I see where you're going with this, but considering the scarcity of ability points and relative abundance of gold, you'd have to make repair hammers either really rare or extremely expensive (both of which situations would be pretty strange) for this to work.
That's a very good point.
Instead, something simple like having the Repair skill only fully/mostly repair "simple/tier 1" equipment while only minimally/not at all repairing "complex/tier 5" equipment at ability level 1, but at ability level 5, you could repair (and even improve upon) pretty much anything.
How well this works depends on how the item tier system works. There are several different tiers of quality, but I'm not sure if the code can easily be put in place to check during repair.
Given that you can find a fair amount of magical items, and magical items are almost always superior to non-magical stuff, you'd also have to be careful to not make Repair of magical/rare stuff too useless or else it's back to the problem of "I need to put in a ton of points to make Tepair actually useful". Hmmm...
How does this sound:
Mikus System A:
Repair 1:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 50% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 33% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 25% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 20% Durability
Repair 2:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 67% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 50% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 40% Durability
Repair 3:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 75% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 60% Durability
Repair 4:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 80% Durability
Repair 5:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 150% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 140% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 120% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 110% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 100% Durability
These numbers sound a bit too good, actually. Let me try again:
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Mikus System B:
Repair 1:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 60% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 40% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 33% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 20% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 10% Durability
Repair 2:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 70% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 60% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 50% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 33% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 20% Durability
Repair 3:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 85% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 75% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 67% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 50% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 40% Durability
Repair 4:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 80% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 75% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 60% Durability
Repair 5:
- Tier 1 Equipment (non-magical) is repaired to 150% Durability
- Tier 2 Equipment (Magical) is repaired to 130% Durability
- Tier 3 Equipment (Rare) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 4 Equipment (Legendary) is repaired to 100% Durability
- Tier 5 Equipment (Super-Awesome) is repaired to 100% Durability
Thoughts?
