Spiral Knights - 4000 CE Giveaway! [Edit: D26 proto speedrun. Go.]

4000 CE Giveaway! [Edit: D26 proto speedrun. Go.]

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Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:28

Agazide

Ladies and gentlemen, cats, dragons, chibis, and knights of all ages

This is your blagmaster AgAzide speaking. Rubyeclipse, GM of guild [The Jempire], more commonly known as “That guy with Triple Max UVs on everything,” has donated a large sum of CE to this blog for the purposes of giving it away again!

“But wait,” you’re probably thinking to yourself. “This validates Reganomics and the trickle-down effect theory,” along with other such esoteric thoughts as I would expect from one who follows AiD. Because following AiD makes you smarter.
And when you’re done thinking about that - the next thought on your list of things to think about might be: “How much CE is going to be given away,” and “Where do I line up to have CE given away to me?”

Well, to answer the first question, this blog is giving away 4000 CE in prizes! But you already knew that, being the kind of person who knows about titles and how they work.

So how do you obtain this 4000 CE? Not by tossing a raffle ticket into a box. Oh no. The description "Giveaway," was, in fact, a semi-truth to get you to click on this thread. Some might call it a deliberate deception. Maybe even an outright lie.

This CE will be given way over the course of three events, managed by various members of the AiD team. A quick overview:

Angerday’s Proto FSC Race! Do D26 using nothing but what you were wearing the day you opened the door of your crash pod. That is, Proto gear and no trinkets. 2k CE to be divided among the first and fastest groups to complete it, along with fame and fanclubs for yourself and your guild *. In my day, guilds would do vanaduke in proto gear for fun. And it was uphill both ways. Speedrun D26 in proto gear for CE.

*(Fame and fanclubs consist of a poof of confetti and endless unsolicited hugs from Angerday.)

Tovvok’s Spiral-Spy contest - If Spiral Knights were a movie and you were in charge of making the movie poster using spiral-spy, and you only had until the end of August to make a movie poster - what would it look like? 1k CE in prizes

Redfevrier’s Fashion contest. Many SK fashion blogs posses the power of commentary, but not the power of taste. I’m not sure where I was going with that. But in any case, Red will be running a fashion contest near the end of this month, with 1k CE in prizes

Details will be posted soon. Contact the manager of each contest or myself for help.

Oh, and I’ll be giving away 500 CE to whoever submits the best fanart to spiralsnipes.tumblr.com/submit. Just make up a fake email. Increase your chances by becoming a follower of this blog. So I guess that’s 4500 CE we’re giving away. Tara.

-AgA

Submit fanart, questions, and movie posters at spiralsnipes.tumblr.com/submit Feel free to lie about your email and accepting the terms and conditions.

Follow the blog and become smarter!As you read these very words, details for the new danger mission

"Heart of Ice"

are being uploaded! spiralsnipes.tumblr.com
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Submitted submissions:

Roarr -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/Guardian_Sky_Angel/skposter.jpg

Oatmonster -

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9846/contestposterfinal.png
http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/6936/contestfinal2.jpg
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5158/contestfinal3.jpg

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:33

Fallconn

FALCON PUNCH!

*looks at thread*, *leaves*

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:43

Fehzor

I don't know that the amount of work it would take to beat vanaduke using only 1* items would be worth 1000 CE, when each FSC run gives about 50 CE and takes all of 45 minutes to an hour.... thus, you would earn 1000 CE in at most 20 hours of playing on CE, which is an exaggeration in itself as we all generate mist anyway. And thats not even counting the tokens you get from an FSC run; just the first few levels. I suppose that if anyone is boss enough to beat vanaduke in 1* items, that they'd end up getting it done in under 20 hours, and that the bragging rights would beat out any 1000 ce reward they'd be getting anyway.

I might make some kind of fan art type thing though. Maybe. Sniff. Maybe.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:51

Yonk

Nothing to do in this thread.

