STOquest

The basic system would be as follows: When trading there would be some sort of option labeled "lend" which when checked, pops up a dialog which would allow you to specify a time period, hours, days, weeks. A short time before expiring (minutes before) the borrower would receive a message telling him so, with the option to renew which would then prompt the lender. If the item is not renewed it is automatically sent to lenders inbox .

This would work great in linkshells/guilds who have a stash of equipment(ffxiv gil), and who are looking to recruit low level members. What a great member perk it would be to have equipment to offer members. Personally enjoy the struggle of the low levels for currency, equipment, and resources, but if you had been playing a game for years, or if you were new then a gear lending system would be great.

If done right, the system would be fairly hard to abuse badly. In fact, the only "abuse" we could see are people lending out their gear for money. But wait, doesn't that already happen? Take FFXIV. You get a piece of equipment for your Thief. You use it, but then want to switch to a Mage job. What do you do? You put it on the AH. (Or store it, but since storage is very limited, most people would put it on the AH.) You play Blm for a week, then want to go back to Thief. What do you do? Buy the equipment back that you sold last week. (And if done correctly, you make a tidy profit.) .

The basic system would be as follows: When trading there would be some sort of option labeled "lend" which when checked, pops up a dialog which would allow you to specify a time period, hours, days, weeks. A short time before expiring (minutes before) the borrower would receive a message telling him so, with the option to renew which would then prompt the lender. If the item is not renewed it is automatically sent to lenders inbox .

This would work great in linkshells/guilds who have a stash of equipment(ffxiv gil), and who are looking to recruit low level members. What a great member perk it would be to have equipment to offer members. Personally enjoy the struggle of the low levels for currency, equipment, and resources, but if you had been playing a game for years, or if you were new then a gear lending system would be great.

If done right, the system would be fairly hard to abuse badly. In fact, the only "abuse" we could see are people lending out their gear for money. But wait, doesn't that already happen? Take FFXIV. You get a piece of equipment for your Thief. You use it, but then want to switch to a Mage job. What do you do? You put it on the AH. (Or store it, but since storage is very limited, most people would put it on the AH.) You play Blm for a week, then want to go back to Thief. What do you do? Buy the equipment back that you sold last week. (And if done correctly, you make a tidy profit.) .