Wear and Tear for Industry

[samdeane]

There should be wear and tear on industry. You should have to swap out factory parts as they wear out and/or go wrong.

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It’s kind of the same as damage from pvp and crashes.

For every hour an industry machine is running, it should have a percentage chance of losing a hit point.

Lower points, lower efficiency.

No points, it breaks and needs restoring.

Too many restores, it needs replacing.

This is basically the same as for ship parts that take crash/pvp damage.

It should be low overhead on the servers as the checks could be once a day.

It means that you can’t just set your factory up and walk away, which ought to help turn industry into something people have to actually do, rather than just something rich people can set up and walk away from.

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[samdeane]

For that matter, the same thing should also happen to ship parts - they should wear out slowly just because they are being used. Building elements should also probably wear out due to weather and other environmental factors (though much more slowly).

It's more important to do it for industry first however.