DECAY: Food, Weapons & Tools

Hello friends!

I’ve been thinking about a decay feature and how good it would be for the economy. It would continue cycling the economy by keeping fresh produce & materials in demand and offer more work opportunities for suppliers. This gives a chance for small RP interactions to spark more often because more players will be doing more things more often.

Here’s what I got so far.

Food Decay: Food should have a 1 week shelf life. This would prevent businesses from stockpiling and push for more rp interactions between businesses & farmers / customers. At the end of the week businesses could have sales on food that’s going bad. This would be a timed decay. I don’t think there should be a % shown in the description showing the decay, but the title of the food should change from Fresh Stew > Warm Stew > Cold Stew > Old Stew > Expired Stew > Deletion (Just an example). The older food gets, the less nutrition you get from eating it.

• Fresh Stew: Lasts for 72 hours (3 days)
• Warm Stew: Lasts for 38 hours
• Cold Stew: Lasts for 29 hours
• Old Stew: Lasts for 19 hours
• Expired Stew: Lasts for 10 hours
• Deletion

Weapon Decay: Weapons should decay after extensive use. If you leave your gun unattended for too long, it should jam more often and eventually disassemble into gun parts in your inventory.

Tool Decay: All tools should decay after each use. Shovels, Pickaxes, Fishing Poles, Gold Pans should all have a set amount of uses. You can either get them repaired at the respective businesses related to those tools or they should be destroyed if neglected.

As the head of Econ, this is my dream as well my friend. Script wise I would think it would be pretty extensive however. I will keep bringing it up on my end.

i like the idea and think its a good one. but noones gun would disassemlble into gun parts on its own. thats a bit to far imo. you would jsut take your gun to be repaired at a gunsmith. maybe have it break or backfire. but any disassembling i think would be done manualy. imagine ur shooting at a grizzly not standing on a rock. and ur gun just disassembles. not cool and wouldnt happen

as it is i dont see any affect from the degredation and would love to see a jamming mechanic attached to it.

if degredation further decreases accuracy i dont notice because accuracy is so poor already you cant tell.

tool decay would be amazing for the economy. eventualy needing to replace the handle on a pickaxe or something. or just needing to buy a new one if a repair function for them would be to much.

idk about the gun parts bit but jamming would be great to see

I somewhat agree with weapons disassembling being a stretch. I was thinking over time and with negligence. You’d have plenty of chances to get them repaired before its too late. Keep them clean & repair them before they start jamming.