Spiral Knights - The collaborative list of small suggestions

The collaborative list of small suggestions

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Sat, 04/27/2013 - 07:59

Hexzyle

Usually I'm against collaboration threads due to the fact that they draw attention away from each idea and lack of reading feedback means that OPs usually lose control of their threads. However, I've noticed a large number of brilliant, yet small suggestions pop up, recieve good feedback, then disappear due to being complete. This makes me sad, as I'm not sure if the developers got to read said threads so I'm making a "clothesline" thread to keep some of those great ideas in one place, where they won't be lost forever. (and therefore duplicated many many times)

I'll be putting simple, undisputable, one-liner ideas up here, ones that are relatively easy to understand and possibly easy to implement. There won't be balancing suggestions here, as those requires indepth discussion. If you have anything to add, be that to existing suggestions or your own, leave a comment. If you disagree with any of these ideas, I'd like to hear why. 99% of these suggestions are not mine: I take no credit for them. (I'm actually working on a page on the wiki going over all the suggestions that have been added into the game, and who suggested them)

Ok, here we go:

▓▓▓▓▓ SECTION #1: UTILITY ▓▓▓▓▓

Standardized Time Clock

When collaborating with guild functions or whatever, it's far easier to work off a centralized time. This way you don't need to know how to convert your own time into someone else's time or whatever. The clock would be attached to the minimap, and would run on the same time as the Arcade gate clock. (image taken from thread 66979)

Improve Forum Engine

You said you were working on it, and we're still waiting. The current engine is horrible and doesn't really allow much customization at all. Don't care how you do it, fix it please.

Knight Rename

✔ Allow us to change our knight's name
Make the original name unavailable for 30 days.
During this 30 day period, have the original username as a biline on the Friend List and above the Knight themselves

Arsenal Sorting

Have some sort of sorting method for the Arsenal, be that either through folders, or through "marking" weapons with different colours/symbols and then hiding everything but a certain colour/symbol, etc

Loadouts

Make the default for newly created loadouts as umarked PvP, that way more people will be able to enter Tier 1 and 2 lockdown without being baffled by the loadout system

Iron Buckler

Give it Bomb Damage Bonus: Medium. Yeah, I know I said I wouldn't add any balancing suggestions in here but this one is a small change, useful (for getting new players into bombing) and didn't receive any negative feedback.

MSI Trinkets

Following the trend of weapon trinkets, have MSI trinkets available in 4 star (Low) and 5 star (Medium)

Guild Hall

Add Brinks to the Guildhall: Probably into the Alchemy Room, or as a one-off purchasable piece of furniture that can be placed wherever you want
Allow officers to invite non-guild members to the guild hall, regardless of its public status.
Allow officers to add players to their guild's "block list", which prevents added players from entering the guild hall
In the Guild Hall's Alchemy Room, replace one of the crafting machines with a pet food machine

Sent Mail

Allow us to re-read (and also resend to other people) mail that we have sent

Multiple Recipients

Add an option to mail multiple recipients for a linear cost. Only crowns and energy can be attached.

Export Mail

Add an "export to txt" option to received mail

PvP

Spectating: Allow players to "join" their friends/guildmates who are spectating a match, and be able to spectate them if they are playing via a context menu in the Social Panel.
Scoreboard: Allow people to access the Auction House while they wait for their next match to start

Autotarget

Have a setting that changes the Autotarget key from hold-to-toggle to press-to-toggle

Energy Depot

Allow us to purchase less revive sparks but at a lower price efficiency

Friend Inspect

Allow us to choose if we only want to show off full inspect to our friends or guildmates instead of everyone

Party Room Naming

Allow us to give our parties a "name/subject title" so that when people see the party in party finder, or hover over the player's name in the friendslist, they can see the theme of the run.

Voice Chat

Add in voice chat for the standalone client

Battle Sprites Auto-Target

Provided the setting is turned on and the player isn't frozen

Friendslist Sorting

Allow the list to be sorted by last login date, not just alphabetically

Watch List

Add a watch button to the Auction House so we can track items without needing to bid on them first.

Ignore Settings

Add a checkbox to the Spiral Uplink > Mail, that hides all guild invites
Add a checkbox to the Spiral Uplink > Mail, that hides all guild invites
Add a third button to Party Invite requests that allows you to ignore all party invites. The Activities tab would then turn red and a button deactivating this would appear where the Party Invite button is normally.
Add a third button to Trade Requests that allows you to ignore all trade requests. The Activities tab would then turn red and a button deactivating this would appear where the Party Invite button is normally.

