Spiral Knights - Poll: What update do you want next?

Poll: What update do you want next?

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Wed, 01/23/2013 - 23:45

Hollafamer

I am trying to design a poll that will hopefully give good feedback to 000 about what us players would really want next. Below I will list a group of game related items to choose from. If you want to suggest an update please do. If the update you suggest is good enough I will add it to the poll. Please select one of the choices below and if you want you may also tell us why. Thank you for your help and lets try to give 000 some solid feedback. I will be updating the results as often as I can.

Example

5. Gear Balancing

Why- Because blah blah blah

Choices
1. Danger Missions
2. Pets*Already announced but still in poll
3. Guild hall improvements- such as the RENT IS TOO DAM HIGH! mist wells and so on
4. Lockdown Maps- MO MAP equals MO better
5. Gear balancing- THAT IRON SLUG! All items that fall in this category is existing gear that need buffs or nerfs.
6. New gear- please state which gear you want more of such as swords/ guns/ bombs or amour sets. * OR an Extension to a line such as winmillion
7. New accessories- we need to make more costumes!
8. New promos- new rose anyone?
9. New Token bosses- if chosen please pick which tier such as t1,t2,t3
10. More Shadow lairs- SEERUS?
11. The Lab
12. New combat enhancements
13. Story
14. THE CORE!
15. Tortodrone
16. PVP Balancing
17. Servers- That LAG!
18. New blast network maps
19. Bugfixes
20. New Pvp modes- 1v1 lockdown or whatnot
21. Level balancing- Increasing the amount of heat, and crowns to compete with vanaduke.

Results
1. 7
2. 6
3. 2
4. 1
5. 27
6. 19
7. 0
8. 0
9. 15
10. 4
11. 5
12. 10
13. 11
14. 6
15. 8
16. 7
17. 7
18. 3
19. 3
20. 2
21. 2

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:04

Not-Impressed

This space for rent.

Numbers 1, 5, 11, 13, 14, and an Aussie server would be nice xD

Secretly though, what i really want is maybe a few new Blast Network maps.. Why does LD get all the love? D:>

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:11

Hollafamer

lol forgot about blast network. Thanks for reminding me.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:11

Luguiru

Five, because blah blah bl-

But seriously, so seriously that I did not make a stupid butt joke there I feel like a broken record repeating this even though I only repeat it once every twenty posts or so I make. People like having more to do. Equipment variety is something to do. The variety is there, but they only want to do it if the effort (and resources; CE, materials, gathering heat) is worth bothering to do when they could use those "hard earned" crowns from derpbillion Firestorm pillages on pretty ballerina dresses with stockings and shiny panties for normal use and headwear. Most equipment in this game, especially armor (helmets, torsos) are underpowered when compared to a couple of armor effects which have very distinct advantages while the underpowered armor has little to nothing in response. Take those underpowered items, scale them up, nerf stupidly overpowered stuff (the most well known candidate being Blitz), everyone is on the same playing field. Suddenly people realize there are other things they could spend their earned/bought CE on other than stupid keys for stupid cosmetics. Variety in gameplay. Happy players. CE is being eaten up to build all this equipment. Three Rings makes money.

Not that anyone else cares. Clearly the point of this game is to become a clone, grind your crotch against Vanaduke until he gets a restraining order on you, buy as many overpriced cosmetic stuff as you can find, then glue and staple all those cosmetic items anywhere they can fit. After that you play Lockdown and touch sausa- I mean swords with everyone who did the exact same thing until you decide to scream at the developers to give you more toys to play with that meet your standards but not too difficult because when a game requires a higher IQ than double digits it becomes too difficult to figure out.

Back to bed for me. If I can find it. I seem to have been transported to an alternate dimension where everything but my computer is inside-out. I can ramble about the other options if anyone wants and/or is bored enough to read what this box has to say in response to people who would choose them. As soon as I figure out how to sleep on an inside-out bed. The mattress is made of metal and the frame is made of cushions and springs.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:19

Hollafamer

Thanks for posting

Luguiru you bring up some solid points. The under-powered gear are usually only crafted for costume purposes or if people want to use them for a harder challenge.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:30

Crazycrayon

Pets!

Woof!

Yeah, and mabye the UPGRADE of armor and weapons, such as a five star winmillion, or maybe five star version of the scarlet shield, and etc.

Please?