Nice preview btw.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:53

Oatmonster

Lick

Does the movie poster have to be made using only spiral spy or can you build a scene in SS, snap shot it, and then finish it with text/effects in something like photoshop?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:54

Metamare

Metallic Knightmare

eh too much work.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:59

Agazide

REBUTTALS

^ Spiral-spy + photoshop is fine.

^ But think of the fame that would come of doing Vanaduke in 1* :3 Plus the 2k CE due to everyone else being too intimidated.

Protip: Do FSC with three 5* players and one in 1* gear, then have the three fivies change to 1* right before Vanaduke happens.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 22:10

Pokenuevo

Red is having another contest?
Will they actually look at photo entries this time?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 23:20

Oatmonster

Lick

Submitted a poster for Tovvok's contest. I'll just leave a link here too.

I'm not completely satisfied with this one so I may make another one. Am I allowed to submit both?

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 00:24

Roarr

Mine is here

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 17:42

#10

Oatmonster

Lick

I'm not going to wait for a response. Here is my second submission. WHat I'd like every game of LD to include. Sorry if it's a little big.

Yes these both used spiral spy, I just edited them a lot.

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 01:34

#11

Pseudo-Freak

If I didn't have to use

If I didn't have to use spiral-spy, I might have considered making a movie poster... If'n I'm not too lazy, I'll submit some fan art.

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 02:00

#12

Aureate

Processing Thoughts of You Always

...at least it isn't proto gear Vanaduke.
Time to get my Emberbreak and Fencing Jacket out again with my Static Edge

Lightsaberrrrr D<

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 09:14

#13

Tersakaff

Cool.
I won't stress it though.
Maybe make a poster.
Maybe attend this very mysterious fashion wrecktest to see full sets and mismatchy outfits win.

But I won't do Vana again in low star gear. 2much work

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 17:41

#14

Oatmonster

Lick

I'm back yet again, with my third poster submission, this time based off of a old fashioned propaganda style poster. Can I wins extra CE? :3

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 17:49

#15

Artistbma

Darn..I thought it was an

Darn..I thought it was an ACTUAL Giveaway. You shoulda said, CONTEST.

You ruined my day, OP.

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 18:08

#16

Skyguarder

IKR

I know! My day is ruined again

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 19:35

#17

Rangerwillx

..Problem with Vana in 1* items is that the time it'd take divided by the cut of the party members (3 = 333) (4 = 250) you could have done so many FSC runs in that time to make up the money.

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 19:45

#18

Fiery-Diskgun

Vanaduke

It sounds impossible to beat vanaduke with a full 1 star loadout.....

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 19:46

#19

Fiery-Diskgun

@Oatmonster nice posters!!!

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 19:52

#20

Dukeplatypus

It's not, just tedious and

It's not, just tedious and not worth the effort for that reward.

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 22:28

#21

Agazide

reBUTTals

@ Artistbma: Trolololo :3

@ Aureate: Good luck!

Did I say 1* Vanaduke? We meant Proto D26. Angerday apologizes profusely for any misunderstandings. Bug him about it. :3

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 22:23

#22

Angerday

We're editing the FSC

We're editing the FSC challenge right now. So that it'll be more do-able for everyone

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 22:44

#23

Tersakaff

Does it have to be speedy? :(
What if I do it damageless?

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 22:45

#24

Angerday

im working on the rules and

im working on the rules and other stuff right now, the offical thread for the contest will be up by 2morrrow

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 23:56

#25

Aureate

Processing Thoughts of You Always

...proto d26? Blarg.
Is it permissable to get invites down to that level from friends, or does that get you disqualified?

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 02:49

#26

Agazide

^ Invites are fine.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 12:53

#27

Tersakaff

I'd do it, if it didn't have to be a speedrun. I'm anything but speedy.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 14:35

#28

Vagueabond

Draft of a poster.

http://i.imgur.com/50G0k.png

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 15:48

#29

Tersakaff

That's nice. I like the bottom half however, the eyes seem out of place.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 19:40

#30

Vagueabond

Yeah, the idea was to have it

Yeah, the idea was to have it reminiscent of a face, with the eyes there and the Alchemer chambers forming a sort of crude mouth. I wanted some sort of foreboding presence, but I also didn't want to distract from the relatively busy lower half.