Feedable Materials

Allow pets to eat any and all materials

Excess Rarities

Allow rarities to be sold to vendors

▒▒▒▒▒ #1.1: CLARITY ▒▒▒▒▒

Charge Effects

✔ Change the graphics/sounds for charging weapons so that you can discern between yours and your party member charge attack dings.

Auction House Misclicks

Give Buy Now and Bid a confirmation prompt to prevent accidentally buying/bidding on items with one click

Forging Misclicks

Give the Forge a confirmation prompt to prevent accidentally wasting large amounts of Radiants.

Vatel's Personal Colours

Sort them by colour, not by name, so they're not all over the place and you can find the precise colour you want to change to

Sell Energy Offer

Put the more relevant information in the right box: http://i.imgur.com/XXdInoq.png

Haze Bombs

Add in a second visual blast radius to display where the haze bomb deals damage to

New GUI Fixes

Fix the new GUI cutting party names too short
Bring back the energy status circles for other knights in your party
Give dead players an icon so you know they're dead
Resort the depth ordering on the minimap so you can see party member icons over the huge map icons
Bring back the "Standing on Elevator" indicator, and possibly one for "Standing on Party Button" (So we know when someone's in a Danger Room)
Improve health and shield UI for teammates

Damage Numbers

In Lockdown. (It's toggle-able of course)

Colorblind Mode

This would affect team colors in Lockdown, Weapons with status branches, and Vial Icons.

Latency Meter

Either make it a number, have a number pop up when we hover the mouse over the meter, or allow us to ping the server with /ping

Sprite Appetite

Add some sort of system to indicate when it can't be fed anymore instead of us needing to ram food into its mouth and then get frustrated when it doesn't swallow. Oh Flandre that sounded wrong.

Duration Abilities

Add a system that makes the duration of the abilities more obvious, such as the increased time on the Hexing Haze, and both the duration and the shield remaining of the Seraphynx's shield. This could possibly be layered over the shield bar

Material Notifications

Add the ability to turn material notifications in the chat feed off, it's spammy and not really necessary anymore because we already know that we're getting all the materials we pick up anyway

Knight Creation

When hovering over a colour at Knight creation, have the name of the colour as a tooltip

Curse Indicator

When holding a cursed weapon, the Knight should have a curse-coloured ring around their feet like the purple GM ring. This way we're not crutching on a weapon wheel to tell what weapons are cursed

Party Member Messages

Whenever players join and leave the party, have a message appear in chat delivering their status. Possibly also contextual messages and cause of death messages added in light humour.

Lockdown Queues

Split the Lockdown queue counters by tier so that players can tell if others are waiting on a match of the same tier as them.

Elevator Transitions

Add animations to give short warnings on when elevators are changing what their destination is. Perhaps a flickering of the screen for a few seconds, or animate the Gate Map with sliding levels.

Heart Attack

Cause the hearts dropped by heart attack to have a different sprite so its effect is evident (art by Qwote)

Design Mode Notifications

If a member of a guild makes any changes whatsoever in Design Mode, (such as picking up a piece of furniture) have a message in the Guild's record saying "[Member] made changes to the guild hall in design mode" so that Veterens who intentionally or unintentionally mess up the set out of things without publishing can be pinpointed

Battle Sprite Perk

The Battle Sprite Perk should be shown when hovered over in the Arsenal

Map Transparency

Make the Large Map more transparent while moving

▒▒▒▒▒ #1.2: TIME SAVING ▒▒▒▒▒

Vendor in Town Square

An NPC which we can sell crap to, without needing to run to the Bazaar. Be that through the Auction House, changing Kozma/Supply Depot so we can sell stuff to it, whatever.

Minerals and Blocks

Create a system (be it a 1 damage "punch", or some other alternate, fast attack) so that bombers and wielders of slow swords and guns can break minerals and stone blocks without taking forever

Bomb Smoke

Alternatively, convert the smoke animation from a failed bomb charge into some sort of spark or "energy release" animation that does 1 damage in a small area around the player.

Grass

In the same light as the Minerals and Blocks suggestion, give charge attack bullets "graze damage", in which they deal 1 damage every quarter of a second of their trajectory so that they destroy all grass in their path.