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:43

Zaderules

1, 2, 6 (More gear that gives

1, 2, 6 (More gear that gives more variety of combinations, such as shadow/piercing defense bomber sets, or a poison brandish, or a curse bomb [OP of course :D], etc.), 9 (Token Items that give more variety and add to number 6), 10 (Offers more variety of sets as rewards), 11, 12 (Dual Wielding!), 13, 14, 15 (I wasn't in the beta :|), 16 (I'd say make an entire new PvP arena with new rules, new game, etc)

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:44

Rabeet-Ahsan

MOAR SHADOW

More shadow weapony possibly swords and bombs with statuses and buff the Azure Guardian set.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 00:57

Euclidean-Space

1. Aussie+Asian server for lagzone players.
2. Dat promised Iron Slug buffffffff!!!
3. Pets (officially called battle spirits)
4. Open that core and reveal its secrecy
5. PvP balancing, either nerf that damn striker or buff the other 2.
6. SL gunner set. (New gear)

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 01:37

Hollafamer

Thks guys

Last update for the night will update it again tomorrow. Also to make it easier for me please just say numbers.

5. Gear balancing

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 02:10

#10

Thetalkingcheese

5. and 17.

Gear balancing and better servers should be prioritized, seriously.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 02:30

#11

Nexassassin

Here's my cookie

5 and 12
:3

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 02:36

#12

Zeddy

This isn't on the list, but maybe fix shard bombs?
-Arbitrary hit limit needs to go.
-Disappearing shards need to go.
-Maybe make them able to actually hit Roarmulus Twins?
-Maybe do something so that they're not totally useless in Lockdown?

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 02:51

#13

Batabii

9 with a side-effect of

9 with a side-effect of 6

Because more tokens = more weapons, and we haven't had a new "true" boss in years. Isn't everyone sick of farming vana by now?

Oh and tier 3. if it wasnt obvious.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 03:57

#14

Dragneel-Wiki

MOAR SERVERS ! Preferably :

MOAR SERVERS !

Preferably : Eastern Europe or at least Moscow :3

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 05:09

#15

Gwenyvier

The Black Kat update that's

The Black Kat update that's on its way. Pets I'm kind of "meh" about until I see how they work. Aside from that I always like new gear (so you can take that to mean expansion missions, bosses that give tokens, whatever)... new toys make me a happy Gwenny. :D

~Gwen

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 05:49

#16

Grittle

I CHOOSE 5 13 16

I CHOOSE

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 06:00

#17

Rekkusu

5. Gear balancing- THAT IRON

5. Gear balancing- THAT IRON SLUG

THAT WINMILLION! It doesn't even have a 5* version

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 06:21

#18

Enfeebler

5. Gear Balancing That's the

5. Gear Balancing
That's the one for sure. Seems like because of lack of balance most of players' arsenal looks the same. Some swords are underpowered like Cutter, Troika, Calibur, Spur and 2/3(Flameberge/Rigadoon) of Flourish lines. Same goes for some of guns/bombs (you know the names). I'm still wondering why bombers have only elemental sets. That's small problem in comparison to other sets with family damage bonuses or w/o any offensive boost. There's hardly any use for those (with few exceptions).

6. New gear
Beside balancing I'd like to see some mobile piercing gun (Snarby line gun?) and a legit, pure DPS elemental and shadow bomb, similar to Blast Bomb line or Spine Cone line?.

9. New Token bosses
And make them Arcade only to revive some good, old Clockworks exploring. Seems like Black Kat might be one, and I'd add [15. Tortodrone] to that. All should be T3 in my opinion, to give endgame players something new + to give new goal for new players/older players who didn't get to T3 yet.

10. More Shadow lairs
New token bosses mean pretty much more SLs. Seerus shouldn't have one since it's DLC, SL is free (beside key cost), doesn't make sense.

13. Story
There are some things that could be expanded, we have King Tinkinzar, Crimson Order with a lot of bad guys we could fight. We still doesn't know too much about swarm. Missions were supposed to be one adding storyline but instead decreased Arcade usage. Everyone rushes through them (w/o reading dialogues) just to get access to bosses. I think boss missions should be 1-time mission, no repeating after completion. Other missions doesn't have that big payout which would revive Arcade boss runs.

16. PVP Balancing
Gear balancing would solve some of problems. After balancing items only thing left would be LD classes balance.

I haven't seen anything about adding new areas to Clockworks, beside bosses, I think a lot of players would like to see some old areas back. Shrine of Slumber (Slooms, sleep status), Vog Cub and maybe a Curse stratum?

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 07:40

#19

Zeddy

@Enfeebler

We already have the purest, legitest, DPSiest shadow bomb.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 07:48

#20

Rabeet-Ahsan

Don't tell tell me its the

Don't tell tell me its the Dark Retribution?

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 07:55

#21

Iamnoone

At this point in time, I have

At this point in time, I have no wants. I look at that list and it leaves me feeling kind of like (using Gwenyvier's word) meh. I haven't been unhappy with past updates. I like where OOO's is going with the site and the work they have been doing. I'd be happy with whatever they choose to give us and I would trust their decisions and the steps they took to take us where we are going.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 08:00

#22

Little-Juances

#15, half the work is already done. Wich in turn could become a #1 or #9.

