Item Degradation

[Wild Card]

What do you people think? Should stuff like armor and weapons ware down over time requiring player's to get them repaired in order for them to be effective again?

[Relinquish]

Pass. It fits into the same category as mandatory eating/drinking/urinating.

[Spiffy Has]

What Relinquish said. More micromanaging is boring and dull and I hate how games include it in their system. It's pointless.

[Valo56]

Some items already degrade over time, disappearing after one or more resets.

This sort of thing could work for certain powerful items, but not for everything, in my opinion.

[Porkolt]

Given the following:

- The limited lifetime of the average EFU PC, months at most.
- That equipment, if kept in proper care, will stay good for centuries.
- That equipment, if treated shitty, should still last a great many years before giving out.
- That everything can be repaired.
- That half the items in EFU are magical and of exceptional quality.


...Equipment degradation as suggested could hardly be portrayed realistically, and even then would have such a minor impact on gameplay that it is wholly negligible.

[Bearic]

I would just role play it myself; like eating or drinking, but what Porkolt said has some of the best points; most PCs are around maybe a couple months, and even then they tend to change equipment quite often until getting some magical suit.

[Maiden in Peril]

Please no..
This is not an MMORPG..
What'd be next, custom pay-to-play content?

Sorry, I respect the thought behind it but I am kinda-sorta very sore about this kind of thing.

My thoughts are very well reflected by pretty much all previous posts anyway though.

[core]

An interesting suggestion, but one that wouldn't fit well in EfUM.

[EvilKnievel]

Only item degradation ala Bailey Bhonn please. Or halfplate without pants.