Caustic Quills

Allow them to cause damage to environmental props such as breakable blocks, minerals, and switches

Add a Hotkey for the Gate Map

Self-explanatory

Clockworks Rotation

Be able to pay a certain amount of energy to speed up the rotation of a floor

Mail

Fix Duplicate Mail: Have patch notes and maintenance mails sent as an account-wide mail, just like promotional Haven Treasury mail, so we only have to accept them once
Accept All Mail Attachments: When buying a lot of materials off the Auction House, this would help a lot. It could possibly only apply to Auction House mail so that players don't get narky at each other over items they don't recall accepting through the mail.
✔ Add Contact: When composing a mail, allow the player to click on names from the Social Panel to auto-complete the name entry for the letter (As some players have difficult to type names)

Batch Crafting

Allow us to select before a craft how many of a particular item we wish to craft (the material and crown cost increases with each increment)

AFK Party Members

Cause sleeping (AFK for 5 minutes) party members to teleport to party buttons, but not elevators

Sprite Food

The variable material requirement should automatically default to whatever material that we have the most of. Additionally, the player should be able to increase the quantity of the food that they wish to craft.

Command Shortcuts

Autofill player names in written commands so emoting people with clumsy names is easier, for example, "/wave yggdrassil" could be replaced by "/wave ygg" provided no other players in the same instance had a name starting with "ygg". This would not work for private messaging or invites as that is far too broad.

Sparks of Life

Allow them to be purchasable while in a Mission Lobby or in a Subtown

▒▒▒▒▒ #1.3: MECHANICS FLAWS ▒▒▒▒▒

Party "Voting"

Either allow party members to "vote in" a new party leader, or remove the party leader mechanic altogether and make it so players must vote in order to kick others

Tabbed Chat

Although the new scroll bar has helped alleviate the chat problem severely, we're still missing the fundamental MMO ability to switch between chat channels using tabs.

Hall of Heroes

Only allow a player to buy one recipe of each type at a time, and make recipes not show up if the player already knows the recipe, or if they already have the same bound recipe in their inventory.

Vendoring Recipes

Increase the sellback price for recipes by tenfold

Elevator Prize Wheel

If the elevator is for the end of a mission/clockworks run, have it not award vials, pills or hearts to players. Also, either remove the chance of getting hearts if you are fallen, or add it to the base health that you get at the beginning of the next level.

New GUI Fixes

Allow vials to be shifted to slots that don't contain anything

Closed Guild Hall

Have the server return if a guildhall is closed before we enter it, so we don't have to go through the loading screen of the Garrison

PvP

Disconnecting: If no other changes are made to alleviate the problem of leavers, make it so that disconnected players are not immediately kicked from a PvP match
Recons: In Lockdown, remove recon's footprints
Redo the killcam so you aren't able to track your killer after you're dead
If you are spectating a GvG match in which your guild is taking part in, restrict spectating to your guild members only.

Action Key

The ability to split up the functions of the action key to attack and activate. Both can be assigned to the same key if the player wishes, or they can be assigned to different keys so the player doesn't revive/activate/re-energize/pickup things while in the middle of combat

Unaccepted Attachments

Have unaccepted attachments automatically returned to the sender's inventory after a month has passed, with a mail from the system notifying the player that the item has been returned to them. This prevents sent attachments from disappearing into thin air 60 days after they were sent and not accepted by either player.

▓▓▓▓▓ SECTION #2: BUGS ▓▓▓▓▓

Sudaruska's Stun

Now that stun is fixed, put it back on the second swing, like how the Triglav freezes on the second swing.

Fix Wiki Accounts

Steam users are still unable to log into the wiki directly

Divine Mantle

Give it Damage Bonus VS Fiends: Medium like the Divine Veil, or make it Low per piece (so it doesn't overshadow Valkyrie)

Elevator Bugs

Fix the timer related bugs and inconveniences relating to joining a party that has just gotten onto the elevator, and being kicked while standing on the elevator

Loadout Bug

Loadout Bug: Fix the temperamental "Not in Locker Room" bug that prevents us from changing our loadouts, even when in the Locker Room.

Fix Crescent Helm Slots

The Cobalt Helm and Spiral Crescent Helm have frontal accessory slots, but the Frosty, Hallow and Surge Crescent Helms do not. Additionally, the Spiral Crescent Helm has a top accessory slot, but the Cobalt and Ignition Helms do not. Can we have all slots on all Crescent-shaped helms?

Fix Crusader Helm Slots

Similarly, the Storm Crusader Helm has a front accessory slot, but the Almirian Crusader Helm does not. Would be great if these two helms had matching slots since they are simply just reskins of eachother.

Fix Jelly Helm Slots

Finally, the Ice Queen Helm has a top accessory slot while the Royal Jelly Helm does not.

