Energy price went up too high, so i end up spending time on the forum instead...
Ok, back to the topic; not sure if anyone have suggested this before, but i think a pause function in the game will be good. Something like the pause use in game like DOTA, where the players can pause the game like 30s to 1 min, and if the other members want, they can also un-pause the game, so as not to back-stab the other teammates by pausing forever...

Increase the Alchemy Path all the way up to 5 star. You made a new shield that increases sword damage, and we have armor that increases attack speed or attack damage. But only this 3 star shield for attack speed.

I know everyone hates the dreaded 100 energy max and how it restores 1 tiny energy in 11-13 minutes and how going through dungeons and crafting requires the same energy. I say either shorten the energy it takes to restore down to 3-5 minutes and make a seperate tab for dungeon energy and crafting energy. Also as we go up in stars we get plus 25 or 50 energy to out max.

for example: star 1 : max energy is 125
star 2: max energy is 150
star 3: max energy is 175
star 4: max energy is 200
star 5: max energy is 225

((pardon my language but I'm telling it from discussions with friends and other players)) I read about a hell'ova lot of crystal energy (as much as 1k and over for either) being considered as the, slightly possible, set price to change color and name, but only if the options DO become available. I CAN'T pay with real world money... IT TAKES 2 DAYS TO BUY 100 CE AND IT'S EXPECTED TO BE 1 K AND UP, GD!!! I read that it could be as much 7 or more... and like i said that'd take quite a while, and if I don't get improved weapons or somethin after a while the game just gets boring.

OK so the topic on everyone's mind now is CE's rocketskying price. I don't have an easy solution for the problem of market manipulation: that's something OOO is going to have to really look at and figure out how they want to handle it for themselves. It brings to mind a lot of economic parallels to "the real world" and thus people are always going to be influenced by their opinion for how much value we should place in a "free market," and whether or not protective regulation needs to exist.

I was thinking that maybe you guys could add a monthly subscription option? Maybe around $15? My idea is that for those who subscribe monthly, you could grant them unlimited mist energy. Or more percisely, make it so that their mist energy doesnt decrease and is always at 100. This would let subscribers do dungeon runs as often as they want while still allowing you to make money through the sale of Crystal Energy. Subscribers would still need CE for crafting purposes. This also might help control the crazy inflation going on in the in-game energy market.

I just remembered the times when i was playing Trickster Online. It had a cool feature of a party bulletin board. Since i suck at graphics stuff and have only mspaint at my hands i went ahead and used a screenshot of its bulletin board feature and created this mockup. I would love to see something along that in Spiral Knights.
(if someone could create my mockup with the SK designs i would like you to do so, i'd remove mine and swap it with yours)

Make another global chat for people looking for groups.

After a long discussion on trade chat, several fellow knights came to the conclusion that the only real solution to the CE inflating tactics is to add a vendor with a fixed price, essentially making it the maximum price. We believe that the most fair price seems to be about 5k crowns or so, so a vendor would be good at 5.5k or something along these numbers. Anyone who agrees should comment here stating so, and give any feedback or ideas he has.

A survival gate to the south or w/e of Haven that allows players to fight waves of monsters that has resting places every 10 floors.
At level 29 or so, there might be a re-colored version of the Jelly King that uses shock.
At level 59 or so, there might be a re-colored version of Vanaduke that uses freeze instead.
At level 89 or so, there might be King Tinkenzar or whatever the Gremlins' king is.
At level 99, there might be a Lichen boss.

A scoreboard is also a must!