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1. More stage themes and stages/bosses/enemies in general. I'd really like a Beach theme stage (there's already a forest and a field of sorts, so why not?). Or a carnival/circus stage.

2. Item balance:do something with dead end items. As it is, a very high amount of items are useless in the long run.

3. Stage balance: I really hate sitting around waiting for some stages just because they give better rewards. I wish I could just go where ever and get comparable rewards to most other stages. It's also really boring to run the same stuff a million times because it's simply the most profitable

4. Rework crafting and material distribution. My simple suggestion is: everyone gets all the mats, BUT, material cost is multiplied by 5.

5. I'd like to see something like my Upgrade Modules. Considering the suggestion is rather vague (ability to turn equips into powerups for other equips), there's a lot of elbow room to work with :D

1) dramatically increase the amount of materials needed for crafting. Note: if you increase the number of tier runs needed to get the materials to make a 5* item by 6 runs, you have significantly increased the energy needed. 6 tier runs * 8 gates/tier * 10 energy/gate = 480 energy. (Yeah, you have to account for increases in 4* energy, other materials, and such, but the point remains: increased materials sinks causes increase energy sinks, but does it in a way that *SHOULD* be fun.)

2) more crown sinks, such as adding a crown sink to reviving, crown-only short duration trinket/weapon slots, or sample weapons that last only an hour and cause you to not keep any crowns/mats you earn, or... Just have them not be cost effective compared with the CE sinks if you use them a lot.

3) a way to sample the effects of weapons/armor without sinking huge amounts of time and energy only to find out that the game doesn't work the way you (and the wiki, and the non-existent OOO doc, and the forum posts) says it works.

4) increase the amount of heat it takes to level higher star items. It should be hard to level up 2* and 3* items in T1 and 4*/5* in T2.

5) dramatically increase the amount of materials needed. yeah, I'm using another one of my 5 slots to emphasize the need for this. CE just requires people to open their wallets. Crowns can *only* be created from the game, but T1 crowns are just as good as T3 crowns. Materials mean you have to really play the game, not just pay the game.

Edit: note, I've tried to list things that could likely be done quite quickly, at least compare to "more content". There was a time when you could see haven 22 filled, the game is shrinking quickly, you need quick fixes.

(I'm pretty sure that content will be first or second on everyone's list. It is first on mine.)

1. Content - maps, monsters, bosses

2. A journaling system (I just found the crystal energy usage log and I love that). I'd like SK to keep track of recent history on runs to help me track the economics of playing.

3. Tie the previously mentioned journal to a leaderboard system for solo and party 'scoring'. Time to complete level, crowns, energy spent. Maintain the leaderboard for each gate and its levels as long as the gate is active.

4. Recipe lottery - player pays up front for a chance to find a desired recipe. The deeper the level to reach that recipe, the lower the lottery fee.

5. Guild trophy room. A place to display all the Jelly King scalps collected by guild members.

And that's just a start...

Laminarflo

1. PVP!!! or some other repeatable (not repetitive) content.

2. New bosses. preferably one thats between jelly king and vanaduke in difficulty.

3. The devs to make more CROWN sinks. Not more CE sinks. i.e make unbinding cost crowns. also make some, if not all, pvp content cost crowns.

4. Item Balance! a nerf to the sealed sword line so other lines (cutter, spur) become more playable, a SLIGHT damage buff to guns (or maybe gun damage buff to the gunslinger gear). for armor, just make more (significant) things do piercing damage, and less things do elemental.