▓▓▓▓▓ SECTION #3: COSMETIC ▓▓▓▓▓

Weather and Day Cycles in Haven

The speed of the day cycles is debatable, if that is implemented, but please make weather effects toggle-able if they're added. Leave extensive discussion here

Shadow Accessories

✔ It's a pretty popular suggestion for some reason

Design Mode Icon

Change the icon for players who are in design mode of their guildhalls. Just add a spanner to the bottom corner of the guildhall icon, like how there's an eye icon on players who are spectating Lockdown.

Swifstrike Buckler Appearance

Make the green on it Prismatic. You know you want to ^_^

Forum Avatars

Expand the list of selectable forum avatars, especially the complete lack of gunslinger avatars

Costume Shields

Not costume weapons, because that would be silly. But costume shields would allow people to wear stuff as a complete set.

Remove Duplicate Placeholder Models

This affects all Gunslinger Hats (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and the Toxic Needle/Needle Shot

Weapon Renaming

Another crownsink via Punch or Vise

Emotes and Taunts

Animate more of the emotes, especially the dance emote, and add more emotes such as taunts. Additionally, allow certain enemies/bosses/NPCs to be targetable by emotes

Battle Sprites

Create emotes that cause Battle Sprites to perform the emote, or edit existing emotes so that Battle Sprites partake in the emote in addition to the knight

Zoom

Allow the zoom function to be used everywhere, not just Haven

Screen Shakes

✔ Have an option to remove all those flashy, shaky, effects. They're painful for some people, and downright annoying for many others. This includes low health warnings, all damage indicators except invinciframes and dropped pips, revive blasts and screen shakes from Bombs and the Tier 1 Equipment Buff Patch

Toothpick Trails

Either add the toothpick trails to low graphics quality, or remove the Final Flourish trail from low graphics quality

Costume Prestige Awards

Add awards for passing certain levels of prestige. Prismatic Crests and (✔) Recon Ranger Squad equips for example.

Weapon Wielding

Give the option to wield weapons either in the left hand, or with two hands (and the shield be invisible)

Proto Armor

Add the different proto armors into Greave's inventory. Either allow us to "paint" the proto armor a different color using an item from Vatel, or have every different piece with every different color available from Greave (although that might be a bit clumsy)

Sash Accessory Slot

Add frontal accessory slots to the Gunslinger and Magic lines

Weapon Naming

Add the ability to name a weapon with a tag bought with a sum of Crowns or Energy. Also implement a weapon name blacklist that you add entries to whenever someone reports an inappropriate weapon name.

Crescent Helm Visor

Add the ability to change the "mode" of items. Specifically, the Crescent Helm's Visor, to either open or closed. This would apply to Spiral Crescent, Cobalt Line, Ignition, Tri-Guard, and Guardian Helms.

Shoulder Accessory Slot

Some armors have addons like the Azure guardian's armguard and sash, and the Snarbolax's shoulder detail. Accessories could be designed for this position on other armors

▓▓▓▓▓ SECTION #4: COMPILATION ▓▓▓▓▓

These ideas have been mentioned in earlier sections, but I've compiled them here if you want to view a specific theme of ideas.

New GUI Fixes

Fix the new GUI cutting party names too short
Bring back the energy status circles for other knights in your party
Give dead players an icon so you know they're dead
Resort the depth ordering on the minimap so you can see party member icons over the huge map icons
Allow vials to be shifted to slots that don't contain anything
Bring back the "Standing on Elevator" indicator, and possibly one for "Standing on Party Button" (So we know when someone's in a Danger Room)

Guild Hall

Add Brinks to the Guildhall: Probably into the Alchemy Room, or as a one-off purchasable piece of furniture that can be placed wherever you want
Have the server return if a guildhall is closed before we enter it, so we don't have to go through the loading screen of the Garrison again.
Allow officers to invite non-guild members to the guild hall, regardless of its public status.
Allow officers to add players to their guild's "block list", which prevents added players from entering the guild hall
In the Guild Hall's Alchemy Room, replace one of the crafting machines with a pet food machine
If a member of a guild makes any changes whatsoever in Design Mode, (such as picking up a piece of furniture) have a message in the Guild's record saying "[Member] made changes to the guild hall in design mode" so that Veterens who intentionally or unintentionally mess up the set out of things without publishing can be pinpointed

