Quote Originally Posted by Andy View Post
No, please. That would leave the sockets empty, with the corresponding lost of power, and nothing to put in them. Also that is a lot of chips to clutter up the inventory and some people may not have the room for them. One of the other solutions is a better one. The following are in order of preference from my point of view.


  1. Remove the cost for removing level 4 chips.
  2. Allow in place merge. This means that you can use 4 more lvl 4 chips to merge with the one that is in the socket and it turns it into a lvl 5 chip in the socket.
  3. Allow a higher level chip to to replace the lvl 4 chip. The lvl 4 chip will be destroyed.
Andy you have said before you have all these level 4 chips embedded. And you embedded them without knowing about the 100 gem removal cost.
All I suggest is to undo that. ONE TIME. That's it. Then you can decide knowing that there is a gem removal cost how you want to deal with chips.
Knowing there is a gem removal cost would you still embed them? Would you not worry about them? Would you have them clutter up your inventory? etc etc
Because I doubt they will change the chip system. Dawn has stated before it is working exactly as intended.
The only issue I have with how it is working, which I believe dawn has even commented on the fact that this was missed in development, that there is no warning about the removal cost before embedding.

So correct that oversight and remove all level 4 + chips from everyone one time and warn them of the unembed cost when embedding.