So, while running around vana with my pals we were talking about how this game seems really lacking....And we started talking about how empty haven really is. I mean, of all those buildings we can only enter the ones we made ourselves (Hall of heroes, the Lab, etc). Imagine if you could enter the various homes and buildings located elsewhere?

I know this might sound silly, and I'm sure this might sound like generic questing, But I feel it'd be pretty awesome if (from the start of the game) you could get daily missions from the various shopkeepers, and other Strangers throughout spiral knights. These mission could vary depending on who you're talking to, and I would hope that these missions would be entirely optional. But, here's my test idea:

You walk into the Sword Merchant's store, and talk to him. Instead of instantly going to the sword shop, there is a dialogue option to ask how business is, or how his day is going. Upon asking he will tell you that he has recently had troubled getting a Rocky Cores to sharpen his swords with. With his swords all being dull and weak, nobody wants to buy them. If you would be brave enough to go into the clockworks and give him three Rocky Cores he could continue his business, and he'll even give you a bit of money on the side!
The rewards for this would be small, something along the lines of 15 Prestige per mission, along with 1,000cr or so. Or perhaps another 0-2* item that you don't get from normal quest lines.

The overall goals for this would be as follows:
*Give low ranking knights another way to earn a decent amount of crowns for their time playing.
* help low ranking knights get their prestige up faster (for knights like myself who really want that vangaurd symbol, but hate the limited prestige missions that are given every day)
*slightly expand the spiral knights universe (Think about it, we've only ever seen the insides of our buildings. The Strangers might have some really neat looking homes and buildings, right?).
*Possibility to get cheaper items from shop keepers in exchange for doing a lot of missions for them? (lets face it, 35.000cr for a three star item is horrible, but some newer knights, for whatever reason, still try to buy from there).
*Something new for us veteran players to have some fun with! (I know my example was a fetch quest, but there could be a lot of different missions. Perhaps the shield merchant (after doing other quests for him) wants to know just how effective his shields are, so he lends you a 2* shield and asks you to block a random number of hits from enemies. In exchange for gathering data for him he'll let you keep the shield!).

If this idea has been done before, or if it sounds similar to another idea forgive me, I rarely visit the forums and felt like throwing this kind of idea out there.