Suggestions for FO4 DUST? (Part 2)

Hello, I'm really new, and have done no modding before (I mainly play on console for cost and accessibility reasons.) but I'm a huge Fallout fan, and I think four has the potential to reach great heights with awesome modders like yourself working on them.

Ass kissing introductions aside, I have noticed a major feature that is wanted in this mod but may have to be left out due to pain of implementation is a repair system, something that has been disregarded from four and the toughness to put back in would be immense for someone who can't rip the guts out of the original game and rearrange them in the right fashion. For a few hours I have been stewing on this, trying to think of solutions, and one that may or may not work seems to keep popping up. Now sorry if this has already been mentioned or is harder than I think, but what about changing gun receivers as a way to make a weapon fall into more disrepair. The more you use a particular gun, then the lower receiver it gets, from I assume the mod switching them out without telling the player, or giving a prompt that a gun is "Used" or "Breaking". From a gameplay perspective, all I can think of is removing the player's ability to change a weapon's receiver, and besides stat increases and I think weight it did nothing to how the gun functioned, so you are not losing a lot. Then make the highest tier receiver called say "New" or "Pristine", than something like a the middle tier either "Common" or "Standard" or just leave it as the weapons common name. Then for a gun's base receiver, name it "Broken" or something along those lines and make it do little to no damage.

From what I can tell this would basically require changing the damage value of all or most of the receivers, letting the mod switch out the receivers after the player has fired a certain amount of shots, and maybe adding a couple of receivers to make the degradation more gradual. For melee weapons and armor I think you could probably do the same, but I don't exactly know.

As a closing statement, I hope this is possible in the parameters that the game allows, and that I have not wasted a chunk of my and your time. If it is not however, I am sure some clever modder will find a way to do some kind of repair system, and if you are naugrim reading this, I hope you the best of luck in your endeavors and I thank you for the hope and excitement you have given me with this mod, as well as your time.

PS also don't forget to bring it to consoles if possible, even if we are a bunch of peasants, we still do enjoy a good old post apocalyptic winter ;)

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