@Deltikon:

That removes most of the incentive to buy energy in the first place, which creates other serious problems.

http://imgur.com/UiMSN
Better than this.

"Unfortunately, people seem to rather prefer to grind at gook levels than making the devs "lose" money..."

Heh. This again.

The more accurate summary is "people would rather have a game to play than no game at all". Furthermore, and alternatively, "people know there's no point in suggesting an idea which would destroy OOO's revenue stream, as there's zero chance of their actually doing it".

I'll correct your misleading statements as many times as you care to make them.

You do realize that this game is too much of a grindfest to be enjoyable, right?

EDIT: I'm focusing on the real problem on the game, asides from the energy limit, which I can somewhat tolerate. Also you doubleposted.

No, really, why does everyone keeps saying to make stuff more accessible for midgame players will doom spiral knights' ? Seriously... People who buy CE for crafting would just buy it like always, they would just sell it instead of directly using it, given that crafting with crowns is cheaper. Nothing much changes asides that...

Such as keys and unbinding. Also trinkets and slots unlockers. A bunch of other stuff really. And even in some cases, it can be, and already is, sold for other goodies, such as TF2 gibberish or even steam games bought by other players. And people still can buy it for crafting, as soon as there's no noticeable difference between Ce and cr crafting costs.

The CE price is entirely player-driven and it's meant to be like that. There has to be more people willing to sell the energy than people buying it.

You're not going to get more people selling than buying -- ever. Most players are still working on their arsenals, buying CE so they can get keys, slots, trade items, or are buying so they can just keep playing. There's also a lot of new, and free players who aren't going to drop real money on the game so they can basically start playing the SK stock market. If they cap the price, then people will be forced to buy and sell CE more often as a personal exchange, below the capped rate -- and yes, they can still make money. I remember when the price was 3500 and plenty of us were making mad crns. The only thing that changes is the sale cost on rare items. Those numbers will go up.

@Deltikon

You don't understand what your suggestion implies.

You admit that the vast majority of energy purchased is for crafting, and want to believe that removing this requirement will ''fix'' the issue. It will not. This gets rid of the vast majority of the incentive to buy energy in the first place, as I keep telling you. This is a fact, that without the cost of energy for crafting you would virtually have no need for it. F2P players would buy LESS energy because they don't have a serious need for it anymore, you're cutting the demand for energy down drastically. P2P players won't have as much reason to buy the energy when not only do they not need it for the most part, but not nearly as many people will need to buy it in the first place.

Energy would be purchased less, and the energy that is still available won't have enough sinks to do anything with it. Without nearly as much demand for energy, prices could/would drop, yes, but this particular change would encourage players to no longer buy it in the first place. Not only do they have virtually nothing to do with their surplus of energy, but their ''stock'' is no longer nearly as valuable, nor does it sell nearly as often. You're killing the need to buy in the first place which is a serious issue when OOO rings needs to make enough income to keep this game afloat to begin with.

Your suggestion kills off the game more than the current energy:crown rates. The fact that you claim that your suggestion is a ''short-term solution'' alone makes it flawed. Short-term isn't a solution at all; you need long-term solutions.

Yeah, see, the graphic design team is the only one that really has to work on them. Other crownsinks require the graphic designers and other members of the team.

So perhaps, once the graphic design team is done with the next big thing, they can go make some cape accessories on the side.

Promos aren't a solution, true, but they help us cope while we wait for a real solution.

Guild updates are an obvious idea, and you can see a few more on the Suggestions forum. There are some really good ones.

I wrote a new guide to respond to these threads with, so now I'm going around using it.
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/63936