[suggestion] Remove scrap cost from workbenches and ... - General Discussion

This idea is similar to how blue prints work. My suggestion is two fold: First, remove the work bench scrap costs. Thus Tier 1 (500 wood, 100 metal), Tier 2 (500 metal, 20 HQ), and Tier 3 (1000 metal, 100 HQ). Second, use "experiment" on any tier workbench, it will cost you 50, 500, 1250 respective scrap to "research" that benches tier "mastery" so to speak. After you do that you can use that bench. This would be sort of like a blue print, but one that allows you to use workbenches of respective tiers. Thus if a tier 3 bench was lost, you would only be offset by the metal and HQ costs of the item - that is until blue prints wipe. Without scrap costs attached there is little reason to not be able to pick them up with hammers either.

Lol so unlocking all of t3 blueprints would cost something like 1250 scrap total (opposed to like 20,000 that it currently is), and building a t3 workbench would also be trivial, as it will just cost you 100 HQM (1000 metal is a joke cost - can we all agree that its negligible?) And next thing is we can all play Fortnite on 20min "wipe cycle" matches... I could not disagree more with this joke...

You've misunderstood, the 1250 scrap is what it would cost to use the (any) tier 3 workbench for that 1 player for rest of wipe. Till you pay that cost it'd just be a waste of space. The blueprint system itself stay untouched.

ok, yes I did. So you're saying its 1250 scrap per person to be able to even use (access) the WB? This would be a huge nerf to clans (which is kind of good actually) - but because of that 1 reason it will not likely be implemented. Right now a 3 man needs to farm 1250 scrap total (416/per) to build a t3 WB - and all of them can instantly use it. Under your proposal - it would cost them 3759 (1250/per) so that all 3 of them individually have access to the t3 WB. Right now a 10 man need to farm 1250 scrap total (125/per) to build and use a t3 WB. Under your proposal - it would cost them 12,500 (1250/per) so that all 10 of them individually have access to the t3 WB. I mean this will probably lead to people becoming "dedicated" crafters (especially in clans), and rage will ensue when said person is not online for a given day and nobody else can craft things... I think its a clever "nerf" to clans... but I doubt it would ever get implemented...its like proposing to impose extra taxes on the rich... like that is ever gonna happen...

Yeah that's what I meant. It is not like clans do not currently have dedicated crafters early. Like people who learn the tier 3 stuff first since 750 a pop for each member's kinda counter productive. The most important thing though is it makes it so that recovering after a raid is much less devastating, for clans included, since that scrap cost is basically invested into the characters. Neither solo nor clans would need to foot over the 1800 scrap to jump back to tier 3 bench.

I hope this gets added I wanna see 30 man clans on rustafied main die