Mail

Sent Mail: Allow us to re-read (and also resend to other people) mail that we have sent
Fix Duplicate Mail: Have patch notes and maintenance mails sent as an account-wide mail, just like promotional Haven Treasury mail, so we only have to accept them once
Accept All Mail Attachments: When buying a lot of materials off the Auction House, this would help a lot. It could possibly only apply to Auction House mail so that players don't get narky at each other over items they don't recall accepting through the mail.
✔ Add Contact: When composing a mail, allow the player to click on names from the Social Panel to auto-complete the name entry for the letter (As some players have difficult to type names)
Have unaccepted attachments automatically returned to the sender's inventory after a month has passed, with a mail from the system notifying the player that the item has been returned to them. This prevents sent attachments from disappearing into thin air 60 days after they were sent and not accepted by either player.
Add an option to mail multiple recipients for a linear cost. Only crowns and energy can be attached.
Add an "export to txt" option to received mail

PvP

Spectating: Allow players to "join" their friends/guildmates who are spectating a match, and be able to spectate them if they are playing via a context menu in the Social Panel.
Disconnecting: If no other changes are made to alleviate the problem of leavers, (such as allowing a spectator to fill the slot) make it so that disconnected players are not immediately kicked from a PvP match
Recons: In Lockdown, remove recon's footprints
Damage Numbers: In Lockdown. (It's toggle-able of course)
Loadout Bug: Fix the temperamental "Not in Locker Room" bug that prevents us from changing our loadouts, even when in the Locker Room.
Redo the killcam so you aren't able to track your killer after you're dead
If you are spectating a GvG match in which your guild is taking part in, restrict spectating to your guild members only.
Scoreboard: Allow people to access the Auction House while they wait for their next match to start
Split the Lockdown queue counters by tier so that players can tell if others are waiting on a match of the same tier as them.

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 08:04

Dragneel-Wiki

I won't read it, because I know that it's fine as long as Hex is the one who wrote it.

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 08:10

Zeddy

Spectate a friend in Lockdown from a context option in the friends list.

Pay 2 energy at an elevator to advance it by a cycle.

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 08:43

Klipik

-Fix Guardian Shield

-Add VOIP to more places, Haven/PvP

-Make a Developer Blog of some sort so we have some semblance of an idea of what OOO is up to before they are 90% done with it

-Let steam accounts log in to the wiki

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 11:20

Troll-Lolo

+9000

I love these ideas, admins need to look ideas like these that are player friendly and are easy to implement.

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 12:01

Dragneel-Wiki

I am going to add somethings.

1.fix the recon bugs in LD
2.remove the screen shake caused by getting hit in LD
3.LD Customised lobbies.
4.improve the AH interface, nake if more functional.
5.seperating the mist and crystal energy storage.
6.add more rewards for prestige points
7.fix the new shard bombs knockback
8.fix the loadout bug in LD

I will add more later.

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 17:56

Geosmin

Thanks for this topic! Imma bookmark it.

"Give dead players an icon so you know they're dead"

Also, put a little indicator somewhere to make it easy to tell if some one has split health with a player; I sometimes hover over players clicking the attack button because I'm not sure if some one has given them health and feel I have a big enough opening to use chat to ask and/or time to wait for a reply.

Shrink the player portrait to the size of the other party member portraits? It's not obtrusive enough to make me feel like I'm wearing blinders, but it does strike me as rather obnoxious.

Re: swipe "attack" for bombs, I'd suggest instead giving shield-bump the ability to break up ore spires- one fix for all weapon combos, including heavy swords and Magnus-types. Also Re: bomb swipe, I'd like an actual attack with maybe half of a typical gun's damage per hit, but that's getting outside the realm of small suggestions...

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 18:14

Klipik

more things

-Typing indicator (". . ." text bubble or something, different colors for different types of chats, disable-able)

-Option to rescale GUI to match resolution

-Alternative to the "1 dmg punch" thing... why not make blocks/minerals have a certain amount of HP, so you can OHKO them with enough damage?

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 20:55

Hexzyle

@Zeddy

"Pay 2 energy at an elevator to advance it by a cycle."

Not too sure about this one, seeing as all the Domes cycle simultaneously for every player (due to it being server-wide a.k.a cradle-wide)
I don't see how players can shove several gigatonnes of steel and stone (and therefore disturbing other players who were trying to get to the elevator leading to the level you're switching off) with just 2 mist energy. (Sorry, I wanted to go off onto a realistic tangent with that ^_^)

@Klipik

-Fix Guardian Shield

Eh, that's a lockdown balancing thread... kinda don't want to touch that seeing as it's heavily debatable all the different ways that lockdown can be balanced, so I'll leave someone else to discuss that or make a "lockdown balancing megathread".

