> members reached the pinnacle of their satisfaction with Spiral Knights, and stopped playing.

April 27, 2012 -
I leave <Bear Cavalry>. Out of all my friends, I'm the only one that still plays, still waits for OOO to come out with cool updates. My Spiral Knights activity has been greatly reduced - I spend more time on the forums than I do playing the game. I burn crowns and energy on silly costumes and novelty names. I created the guild <Crusher of Dreams> as a joke for anyone on the Suggestions Forum who might understand it. Always behind in my equipment, I achieved Vanguard status only two days ago - before April 27, all of the Vanaduke runs I had done with my friends were done while I was still behind in Rank Missions because I would always use my daily mist energy to craft things or grind up crowns to get CE to craft things.

Now I am complete. I have basically everything I could ever seriously want in Spiral Knights, and I wait.

Back in 2010, on Puzzle Pirates forum, in some random thread, somebody mentioned that OOO is making new game. I've made some forum research and found a link to SK Beta Test site and volunteered to be beta tester. A month later I was invited and my pod landed on Cradle for the first time...

Back in my day, none of you guys existed.
Back in my day, devs weren't afraid to post on the forums.
Back in my day, trolls pretended to be intelligent.

How far SK has fallen.

I spent quite a while on my own, and it took me a month to get to T2. The two friends that I was playing the game with both quit around then, but I stayed because I liked the game... I found a guild while farming the jelly king, but I didn't join it. I was kind of scared of this, and wasn't sure what to expect. I went on many adventures, and earned myself an antigua. I made this into a silversix, which I used at all times. When punch came out, I bought a UV off of him for it- it was, after all, my prized possession. This UV turned out to be ASI low, and I loved it. There were two types of danger rooms, the easy one and the hard one. The easy one consisted of a large area, and was not hard to fight in. The hard one consisted of thorns in the middle, and could wipe almost any party should they come unprepared. Once or twice, I even killed slimes in the hard danger room for my party- using only silversix, which dealt piercing at the time.

Eventually, I got into a T3 party, and we made it almost all the way down to vanaduke- or well, I did. I actually made it a lot further down than my T3 companions, using only my silversix. A week or two later, I met a knight called Penguina. She taught me how to loop arenas, and make a tremendous profit off of them. So I did that, as did everyone else, until a while later when OOO decided that we shouldn't and put in the awful party restrictions. But that came later. Anywho, I eventually had to join a guild to be able to beat vanaduke- all of my friends were T2 knights, and those that weren't wouldn't take me. I had wanted to join Penguina's guild at the time, but they were full, and all of the other guilds didn't really appeal to me- "Destroyers of Awesome" sounded a bit too... bleh for me.

So I eventually got into Knights of Eqestria, and I found I could make my gear 300% faster than before. I could do so much more, and it really made the game a lot better- I also found it hilarious that we used 'Everypony' casually.

And that was how it went when I started the game. Eventually, I left KoE and traveled about, for I still wanted to make my own guild.

Back in my day, CE costed 4.3k
Back in my day, Blue shards were worth a couple hundred crowns each
Back in my day, Sun silvers were worth 14k each

Oh how the times have changed.

Started 1 day before Halloween event ended. Decided "hey these masks look cool" so I grinded depth 1 maps for a day looking for candies. By the time I finally got those authentic masks, I realized that the game itself is pretty fun so I continued to stick around.

Back in my times only stupid things happened: like Chris making a contest to loop love puppies, boycotts without boycotting because one couldn't see the boycott.

@Fehzor
I'm shocked and appalled that you'd brag publicly on official forums about exploiting game mechanics. Way to go!

Only scum like you cheated and looped. You know, mist is there for a reason, and not everyone is a lifeless farmer that plays the game to attain virtual numbers.

Steam release player, came for the free TF2 hat. Game captivated me.

I punched to T2 pretty fast, and meandered around T2 for a while, beating things to death with my trusty Kamarin. Eventually, I ground my way to a Sealed Sword, and operating with a sword like the Kamarin made the Sealed Sword feel so easy. It became even easier with a Faust upgrade. RJP became my sole stalking ground for a long while. Knights and Day also helped me out a ton with transitioning from RJP to FSC.
I moved up to FSC after the longest time, meandering around there with a crap armor set and subpar weaponry. To my fortune, I stumbled into Guild (RIP) really helped me out despite initial apathy ( I was still pretty naive), building my first set of viable armor and gear which I still use for FSC.
Broke off to help out a friend, which ultimately turned out to be a load of crap. I'm not naming any names here, but I left Guild for a short while to join a guild suspiciously similar to TF2. One thing led to another with conflict between my new guild and old, and I had to choose a side.

