Spiral Knights - overpriced crafting system?

overpriced crafting system?

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Sun, 03/02/2014 - 13:39

Leeaviv

Recently I managed to move to T3 on one of my knights and I think that the crafting system is missed up, before they got rid of the mist and Crystal energy this system was bad any way:

To craft a 2* weapon then you would need: matirals and no energy ( 100 mist energy ) and
some crowns ( not only would I give away 24 hours of gameplay but I also need to pay crowns!? )

Now to craft a 2* weapon you need: materials and 50 energy and the same amount of crowns ( so it's around 7000-8000 crowns if you don't want to buy energy because you can't buy 50 energy you have to buy 100 )

To craft a 3* weapon then you would need: matirals and 100 energy ( +100 mist energy ) and some crowns ( giving away another 24 hours of gameplay ) and all the plus a 2* item to upgrade

Now to craft a 3* weapon you need: materials and 200 energy and the same amount of crowns (7000-8000 crowns) plus a 2* item cost.

With this system in mind it is extremely hard to play spiral knights and keep advancing without buying energy, to upgrade from a 3* item to a 4* you would need 400 energy per item without recipe. For upgrading from T3 to T4 you need 1600 ( you can get 6 elite orbs from missions ) so for a total upgrade from T3 to T4 you would need 162000 crowns including recip, energy and actual crafting price ( keep in mind that this is if you already have a T3 set )

I do understand the OOO need to make someoney but there must be better ways to so like more DLC's just make the gameore playable plz

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 13:55

Digressive

I think you are a bit lazy.

I think you are a bit lazy. BUT I have to agree its a little... unforgiving at times. It requires no energy unless you are to lazy to farm the orbs. The only orbs I seem to have trouble finding are the 5* ones. Other than that, I seem to have no problems with the crafting system. Though the event at the moment is a tad pricey in terms of crowns... 10k per ID yikes... *sucks it up*

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 14:08

Lonely-Tear

you are dead wrong..

lets see... first things first.

old SK you where forced to GRIND vanaduke/JK to earn energy, true you had mist energy but how long would it take before your freedom was shoved up your own ass?

my [tart]ing aside...
thise are 2 huge improvments -

one, if you are old game fanboy you can still spend same amount of energy to buy yourself some orbs and craft the tings you want.
or if you are active (or even not very) player, you can find them around boxes in lvls you play. you hear me? you can find an item that is valued 330 energy just lying down on the ground (refering to etenral orbs)

second is forge, ok i see what problem is, you arent happy coz you cant rush trough the vanaduke and lvl your item like 5 times? that makes me SO sad..
yeah forgeing can be a little of a pain sometimes but it exists to counter orbs, besides if forge sistem was still same you know what would happend? the dady cash boys would get in, get armors, finish game in 2 days and then never play game again, by the name of ye old Scrampey, this isnt a flash game you finish in 1 day and never play again.
forge makes you work a little, and im perfectly fine with that. it gives the whole lvl idea a little more sense, and it can even give you rewards! the 3 variant ticket is 225k crowns at Punch, i never actualy bough one and i got 3 of them for forgeing, and you know what prizebox? a radiant one..

also, when i made my bomber set i was able to heat up, forge, build up 4 bombs at once in less then 3 days. DO YOU have any idea how much if an impossible work this would be in old system? i would need at least 6000 energy to do so when i just played the game, had actual fun and made them

sorry to say it in such [tart]y way but :/ dont agree
its fair, not overpriced, i cant do much if you are fat, american or leazy... or all 3 (no offense just makeing a joake of the stereotypes, plz dont maul my face off)

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 13:56

Whimsicality

The pricing was fair enough; you're just lazy.

I'm afraid I don't follow any of this. You're complaining about the old crafting system... When it's not relevant anymore... Seeing how you can get Orbs of Alchemy for free with enough luck?

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 14:00

Dibsville

You do realise we get Orbs of Alchemy as drops now, right?

Each one of those is basically free Energy.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 14:05

Krakob

Old system was paying say, 400 energy (300 CE and losing the ability to play for a day).
The new system is paying up to 400 energy but substituting it with found Orbs which are essentially worth 133 E each. If you can find two Elite Orbs a day, you're essentially making more money than you could with all your mist in one day with the earlier system.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 14:14

Poomph

I think he's complaining about how orbs cost so much CE, when in truth they actually cost the same amount as old crafting system. What he fails to realize is that orbs can also be found from treasure boxes in the clockworks.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 14:15

Skepticraven

Erm...

I did the math awhile ago.

Even with buying all the components through the energy market, new players have 90% increased farming rate at the expense of being able to use mist towards crafting. It was almost impossible to farm crowns without an elevator pass prior to the introduction of free elevators.

OOO swapped this strategy to get players to actually play the game instead of waiting days to simply craft items (or even just making alternate accounts to craft things for the cost of crns+mats). Yes, the prices are high... but they are fair.

Sun, 03/02/2014 - 14:25

Vesperaldus

Anything above "free" is

Anything above "free" is pricey.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 04:24

Aplauses

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 05:57

#10

Shamanalah

my 2 cents

To craft a 2* weapon then you would need: matirals and no energy ( 100 mist energy ) and
some crowns ( not only would I give away 24 hours of gameplay but I also need to pay crowns!? )

huuuummmmmm...... I just..... it's 50

Now to craft a 2* weapon you need: materials and 50 energy and the same amount of crowns ( so it's around 7000-8000 crowns if you don't want to buy energy because you can't buy 50 energy you have to buy 100 )

What the? I... Are you following your own ideas or what? YOU ARE SO HARD TO FOLLOW.

Also you are about a year late to the discussion

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 09:41

#11

Whyna

Short live the trojans....

You mean, a year EARLY

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