-Add VOIP to more places, Haven/PvP

I think the main reasons for not having more than 4 people connected via voice chat is 1. Lag. 2. Abusing (especially in lockdown) 3. Absolute noise spam. 4. Inability for OOO staff to be able to track down complaints officially without having to record audio conversations

@Dragneel-Wiki

Those are all balance suggestions, which probably need their own threads (and do have their own threads which extensive discussion has taken place in), I'm trying to keep this thread for simple but useful ideas that only require one or two sentences to explain.

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 21:04

Mrgrey

Cool

I like all those listed in OP. +1

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 22:03

#10

Hexzyle

Thanks

I went through the first 50 or so pages of suggestions to get most of them ^_^ some of the others were from memory

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 22:13

#11

Geosmin

+1, emphatically, to Gate Map hotkey and Prismatising Swifty!

P.S. Also allow shields to cut down the bushes that are too low to stop projectiles, it feels wrong IMO to be tempted to bring a sword or bomb for that when I happen to feel like using just guns. More generally, I don't like feeling pressured to choose one weapon over another simply for cutting down on the tedium of those wastes of time I'm compulsively driven to do.

Move the spawn-in point for returning to Town Hall. The points for Bazaar and Arcade are not my ideal, but I can easily imagine them to be ideal for a lot of poeps, but I can't say the same for Town Hall; it's as far as possible from the AH and all the doors to other places peops are likely to want to go, except for when some promos are going, which is a minority of the time.

Maybe add to the mission rewards recipes (for first completion of missions) some bombs that are better for newbie bombers to PUG and solo with safely? I think it would be nice to encourage investing in more newb-friendly bombs; Snarble Bomb and Shock Vapouriser are token rewards and the other nice low- and no-knockback bombs might not be easy first weapons to get into, so I guess that leaves the Fire Vapouriser and Graviton lines.

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 00:34

#12

Troupe-Forums

Yes, fix the loadout bug. Several games I played today I couldn't change loadouts even after five consecutive deaths

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 06:28

#13

Klipik

even moar things

- Limit GvG spectating to your team, also killcams

-Not sure if this is a problem for many people, but my SK client doesn't like the steam overlay.

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 06:50

#14

Hexzyle

@Klipik

Not sure if this is a problem for many people, but my SK client doesn't like the steam overlay.

Yeah, mine locks up alt-tabbing, moving window, and various other sillyness.

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 16:48

#15

Qwote

I would like it if Three Rings made it so the switch speed of assigned slots and prev/next are the same.

Right now, using assigned slots is way faster to switch than using prev/next.

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 17:28

#16

Ghret

You have a thread detailing every single refutation against the reasons for not being able to change your name?
I would very much like to see this thread.

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 17:41

#17

Klipik

@Hex: I meant, I press Shift+Tab to open the steam overlay, and instead I just toggle autoaim and open a bunch of menus. Still doesn't work if I bind those keys to do nothing, still doesn't work if I change the overlay keys to something else, but it works fine on every other computer I've tried it on. (a.k.a. my dad's laptop)

Also +1 to Qwote :)

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 17:45

#18

Zeddy

Pay 2 energy to move the elevator's destination by 1 slot.

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 22:12

#19

Hexzyle

@Ghret

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/43316#comment-288260

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 09:29

#20

Atholl

Yes, they should remove recon footprints in LD.

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 10:12

#21

Zangrious

Tactful

Weapon Renaming... O.O

+10

Wed, 05/01/2013 - 07:34

#22

Onekone

Maybe add also

Buff Haze status chance to 100%
Because it's annoying when enemies not catch status or even harmlessly pass through cloud

Wed, 05/01/2013 - 07:38

#23

Little-Juances

Haze has 100% chance. Enemies are immune because they have resistance to it.

Wed, 05/01/2013 - 08:12

#24

Hexzyle

@Onekone
No balancing suggestions, thankyou.

@Juances
It isn't 100% chance. It's 45% chance rolled every half a second.

Wed, 05/01/2013 - 11:16

#25

Zeddy

@Little-Juances

Actually it's a 45% chance per tick. It ticks about 2 times per second.

Wed, 05/01/2013 - 11:55

#26

Pine-Fresh

Yeahhh don't really have anything to add :)

Fri, 05/03/2013 - 20:35

#27

Hexzyle

My voice seemed to have echoed.

Sun, 05/05/2013 - 19:59

#28

Geosmin

Bleargh, remove Haze Bomb

Bleargh, remove Haze Bomb from easily available recipes so that unwary peops who are not into PvP aren't so likely to waste money on a 2-star bomb that's going nowhere.