5. Make stratum crafting worth it! this (mineral boosting) is probably the biggest crown sink you can have if you get this to work as intended. most obvious route would probably be some boss strata that are only available if the players forge em. ofc it has to be coupled with a few tweaks on the numbers.

really all of my top 5 are rather easily implementable. PVP is already in the game, and i dont see the harm of implementing an as of yet unbalanced version of it. There are also some art resources for bosses other than vana and king in the game from what i hear, and youd just need to spin an existing tileset into interesting preboss depths. item balance, afaik, can be done by simple numbers tweaks. turning wolver attacks into piercing, boosting damage for CIV a bit etc etc. Stratum crafting is pretty much gonna be solved once the new bosses are implemented i think. really the hardest thing on my list to pull of is balancing CE to crown sinks. youve gotta make a profit, i know, but youve also got to look after your players interests. do it willy nilly like you did this patch and you are gonna end up with a riot.

First, I would like to thank Leviathan for posting a great thread idea! :D
Anyways,

1. PvP
2. The Core, The Swarm, Lost members of the Whatchamacallit ( I forgot the name), and to be more general, more content (To be honest, #1 and #2 are both the things I want the most).
3. I dunno. More materials needed in recipes. I'm sure everyone has a lot more materials than they need! I'd exclude this for 1* to 2* though, and have materials gradually increase to correspond to a higher tier equipment.
4. Something new. Something that you don't often see in an MMO that would separate SK from other "Your average MMO concept" game.
5. Art, new equipment (5* of a Khorovod [ DO WANT ], 5* of a winmillion, etc.)

P.S. - I've heard that this game already has a 5* form of the Troika line (Troika, Kamarin, Khorovod) and is called "Shatter" in the game files. I didn't look through the game files, I've heard from other players about this. I hope this will be implemented soon!

1. PVP
2. SOCKETABLE ITEMS
3. REDUCE E to craft items
4. MORE BOSS
5. MORE DUNGEON TYPES

1. A 5* cyclops helm. I like the current one for a costume, but would like some more awesome ones.

2. A better chat module with tabs so i can actual reply to multiple pm's without going crazy, and talk to chat, and switch to trade

3. Colour change.

4. More cowbell! I mean, increased content on the current game, as previously mentioned by many

5. Different game modes for fun e.g., Tower defense-esque mode that exponentially gets harder where if you can survive for certain periods (1 min, 2, 5, 10 etc.) where you can get different prizes (useless to rare, as you see fit)

I agree with a lot of the previous people's top five, so I'll post different things I'd like to see mentioned elsewhere but not here.

1) Last log in info for social. This means friends AND guild. So you can clean up players who are inactive that you don't need anymore easily. And you wouldn't want to get rid of someone who just suddenly logs on when you're not around but they do play.

2) How about a bomb that you can purchase with tokens (boss tokens I assume)? Swords and guns get interesting token only versions, why not bombs? Now I will admit bombs are pretty well covered so maybe that's why they don't have one, but if developers have an idea for a new cool bomb, throw one in tokens too.

3) A little bloop sound for when you get a whisper in chat.

4) Add some more fire and oil jars in advanced training. I demand to burn more people faster in there...you know since there's no pvp and that's a slight amusement. or they could just add that or some minigames but I'd be happy with more jars. Also consider removing the one jar, one spawn thing, a friend ran around in advanced training with the only fire jar and no one could stop him. He wouldn't put the bloody thing down.

5) This please...seriously. The original post is vague but the later posters know what we want. And that's when I press the switch weapon button (with whatever standard delay that's needed), the next time I'm allowed to attack, I should be using that weapon, not the one I was already using.

1. Developers to pull their collective heads out of their collective arses.
2. Revert the BS energy crafting costs
3. Revert the BS auto-bind garbage
4. Find some other non-offensive way to gouge people of their money
5. Dev responses on the forum, because only losers tweet, and follow tweets.

beat that dead horse baby!

1. rollback
2. content
3. fix the economy
4. Quit - so someone else that is qualified can fill the position; someone who has learned some basic software development, has worked on their communication (written and oral), and hire someone competent who can manage your Dev team.

