View source for Ideas for Stendhal/Item Deterioration

Like in reality in Stendhal the weapons, armors, shields and so on are subject to being damaged during their use. This behaviour is two fold regarding the intentions behind it:

# Strategic component
# Economic aspects

The first one forces players to think about their equipment. Considerations like "Do I need another weapon?" before going adventuring or "Should I return to a city and repair?" in the middle of an adventure add some more depth to the game play.

Further it is also a tool that helps to regulate the amount of money in the game by being a money drain.

Therefore this concept describes how to implement deterioration of items in Stendhal.

==Lifetime of items==
How long should an item be usable? Should it break completely?
==Repair Prices==
How much should a player pay for a repair? What are the factors involved for price calculation?
==Implementation==
Coding and design
===Damaging===
damaging
===Repairing===
repairing
==Further Reading==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_distribution Geometric distribution on Wikipedia]