Also, add an option to ask for confirmation when buying a known recipe. I know it's easy to see, but I tend to misremember that I've been meaning to grab something even after I get it. It's especially painful when grabbing it from HoH, since it's bound on acquisition. (Yes, I've done that. Several times. I know, I'm a stoopid airhead, but I'm not the only airhead in the playerbase!)

Sun, 05/05/2013 - 20:07

#29

Klipik

@Geo

If you remove Haze Bomb because it's going nowhere, then you might as well remove everything from the entire right side of the HoH, plus Izola and half of the inventories of the guys on the right.

+1 on the confirmation part though.

Sun, 05/05/2013 - 22:56

#30

Geosmin

I dunno about "everything,"

I dunno about "everything," since there's a lot of stuff there that I want, but I'll go take a look and see since how much dead-end stuff is there since I might just have forgotten about it if it's off my radar. What I meant re: Haze Bomb, though, is that you can only get the upgrade recipes through Sullivan. If you don't like the PvP offerings, you SOL if you didn't do your homework before getting the Haze Bomb recipe. I was lucky enough to be warned before buying it that that line is exceptional in being Krogmo-based except for the intro 2-star bomb, but I could easily have wasted some crowns and bother getting and heating that item instead of something that will help fill out my arsenal all the way to the core. The other gear with longevity or acquisition issues is not deviant from patterns established by gobs of closely related gear. :/

Back on-topic, I'd really like an ability to drag and drop pills, grenades and kittens with a button that does not activate them if I let go at a wrong time/place. Also, restore ability to put an item in a slot other than the lowest-numbered empty one for those of us who like to have some items on specific buttons. This is probably a bigger issue for me than for the average player because my keyboard, mouse and gamepad inputs just randomly fail very often, and it's not an SK-specific problem, but since it might be a problem for others...

Sun, 05/05/2013 - 23:27

#31

Father-Frost

Also let people see if someone is low on energy the new UI does not have this until you get to the elevator.

Sun, 05/05/2013 - 23:46

#32

Hexzyle

@Geosmin At first you made a

@Geosmin
At first you made a good point with the Haze Bomb recipe, but then I realised that it's just a two star recipe (1,400 crowns and 50 energy for the craft in total) and it's useful for players to test out the bomb. If they like it, they can look into where to get the future recipes. If they're disappointed by it being Krogmo only, it's not much of a loss anyway.

I've already covered your recipe point in the Hall of Heroes idea near the end of the post.

@Father Frost

I've already covered this in the New GUI Fixes idea near the start of the post.

Sun, 05/05/2013 - 23:50

#33

Father-Frost

/derp

Mon, 05/06/2013 - 01:47

#34

Geosmin

/e makes Father-Frost's voice echo

Ah, derp. I even remember reading about a cluster of practical solutions. Thanks.

P.S. I keep forgetting to mention, I think a bit of extra energy could make in-fiction sense for diverting the elevator a bit rather than diverting the whole level you're descending to, if that's the main problem. It already seems to be tracking a destination socket and jumping from one to the next as the ground rolls by, so I just imagine its reach covering one insertion point in either direction of the "default" target being tracked, with an option to divert to a secondary target at need.

Mon, 05/06/2013 - 03:32

#35

Hexzyle

@Geosmin

"Bending the rails", so to speak? I'll add it in, but my original discomfort with the idea was that it might be a gripe of Three Rings to change the clockworks mechanics like that.

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 10:12

#36

Ghret

Here's a suggestion and a suggestion for your suggestion

Suggestion) You know about the Energy Market tab, yes? You know how it shows the amount of crowns offered for 100 Energy in the center of the "Buy energy" side, yes? And you know how the "Buy Crowns" side instead shows how much energy you can buy (despite the fact it only allows you to buy 100 Energy at a time)? Maybe you could make the two sides more symmetrical, yes?
What the bloody hell are you ranting about?
In the "Need Crowns?" half of the Trade tab in the Energy Depot, switch the "Current Offer:" and "Buy " values so that it looks similar to the "Need Energy?" half of the Trade Tab.

Suggestion for your Suggestion) Have patch notes not sent to your account, but instead sent to the character selection screen. Although forcing Three Rings to learn how to connect emails across accounts would benefit them.

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 11:04

#37

Aveond

+1 for everything.

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 13:15

#38

Putkinen

Filin' it down.

I'd prefer if server time was only visible while the inventory is. As for gunslinger hats, just palette swap the black one brown for now. Justifier having a corny Sheriff's star on it is fine.

Does making the price wheel not award hearts or vials at the end of a mission count as minor?

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 19:27

#39

Hexzyle

@Ghret

I don't understand what you're talking about. Paint me a picture.

