What was the hardest job you've had to do of yet?

-Why "Curio"? Does it come from your coworkers?

-If you had the time and resources, what crazy idea would you like to develop for the game right now?

Designing and implementing a system takes a great deal of concentration and time. I've heard some people set up some ambiance before they work on anything intense or creative such as listening to a particular music genre or working some creative activity or other hobby into the work. Is there anything you do to set the mood of your work area before sitting down to analyze/code?

• Is there any plan to adjust the mission system to prevent boss farming, such as taking away boss tokens from defeating the boss through missions, or merely payout reduction? If the tokens are taken out of boss missions, the items associated with the tokens would rise in value and encourage players to play through the Arcade to gain rare equipment rather than grinding missions to create an endless supply of crowns which supports inflation and leads to players complaining about the prices they created.
• Do you play Spiral Knights for your own entertainment or is it solely a job?
• If you do play this game for more than work, which equipment (armor, weapons, etc.) do you prefer?
• Is there a plan to rebalance the significant amount of underpowered equipment or is something else in the works? Or can we expect a huge rebalance update which will make people want to invest in the wide variety of items available but pathetically underpowered so more energy is being spent and more profit made?
• Will there be another expansion set of missions?
• Is there a plan to renew the Arcade or are missions forever going to be superior in rewards?
• Who keeps throwing reskin promos at us, and why is Wolver the only one of the three weapon specialist sets to be in any of them (Hunter, Surge, Hallow)?

I might have more questions later. I also might have to eat a sandwich using my toes to hold it. Delicious.

1. Mission system. A common criticism of the mission system is that it makes the Clockworks less populated and some people feel SK should be about exploring the Clockworks. How would you change the mission system so that it is better integrated into Clockworks? e.g. can we receive random missions while exploring Clockwork levels? Even better idea: can some missions be activated only when we venture into Clockworks?
2. King of Ashes. When can we expect a nerf for crown output?
3. Shopping. Do you feel Hall of Heroes make the game a lot easier, since players no longer need to venture into Clockwork terminals to buy recipes?
4. Crafting systems. I notice that the chance of UV tends to be clustered. i.e. there are times when I can get several UVs in a roll but other times no UV's show up for a very long time. Am I seeing things?
5. Others. If one day, Mr. James comes to you and ask you to develop a game, what would it be?
6. Miscellaneous. One of my GMs really wants a red light saber. He threatened us he will leave SK and play SWTOR. So can we have light sabers please?

-Can you please tell us the reasoning behind the Shard Bomb change? This is a big one; we're dying to know. (Literally, dying, in Lockdown anyway.)

-Also, how did you intend the new Shard Bombs to be used? This is also a big one.

-Mission 9-3, "The King of Ashes" is often done by Tier 3 players over and over again, to the exclusion of most everything else, so they can gain crowns faster. I doubt this was what was originally meant for Spiral Knights. Do you intend to balance the payout of missions so that the Clockworks give equal or more Crowns than Missions, and people actually use the Arcade again?

-Do you know why the developers talk with the community less than they seemed to in the old days? (Clockwork Confidentials aside, of course.)

-Finally, was Heart of Ice partially based on this suggestion of mine?

I got some very boring questions as a fellow Software Engineer here!

1) Is there automated testing (using jUnit or similar)? I've seen some bugs "resurface" after they are fixed so I'd think there isn't, but maybe you just forget about them.

2) Are there any interesting code branches that got killed for any reason?

3) How rapidly do you iterate on game features? Like, the team figures out you want a new feature, do you code and start testing it in the following days very quickly, or do you spend a lot of time planning it and only code it once for final? Also, do you make any cool features on your own and implement them to ask the team what they think of them? (I can imagine stuff like the pidgeon snipes being like this)

4) How much do you know your way around OOO libs? They are quite extensive from what I've seen, and I don't really know when you joined the company.

5) Do you prioritize getting features out fast, or having the code be properly structured and encapsulated and all that boring stuff?

6) I'd figure at this stage the game doesn't really need that much from the coding department, as the biggest burden is on content creation. Am I wrong? Do you actually have a long list of features to do you haven't got around to, or do you spend your time on other OOO projects or wearing a different developer hat?

7) Do you still have the very early revisions of the server software around, or did they die in some big repository fire or similar?

8) How do you feel about the general attitude of users towards Java being "not good" despite it performing fantastically well?

9) What even was the cause of those lagspikes we used to get when it was garbage collecting time on Shadow Lairs, and how did it get fixed?

10) I think another member that did software development left some time ago, were there any problems following that as he forgot to document anything important?

11) Why do OOO libs have almost no documentation?

12) Why aren't the Maven snapshots that one needs to compile OOO libs ever up to date? You guys update the stuff on github to ask for the newest snapshots but those take quite a while to be uploaded to Maven.

13) How big is the bug "to fix" list? What system do you use to keep track of known bugs?

14) Have you ever been embarrassed about leaving your curly brace open in public?

15) Do you think any part of SK's code is "unusually witty" in implementation?

Do you play SK (presumably anonymously)? How frequent do you play and what roles (Swordie, Gunner, Bomber) do you usually play as?

How difficult was it to code status effects? For example, how long did it take to work out the problems with stun?

what would you love to add to the game/What do you think the game really leaks ? ( personal wish )

Would you answer this question?

Thanks in advance.

On a bright sunny day, you decide to play SK. What would you do first? Clockworks? or Lockdown?

...how do you and your crew manage to get into code to edit it for tweaking the game/adding new things?

If you do manage to get the Legend of Zelda rights, how would you go about making the gear and costumes? Also, how would you incorporate them into the game? Would it be an event? Or a prize box thing? or some other form of promotion?

I was pretty sure Oceanus was Roman. Ah well, he was just a titan. Admittedly, he sided with the Gods, but that didnt mean he was particularly important after Poseidon came along. More like a steward. Then Triton came. An the rest of them..... Poor Oceanus...

As Metal-Rawr already said, chances are that the answer would be the standard "old shard bomb functionally, isn't very bomb like". That's if that question would get picked by Eury in the first place. I would suggest leave the shard bomb patch out of this and focus on how the Developers actually work and come up with ideas. Then we can see where they are being disconnected from the gamer base and suggest remedies to the COO.

IMO, this would probably be more productive.

Why is stun so difficult to change/fix?

Farming through the mission system has renderred the
arcade obsolete. Do you have any plans on bringing
back the arcade?

While the game is your main product, understanding
and responding to player sentiments is also very important,
especially for a MMO. Do you do anything to analyze
player feedback?

This is something's that's been bugging me for a while- are there any plans for the far future (or near future) to improve level design? Most look in the game look the same besides retextures, are there gonna be new objects/interactive stuff/traps to add variation?

It's made with Java. It's easy to tell. Just pop open the game, open a task manager, and you see a java process. Simple.

Also, one question for Eury:

There are a lot of questions regarding the game's features and what might happen in the future, as well as the core of the game. Are these questions going to be answered?

Mine, anyway, is when and why did you pick up programming?

(I started at the age of around 10 with the notion that game making was easy. Boy, was I really far from the truth. o.o)

What is beauty?

More seriously though,

What has been your biggest challenge on Spiral Knights?

Do you ever have arguments with the designers?

Why make it so we have to use energy for everything. Crafting, revive, missons, running through the clockworks.

what was difficult but enjoyable when making spiral knights.

Will there be more expansions along the way.

How much did it cost all together to create spiral knights

hey :)
could there be a way to combine 2 weapons or armor into 1?
like 1caliburs into 1better weapon