i have always thought of a crafting machine in the cross roads, here are some reasons for the suggestion:
1) some one does not have CE to craft but at the cross road he has enough money to trade it for cr and wants to craft a recipe.
2) when we get a recipe we have the urge to craft it immediately
3) to sell a gear to some one in need of it at the cross road
4) need for the weapon due to the stratum theme
Inb4searchbar: All relevant threads are probably dust-worthy old, so necroing them would just annoy you.
It would be a useful addition, yes. And I have yet to see any drawback, playerwise or OOO-profitwise...unless you count the chance of them dying for not having the right gear, which is minuscule.
+1