Was it so broken that they havent used it yet and instead developed new mini-bosses? (Arkus, Maulos, etc)
Or is it like Iron Slug? They want to fix it but they dont have the means to do it the way they want.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 08:05

#23

Wodanct

9 - Tier 3. Tier 1 already has a decent starter boss and Tier 2 already has 2 bosses. Give end game players something more to do.

All of these would of been nice to have before I finally sold my Voltedge for 75k ce and retired for other games because after countless promos it gets hard for a person like me to keep interest in a game when Shadow Lairs aren't free and we've had the same 4 token bosses for over a year.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 09:29

#24

Heavy-Dragon

To put it as bluntly as I possibly can:

Server Stability

then Story

then Shinies.

three S'es.

S^3 ( Server, Story, Shinies.)

Sprites count as shinies.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 09:41

#25

Dragneel-Wiki

Please fellas, we want more

Please fellas, we want more servers for a non-lagging experience :(

Other than Servers, I would like to have moar of :

1. Story

2. Danger Missions

For people who want The Core, please don't be silly :P

If the core is opened, the game is dead for good. Which everyone doesn't want I think, right ?

X : I think not... I want SK dead ! Kill X !!!!

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 09:59

#26

Heavy-Dragon

Nah. core wouldnt end the game.

Core could just be the beginning. HQ already hinted that the knights feel like they "belong" on Cradle and are as reporting as such. The core could easily be presented as a story furtherance with an even deeper objective, using the "beneath my mask is another mask" trope.
OOO still has to explain the whereabouts of tinkinzar, the reason knights turn into trojans, and the origins of the swarm/ the mysterious voice in the echo stones.

Lots of content to come if they stretch it.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 11:23

#27

Eltia

Cooperstown, ND

OP may want to add the following to your list of choices:

bugs fix;
quota logic on mist well;
security feature on guild storage;

I also believe that your post would get a lot more eyeballs if you change the poll to "what updates you do not want to see". This way the Devs know what projects are dead end and can focus their energy on more productive items.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 11:47

#28

Galax-Zero

10,15,11,12,14

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 12:25

#29

Merethif

5/9/15

5. Gear balancing - Iron Slug and Winmillion issues being top priority.

15. Tortodrone - Do I even need to explain?

EDIT:
9. (I totally agree with Aumir's post below on that point)

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 12:15

#30

Aumir

19.

Erase the pay to play walls of Shadow Lairs and Crimson Hammer. Bam, 5 new dungeons!

In order of preference:
13. We got this mass of darkness called the Swarm and nobody does anything?
9. Do you want me to answer? Ok:
- Two bosses for Tier 1, one that is shadow and another one elemental.
- One more boss for Tier 2, a shadow one.
- Two more for Tier 3, a piercing one and an elemental one.
You know, variety!

5. FIX THE (perfectly fine before change) SHARD BOMBS. You could like, make a linear attack to where they lay to explode later and give that the "hit limit" so no claymore happens. You know, if they could implement the hit limit, why did they break the bomb? Well, and fix other weapons and armors (WHY STILL MAD BOMBER IS THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE NEGATIVE STATUSES, even Chaos Set may be better overall if you aren't pure bomber! Just don't give it status resistances, and done!)

6. A shadow bomb that doesn't want to force me to join Steam or shell some bucks because OOO doesn't want the money other people paid before. Graviton is fun but lacks punch, and notShards... NEVER like they are now. Oh, and that 5* Heavy Deconstructor, elemental please. And that 5* Winmillion, though they will break it when they catch sight of it.

Totally egocentrical choice - 12. I suggested this Shield Counterattack thing that maybe would be interesting later on...

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 12:11

#31

De-Killer

2 11 :D

2
11
:D

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 12:32

#32

Etharaes

And the numbers are:

5: The imbalance in this game is pretty big
6: I don't care what new shinies we get as long as it gives me new playstyles
9: I want a new place in T3 with high payout that ISN'T FSC, preferrably weak to shadow (I feel sorry for that damage type)
12: New combat options, yay
13: This game is quite lacking in lore
15: I WANT MY TORTODRONE! And I shall face him using my omega shell.

In short I just want new battle content, and I didn't include SLs because I haven't been into even 1 yet.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 12:48

#33

Rangerwillx

1v1/private LD match/FFA LD,
9 (T3),
12,
14.
(In order of what I want in what order..not that it'll make any difference.)

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 16:08

#34

Hollafamer

Poll updated

Good feedback guys Appreciated it :). Looks like Gear Balancing is dominating early on. I also added two more choices. More pvp modes such as 1v1 lockdown mentioned by Rangerwillx. Added bug-fixes as well mentioned by Elita. Some people might be fine with how the game is but want certain bugs cleaned up. Anyways keep the votes coming. Hopefully we can get a lot of feedback that will be useful to 000.

