[dev1027 - sort of] Recreating Crystal Clusters

[MDenham]

How does crystals being converted to clusters help with your inventory?

Well, let's just take the obvious case: you're doing ~100 synths.

After the update, you'll be able to hold this as a stack of clusters and just break clusters as needed, rather than buying up multiple stacks of crystals. Fine so far, right?

Now let's say you've come back from a GoV run with enough crystals and are like "hm, I want to use these up". But your only skillup synth is something that doesn't stack. Converting the crystals to clusters means you run out of inventory space less frequently (since you go from, say, 9 slots taken up with crystals to one slot taken up with clusters and one with crystals from the cluster you most recently re-broke), meaning you have to stop less frequently to dump off the synth results (or desynth them), meaning you save a little bit of time.

Is this a "OH GOD THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, THE GAME SUCKS WITHOUT IT" idea? No. But neither is auto-repeating FoV/GoV pages. Neither is bait that stacks to 99 - or clusters that stack at all. Neither are Scrolls of Instant Warp for 10CP instead of 1000.

It's just convenient, that's all. It's not even an easy-mode button, since you still have to come up with the crystals somehow.

EDIT: I'd also like to thank Alhanelem for being more reasonable about this than Korpg is.

[Korpg]

Well, let's just take the obvious case: you're doing ~100 synths.

After the update, you'll be able to hold this as a stack of clusters and just break clusters as needed, rather than buying up multiple stacks of crystals. Fine so far, right?

Ok, I will admit, that would be helpful. But then people will buy clusters for this aspect, or buy a stack of crystals at a time, which is what I do when I spam synth stuff.