I'm going to go a few things here:

1) Crafting.
We have an alchemy system in the game that requires orbs of alchemy. Instead of grinding for crowns to buy orbs from the auction house, buying CE for orbs, or farming missions, we should be able to craft orbs. Here's an example.
10 Flawed orbs for 1 simple orb. 3 simple orbs for 1 advanced orb. 10 advanced orbs for 1 elite. 20 elite for 1 eternal. Feel free to edit this as you wish.

First of all, I would easily agree with this but the price ratio is way too high and it's much easier to just downscale them than upscale them. But I would honestly disagree even if I did like it just because it would be a loss of money that way.

2) Vendors.
Vendors! You could have a vendor named, say, William, the Forge and Orb vendor. He will sell you fire crystals for forging, and orbs of alchemy for crafting. Maybe 1 flawed orb can cost, say, 250 crowns. 1 Simple orb would cost 1,000 crowns. 1 Advanced orb is 2,500-4,000 crowns, choose the price. 1 Elite orb costs 8k. 1 Eternal orb costs 14k. How 'bout it?

I would rather prefer if Three Rings put a singular Orb of Alchemy on the Supply Depot than this. Your prices are way too low. At the average price of Crystal Energy being 9000/100CE, I could buy 3 Eternal Orbs at this price for <500CE. Unless you were going to do it this way, I'd rather suggest using Crystal Energy instead of Crowns as the cost of Crowns to Energy is varied where-as Crystal Energy is a flat-rate.

So, other than that. -1

I still find it funny that people complain about Orbs...

I'd just like to point out that Orbs used to not exist. You had to Craft using Energy. Know how much energy it took? 10 Energy for 1*, 50 Energy for 2*, 200 Energy for 3*, 400 Energy for 4*, and 800 Energy for 5*. Then the Sprite update came out, and with it, Orbs of Alchemy. In other words, Orbs of Alchemy are basically free energy, so I see absolutely no reason to make Crafting even easier than they've already made it.

On that note, -1 to Vendors simply because we can already buy them from the Auction House (albeit for a rip-off price, but people have got to make money somehow). And -1 to the Crafting idea of crafting upwards. I'd +1 if we could craft downwards (such as turning Eternals into Elites), but -1 to crafting upwards.

Dibsville summed up pretty much what I would have said, so thanks.

let's see now...

Looking at number one, there's one thing i find very flawed. It would cost less to buy it from the supply depot than to craft upwards. For example, 20 elite orbs is equivalent to about 2667 energy. You can get 3 eternal orbs for 800 energy.
Another bad exchange rate is 10 flawed orbs of alchemy for one simple. That's exchanging about 33 energy's worth of flawed orbs for 17 energy's worth of simple orbs.
And again, another bad exchange rate with advanced orbs. I don't know what you did with this, but the exchange rate suddenly dropped to make it way easier. You can get 3 simple orbs for 50 energy in the supply depot, and one advanced orb should be worth about 67 energy.
As for advanced>elite, like before, this is a horrible exchange rate, giving up about 667 energy's worth of advanced orbs for 1 elite orb, worth about 133 energy.

As for 2, I don't know where you get these prices from. Let's assume that the promo's are over, and the price of energy goes back up to I don't know, 8000 crowns. Might be a little low, but this is just an example.
Flawed Orb: 750 for 3, supply depot is 800 crowns for 3
Simple Orb: 3000 for 3, supply depot would be 4000 crowns for 3
Advanced Orb: Either 7500 or 12k for 3, supply depot would be 16k for 3.
Elite Orb: 24k for 3, supply depot would be 32k for 3.
Eternal Orb: 42k for 3, supply depot would be 64k for 3.

Still either way, I don't support either of these ideas because they introduce other ways to get things that would cost energy, and as such, the demand for energy will go down. When it goes down, less people will need to buy it (less orbs needed to buy it), and OOO will lose money. It's probably bad for a game to lose money.