It’s called progress.
I know you disagree with me, lots of people do and there is no need to apologise for it. 
Although this is a nice idea with perm decay, but I believe the old taxation(perm decay or age decay) will kill certain people. The poor people(Noobs) will get poorer, the middle class will lose their investments that they have worked hard to keep. But the High level players will benefit more since they are the only ones who are skilled enough to do this and therefore become better and richer and the cycle goes on… And most of the richer and higher leveled players are the ones who are hording all the materials for crafting or items. Not the noobs, they are lucky if they get a pixie armor. It will also turn off players who want to try and play the game and buy things that will eventually disappear. So basically, age decay or perm decay , which ever you want to call it is really bad.
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Although this is a nice idea with perm decay, but I believe the old taxation(perm decay or age decay) will kill certain people. The poor people(Noobs) will get poorer, the middle class will lose their investments that they have worked hard to keep.
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I dont understand…
As I said it would be balanced with normal decay actually making using common items cheaper (since with them you never pay aging decay but get a new one).
The result I was after was:
- decay on very common items will be cheaper
- using items you use all the time will be cheaper or same
- keeping items you dont use regularly will be more expensive
Thus those who would suffer most is people who have loads of uncommon stuff they dont actively use (therefore they dont benefit from TT-value balancement).
As I said it makes trading bit more complex since your goods actually slowly ages but on otherhand it most likely would take away trading from occasional traders and benefit professional traders.
Interesting ideas here.
What I think have to be done is to introduce a combination of perm decay, harder mobs and higher level weapons, tools, armor, etc.
Those weapons, tools, armor, etc should need to be repaired with items that have perm decay. F.ex low level weapons should be repaired with changing basic filters, etc. to fully operate.
Higher level stuff should need higher level components. Example level 10 engines, etc.
Also better higher level crafted weapons should soon be introduced. Maybe with higher decay, but also to can manage to kill higher level mobs. Players will have more and more health and sure there also need to be better and better mobs out there. For ppl without health, it can be possible to kill a large mob with a large weapon. Of course veterans then will kill it much more economical with exsisting weapons then a noob with a uber weapon.
/Kjetil 
I think the best solution to making the crafting more imporant and to keep the market from colapseing is to:
- remove all items from loots, period. Even mod faps, everything. No more complete items.
- Introduce better blueprints that are compariable, stat wise, to the looted versions. Why not blueprints for the EXACT looted versions again? Mod FAP bp anyone (level 20, 30 or more, thousands and thousands of peds a click..)?
- Make all attachments, weapons, armors and tools be able to be broken down into componenet parts. Like a Imk2 would break down into 20 or so individual parts. This breakdown wouldn’t be individual items in your inventory, but a new UI interface screen for item repair, will list and detail all the component parts, their condition, what parts are needed for the repair, how much money etc..
- Blueprints for these items change as follows:
…a. The item blueprint becomes creates a complete item with basic components. This would include all its component parts already made and those that require replacement will be made full condition, those that can be repaired by the TT would be of random TT amount.
…b. All the items will also have their component part blueprints available in the blueprint books. For example the imk2 would require 20 components, 10 of which are unrepairable. Those 10 items become blueprints in the blueprint book for weapons. Some of those components would be standards that other weapons would use. Some would be unique to just the imk2. - To repair an item you put it in a repair terminal. It breaks it down and lists its stats. TT value of each part and total TT value. Unrepairable items condition and estimated time to failure (how many uses). When you repair it in the TT unrepairable components are replaced (if you have the replacement in your inventory) when they’re completely decayed. Repairable components are repaired from your ped card.
- You get a new item in your inventory, a tool bag. This is like a universal box/bag that would hold all your replacement parts for your items. You can drag replacement components into it and they don’t take inventory space/items or weight when in the tool box. When a component of your item your useing that is unrepairable breaks and you have a replacement in your tool bag it is automaticly put in your item without you even noticeing. A notice would appear that X component broke and was relaced from your tool bag. But your fire rate or whatever your doing would see no service interuption.
- You will be required to keep spare components in your tool bag, these components are only craftable, and therefore crafters will have a never ending market for these components.
- All items that already exist in the game would require their component part blueprints to already exist when the change happens. There would be FAR more blueprints for a crafter to manage, therefore the blueprint book and Tech NPC interfaces should change. All the looted items that no blueprint exists for yet should have their component part blueprints available to buy from the Tech NPC. All crafted items, if you own the blueprint, you’ll automaticly get the component part blueprints for that. The UI for the crafting book should be changed to better accomodate a large number of blueprints and easy finding of them. Instead of only 6 or whatever blueprints per page you should be able to see all blueprints. Be able to access the component part blueprints of any item by a list of their main items, etc.. The UI should be changed to better handled the new number of blueprints and make it easier to find a specific component bp for a specific item.
This new system would require hunters and miners to buy and carry arround spare parts for their items, but those items should always be available in the auction or through shopkeepers. If not many people can make a speciifc component cheap then stock up on a bunch of replacement parts when you can…
The economy can’t contiune forever the way it is now, imho. So something like this must be done.
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I like this idea, Reaky… The only point i’d change is the adj, mod and imp version of the items… I’d prefer to get them by the crafting hof instead of those precious stones like actually. In fact, i’ve never understoof why MA haven’t made the crafting hof like this. It’d be far more enjoyable to see a adj ek-1000 appear in the loot window instead of a crappy diamond, imo
I’d prolly sell out if perm decay of any sort was to be implemented. To damn hard to keep track of. As somebody said. Too complicated. I wanna be able to login after 1-2 months and find everything as it was when i logged out. If not, screw it.
shrug
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I’d prolly sell out if perm decay of any sort was to be implemented. To damn hard to keep track of. As somebody said. Too complicated. I wanna be able to login after 1-2 months and find everything as it was when i logged out. If not, screw it.
shrug
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I guess decay anyway will only effect item that you are using.
No effect on items in storage or if ppl does not play for a month or 100.
/Kjetil 