As we all know shards [ie. Light, Blue, Red, Green, Dark] are fragments of minerals. There should be a crafting machine to craft minerals of the color of the shard. Because sometimes people would rather just get the minerals to feed pets or whatever instead of hunt for a long time.
Using shards to craft into minerals
Minerals always seemed like an unfulfilled idea leftover from the initial game plan. Presumably they were meant to be so significant that carrying them around on our backs was invented in order to show them off.
Use 'em or lose 'em, I say.
The irony is blue and green shards tend to be more expensive than the others, but blue and green minerals are unusable.
Nuke all existing minerals into an equal amount of shards. Replace mineral pickups with shards, possibly redeemed at the end of a map or on the spot, whatever seems reasonable.
they're unusable right now, but it's not like there's going to be no more new battle sprites ever
I'd rather prefer it the other way around - way to craft some minerals into shards.
It would sink my small-time profit of selling shards at AH, though. =J
Lol, they're two different types of currency in the game, and they should stay that way. I kind of want food to just be crafted with the shard mats and arcade construction brought back.