Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
They'd have to make new models for every single piece of visible gear or apply some sort of effect. Not really worth the time.
Not really, all they'd have to do is introduce a function that, once gear repair gets to a set percentage, dulls the gear. No new models & not really an added effect, merely a shift in the colour wheel (actually, a shift in the chroma). To make it even easier still they could just turn the gear a set colour at a defined repair level.

These abilities are already in the system as we can change colours via dyestuffs. The server would be, in essence, dyeing the gear at the preset percentage. Should be very simple with a decent game engine, which we are led to believe SE has.