Spiral Knights - SK Monthly Subscription

SK Monthly Subscription

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Wed, 10/12/2011 - 10:43

Nicoya-Kitty

So, we already have the option of running F2P on mist and buy CE for crowns, or buying CE with cash, but both options still put a fixed limit on the amount of adventuring we can do.

What if there was a monthly subscription option instead? For, I dunno, $10 per month, you'd get:

Mist limit increased to 300, and about 4x regen rate so that after playing for 6 hours or whatever to burn through all the mist, you'd be refilled by roughly the same start time the next day.
A pair of trinket and weapon slot upgrades.
A random accessory or something, I dunno. Some pack freebie.

Basically it'd be a package for people who want to do a lot of hardcore adventuring, but still want to feel like they've "earned" their CE to upgrade weapons and whatnot.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 10:47

Quailia

-1

increasing mist and regen rate? 4X regen would mean it's giving you 1 every 3.3 minutes, meaning a full recharge is only an hour and a half. And 300 mist storage?

I dunno... I really think this is overkill, and ill conceived :\

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 10:48

Forum-Trader-Alt

NO! OOO WOULD NEVER ALLOW IT!

OOO is going down the road of corprate greed if they added this! Also OOO would only allow a 10+ mist upgrade. Iv,e seen there ways.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 12:56

Nicoya-Kitty

@Quailia I think you might be

@Quailia I think you might be miscalculating a bit, a 4x mist recharge rate would give you 100 mist in about 5-6 hours.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 12:59

Antistone

Increasing the mist limit

Increasing the mist limit will just encourage people to buy/craft items more cheaply than normal (e.g. weapon slots) and then sell them to everyone else.

I could maybe imagine an "elevator rides are free for a month" package, but no matter how they arrange it, it's just a way to buy something that you can already buy, but at a different price. If that different price is higher, no one will use it; if that different price is lower, then OOO is probably making less money. Hard to see the incentive.

Also, 1 mist every 3.3 minutes = 100 mist every 5.5 hours.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 16:41

Nicoya-Kitty

@Antistone Reselling

@Antistone Reselling weapon/trinket slots would certainly be a problem. I'd just like to see there be some middle ground between "limited grinding for free" and "buy your way to victory".

I don't think making the elevator cost free would work well, because that would upset the crown/ce balance.

Thu, 10/13/2011 - 15:37

Marcusspiralcus

How about:increase energy to

How about:

increase energy to 200 (you can only use 100 on crafting, the extra 100 can only be spent on elevators), extra unsellable weapon, and trinket slot upgrade, and 2x crown increase from the lottery wheel (the one when you enter the elevator) for a fixed rate per month (Normal crown gain would stay the same, energy regeneration stays the same, etc.) Maybe $12?

EDIT: I meant energy regeneration rate would be 2x as much to accommodate the extra energy you have.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 17:04

Berzerkules

+1 - 1 = 0

I like the idea of a SK monthly subscription feature maybe in the future. I think right now...right now, NO! SK is still a young game and has a lot of growing to do before thinking about adding a feature like that.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 17:21

Hova

Methinks someone may have

Methinks someone may have gotten this idea from a certain Totalbiscuit. But I may be wrong.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 17:56

Antistone

My Head Asplode

"I don't think making the elevator cost free would work well, because that would upset the crown/ce balance."

But...that's...you just...

*head explodes*

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 18:03

#10

Starlinvf

As an example.... They do

As an example.... They do have a subscription service available in Puzzle Pirates that gets rid of the doubloon fees. But its on an entirely separate set of servers, with a closed off economy.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 21:46

#11

Quailia

Wow

Sorry, I totally screwed up on what I wrote -- I did do the calculation, and then when typing up my response, totally threw that out of the window while thinking of how to say this idea sucks in a polite way :P Sorry for that. But yeah, no. This idea is pretty dumb in my opinion :\

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 22:35

#12

Twiddle

I'd say this: A subscription of $20 a month will get you free elevator rides into the clockworks. Buying a weapon or trinket upgrade while on subscription will unlock that slot for as long as you continue to subscribe. Your mist tank will contain 40 mist. You cannot use mist energy for crafting. Mist does not refill while you are in the clockworks, but it goes to full whenever you return to haven.

Of course, you could buy CE with additional money for extended runs into the clockworks or to get weapons faster.

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