Like I said, it's still a draft! The typography on the title is still super-drafty as well.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 20:02

#31

Oatmonster

Lick

Well look at me, flooding this contest with my posters. This one is more of a "movie poster." Bonus points for figuring out which movie poster it's supposed to look like. I may alter the Spiral Knights logo on this one if I find an appropriate movie title.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 20:20

#32

Dukeplatypus

@Vagueabond

I just find that knight kinda adorable. I like it, keep it a bit cute.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 02:11

#33

Zinqf

@ Agazide

What made ya come up with "D26 Proto Run" as your "Proto Race"? Why not D25?

(To anyone else that asks, Yes I still exist and I check back every now and then in hopes there will be a large SK update)

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:11

#34

Tersakaff

D25 can be "cheated" to say so by doing select rooms. Everybody has to do the same thing in D26.

Fri, 08/03/2012 - 16:34

#35

Oatmonster

Lick

After receiving feedback from Tovvok, I have reworked my final poster. I'm not entirely sure about the font though, may change it in the future.

Sat, 08/04/2012 - 08:12

#36

Angerday

ok there's gonna be a ton of

ok there's gonna be a ton of changes to my contest but it's gonna be fun. ive done some tweaks and have had some help

Sat, 08/04/2012 - 08:23

#37

Talagand

I've been working on a poster

I've been working on a poster the last couple days, hopefully it will be done soon. :)

Sun, 08/05/2012 - 02:06

#38

Tovvok

oh hai everybody

sorry for being completely ignorant of this page

Please submit your final posters here
http://tovvok.tumblr.com/

and if you need to see the rules look here
http://tovvok.tumblr.com/post/28392309199/official-specification-of-my-a...

Sun, 08/05/2012 - 11:38

#39

Zinqf

@ Tersakaff

Let me explain a few things about pure proto gear (unchanged starter set). I've done alot of things in it, but I'll just explain to you the Tier 3 portion since this thread is pointing to this.

I've solo'd several trojans with nothing but 0* gear in Tier 3. You know how long it takes to kill one? Six minutes. You'll also have to dodge him about 50 to 60 times before you get the kill.

I've cleared D24 up to the last arena portion simply because I caused the level to friendly fire each and every mob in the place. No friendly fire is available in the last room so you'd have to defeat the zombies alone. It's easy with a 4* or 5* weapon, but a 0* weapon takes me roughly 200 shots PER zombie....after 45 minutes of doing this I decided it wasn't worth it out of sheer boredom.

D25 was only doable by thinking outside the box and causing ridiculous amounts of friendly fire. The entire run only took me under 45 minutes. A video with speedup editing cuts it down to 20 minutes.

D26 has a ridiculous amount of zombies. Using the time it takes me to kill a zombie and multiplying it by the amount in the level, it takes at least 24-32 straight hours to clear it with a 0* weapon. This is LITERALLY 4 times longer than the calculated proto solo of Vanaduke would take. This is why the thread is silly unless the rules were changed. Why? Well, you aren't gonna be able to record it and you probably don't want to sit inside the level to judge it either xD.

Sun, 08/05/2012 - 13:55

#40

Tersakaff

Zinq, he doesn't mean FULL proto. Only proto defense, silly. And I know enough about these proto runs, lol. Did the whole FSC in it without taking any damage, though slowly. With a blitz, double trojans never took more than 1 minute.

Mon, 08/06/2012 - 12:12

#41

Talagand

Finished my entry :)

Movie poster done! Sent this to Tovvoks tumblr, but thought i'd post it here incase anyone else wants to see. :)

http://i.imgur.com/qkHmO.jpg

Time taken: 6-8 hours
Programs: Photoshop & Spiral Spy

Mon, 08/06/2012 - 14:01

#42

Eeyup

Waaaaaait a second...