Also your second point seems kinda far-stretched, I mean, Spiral Knights already contains the code to receive account-wide messages, (if you've ever purchased energy during a item promo you'd get one) why waste time coding more GUI stuff? Also, if it were only viewable from the character select screen, then we couldn't read patch notes the moment they're released, ingame, while we're waiting for stuff like for people to reach the elevator or for LockDown to abduct us.

@Putkinen

Added at the end of Section 1.3.

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 23:33

#40

Xi-Mi-Oi

+1 and...

So in addition to all the amazing things I see in the first post, I'd like to add one (which I believe I've seen a few times on the forum, but wanted to let you put it into this thread):
- Make the player's crowns/CE a menu that is separate from the Arsenal menu (maybe add it to the bottom-right with the ability to hide it, just like the bottom-left menu can be hidden).

Why? Well... of the plenty of reasons I've heard before, it just makes sense that you should be able to see that at any point without requiring the arsenal menu (with the ability to hide it, if a player doesn't want to see it for whatever reason).

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 02:28

#41

Hexzyle

@Xi-Mi-Oi

I kinda just wanted to cover the critical GUI issues... I didn't really want to make this thread into a "ideas on how to fix the GUI" thread because there's already plenty of those...

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 10:00

#42

Ghret

http://i.imgur.com/XXdInoq.png

Swap the information in the green circle with the information from the red circle.

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 03:06

#43

Hexzyle

@Ghret

Ah right, that is dumb.

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 03:24

#44

Asukalan

Not only Steam players have

Not only Steam players have problem with wiki.

Kongregate players (and maybe armor game or other places where SK is) are completly cut off from official site:
- they cant take part in previev server tests
- they cant log in to foum
- they cant log in to support portal
- they cant fill in GM requests (support portal)
- they cant open CE history
- they cant use wiki

Bugs:
- blitz needle can kill enemies from behind energy barrier
- charge of certain weapons: Divine Avenger, Gran Faust, Callahan, Polaris, Argent Peacemaker, Sententza
Is exploding immediately upon releasing when knight is standing with his back next to a wall or other obstacle.
- zombies in FSC can get pushed away from the map when hit by wheels

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 03:46

#45

Thunder-The-Bright

well

that is all kong's fault.
all transactions are made with kreds (kong's currency), so they have all CE related issues. (aka test servers, ce history)
you can have only one knight per account. so it's not a normal account, and it's not recognized by the forum, support and wiki.

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 04:13

#46

Asukalan

Actually, i wasnt accurate on

Unfortunatly you are wrong Thunder, but i also wasnt accurate on what i wrote. Kong players are not completely cut off from official site.

The more accurate would be that they have no means to log in to forum and support portal, it is possible but there is no interface to do it. It is fact that kong user ID is used as username but kongregate users 'dont have passwords' or rather dont know their passwords? Its quite fuzzy.

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/33259

One time i managed to log in into official site with kongregate account. At the moment when i registred to SK newsletter, at one point i had to confirm my e-mail adress. When i clicked link in my mail (to confirm my e-mail) it redirected me to main site of SK where in top right corner, where ususally is my forum login i saw my kongregate user id, it was kongregate:xxxxxxxxxxxx (numbers). Yes, i was logged in on SK mainsite/forum with my kongregate user id. I didnt typed a password, yet i was logged in, in the process of confirming email adress for newsletter. Also i checked and i could link my SK knightname to use it to post on forum. Therefore it seems there IS an option to somehow let kong users to post on forum without second account.

Account was recognised by official site, it could use forum, link knights, i didnt check it at that time but most likely acces to CE history, support portal might be possible aswell.

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/33259#comment-241776

"Technically, we could allow Kongregate players access to the forums (etc.) from within the game, since they're authenticated at that point. We may look into doing so in the future."

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 21:38

#47

Breaker-Xd

Amazing.

When I opened this post, I stopped writing my poetry.
I closed all of my music tabs
I clicked all of the links
I nodded after every point
I read all of the comments
I even logged into forums just to post here.

+100.
Everything here, I support. Especially bomber Iron Buckler.

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 21:48

#48

Klipik

one of my other threads I forgot about

MOAR COSMETICS!

Sun, 06/09/2013 - 06:40

#49

Aotr

bump

Sun, 06/09/2013 - 07:31

#50

Waffleconecake

AWW THWACCCK NAAWWHHH

Guies... don't bump
None the less I like these suggestions so +1

Add special little events to the arcade, mostly cosmetic. Like a gremlin running through the place before hoping down the little shoot behind this thing.
Maybe even have him push a few knights over c:?

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