I have two good ideas, vehicles and self crafting
there should some levels that need you to pilot an aircraft and shoot down some gremlins in enemy ships or send some precious cargo in a sort of drill vehicle. There should also be a PvP where you race a vehicle against friends with weapons and all.
Players should be able to craft anywhere just by using acquiring the right materials and merge weapons to make dual class weapons like a bomb merged with a sword.
Vehicles: impractical from a programming, game design and lore perspective.
Merging weapons: overpowered, unless you come up with a way to balance it.
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Considering we're only in the Clockworks to get to the Core to power up the Skylark; I see no reason why Spiral Knights, in a realistic situation, would bother using significant quantities of energy to power smaller vehicles.
If we could fly, we wouldn't be on Cradle.
Players should be able to craft anywhere just by using acquiring the right materials and merge weapons to make dual class weapons like a bomb merged with a sword.
Craft anywhere? Makes alchemy machines redundant.
Merging weapons? Would be interesting, but merged weapons would be somewhat overpowered.
WRH + Polaris, anyone?
Let us count the OP weapons which would be created if you could merge weapons.
Blitz Needler + Triglav = Rapid Triglav Launcher.
Big Angry Bomb + Polaris = Antimatter Gun.
Shard Bomb + Shard Bomb = Endless Storm of Clusterf***
Freezing Vaporizer + Fiery Vaporizer = Unstoppable Control Point Blocker.
Sudaruska + Dread Venom Striker = Don't even bother fighting back.
1 we don't have energy to power up a ship, why should we waste it in other vehicles?
2 no. nitrome+brandish =death. BAB+ catalyzer =death. WHB+Sudaruska= death.