[dev1027 - sort of] Recreating Crystal Clusters

[Economizer]

Personally, I love the suggestion to merge crystals into clusters. Perhaps this could be possible with one of the Rank 1 Conquest NPCs who sit in the top ranked city. However, being able to store crystals is a horrifically bad idea.

Alternatively, here is a good idea I almost missed:

Recombining crystals: A level 0 synth that takes 1 of the 12 crystals and is used on the remaining ones to create the cluster. Problem solved with having it make sense.

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there is no logical argument against this suggestion

It's the economy, stupid. (No offense here, just quoting some saying, again, I'm not trying to name call.)

There will already be a massive effect on the game economy by making these things stackable, but I think this can be handled. Crystals are a lot like oil. Imagine if you could store oil indefinitely and at no cost to you. People would horde it instead of selling it, and the cost would get massive up and downturns.

Being able to store crystals in this way would be incredibly destructive to the game economy - the availability of crystals would go down, since there would be no cost to holding them until you could get a better price.