A recycling center, something we can use to recycle the mangled coils and other usless salvage into warbarge components or other equipment

Recycling Facility subsystem, creating Nanites, this has been my dream for a long time

What would these nanites allow you to do? Or has the dream not yet crystallized that much.

Build your own weapons or dropsuits?

That's what I thought at first too, but you can easily purchase dropsuits and weapons from the market. This would not be new or interesting content then.

The experimental lab produces random officer gear, right? What if the recycler allowed you to make nanites, and nanites could be used to produce specific officer weapons and/or dropsuits. Obviously the price tag for these weapons/dropsuits would be quite high, but this would create a secondary market for "junk" items between players.

why do I get the feeling that Scotty is Rat mans main/alt

No, im older

That's what I thought at first too, but you can easily purchase dropsuits and weapons from the market. This would not be new or interesting content then.

The experimental lab produces random officer gear, right? What if the recycler allowed you to make nanites, and nanites could be used to produce specific officer weapons and/or dropsuits. Obviously the price tag for these weapons/dropsuits would be quite high, but this would create a secondary market for "junk" items between players.

I think that is the right track. A warbarge component, a dropsuit, a piece of valuable broken optic frame, all represent raw material that is already formed into somethingGǪ. so its value is already locked in.

Capsuleers who "mine" for raw material can choose to sell its "raw" value, or "refine" it to CHANGE its value before selling it.

If a "nanite" were to be considered a "raw" building block material, mercs could be allowed to SELL raw nanites to other mercs for profit (a nanite might be too small to get Eve sales on the market like broken scrap does), or to RECYCLE nanites to manually produce:
A 'construct' counterfeit Decrytor Key that jimmies an unknown number of strongboxes before it breaks.
A 30-day 'construct' supply of any weapon or module we manually choose (acting as a temporary bpo of that item)
A 'construct' x3 increase of our warbarge component stockpile (requiring a great many nanites).

Recycling Facility subsystem, creating Nanites, this has been my dream for a long time

Why do you shitbags give Rattati 13 likes and poor old scotty only gets 1 like from me when hes saying the same thing?

God damn celebrity worshiping donkeys.