Sunday, January 18, 2015 by spiralspy

Well, I probably know the answer already: costumes belong to you while furniture belongs to the guild. You risk loosing some serious cash if you either leave yourself or are kicked out. Hence, a lot less people would not buy a furniture box.

Here’s my counter argument: Spiral knights seriously lacks in story content. The little we have is a more or less a disjunct patchwork of ideas (it is still unclear how shadow lairs and the swarm tie into the world, Operation Crimson hammer sticks out of an unfinished story arc like a sore thumb and all of the danger missions more or less beg for a follow up) that don’t seem to get any further development. You could probably burn through the entire game in a week if you insisted on just seeing everything before moving on.

The thing that keeps players around is not the world of Cradle. Cradle is sufficiently boring and artificially inflated with it’s automatically generated levels. People stay because they find friends they enjoy playing with and guilds are a part of their social network. So Threerings should have a vested interest in positioning guilds as something a bit more important than just glorified crown sinks. Yet, almost no effort has been put into this aspect of the game after it’s initial conception.

In the very least, I would really like to see “mixed” promo boxes that may contain costumes as well as furniture. For example, for new guilds it has become virtually impossible to lay their hands on the once abundant battlestands. Making them available again via promo boxes would be most welcome and it doesn’t even take the effort of reskinning them. They would probably go well with the next rose regalia set and surely be a good replacement for the despised variant tickets in the solstice boxes.

Here are some other ideas for cheap to make furniture:

Bind the floor effect of a splash, sprinkle, blossom, leaf, dreadful or grasping aura to an “invisible snipe”. Being able to put the blossom effect in a snipe garden would surely buff that room.

Those stone lanterns from the glooming wildwoods? Want! Same goes for the braziers from the scarlet fortress.

How about “carpets” that resemble patches of grass (yeah, i know, poor men’s snipe garden)? This would go nicely with those blooming boxes.

Brinks as a furniture! Gosh … I would pay big time for him!

Sprite food alchemy machine.

Oh yes, while we are at it, can we please remove those “you can’t decorate here” floor areas and simply move “design mode” to the activities menu? This would add a lot more freedom to hall decoration and prevent people from locking themselves out.