Well about a fourth of them are young children who seem to have taken the dad's laptop > miniclip.com > Spiral knights > SK forums > wrong subforum path, and immediately suggest pets, radical CE changes, and more sonic promos in the arsenal. Though some just stay in game and beg for hours on end, or attempt to scam people unsuccessfully.

Another fourth of them are elitist, and complain about how easy the game is when they use all 5* gear with decent UVs, in some cases VH/Max. Many of them enjoy yelling at kids who post in general about CE prices, or complaining about the beggers in haven that haven't found the forums yet. About 75% of these players don't like the forums though, rough guesstimation.

The rest of the community seems to be fairly ignorant of the forums (I'd say about 90% guesstimation for this group) and all of the amazing threads held within, and work on their items and gear slowly over time, as that is what they have to do due to the overwhelming number of pro players running FSC at light speed to buy ce to run FSC more often. They're typically T2, some T3, and quit quickly due to the overwhelming task of earning 5* gear off of barely any crowns a run, and the lack of anything new after the jelly king and roarmulus twins in T2. After all, that is where they are held at for the majority of the game. They could earn more crowns if they just cut out a rev here, and broke a lamp there, or did something clever in haven. But they don't, because they're playing for fun, not self esteem.

"or attempt to scam people unsuccessfully."

Because just yesterday i saw someone giving away their login credentials.

Right now, I kinda hate half the community.

The other half are normal people, and guildies that are level-headed, for the most part.

I agree with The-Fal. Yesterday, I met a good bloke who was handing out 10,000 crowns to anyone who asked.

annoyng space monkyes in medieval-themed power armor

99.9% Wolvers.

Lets see...

~15% are just naive and don't know a lot about the game. They like the game, but don't understand things like the economy and some of the finer details about gate construction and gate maps. They probably get a few of the game mechanics wrong at times. About 1/3 of them will openly admit their mistakes, while the others will be a bit immature and headstrong with their notions.

~25% are just demanding. They want better CE price, they want more crowns, they think its unfair that said stuff is difficult to obtain, they think its unfair that people who spend money and leap ahead of them, and they are generally focused on themselves and how to improve their own situation.

~10% are semi-P2P players who are at late-game. They probably have spent like $20 a while ago, and spend maybe $5 ever few months. They are at the later parts of the game, full 5* and working on getting some fun little side-projects to entertain them until new content pops up. They don't have any sort of blind hatred for absurd CE prices, P2P or F2P player-bases, and are generally relaxed about the entirety of SK.

~1.5% are the heart of P2P player base, spending about $20 every other week or so. They fuel the CE market and generally buy whatever they think looks nice or would be fun. They focus more on becoming the best of the best, striving to just be barely better than the others. Some see them as disgusting pinnacles of greed, while others see them as idols to be worshipped. These ones tend to be highly skilled and can steam-roll the average player

~2% are really charismatic and social P2P gamers. You seem them a lot creating or taking a massive part in large and successful guilds. They tend to become icons for their guild, representing what it means to be part of their guild. They tend to be playing SK for the sake of friends, using the game as a glorified chat room as often as an actual adventure game.

~46.5% are grinding. They aren't demanding new content or anything... they are just trying to make crowns. They are mindlessly grinding things like FSC and RJP to make as many crowns as possible for as little energy as possible. While other groups also grind a lot, this group focuses heavily on profit over fun. Despite this, most of these people are just average teenagers. Some of them can be rather rude and unpleasant, while at the same time you can find dozens of enjoyable friends in the mix. Most people are here trying to have fun.

That's my take on everything

A bunch of little kids with names like xXxXDaRkSePhErOtHXxXx who come onto the forums asking for reductions in CE price and more [crappy] cosmetic items.
THE END
Also, those little kids who scream "PIE!!11" and [crap] like that so than can lol so randum XDDDD

Jeez, fit that 10% almost perfectly... now I feel less like a special snowflake :/
I would be in that 2%, but my guild has its niche and prestige to speak for it, also the great community. It's also almost always full, considering how little we pimp it out.

There's the #s-k council who make fun of posts in the forum. >=3

Thus why I have huge amounts of uncertainty in my post.

There will always be exceptions

15% scammers

10% meme lovinvforum people

40% FSC grinders

20% complainers

25% good people