Spiral Knights - Reasonable's Suggestion Thread

Reasonable's Suggestion Thread

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Tue, 05/08/2012 - 18:59

Reasonable

Instead of flooding the forums with a bunch of little request threads, I've decided to make one big thread within which to house all of my suggestions (and plug other people's suggestions that I find cool). I don't post on the forums too often, but I'll try to update this post when I can. These suggestions are listed in more or less the order I think of them, and aren't really sorted for feasibility or demand. So without further ado:

+ Have a something that displays the ping (in ms) for the player, possibly as a mouseover for the connection strength indicator
+ Make a hotkey for opening the Coliseum window (hopefully customizable)
+ Allow players to queue for multiple Coliseum events simultaneously (In case I want to play either Lockdown or Blast Network)
+ Have Vatel sell higher level recipes (according to player rank) randomly selected from a pool (similar to Basil at the beginning of missions)
+ Give knights a visible "wants to descend/wants to return to Haven" animation while standing on the elevator
+ Make sorting filters for loadouts (alphabetical, pvp tier, pve tier and total number of stars all seem like good filters)
+ Remove the spin aspect of the pull in the Graviton Charge's family (would help make the angle at which the monsters are spit out less random)
+ Allow the attack key to confirm the start button in the missions menu (would make the controls more friendly for non-mouse users)
+ Have a short "cooldown" of sorts on capsules to prevent players from accidentally using more than one

Implemented/Moot:
+ Make the firecracker icon look more "firecracker-y"
+ Introduce something cool to do with old weapons besides sell them to vendors

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 19:07

Schattentag

Wait...

The title of this thread is simply not reasonable!

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 19:19

Luguiru

Not sure if mocking

These are minor or short issues to address. Also, you spelled your name wrong; there is a second "A" after the first "E". Secondly, do not attempt to replicate other threads unless you can do it well.

Ping rate and ms values can be determined by opening the command prompt and typing "ping {program name in task manager}", which then gives you the numbers. For example, as I am typing this I just checked Wakfu; four sent, four received, 68ms minimum, maximum, and average.

There is a button for it on the top right corner area of your screen. Use it.

What happens if you are accepted into both games? Do you split in half and each goes to either game?

The item icon does not always match the item in your inventory.

Vatel should only sell 2* recipes maximum to force users to either buy higher recipes from other players or run the Clockworks, which means they are spending energy, which means they might run out of energy, which means they will buy CE, which means Three Rings makes money. Changing this would mean Three Rings loses money.

Descending and ascending each have an animation. Descending causes the platform to lower into the planet and ascending causes a giant floating spring to push the platform upward to the surface.

When creating loadouts, keep in mind they are currently alphabetical; to organize tier based loadouts use "T#" before the name to organize them, since using your eyeballs to find out is too difficult.

Oh, I finished everything you have in a couple minutes. Excuse me while I continue doing Wakfu. Yes, I am playing Wakfu instead of working on my thread. Deal with it.

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 23:31

Hexzyle

All 0 star and 1 star icons

All 0 star and 1 star icons are being changed very shortly, yes that includes the firecracker icon, which is being changed to a red bomb icon.

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 00:10

Jennytheturtle

Agree with Luguiru. Nuf said.

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 18:58

Reasonable

@Luguiru

I wasn't attempting to knock off anyone (sorry if you feel like I was stepping on your toes). Yeah, the issues I'm posting are minor, but I wouldn't want them (especially if they would be easy to implement) to be overlooked because no one thought to suggest them.

While I am aware of being able to use the command prompt to check ping, I also like to play in full screen mode, so it can be cumbersome to alt+tab between the two.

The button is there, true. However, I think the coliseum's menu is used often enough to benefit from being able to access it more easily.

If you attempt to start a mission or enter the advanced training hall while queued for a game, your queue request will be canceled. I think a similar thing would apply to simultaneously queuing for multiple coliseum events.

I'm actually quite happy with how the new icons look. (:D @Hexzyle)

Changing this would only lose Three Rings money in so far as the players who don't realize that Basil is standing around in the mission lobby doing exactly this. You don't need energy to get into a mission lobby, so Basil's still free to access. This suggestion is only about convenience, and possibly getting some player traffic into the bazaar.

What I was suggesting was an individual animation for -each- knight, so that you know who wants to keep descending with you. I guess that was unclear in the original post, I'll try to word it better.

I actually do have a tag system for my loadouts ("LD# - " in case you were wondering). The reason I suggest this is simply because it would be an extra convenience.

Generally, I find the tone of your post somewhat impolite. While many of the things I suggested aren't strictly necessary, in my opinion, they would help to make the game more streamlined and polished.

Finally, while writing up this response post, I've decided that this structure inhibits the discussion individual suggestions. It also seems counter intuitive to sort suggestions by the suggester (in terms of looking for where to discuss them or whatever else), so I'll probably just go back to suggesting things the old fashion way: in adding to the flood of new threads.

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 19:27

Blue-Phaze

I'd quote Luguiru if it

I'd quote Luguiru if it wasn't for a few things:
- It'd be MUCH more convenient to have your ping showcased somewhere within the game window, and it wouldn't be hard to program that at all. You speak like every player out there knows how to check their ping; I bet a great portion of them don't even know what a command prompt is (consider that most of them are kids).
- "The item icon does not always match the item in your inventory." Oh well, they should, what's your point? Afterall, the icons are supposed to represent the weapons they belong to; The Firecracker is red, and so should be its icon.
- I believe Reasonable was suggesting a way to know if your party members would rather go back to Haven or continue adventuring. Read the OP again.

And by the way, you sounded really rude on those last lines.
"Oh, I finished everything you have in a couple minutes. (...) Deal with it." - What the hell, Luguiru? You don't behave like that. '-'

And I +1 everything else on the OP Luiguiru hasn't commented on.

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 19:27

Blue-Phaze

I'd quote Luguiru if it

And by the way, you sounded really rude on those last lines.
"Oh, I finished everything you have in a couple minutes. (...) Deal with it." - What the hell, Luguiru? You don't behave like that. '-'

And I +1 everything else on the OP Luiguiru hasn't commented on.

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 21:20

Luguiru

Hurr

We have the Internet. I searched "how to find ping" and found that.

This has been acknowledged recently.

If there were animations described I would be able to interpret the ascending/descending bits.

Those last lines had nothing to do with the actual thread, I was derping about playing Wakfu. Yes, I am playing Wakfu as I type this. No, I do not use "deal with it" in a serious note.

Since a couple things were added, I will add further notes.

Use the Q button if this is a continuous problem.

The spinning suction of Graviton/Electron adds to its tactical placement.

Spam clicking through the chat too difficult? Been there, done that; not wanting to go back to that. It may have been a nuisance but not too significant. Truck through the dialogues.

Wakfu. That is all.

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