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Crystal Damage Change
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Lugues Slive
Diamond Light Industries
gold fever
#1 - 2014-05-09 02:07:50 UTC
With the changes to industry, RAM units were changed from taking damage to being stacks of 100 and depleting with each use.

The same thing could be done to Mining Crystals, T2, and Faction Crystals. Each single unused crystal would be converted to a stack of X, where X is the number of cycles each crystal is designed to last, and each cycle depletes one crystal. Each stack of X would take up the same cargo room as one current crystal.

This would allow you to stack used crystals and would allow you to split a partially used current crystal between several lasers.
Rowells
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2014-05-09 02:32:45 UTC
That's basically just giving lasers ammo like other guns?
Lugues Slive
Diamond Light Industries
gold fever
#3 - 2014-05-09 02:35:47 UTC
Correct, but only for depletable crystals not the infinite T1 Crystals.
Cassandra Aurilien
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2014-05-09 03:03:02 UTC
That's actually a bit of a nerf.

If memory serves, faction crystals take damage whenever they are used, which would make a change like this not an issue, but mining crystals & T2 crystals have a chance of taking damage when they are used. (10-20%) It's why they don't wear out at the same time.