1. Bugfixes/interface issues. There are plenty of issues which are individually minor but add up to hurt the overall gameplay experience. Examples: Health doesn't update properly when doing a multi-tier run, disallowing friends in a locked party doesn't seem to work, typing numbers into trade/etc. windows feels laggy/awkward, blocks in Deconstruction Zone occasionally spawn on top of each other (resulting in hidden or stacked explosive blocks), bombs sometimes fail to show up when placed (though they still blow up properly) or show up multiple times, some tips in the lower left corner are outdated/inaccurate (e.g., fire), shift-click should be usable for adding 10 materials at a time to a trade/auction window, specific weapon slots should be bindable, the revive button should NOT be the attack button.

2. Network robustness. This game handles blips in connections distressingly poorly, which is made doubly worse by the fact that we have to pay energy to revive from deaths caused by such blips. Please look into things like (1) dramatically increasing the defense of players who haven't sent a message to the server in a while (especially those who actually disconnect), (2) defaulting to shield if a player appears to be "locked in" to a command, and/or (3) server-wide energy credits if server-side network issues are observed.

3. Level editor. I know you guys have one; it was available as a part of the alpha test two years ago. Clean it up, release it, and find a way to incorporate it into gate construction.

4. Multiplayer balance. In general, the game is easier the fewer people you have in your party, and the additional rewards for having multiple people are scant at best. Perhaps increase the drop rate of rare items for larger party sizes? Also, graveyard phantom multiplayer scaling should get looked at again.

5. More bosses, including T2 and possibly T1. (If you give us level editors, then the suggestion of new levels becomes far less important, but level editors won't give us new enemies.)

1. Lower fuse (they were already hard for me to get before upped!) and soon to be unbind costs
2. PVP
3. ???
4. more areas.
5. Profit!

1. A friends-only chat channel, so you can talk to your buddies in Haven without spamming the main chat or having to use /tell all the time.

2. More options for customising the look of your knight. Accessories, pets, outfits, colour variations, that kind of thing. Anything that makes it easier to see which knight is yours when they're in the middle of a big melee.

3. Some kind of achievement system, purely for the bragging rights. Maybe personalised heraldry, like a crest which lets you add elements to it with each achievement or milestone you reach.

4. A danger room in the Advanced Training Hall, so you and your friends can practice tactics for the more challenging stuff like arenas or boss-fights.

5. Stuff to do once you run out of energy for the day, to encourage players to stick around and make friends. Mucking around in the Advanced Training Hall is fun for a little while, but that fades.

1. Rework the chatbox, please!
2. Hoping the unbind isn't horribly expensive *crosses fingers*
3. Greater variety in equipment (content, content, content!)
4. The core (not that I've reached it yet)
5. Fix the rarity of drops, or up the usage of the common ones (600 gel drops, really?)

1. I get that you guys wanted more CE spent, but effectively making 4 and 5* recipes single use and more than doubling the energy required just isn't the way to go. Halve the increases to the CE price (550 or 500 for 5* instead of 800), and revert the change to upgrade items remaining bound. The unbinding shop is not a solution to this issue, and I'm pretty sure the only reason you're willing to go there is because it isn't. Doubling the price to make a tradeable 4 or 5* item is just. . . insane.

2. Material sinks. Crafting should be the biggest one (and ingredient requirements should be bumped up even further), so there's yet another reason for you to de-neuter crafting.

3. Content. Part of why the crafting changes hurt so much and look so shallow is because there's so little content. The way things have been set up now, no only is there very little content overall but at this point jelly king is so far and away more profitable than anything else that doing any other run is pointless, and there you go, you've got a grindy game. DO NOT FIX THIS BY NERFING JELLY KING. That is not the right move. Normally this would be a perfect balance, because jelly materials are virtually useless 90% of the time and no one needs them, so in exchange for lots of crowns from that run you get worthless items. The issue right now is ALL materials are worthless. Fix that and you fix part of this.

