Battery Rework

scurry5

Hey all, just an idea I saw as an aside in one of the chat channels.

I find going back to starbases to buy stacks of consumables (e.g. batteries) rather tedious. Not to mention my tendency to warp into a PvP/PvE match and find that I forgot to restock. Plus I have to waste inventory slots on stacks of them.

Red Matter Capacitor and Rechargeable Shield Batteries are methods of solving this. But barely anyone can get them.

My suggestion is for there to be Battery Devices that, instead of being consumed, simply deduct the EC cost of a battery of that type straight from your EC total. Perhaps they could be obtained from crafting, rep or mission rewards.

I mean, they are energy credits for a reason. Might as well let you convert some of that energy into ship power. It's more of a slight QOL improvement than anything major, but it would be handy.

Or even with the new crafting system, perhaps it's time for rechargeable batteries to be craftable?

Thoughts?

theshushux

good idea! surely make pvp life easier... maybe that's why it wont happen? :P
its like having a vendor in ur ship..
as far as i know the rechargeable batteries removed - question is why?

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notrealedna

Or just sell some rechargeable batteries that deduct a higher price ...like 2000ec per click.They could sell them in zen store as a item so they don't change the game.Its really annoying keep going after batteries ...this would reduce the number of loading screens and time wasted waiting doing that.