I never said anything about them not being depletable. Check this out, if I have 500 shots left on a crystal, and I repair it so it has 1000 shots left, how is that different from having 500 rounds of antimatter and buying 500 more, apart from the fact that I'm not spending money on the market? This is why I brought up player-driven station repair services.

tl;dr - it adds way too much complexity for the maximum benefit it could possibly provide.

while we're on the topic of lasers and crystals:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4055632#post4055632

Your thread is closed, but there's no reason given.

You're right! i didn't see that. Thanks.
I might have to start a new thread.

Ah yes, the thread is locked for 90 days of inactivity.

You can petition to have it reopened.

Do this, I'll support it.

Repairing them by combining them with other damaged crystals would be really nice.
In our POS there are pages over pages of single laser crystals from PvP loot.

The really annoying part is when you want to use those single crystals you don't know how much they are damaged before you put them into you guns, so you end up with all your crystals having different durability.
When one of those crystals finally does break your guns stop shooting for no apparent reason because the game won't reload a single crystal automatically. Almost cost me my ship once.

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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But ... one can look up the damage already ...

It works in space definitely, but I think I recall seeing it ingame too.

Maybe it was in contracts. When it can be seen in contracts,
it can be seen somewhere else too.

I have no crystals to check, though.

But that won't stop people from buying 500 from the market. As long as people are still buying new ships, they are buying new crystals for them as well. I did cover this above, already, and I even covered the part where I already know that such a thing would reduce the laser crystal market, hence the suggestion of player-driven station repair services to offset it. It would also have the bonus of introducing more "player-driven" aspects to a player-driven economy.

I've been over this, why am I repeating myself?

At the end of the day, I don't care either way, I'm just querying those with more experience with laser crystals. I barely use the things.

I never said anything about them not being depletable. Check this out, if I have 500 shots left on a crystal, and I repair it so it has 1000 shots left, how is that different from having 500 rounds of antimatter and buying 500 more, apart from the fact that I'm not spending money on the market? This is why I brought up player-driven station repair services.

You'll support the petition?

apart from the fact that I'm not spending money on the market?

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.

No, the idea, clearly.

Have you checked if you can create a filter for damaged items?

I love inventory filters, they make everything much easier to organize and faster to do! :D

I never said anything about them not being depletable. Check this out, if I have 500 shots left on a crystal, and I repair it so it has 1000 shots left, how is that different from having 500 rounds of antimatter and buying 500 more, apart from the fact that I'm not spending money on the market? This is why I brought up player-driven station repair services.

Sorry, not what I want. xD

I just wanna stack damaged crystals.

Or maybe combine damaged crystals so they have all the same amount of damage or something like that.

That's a stupid, entitled attitude. When did you turn into one of the lower people?

When there is a way, take it.