I have played a number of MMOGs in the past years and I thought it would be helpful in listing out general MMORPG features that gamers find enjoyable.
-CLASSES: It would make Spiral Knights alot more complex and give players much more freedom in building up their knight for a role they prefer. Also, this would add a level of complexity as to how parties cooperate in their quests into the clockworks. Examples would be iconic RPG classes like Rangers, Tanks, Warriors, Clerics, Rogues, etc. This has already been implemented for Gremlin units such as the gremlin healers which revive fallen allies, have healing AOE spells, and shields. Would be cool if we knights could play such a role among others.
-MORE WEAPON VARIETY: So far we have 3 types of weapons; Swords, Guns and Bombs which are great! but the fact that its only 3 leaves more to be desired. It would be great if weapons like bows (and crossbows), throwing blades (or ninja stars), grenades, axes, hammers (more of them at least, theres only one atm), lances (javelins), staves, Spell books....pretty much anything in the fantasy realm is fair game. With a good variety of weapons types, us players will have so much more fun choosing our own unique fighting technique. With only 3 current weapon types, you find most people just go with swords and guns and most fight the same way.
-PETS: Yeah I know its in the works, just giving out a reminder how many of us are very much looking forward to this feature. At first there will be 3 pets, but it would be great if later on there would be more so not everyone has the same pet.
-SPECIAL ATTACKS: Although we already have charged attacks, it would be great if we could choose one unique character skill. This could be linked to my CLASSES section, each class having some type of special skill, for example Warriors having some type of giant smash or attack buff, tanks being able to taunt crowds or defensive shielding of buffs, clerics being able to revive fallen comrades, rangers being able to snipe opponents from afar(across the map?), rogues being able to inflict criticals way more often or landing special blows that will bleed targets, the list could go on!
-ITEM MALL: As a means for additional revenue, there could be an item mall added to the supply depot offering costume sets or pieces for certain amounts of energy, the sets or pieces could be worth alot more energy than getting it via a prize box but at least paying players that really want a particular costume could get it if they paid a given amount, this way both Three Rings would be happy, and so would the players.
-MOUNTS: Many have said they would like mounts, I personally dont see a point to mounts since there is no real traveling long distances in Spiral Knights but I thought it would be food for thought to include it on my list. Maybe fighting mounts could be useful or something.
-DUAL WIELDING: As of now, you may equip one weapon and your shield, thats it. It would be great to be able to sacrifice your shield for an additional weapon. Equipping another sword could extend combos and inflict more damage. Knights would be unable to block as consequence, leaving it to their planning, quick thinking and evasiveness as means to survival.
Thats about all I can think of at the moment, I love Spiral Knights and I hope my feedback will help Three Rings make this already amazing game into something even bigger and better, and continue to be so for many, many years. I leave it to the great minds of the developers to improve upon my suggestions, thank you!
Suggestions for new features
Thanks. Saves me from saying that ^_^
@Zerosaber
Classes: No, because...
Rogues?
Weapon Variety: No, we have to make things balanced b4 we actually add more. Plus, we're tech-knights, I just don't get bows.
Special Attacks: Maybe next time.
Item Mall: Trade/Auction House/Energy Depot
Mounts: We would have to set permanent life here ar Cradle first, then establish Haven as our own, then move on to creating villages and whatever else you are planning.
Dual Wielding: Worst of all. No. We should be able to at least shield, we will be more Rogue-y if we do this. We're sacrificing protection for destruction.
We're not Fantasy we're Technology.
you guys are so closed-minded.
Thinking like you do will get you nowhere
no
we aren't colsed-minded, we just have already said countless times why we don't like those ideas. I'll do a little recap:
classes: why? we don't need them. the game is alrready simple as it is. and the fact that this game is simple is one of its strength points. if you want classes, you can: 1 get trinkets and be a tank. 2 get good at guns and you will be a ranger. 3 get good at sword and be a warrior. 4 get good at bombs and be a bomber.
new weapon types: go get all the weapons in cradle. they pack up a good load of variety. also, magic and stuff are something related with owlites. that are dead.
pets: those will be starter pets. now, that practically means there will be others.
skills: see classes section.
item mall: remember that you can trade ce for cr and vice versa. so what you are asking is the featured auctions at AH. which are there.
mounts: again, the game is simple and is fine, and it's already easy.
dual wielding: /sigh. I'll repeat till the end of time: I love my shield. it makes me happy. also, see mount section.
there. hope you enjoy.
Thinking like you do will get you nowhere
I'd just like to point out we started without
Accessories (Prismatic/Shadow Valk wings anyone?)
Costumes (Imposto kit, Rose sets, Storm Rider Mantle?)
PvP
PvP related gear
Missions
Wheel at the end of each depths
Arsenal spot where you can change gear on EACH AND SINGLE DEPTH (we only could change gear on depth 1-4-8-13-18-23, NO JOKE)
Promotional event (Halloween, Christmas, Anniv, etc.)
a comma separating Thousands and hundreds (and millions with hundred thousands) in cr/ce
Shield Bash
Dash
Guild Hall
Prestige
Shadow Lair
Shadow Lair related gear
Mirrored Lockboxes
Height mod
Eye mod
Color mod
Battle Sprites are coming up
And all those amazing reskin giving us by promos, frosty, hallow, storm, surge, hunter and whatever will be coming up.
And all those amazing creative accessories we got: Valk Wings, Dragon Wings, Toupee, Dapper Combo, Eye of Fury, Glow Eye, Wolver Tails, Auras, Halo, Shogun Helmet (Storm Warrior Helm is the best reskin obviously :D)
All you had was basically:
Clockwork
Gear
Cr
Ce
Awful default guild hall that were more than useless. (was mostly used for holding down quizes)
And an empty UI
We got somewhere ^ ^
How about I go ahead and post a link to every single time these ideas have been suggested? I did it on this thread, don't think I won't post the 100-150 thread links where everything the you've "thought up" has already been discussed.
I wouldn't say close-minded. I would say tired of the same thing being suggested so many times I'm too lazy to count them all.
Congratulations, you have just neatly summarized all of the threads we like to forget about here in the suggestions forums. Namely the ones about the topics you mentioned, written with terrible grammar and not explained at all, with no thought of what effect they will have on the game if implemented. On average, we get about two a week.
(Hint: search google for site:forums.spiralknights.com [all of your topics], and then read some of those threads and see why we have said no to most of your ideas multiple times in many different ways.