We've all been there - drooling in wait for Ship-Bots and Purgers. And what do you get?

Void Shell. Tachyon Cylinder. Dark Pyramid. Dark Pyramid.

You have 50,000 of them. If Dan makes some mission that uses Tachyon Cylinders, you'll have that sucker done in five seconds.

Culling the chaff from your artifacts is becoming a chore, and to be fair, some artifacts are really really useful, you just don't need a billion of them. Phase Cutters are great, but you're not going to suddenly conquer 25 planets at once. A small reserve is all you need.

Soooo... have an 'Auto-Scrap' checkbox that you can select for each artifact. If you get a checked artifact in your artifact draw, it's automatically scrapped! The artifact points are spent like normal, it's just like if you drew the artifact and scrapped it manually. Decide you need more of the artifact? Uncheck the box and you're back to getting Tachyon Cylinders.

Even better, have a quantity that you can set as a cap. I do want Phase Cutters, but not 100 of them. So I set the quantity to 10. If I have less than 10 and draw a Cutter, it goes into my inventory. More than 10? Scrapped. This way, if I use some, I don't have to go uncheck the box to get more. Once I'm back up to 10, any additional ones get toasted. And again, if you change your mind, adjust the quantity or uncheck the box so that you can get as many as you want.

Actually Tachyon Cylinders are used in a mission which requires around 250 of them (somewhere around that #, my memory is a little hazy on the exact amount). Oh yeah, both the void shell and dark pyramid is also used in an infinitely repeatable mission.

For me, I don't want to scrap them. I'd like to have the ability to convert them to something useful.

What's the mission? It doesn't show any on the Wiki

Darkness Falls

after the Shadow labs.

I agree, we should have this ability to auto-scrap artifacts that we don't want. It saves time, especially for people who have to go to the library and only get an hour on the computer. I got stuff to take care of and I don't want to waste time having to clear out my inventory.

That one uses Void Shells and Dark Pyramids, not Tachyon Cylinders. It also creates a cloaking structure that's pretty weak, when planet cloaking itself is pretty weak. No one's going to be spending energy on that when they could be getting purgers or other uniques.

The Tachyon Cylinders are used in a dif. mission. I forget what it is called but you need a lot of them to do it. Same with most of your arti's. You may think that they are useless but they come in handy later on in missions.