4. Guilds need some reworking. Give us cosmetic changes to the guild hall, make it a big thing where it takes a bunch of materials and the whole guild has to chip in and help, come together as a team, suddenly you've got a more team/friend orientated game plus a big material sink. Work on making this repeatable in some way but hopefully not for the same reward. Maybe some kind of minor boosts to little things? Use this to let us set titles? Also we really need a way of letting officers see when the last time someone logged on was. My guild has been sitting at 100 members for a long time and we have no idea of telling who is inactive and who isn't, and frankly it's just a big unnecessary pain. Lots of little things here can really help.

5. Item balancing. Half the stuff in the game is useless and the way you've gone and set up crafting now really suits that lack of balance since it's ridiculous to have to sink 2400 CE just to get one set of defensive gear, JUST for the 5* upgrade. If you had weapons and equipment that was actually balanced and made it more easy for people to swap their armor (it's so easy to forget to swap at basil) you'd see a lot more CE spent than you will by jacking up the CE cost.

1. More inventive level design and interactive objects
2. Item balancing
3. Easier to use and more in-depth social/grouping controls
4. Customisable Guildhalls/Hideouts, as well as more functionality for Guilds in general
5. And a test server, so you can get opinions on stuff before they're implemented and create big old mess again

That's what I would like to see.

1. Switching of characters. ...What? I run 2 characters and I want an easy way to switch characters at will.

2. More content. Definitely more content. Even if it's just DIRE SNIPES.

3. Lower the CE cost for crafting. It's a lot, yo.

4. A much more robuist chat system. Filters and stuff. Trade chat is ANNOYING.

5. Ian to come online. Or something. WHAT.

1. Refund people who learned recipes before the decreased costs
2. PvP
3. Alternatives to Jelly King. The only other profitable thing is Vanaduke, who has far too specific item requirements for my frugal tastes.
4. Related to 3, something that will allow more variety in equipment choice.
5. Make it possible for players to actually impact tier 3 gates. Boosts are far too expensive considering the amount of them that you need and the short lifespan of the gate.

1. New and innovative map styles e.g. maps with more non-linear level navigation, hard party puzzle maps without monsters, new backgrounds (e.g. beaches or mountains) etc.
2. Make power distortions rare occurences
3. More priority/sources for shadow/piercing damage e.g giving Wolvers piercing bites
4. Equipment bars that are easier to compare
5. The Core

Top 5 would be things like balancing guns, letting us trade crafted items (none of my RL friends want to play anymore), etc, but here are some things that haven't been mentioned.

1) Fix it so you can't join a random group when there are 3 players waiting on the elevator because they've finished the level. Maybe checkpoints, or something, and when the level is half-over you can't join. Otherwise it's a waste of 10 energy.
2) Provide an option to go up to haven instead of loading emberlight (or whatever the end-of-T2,beginning-of-T3 zone is called). Keep the elevator at 0 energy, but why do I have to load a useless level when I can't even enter T3 yet? It's not as if there's something unique there.
3) Provide option to vote-kick, so we can get rid of a disconnected party leader if all other members agree.
4) Add a roll-a-random-number function, so we don't have to bicker about who pays for the danger room.
5) Add a big map that displays when you click on the minimap and shows unexplored areas so we know if we missed something.

Finally: I have to agree with the money returning directly to your cash instead of to your inbox in the mail. I got into a bidding war and now I have 500 messages regarding corrosive acid.

1. More Content ex. Monsters, arsenal items, mini-games, Events.

2. Balancing ex. Auction House, CE prices.. ect.

3. PVP ex. 1vs1, 4vs4, GuildvsGuild, leaderboards.

4. Guild Improvements ex. Customization, Functionality, management tools.

5. Controls keybind options ex. binding weapon slots to keys, bind weapon switching to keys.. ect.

1 - PVP

2 - New content: new areas, new enemies, news bosses !

3 - Balance on gears: at the moment, many sets / weapons are kind of useless, Vog cub + Owlite shield is dominating.

4 - Add more stuff to Guild Hall

5 - Rework chat system to make it more readable.

With those 5 things, I'd be more than happy!