Would be great to have a Ferengi merchant pop up when you sell items for EC through your replicator. Your personal Ferengi contact. Or maybe even one of your Civilian Traders on your crew roster.
It wouldn't be a good idea of making the process of recycling items in the replicator any more complex than it already is, it may discourage people from utilizing it. The last thing we want is for people to more frequently visit one of the vendors that pays 50% of the item's value to dump their trash. That would be bad for the economy.
If anything, the replicator should be streamlined to make getting rid of trash easier and happen quicker, preferably without creating any new EC. Some sort of non-transferable "replicator ration" currency would be perfectly acceptable and good for the economic environment.
Or like in Torchlight2, you put your junk on Porthos and then he goes to town to sell your unwanted warp drives, shield batteries, tribbles, etc. Cool....
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If anything, the replicator should be streamlined to make getting rid of trash easier and happen quicker, preferably without creating any new EC. Some sort of non-transferable "replicator ration" currency would be perfectly acceptable and good for the economic environment.