Make so Crystals are shared between all characters on 1 account. That way I can play any character & not worry about grinding crystals on specific of em....

My main character has 5400+ crystals but on my other characters I barely have any because I didn't grind on them as much to fulfill the need & that crystal shortage further limits on how much I'm able to use them whenever I decide to use them.

Take crystals from all characters, add them up & make so that amount of crystal can be used by any character under same account.

This would make using multiple characters much more enjoyable & convenient for f2p & lite subscribers.

I don't think there is any downsides to this but if someone spots one that I missed, add it here.

IIRC you used to be able to get a lot of crystals early on(and bypass the cap) as you get xp and level up your licenses. If it still exists, your suggestion might let people bypass the cap by creating new characters, farming, and then deleting them.

Change the crystal cap from per character to per account simple enough. Just add a notification for crystal cap that tells when you have reached it.

Problem solved.

Sorry bud but I have to give this a -1. Log on to all characters and do a 20 minute bot run on each every time you can, it's not too hard to hoard those crystals. You are FREE TO PLAY. So play, for free.

Procurement missions are a great source of crystals, with just hauling you can get quite a few daily
As well as from killing bots
I am not neccesarily against this suggestion, but more like neutral. For me crystal gathering is fine as it is, even if yes, it limits your possibilities quite a bit (no weapon trading, minimal pvp as it burns them fast etc).

IIRC you used to be able to get a lot of crystals early on(and bypass the cap) as you get xp and level up your licenses. If it still exists, your suggestion might let people bypass the cap by creating new characters, farming, and then deleting them.
^ very valid point

Change the crystal cap from per character to per account simple enough. Just add a notification for crystal cap that tells when you have reached it.
Doesn't answer above point.

The crystal cap doesn't affect badges. The game is designed to be very rewarding in crystals at the beginning, because you get a lot of badges in a short amount of time and those badges give quite a bit of crystal. So if crystals were shared between characters, you'd have to either nerf the crystal reward for badges acquired early on, or have people abuse the shit out of it by just making alts, farming them for a few minutes and getting a lot of crystals, then deleting em.

One possibility, though more difficult, would be to have essentially two pools of crystals. One being a per-character pool consisting of crystals earned from badges and a per-account pool of crystals obtained through general killing. When crystals are spent, they should be spent from the per-character pool first.