Of all the skills in Armageddon, I can't think of one that's harder to skill up than armor repair. Which is a shame - because a lot of guilds, like dune trader, have incredibly useful skills like armor making branch from it.

Can armor repair be made easier to skill up? Maybe make it so armor doesn't need to be damaged to attempt to """maintain""" it?

Armor Repair should honestly just be rolled into using Armor Making. It doesnt' really make sense as a separate skill and it's nigh impossible to level. "Sorry I can carve you the greatest piece of silt-horror plate you've ever seen but hammering out a dent in your scrab helmet is completely beyond me."

Doesn't help that there's an NPC that will repair your armour for pennies, so even if you advertise that you have the skill, nobody will bring their damaged armour to you.

Quote from: Roon on May 25, 2024, 08:44:46 AMDoesn't help that there's an NPC that will repair your armour for pennies, so even if you advertise that you have the skill, nobody will bring their damaged armour to you.

This is the issue with Armor Repair, without even mentioning that for a VERY long time Armor Repair just straight up did not work. Like, codedly, it did not work.

But that you can have an NPC do it to perfection at the cost of "grabbing it next time you log in" is laughable. The only armor that degrades significantly enough is shields and usually those take like an entire scrab shell to repair. Why not just make the shield and junk the bad one?

In fact, it's not even "ready next time you log in." Technically, the NPC is an armour tailor that just happens to also repair it in the process, and since the item is (presumably) already your size, it tends to take ten minutes to fix it because the time is based on how far from your current size it is, and in most cases, it was already your size. Thus, it takes the minimum possible time of 1 hour (10 minutes) to "tailor" it, and incidentally repair it in the process. This makes it pointless to look for a dude with the armour repair skill.

Agreed on this.

The skill as a whole was broken completely as well last K new.

Heck the effect in general was broken as well for everyone but the NPC last I knew. Even for non-standard sources of armor repair.