Hello.
Everytime I login into Spiral Knights I get one of these 3 problems:
1."Failed to connect to the server"
2.Getting to the character screen and choosing a knight and having a "heading to town..." text below and then it loads and I get a black screen and get back to the login menu because I can hear the Spiral Knights login background music.
3.Have a blessing from the God of the Internet and manage to get into the game, but just for a minute or two and I get kicked out to the login screen again...with the error "Connection to server has been lost".

I'm going to be gone on the weekend, and wanted to log in from my friend's pc just to use up the mist crafting. I have two questions:

1. I normally play SK through my steam account. Can I log in to spiral knights without installing steam?

2. Can I run SK directly from a flash drive or SD card? Again, I really don't want to install anything on my friend's PC, and I should only be playing about 5 minutes a day until I get back.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=25838162&postcount=344

KurtisC (valve):

We are planning to update the Steam servers today, Tuesday October 18, 2011 around 16:30 PDT (GMT-0730). Chat, game lobbies, and the community web site will be affected. Content downloads and game play should not be affected. There's some database maintenance and system updates that we'll be applying, but we'll try to keep downtime as short as possible.

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Welp I cant log in... one im not already logged in, friend told me i wasnt, two i restarted steam and my whole computer.

So yeah Theres a problem here because obviously im not the only one...

The title says it all, steam says there was a problem authenticating steam... getting tired of this.

I was joining into a game which then got DC or something but hen says i am logged in some where else. iI exit spiral knights and steam logged back in same thing appeared user is logged in somewhere else. but asked a friend it says im still logged in on the same level?

I'm having this problem where nearly every time a group of monster spawns (and occasionally at random point) my client will freeze for 1 or 2 seconds and my control will lock and I'll keep doing whatever Im doing, which usually lead to running into shadowfire in fsc or getting cornered by enemies.

Are there any fixes that might stop this hiccup? It's gotten me killed more times then I can count.

And yes, I have my video settings low and I'm not running any other programs that might take up too much ram.

ok, so im trying to get steam's spiral knights to run on this system i just revived from the grave by formatting the hardrive and installing ubuntu10.10 on it....everything works fine..ive updated everything included java etc, and when i try to run steam with wine it runes fine...then when i load spiral knights...it gets to the logging in screen with steam account then shuts off the program, steam will still be running but spiral knights will crash..any help or suggestions?

And this time, restarting steam isn't working. What's going on?

steam is telling me that spiral knights is currently unavailable? it must be a steam problem though, because i know my friend is on right now who isn't playing through steam.