Then those players get kicked out of office by all the low-ranking players who want wars. That is turnover. Items should be in the game to promote conflict, not to have to repaired over and over again.
Conflict is promoted by making items easy to keep (in terms of degrading) but hard to keep in terms of losses on the battlefield or being taken by judges. A foreign noble gets an item of yours during a battle? Declare war, seek out vengence on that character alone, etc...These are all good things.
Having to repair an item which has RP history once a month, and then wait 2-3weeks for the repairs to happen is not beneficial. (Note: Some of these numbers are just thrown out there, as I stopped using unique items a while back for this very reason)
Yeah, cause we saw peaceniks get kicked out of office during the EC stagnation didn't we, or the current peace in the south of FEI. The whole reason Tom had to introduce TMP was because it is obvious that we can't rely on peace loving rulers and councils being removed by the knights.
