Why destroy current repair system, just add dark matter as another option.

[Rentahamster]

For the currect items leave the ability to use the current repair mats or the new dark matter item. Why not make a flexible system?

This wouldn't be "flexible" as much as it would be "even more redundant than the current system".

The inconvenience and inventory bloat and database bloat that the current repair system causes needed to be streamlined, badly. The dark matter repair system does this.

/no

In fact, remove the repair system all together. It's a piece of crap to begin with, playing with durability is never fun.

Normally, I'd agree with this, but due to the importance of the role of crafters in this game, they need to be able to be useful for something more than just making stuff. I think the concept of having player-repairs is a decent one, but it just needs to be implemented better (much like a lot of the other concepts in FF14).

I think the dark matter repair system is a step in the right direction.


(Did we really need to have yet another thread about this? We already covered this stuff in this original thread about the new repair system: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...airing-Repairs as well as in another long, redundant one as well.)

[Verecund]

I personally think they should've gone more the route of incentives... i.e. getting an item repaired by a crafter other than yourself gives a small temporary buff to the item. That would also give crafting somewhat of a more active role in battle preparation as well.

[Tigercub]

Last time I checked, dark matter annihilates any normal matter it comes into contact with, so........

... and incoming repair bills could theoretically be interpreted as invigorating the economy...


(just sayin'!)

That would be antimatter.
Dark matter is the invisible kind that we use as an excuse to make our understanding of physics not fail and completely undermine hundreds of years of scientific research.
/end de-rail

[Jennestia]

For the currect items leave the ability to use the current repair mats or the new dark matter item. Why not make a flexible system?

That's not what people complained for sadly -- People complained to get rid of the system, so instead of getting rid of it they simplified it to make them happy.

[zaviermhigo]

That would be antimatter.
Dark matter is the invisible kind that we use as an excuse to make our understanding of physics not fail and completely undermine hundreds of years of scientific research.
/end de-rail

Astronomy 112 was a bitch sometimes, "so wait, this doesn't match our modern understanding of physics?" "so steven hawking just events crap when that happens?" seriously?@!?@?

[Neptune]

For the currect items leave the ability to use the current repair mats or the new dark matter item. Why not make a flexible system?

No way dude. As someone with like 3 crafts, carrying around all the repair mats would take up like 15-30 inventory slots. I'm a fan of this simplification as much as I liked the old system. I have a feeling all of the old mats will be converted to dark matter, but who knows.

[TonyMontana]

No way dude. As someone with like 3 crafts, carrying around all the repair mats would take up like 15-30 inventory slots. I'm a fan of this simplification as much as I liked the old system. I have a feeling all of the old mats will be converted to dark matter, but who knows.

I hope they do convert all old mats to dark matter and I also dont like carrying around tons of repair mats. What im suggesting would allow you to craft purely with dark matter if you wanted HOWEVER on top of that the current repair items could be used also. Maybe all new items added to the game could be dark matter only. What I am suggesting wouldnt MAKE you carry around more repair mats but if you had several stacks like I do you still could use them or you could use dark matter. It could be your choice.

[SuzakuCMX]

Because everyone interested in a profit would use Dark Matter and normal repair materials still wouldn't sell.

[Gramul]

Because it would make the original redundant and pointless waste of inventory space with only a very small minority of people using it.

Theoretically anyway.

[Solfleur]

I am SO not thrilled that all the skills I leveled (grind grind grind) and stacks upon stacks of stuff I leveled up MIN and BOT to harvest (grind grind grind some more, ad nauseam) are now USELESS. I was so disgusted I just vended most of the stuff except for what I have stored on 6 mules of course. I had plenty of mats to keep virtually anything in good shape for EVER...now I'm back to square one...noobsville. More grinding (yipeee!!!) so I can get the freaking dark matter. I can hardly effing wait. I am beginning to think this game really is going to fail. It's a shame because there was a LOT of potential there. And yes, as an adult (degreed in psychology no less, I am aware of the initial human response to change *resistance* and I'm quite certain that is not what I'm experiencing here--this feels like FRUSTRATION!) ><