EVE General Discussion

You'll support the petition?

This is just totally broken on CCP's part. We absolutely need to know how much a crystal is damaged before even undocking. They went out of their way to let us know a stargate is a stargate and the little 'x' in the top right of windows will close them if clicked. Just put the amount of damage a crystal has in the tooltip.

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If this is about vajazzling crystals, I think it's impractical to repair them.

Besides, it's a good idea to change the style from time to time.

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When crystals can be repaired, people won't buy more crystals than they have guns. It will completely kill the market for faction and T2 crystals.

How do you get the idea that people will buy 500 crystals when they really don't need to?

As someone else mentioned in the thread - Crystals are ammo, the game doesn't needed a frankly pointless layer of complexity on top of that. The idea itself is interesting but there's no way to execute it without needlessly complicating the gameplay - This kind of change is not necessary for the game. Complexity for the sake of complexity is always a bad idea in games.

You also seem to forget that crystals are already player driven - Players produce them, players sell them, players buy them.

Also, speaking as a laser user almost exclusively for the last 10 years ( after a year of hybrids :) ). I always carry a second set of crystals around, a third when using pulses. Those last for a few hours of continuous shooting. Reparing would make my life more complicated aswell...

The difference is: You can change your crystals on a whim, changing other types of ammo costs precious time. Time you may not have in a PVP-situation.

On repairing crystals: I'm not really against it. After all, people still buy T1-crystals, even though those never run out.

As a suggestion, make crystal repairs expensive and not 100% effective. So if you have 500 shots left out of 2000 and repair your crystal, you get something like 1900 instead of 2000 shots back. And every time you repair, the crystal degrades more.

This way, you could repair crystals in an emergency case, but you would still need reserve ammo. Also make the repair work with nanite paste, so you would have to choose: Either you take nanite paste to repair your crystals, or just more crystals.

And that, is exactly the difference that matters.

But tbh. I'd like it better if T2 Crystals would behave more like normal ammo. Less fluff, more cold hard stacking soz I don't have to wade through countless of almost broken laser crystals when opening my ammo container.

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Right? ;)

You talk about repairing crystals then compare them to ammo (which they are of course).
You repair turrets but you don't repair ammo. Buying 500 more antimatter ammo is not really any different to buying another crystal.

Pssshhh, everything I'm to lazy to do is to hard to do. Can't be bothered etc. (¬_¬)

It's also a bit of a hassle, once one of your crystals break the entire gun group stops shooting, you've got to reload that one single lazor gun either manually or degroup your guns. Hassle, can't be bothered., won't use etc. etc.

I can understand why the mechanic was implemented the way it is now, adds fluff, makes lasers even more different, emphazises on the "Look, it's totally an energy weapon because it uses CRYSTALS and that's so COOL!" And you don't shoot crystals, you just use them until they break, totally future stuff so you don't have to feel like a lowly minmatar.

But if there was some kind of crystal nano paste to rep those things (kinda like a damaged overheated module I guess) or if the T2 crystals were just cardridges that burn out after one shot (yup, just like ammo)... Well, would keep the market flowing and would be cool, to. Would like that if CCP made it so.

EDIT: That first Idea was kinda ******. Need to get more coffee. -.-