Given that Cleaver himself said he would like to encourage more arcade usage, I want to give some suggestions on how to best achieve this.

Now that there's some real momentum in the game's improvement, I'd like to take some time to suggest some 3 months early spring cleaning. I've talked about this here before (I think), but I've always felt that this game never fully adapted to the removal of mist energy and regressed in some ways. I'd like to flesh out some suggestions that could help smooth the rough edges leftover from that transition. Apologies for the long post; I hope you'll still give me the time of day.

First: Energy Gates and Energy Mechs

As the title says this has been quite thought about by myself, and through short discussions people do think it is quite interesting to see if it could be applied.

Approach

Me personally I dont wanna see slop outfits of multiple accessories of the same type (wings, glasses, halos) but things that i think work together such as

Dapper combo + Glasses
Devious horns + Halos/crowns
Aura + Aura

Seeing something like this would not only increase demand for accessories, but also continue innovation of characters.

Hi, I live in Asia, and I’ve noticed that the current Spiral Knights servers often give players in this region very high ping and unstable connection. Because of this, gameplay can feel delayed or laggy, especially during combat or party missions.

I’d like to suggest adding an Asia server (or at least improving regional routing) to help reduce latency for players in countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and others in the region.

A Gate Map hotkey option would be a great addition alongside the new Crucible Editor hotkey.

Apologies if this has already been suggested (probably has). I just got excited by the addition of the new hotkey :)

A /brinks command to teleport to Brinks (the Token Trader) in the Bazaar. Vise, Punch, and Bechamel have their commands, so I think Brinks deserves one too. He could also have a secondary /token command like Bechamel's /accessory command.

Similar to Haven teleports, but for missions. Teleporting to a mission would take you its mission lobby.

We could have abbreviations specific to each of the bosses, prestige (if available, including events), and expansion (if unlocked) missions:
/mission fsc (The King of Ashes)
/mission c42 (Compound 42)
/mission mott (March of the Tortodrones)
/mission och3 (Operation Crimson Hammer, Tier 3)

It makes it harder to aim.
It also would be great to be able to completely disable all deadzones.

Thanks!

Currently, the game lacks a variety of content worth farming at Tier 3. Your only real options are King of Ashes or an Arcade run, with the latter only worth it if there's a good gate active. Because of this, I'd like to propose making Tier 3 versions of the other boss missions. Ever since Operation Crimson Hammer was added, it showed the opportunity to make bosses available at multiple tiers.