Suggested Encourage Battles by going green (Recycling)

[alterintel]

Example: I need Sertise to add punch through to my beam weapons on my ship, but all of the Laminar astroids have been mined

Extract the Sertise from the shield capacitors of defeated ships
this could be done by adding more recipes to the Micro Assembler, or by adding a Recycler block. Simply put in a shield capacitor and get out 25 Sertise, and 25 Rammet, or maybe instead get out 2 raw Serise, and 2 raw Rammet.

Just a thought

 

[sayerulz]

This would help a lot with making way more of something than you need as well.

 

[Equilibrium21]

I agree and i think we should be able to recycle most blocks. Also, make Blue asteroids less rare, to the point were you can actually find some in the outer belts.

 

[RoyalWolfe]

on the test server we discovered they aren't rare, they are non existent. there are conditions where scheema himself has confirmed they should be spawning and aren't. so obviously something is wrong there we think its being looked into.

 

[Equilibrium21]

Yeah, i haven't found any so i thought they were really rare (they have been for a long time). The only one i have found is the one at the starting area.

 

[RoyalWolfe]

that's another issue he said they aren't supposed to spawn there. we think something is wrong with it in general. in my personal opinion he chose the wrong resources to be rare. we need them to make some of the most basic things in the game, kinda a bad thing when servers get over populated.

 

[jayman38]

If nothing else, AI shops could simulate recycling by reducing excess material inventory, such as rock, and adding a lesser amount of something more useful to inventory, like shield blocks. Shops need some reason to reduce their excess inventories, so that players can continue to sell to them.

 

[Blaza612]

It would be cool if when you left a ship to completely overheat, just before it finishes, the Trade Guild comes and salvages it, storing the materials in the nearest shop/trade station.

 

[LunaIsBestPony]

 

[aceface]

I like this idea a lot!
Maybe have it so that you get 50% resources back to make it not so OP.

 

[Lecic]

I'm pretty sure there's an unused recycler block in the code.

It would be cool if when you left a ship to completely overheat, just before it finishes, the Trade Guild comes and salvages it, storing the materials in the nearest shop/trade station.

Maybe this should only happen if you're within a few sectors of a trade guild station or shop. It doesn't make much sense for the trade guild to show up and salvage pirate ships you fought in the void between galaxies.

 

[BlackTangent]

This would finally make pirates more useful.

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

Necro... Anyway some for of recycling option is a much requested feature.

 

[Lukwan]

Recycle as a beam FX could be fun too.