Proto defense only? I've done that a while back, but also with nothing but a Divine Avenger, a Proto Gun and two empty weapon slots.

Clickie?

May I have my fan clubs now? Pretty please?

Mon, 08/06/2012 - 14:48

#43

Tovvok

@talagrand

very well done, I won't reveal my favorites yet.

...but what vague has so far impressed me aswell

Tue, 08/07/2012 - 02:22

#44

Zinqf

@Tersakaff

Tersakaff said, "Zinq, he doesn't mean FULL proto. Only proto defense, silly."
No. The original poster stated "Do D26 using nothing but what you were wearing the day you opened the door of your crash pod."

Tersakaff said, "With a blitz, double trojans never took more than 1 minute."
That's the thing, you are using 5* weapons. It doesn't matter what gear you are wearing if your weapons are 5*. I can kill double trojans alot faster than that (think 10-25 seconds). But that's nothing. Have you killed more than a dozen trojans using only a proto gun? Also, have you killed a trojan using no weapon strikes?

I did a proto defense full FSC run (all rooms of D25 also) with no deaths. I recorded it too....8 months ago. I should still have the source files on my computer but never uploaded them due to the content not living up to the bar I set in my other videos.

Although if you want to see PURE proto runs of the content, just look for it on Youtube...they'll be the only ones of their kind (so far) of Twins, Royal Jelly, D24 and D25 FSC (All done a long time ago).

If the original poster agrees with you to do a proto defense of D26 (lol), I could throw one together in half an hour after I read your reply. Or maybe I'll break apart the source files still lying around on my computer to upload D26 (and D24 and D25 all rooms and D27 and Vanaduke).

Tue, 08/07/2012 - 02:23

#45

Zinqf

double post

Tue, 08/07/2012 - 13:26

#46

Tersakaff

Oh I see. Prize not worth the effort. : (

Wed, 08/08/2012 - 00:30

#47

Zinqf

@Tersakaff

Actually, I'm more in favor of another player doing this.

I'd do this if it seemed like other people cared. But people don't want to see a player in proto armor with 5* weapons clear FSC 8 months ago. Why would anyone now?

If someone doesn't do this in a week, ill upload one then give the CE away to random people if you guys are still running the contest.

Wed, 08/08/2012 - 04:11

#48

Incineron

O_O

ZIIIINQFFF Hi there. I subscribed to you. That was before you quit SK, but still, nice Diablo 3 Videos too :3 I would like to see a vanaduke solo in full proto... but I remember you soloing D25 FSC full proto.. and i saw how long it took for trojans. O.o Even sped up, it was tedious. Sheesh.

Lets see the monsters in the first part of ashen armory....

3 waves, first 2 waves being at least 10+ zombies, and the last with the same number of zombies and a trojan. To get past the first 2 waves, that would be near impossibru in proto. But if you do Zinqf.... Well, firstly, congrats on getting used to SK again! :D Secondly, i will watch the whole thing. thirdly, Special thanks to Slow zombies. :D Lastly, I WILL Favourite it.

Now... Thank you, and give me your 4K CE as no one else will dare to do D26 in proto. I need that CE. Please? D:

Also, SpiralSnipes (which is in my favs btw :P) Has actually posted your D25 vid before.... So im kinda surprised that they still want a D26 FSC Proto Solo. Lol.

Thu, 08/30/2012 - 06:46

#49

Prestopotato

Last minute entry for Movie Poster

http://tinyurl.com/8gtwcwo

Eh, I submit it to Tovvok's Tumblr, and also mailed it to him. Hope it made the deadline.

Thu, 08/30/2012 - 13:01

#50

Addisond

How did I end up on a poster without knowing it? I barely remembered how clashy my old costume was... ewwwww. Also, thanks for the free eyes.

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