"PvP arena: Because, I think there is a good reason why devs took it out before the release. I think devs took it out, because it has to do with problems like, laggy players that ruin the game or balance issues (Like everyone wears the Vog Set + Swift Buckler + Faust = 1 shot kill everyone)."

The laggy players issue I'll give you, but you have laggy players in ALL MMOs. If you want an amazing example of lag try out Runes of Magic and go to Varanas City... jump lag is normal, and crash lag is not uncommon either(and this is on systems that run WoW without issue). As for the balance issue... wouldn't happen due to something called meta-game. If EVERYBODY is using a certain build then that means somebody will come up with a counter for it. In your example everybody is using Vog Cub, a weak shield, and a Faust. If you know said build runs rampart in PvP then an easy counter for it is to use the Valkyrie or Dread Skelly sets, either a Flourish or your own Faust... or if you're a real sadist Freeze them then do whatever you want to them. If the counter I mentioned becomes popular (and they decide to go with using a Flourish) then the Royal Jelly set could become popular to counter the Piercing.

The items popular in PvE are often not the same that are used in PvP, mostly because AI enemies are generally stupid and will stand there while you charge up your ungodly uber powerful spirit bomb (insert 5 episodes of ARGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!). A player seeing that on the other hand is going to go "don't think so" and do everything possible to peg you with something to stop your charge.

~Gwen

@Matoro:

Games don't require a certain amount of players to add an Auction House. There's plenty of games I've played that are released with an Auction House right off the bat.

The only thing that prevents a company from releasing content like this is their own development team, as well as the fact if they even want such content in the game to begin with.

Runescape isn't a good game to compare -anything- to, it's a hunk of trash.

Perhaps they should just make arena specific equipment for pvp to be purchased with only in crowns. It would serve as a crown sink.

Crazy pie-in-the-sky dream for me: Spiral Knights gets an implementation of Dominion, which proceeds to infect the player base and become a major driver of CE transactions.

I was thinking about this earlier and it might be cool to have a PVP work similar to online shooters where you are all balanced and have the same weapons to choose from.

I could see it working randomly, by Tier - so 0-2* for T1 etc...

Gear would be randomized at start, everyone gets same armor and shield as well as same 4 weapons. Random each time, I think that would be cool, everyone at same playing field, you get ot test out weapons you may never actually play with, and takes a bit of strategy each time to figure out how to beat your opponents.

*snicker*

bish please, they had specific pvps for each tier, plus a free for all pvp.

at least you're honest about your flaws, "actually fairly decent; but I rage at people easily"

ooh ooh, I think I'll be a "real sadist" then :D
and nuuu, royal jelly is my thing, if it becomes popular, it'll be mainstream, and mainstream is too mainstream. :<

Probably could've. I could edit it if it's such a deal *but without delete it'd be the same anyway one post and then some blank ones.. well considering it took like an hour to post all of those, it wouldn't really have worked out anyway, well. maybe some staffer will come and merge em or something? doubt it though.

How would you be able to block close range attacks? If you use your sheild, the enemy will just break it. The best thing I can think of is creating knock back with the sheilds, so if you block an attack, the person who hit your shield is pushed a couple steps back, giving you time to counter.

How bout if two people cross sword(both swings at roughly the same time) They will be required to do a combo move like Up down left right or left right down up , the guy who does the move fastest will be able to hit the other?

and at right timing, gun bullets can be ricocheted by the Shield/Sword Swing?

@Rap Oh wow has that? Hmm didn't know that cause I don't like WoW even though I've tried it vanilla and after they revamped it.

What's the numbers stand for?

Lol wow I seriously considered he had multiple personalities.

Technically you can just copy and paste the link in, you don't need to use a href, but it is helpful, and most boards support some kind of HTML so, I think it would be good to learn some simple code. Most of which is provided for you right under the comment box you type in.

Bets on how long until it comes? :D

Nick wrote:
Our next update will make 'Basil invites' obsolete.

Dunno if that has anything to do with the second building, but it could

I was always wondering if the broken lift next to Basil is ever getting fixed.

We got something new!

(What? Not what you expected?)

More hints via twitter, I'd expect a Facebook update sometime today then too.
http://twitter.com/#!/NickPopovich

The Impos- err, Nick Popovich' s latest Twitter post says, "Oh cluttered trade channel, this may be our last night together. Sorry, but I won't miss you. I've auctually met someone else."
Yes, the mispelled "actually" is from the original tweet.
So, yeah, I'm pretty sure it'll be an Auction House.

Searching on "Spiral Knights" turned this up today:
New Features
Supposedly they're also adding a "Training Hall"...

It will almost certainly still leave the table cluttered with balance issues, materials drop rates and value concerns, lag issues, room for PvP, guildhalls, and on and on.

Almost every release has a small pile of minor fixes and tweaks. You either have to catch an off-hand Dev statement or have really discerning eyes. Such as how there's a host of lag fixes coming, but if you don't hang out on the technical side of things you'd never know are happening. As for drop rates... I'm fairly certain those can be changed without a release.

As for Gamasutra, that seems like some character ignored the release timing statement.