@Zeddy- Shard bombs would be under Gear balancing so put you down for that

@Elita- Those other two suggestions would fall under guild hall improvements. I tried to make the choices broad so a lot of certain things would fall under it and we won't have a huge list. Thanks for you suggestions

Also 5* winmillion and others would be under New gear, not gear balancing.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 16:19

#35

Owlert

9. New Token bosses T3

9. New Token bosses

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 16:40

#36

Skyguarder

._.

First of all, lag can never be fixed, because it all depends on the amount of players and your internet.

Second, I choose 1 and 5

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 16:41

#37

Ewwvww

Stuffs

If number 5 includes getting a 5* super slime slasher everyone should vote 5. Just saying.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 16:41

#38

Eltia

Cooperstown, ND

Well, your description of GH improvements have a subtext emphasizing upkeep is too high. So this gives me (or other people as well) the impression that you were specifically addressing the upkeep problem (which is a big problem but not the only one relating to GH).

Mist well and guild storage both deserve separate items because they are magnets for guild drama and headache for guild administrators.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 17:01

#39

Iapnez

5 AND 6. Winmillion and

5 AND 6. Winmillion and Cautery Sword lines would be awesome, and I'd like the Suda to get its stun back on normal attacks as balancing. Maybe make the Winmillion not be so useless for a T3 sword? Somethin' like that.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 19:12

#40

Hollafamer

update

So far out of the 31 who have put down votes. Almost half have voted for Gear balancing. I will add percentages down the line as more people post.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 19:38

#41

Mzculet

WHO WANTS TO OPEN THE CORE?

WHO WANTS TO OPEN THE CORE? Why? you do know core opens and we leave planet and the end game?

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 20:18

#42

Klipik

5. Because I like balance. And Iron Slug.

16. Because I like balance more when people complain about imbalance.

4. Because we need maps that don't cater to "run as fast as you can everywhere".

6. Because variety is good. As long as it doesn't get to the TF2 level of "ermahgerd which wepun do i geet dere r sew meni". That's just confusing.

5 Again because we need to do 5 to 6. *stares at OCH gear*

12. Because if the game gets harder, I want to be able ro fight back with style. Also, brandish charge spamming gets boring quickly.

13. Because I am a lore nerd.

15. Because YES.

Some other things:

-More enemies!
-make the enemy AI better.
-Different level design. Maybe something like this? ;)

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 21:26

#43

Venomousbiohazard

Game needs balancing.

15, 16, 5

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 21:39

#44

Canozo

Winmillion 5* !

I choose 5 and 6.
6 over 5 if you can only choose one.

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 22:01

#45

Hexlash

This poll seems very useful...

I honestly have to say, that my number 1 choice would be 2 PETS. After I saw the planned update, I practically fainted, the stuff their planning to add, is FAR more then I could EVER have imagined for 'pets' the possibilities really have been pushed here, and I URGE them to work on it as much as they can so that we have them ASAP!!!! But of course, that's me being selfish. When they add this, maxed players might enjoy it some-what, and then Idk, create the ultimate pet, get bored and leave, so AFTER (:3) they're done creating pets, I would probably say that we need to add more STUFF in general in SK.
More gear, more levels, more everything really. So for any number that suggests adding or re-adding features, I'm all for. And yeah, gear balancing would be fair :3

FREAKIN BATTLE SPRITES FTW :D

Thu, 01/24/2013 - 22:06

#46

Feline-Grenadier

I just want the game to be a bit more harder than it was in the past. If it means balancing all the weapons, then I will opt for that.

Fri, 01/25/2013 - 00:33

#47

Hollafamer

Poll updated

Gear balancing continues to dominate. Close second belongs to New gear. And also interesting to see no votes yet for promos and accessories. I honestly didn't see Gear balancing being so highly demanded since very few threads ever get made about it, at least on the general discussion section. To anyone reading this who hasn't posted yet. Please do your feedback does matter. And the more people who post feedback the better it will be for 000.

Fri, 01/25/2013 - 13:15

#48

Merethif

@Hollafamer

@Hollafamer,
Actually I wanted to mention new promos, but I'd love to see "real" promo like we used to have, the one with totally new, awesome costumes and accessories.

...not one of those "reacolour all".

Fri, 01/25/2013 - 15:51

#49

Hollafamer

Im with ya^

Ya to be honest we should be allowed to change the color of our gear anyways. Just like we can change our personal color. Hopefully 000 could get back to their roots and create more original promos again.

Fri, 01/25/2013 - 16:20

#50

Not-Impressed

This space is for rent.

Did you forget to put 19 and 20 on the choices list? They are on the vote/results list but i don't see them on the choices..

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