Repairing Repairs

[AndrewN]

Now this is getting stupid. The previous system was fine apart from the whiners complaining about it, but a generic repair material is a ludicrous idea.

I am increasingly getting depressed about the dumbing down of the game.

[Rentahamster]

I am increasingly getting depressed about the dumbing down of the game.

Making players carry around endless amounts of matierials just to repair their gear is redundant and a waste of inventory and database space. This will cut down on both and save players time and frustration. This may be "dumbing down" in your opinion, but the previous way was definitely NOT "smartening up". It was terrible design.

[Zenaku]

Making players carry around endless amounts of matierials just to repair their gear is redundant and a waste of inventory and database space. This will cut down on both and save players time and frustration. This may be "dumbing down" in your opinion, but the previous way was definitely NOT "smartening up". It was terrible design.

Item,Crystal,Mat,Repair item. by adding a new tab in our item list to hold up to 80 room of mats to repair would fix this issue you click on all the item that is for repair and add it to that tab this would still make the repairing item make sense and still make it cool that you repair the item with the item it need repair with.

But i guess SE was lazy and needed a quick fix lol.

[SuzakuCMX]

Item,Crystal,Mat,Repair item. by adding a new tab in our item list to hold up to 80 room of mats to repair would fix this issue you click on all the item that is for repair and add it to that tab this would still make the repairing item make sense and still make it cool that you repair the item with the item it need repair with.

But i guess SE was lazy and needed a quick fix lol.

Eh it'd be cool if they had a separate tab for materials but....the only things you carry in your main inventory are equips and mats anyways.

[Rentahamster]

Item,Crystal,Mat,Repair item. by adding a new tab in our item list to hold up to 80 room of mats to repair would fix this issue

That doesn't fix anything. All you're doing is increasing inventory space to accommodate item bloat and item redundancy. It would cause even more strain on the server since each players' item database has just increased by 80.

you click on all the item that is for repair and add it to that tab this would still make the repairing item make sense and still make it cool that you repair the item with the item it need repair with.

Functionally, this process achieve the same thing as the dark matter repair process. The subjective opinion that "it makes more sense" is irrelevant to the positive gameplay ramifications of the dark matter process.

But i guess SE was lazy and needed a quick fix lol.

Just tacking on more inventory space is the lazy fix. Making the decision to consolidate redundant items and provide players with a more convenient and less frustrating way to deal with necessary gameplay elements (which is what "repair" is) is the non-lazy fix.

[AndrewN]

Making players carry around endless amounts of matierials just to repair their gear is redundant and a waste of inventory and database space. This will cut down on both and save players time and frustration. This may be "dumbing down" in your opinion, but the previous way was definitely NOT "smartening up". It was terrible design.

There wasn't endless amounts of stuff to repair items, a weaver only needs canvas, velveteen and linen fent to repair 99% of all gear, similarly the other crafting classes require a limited number of items (various spletches for leather, nuggets for blacksmith and squares for armourer). I admit there are a very few items that have something unusual as the repair mat, but there are very few of these.

And this is dumbing down, how can you even question this? We have gone from a repair mat that has some relation to the item being repaired to a generic 'dark matter'. You may agree with the change but it is still dumbed down.

[Rentahamster]

There wasn't endless amounts of stuff to repair items, a weaver only needs canvas, velveteen and linen fent to repair 99% of all gear, similarly the other crafting classes require a limited number of items (various spletches for leather, nuggets for blacksmith and squares for armourer).

It all adds up.

Having so many different repair mats made this scenario:

"I need repairs but no one in the area has the right mats to fix my stuff"

much more likely than it should be.

And this is dumbing down, how can you even question this?

Becaaauuuse:

Repairing now is a brainless activity that only requires you to have a particular item in your inventory and a prerequisite rank in a specific crafting class.

Repairing in 1.18 will still be a brainless activity that only requires you to have a particular item in your inventory and a prerequisite rank in a specific crafting class.

It took little real skill before the patch, and it will take little real skill after the patch. Therefore, not "dumbing down". The "dumbness" is staying constant.

[Eruantien]

There wasn't endless amounts of stuff to repair items, a weaver only needs canvas, velveteen and linen fent to repair 99% of all gear, similarly the other crafting classes require a limited number of items (various spletches for leather, nuggets for blacksmith and squares for armourer). I admit there are a very few items that have something unusual as the repair mat, but there are very few of these.

how can you say there are not alot of repair materials for the reapir materials i can think of I carry are,
iron nugget
silver nugget
mythril nugget
electrum nugget
electrum square
copper nugget
Blue Corral
Jadeite
Spoken Blood
6 different types of branches
cotten fent
linen fent
buffalo leather spetch
boar leather spetch
dodo leather spetch
and im sure ive missed some. to reduce this list down to 5 and really 4 as you wont be needing the 1-10 very often is a lifesaver