the base of this idea is that monsters, well the intelligent ones anyway should have some kind of equipment used to fight the knights. i mean sense the gremlin are trying to destroy us and we are in an alien planet, why not have them have their own equipment. hmm, something missing in the idea maybe hmm, im not sure yet. but when you find whats missing i would like to think on it.

well maybe the reason is thatt there is no need for monsters with equipement, but i think it would be more intresting.

this is how i imagine the coding would work, well the general picture. when the monster isnt equiped with anything it would have the normal layout of the same attack patterns and would not change from the mnsters we have now. once the items wich could be a sword, gun or armor is equiped they would have a whole new layout of how they would atack, new animantions. the only dificult part i see in the codin is the monsters behavior when it is trying to retrieve the armor while attacking knights that are stopping it from equiping it. well thats just my thought on it because i haven't looked into sk programing code and how much can the motarfire code can handle. If its successful though, i think it would make the game more intresting.

The reason why i am not creating new monsters is because we already have monsters that are pretty balanced. creating new monsters or new familys takes lots of consideration as how it interact within the sk worl and if it fits that theme of the game. thats take a lot of work, so i thought why not take the monsters we have now and just give them some new attack patterns by using the equipment method. this way we can create more depth into how the monsters fit there role from the storyline description.

lets have an overview of the familys that might fir the equipment role.

Beast family: i want to scratch out what i said before. after a brief overview, i foud that the gremlins and beats family interact very frequently in levels that are name the clockworks or chambers. so i think that the beast should also have equipment that is made by the gremlins specificly for th beast in the clockworks to aid them in battle. like a beast master equiping his pet with spike armor. something like that.

construct family: wel i say a definite yes, one because they are creations that are manafactured. so they can be very flexible to what kind of modifications can be added to them. and two they are created by supposedly advance inteligent lifeforms know as the gremlins, well most of them were. so why not have equipment that changes the way they attack or some simple things like mounting a retrode with two extra laser beams on its shoulders. or even mount an armor that gives push back like mender on it. i dont see a reason why not too.

fiend family: i am honestly have no idea what the gremlins work on down in there devil world. so i cant saay if they should have equipment or not. but if i had to choose, i would say no. i would rather just create a new montster mini - boss to expand there family a bit more. just because there already hard to deal with.

Gremlin family: a definite yes. Why i say yes? only because there suppose to be the top inteligent beings in spiral knights, being only second to the lost magical owlite technology. we alll know down in the deconstruction levels, that gemlins like to swarm us, then beat us down. so why biff em even more when there already a good challenege. well just because adding equipment would boost more how much of a challenge they are. they are suppose to be our arch enemy, actually having intentions to blow is all to smitherines, not like the roaming snarbolax or the jelly king who just sits on hi thrown. so adding equipment would only prove that they are hrd at work thinking of ways to better eliminate us from this world. i think tahts all the reason needed to give them extra fire power.

slime family: i dont see them ever having anything to do with technology. only adding more variaty to their family would depen their root into sk. cause so far, the only thing they can be is either a round slime or a jelly cube. so more variaty, nothing to do with equipment.

undead family: this is a definite yes! the reason i say this is because again the undead family is suppose to represent the entirety of all living things that died in spiral knights. so they are the most flexible even more then the construct family. even though all we see is skeletons, ghost, trojans, phantoms, and some skeleton turret heads, they are definetly not limited to this. i think the only reason we dont se dead gremlins or other dead monsters from other famils incuded is because the devs do not want a repeat of monster tactic behavior and ect.. so what should this be equiped with, sense they have just about an infinite of posibilities. well i say almost anything that fits the theme. i said a rugged axe just because that whast most undead creatures are equiped with in other video games, but even a complicated rocket launcer to a laser rifle should be allowed to be equiped.

the monsters that have the equipment will not be the majority when u run into a mob of monsters. they would only be a few that will be decorated as elite monsters that are able to operate these items.

okay so monsters equipment not easy work, but i dont think creating weapons for the siral knight playes is easy either. so im not saying this is a simple task, but if it was implemented, sk would definetly become more intresting.