I was thinking recently that it'd be really neat to be able to convert industrial credits to another currency. This would allow the use of $$$<=>i-credits for trade-o-mats and energy-o-mats. Essentially removing the need for additional shop plugins.
Currently one way to do this is to use a shop-plugin from bukkit to sell i-credits for a set price (1:1 or whatever), if there were however to be an "ATM" block in IC² it would be possible to use eg. iConomy as
electrical money and i-credits as cash, without any unnecessary plugins. With a slight change to the energy-o-mat this cash could then be used to "top up" your energy allowance, a system in use irl.
Currently the Energy-O-Mat deposits the paid coins into a chest, but would it be possible to supply the machine with coins from another chest? A player could then deposit say 10 stacks of industrial-credits into that chest, if the price were 10 i-credits for 4k EU the machine would withdraw coins from the chest until it is empty (256k EU delivered).
...Energy-O-Mat
... chest
Payment Chest
output
Storage Chest
Suggestions:
ATM: Allows a transfer of industrial-credits <=> whatever currency in use
Energy-O-Mat: Change to allow an input chest