Looking back, rejoining Guild was one of the smarter things I'd done.

I stumbled upon Runs with Scissors, composed of some of the best PvE players money can buy. Seriously. We run UFSC for fun, and some multiple times a day.

Now I just chill in Scissors (the best PvE and socializing guild out there, bar none) and craft vanity weapons and armor, whatever interests me.

Now my SK time is double my TF2 time, and it's been a good run.

ANOTHER NnnnNNnnnnNnnNNNNnecro!

@korakc ?wth?

Stop Necroing! Your making me remember the good times of the past :"(

I'm new to the forums so me no know that much stuff

Only scum like you cheated and looped. You know, mist is there for a reason, and not everyone is a lifeless farmer that plays the game to attain virtual numbers.

If Paweau is still here reading these forums- I honestly didn't know any better, I was new to the game and it was introduced to me as the "thing that everyone did for cash". Aside from that, I really fail to see the difference between that and running FSC over and over... in both cases, you're bringing gear that is "too strong" to a high payout level... and it saves you time. Its really hard to argue that grinding is "wrong" when there is a very deliberate option to receive wealth for no real work in game.

Aside from that, I needed it to craft more weapons and such. I didn't just do it to attain virtual numbers, and I had lots of friends that did it too... I didn't even see it as cheating lol.

Though I suppose I haven't really even looped in over a year or so now. Might as well let the past be the past.

"yeah .. call me a Jew ..)"

Dat racism :/

I was watching him play and though "maybe I should give this a go" and so a few days later I set up my knight on steam.

I was really new to PC gaming and this was the first MMO game I have played. So I read the wiki to learn more of how the game works. I never was the type to ask for help so I mostly soloed everything and was relieved I survived (I though I would die on my first session).

Now I have all 5 star equipment and I am in a guild.

I was a Proto Player who used a hot edge against gremlins and pretty much everything actually and thought that Candlestick Keeps was the Slum of Haven have filled with death and i read the info about every weapon and def gear in the game on my phone so i was kinda a bookworm who saved a few friends from being scammed.
Oh and the CE prices were 6kcr.

I started out during the Steam winter sale. I too was looking to throw some snowballs and get coal... Spiral Knights turned out to be so much fun, and so charming and captivating, that I kept playing.

Now I have 532 hours of play time to show for looking for some coal. No regrets, this game is really fun.

I looked for a while to figure out where to throw snowballs, but had to ask around a bit to find out where I could throw snowballs for coal. Lockdown didn't/doesn't do much for me, so I don't play it much.

Why complain about reviving a dead thread? It's better than making a new one, in my opinion. Thank you Slim-Shady-Two for reviving this thread!!

"Lifts to T2 cost 200Crn if T1 had not been cleared, 500 to T3 if T2 hadn't."

I'm pretty sure we still have that :o

Back in my day we actually bothered to clear the gates from start to finish, especially for Vanaduke. Retrodes were something to be feared with their nigh-instantaneous claw attack as soon as they spawned. If you saw Alpha Wolvers prepping up for an attack, you ran like hell. I had a Spur that I was going to upgrade all the way into Winmillion. Basil was an even worse troll than he is now. People were still griping about CE prices and asking for pets, so I guess some things never change.

Ironically this all started because a person on Kongregate suggested I do a 'Let's Play' video of the game with him in October 2011. The video never got made, and I haven't talked to him for a long time due to a moment of excessive... awkwardness... in which he started trying to RP sex with me in chat.
This being whilst I was AFK and my mother had decided to borrow my laptop briefly.

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When I was a boy, we didn't have any of these spiral knights. We played with rocks and sticks and made bicycles out of old barrels. Sometimes I would walk to the store and buy 14 loaves of bread for a penny. (as if any of those things ever happened)
I joined back when CE was cheap and loot sold for a good deal and there was no evil Punch and having an unbound 4* item made you special and and and Jim-Dale