So a proposed solution, you could select people on your trust list and define the items you were ready to hand to them on request. You might be able to set a max amount after which you wouldn't auto-hand any more tools before some of the loaned ones is given back. Naturally it wouldn't record the exact ID of the tool but merely the type, so technically your friend might take your file, screwdriver and bone knife and give you back his own bone knife which is in poor shape and come back to take your peen hammer. But then you'd know to beat the crap out of him when you wake up and remove him from your trusted list.
I think if would be good if it would all be played on item types. So instead of getting a checklist of all your items, you'd get a list of where there's no doubles and no deterioration rates.
Example:
Your inventory contains the items
a used bone knife
an often-used bone knife
a brand new bone knife
a used stone hammer
an old stone hammer
a new hammer
a new sledgehammer
a brand new screwdriver
a new file
a used iron shield
a new sabre
Then you click on a name in the events or the people list which says for example Buddy McGoodguy, which is your friend's name, and you get a list that says:
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[] bone knife
[] stone hammer
[] hammer
[] sledgehammer
[] screwdriver
[] file
[] iron shield
[] sabre
Max loans at a time: []
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Now you've known Buddy for 15 years so you pretty much trust him with everything...
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[X] bone knife
[X] stone hammer
[X] hammer
[X] sledgehammer
[X] screwdriver
[X] file
[] iron shield
[] sabre
Max loans at a time: [5]
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but since we Cantrians are a suspicious lot, and you never know when someone goes insane of the boredom, let's not give them rights to your only weapon and shield anyway, after all they got their own already.
Now there's another guy, Shady Nuspawn, which you only met two days ago so you're not so sure about him. But anyway he was wanting to make a bone spear so you're thinking oh alright! I'll let him loan my knife and stone hammer IF he gives one of them back before taking the other one.
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[X] bone knife
[X] stone hammer
[] hammer
[] sledgehammer
[] screwdriver
[] file
[] iron shield
[] sabre
Max loans at a time: [1]
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So you save these presets and go to your little vacation. Now during that, Buddy and Shady become good friends and Buddy wants to make a cot. But he only has two needles and a knife. So Buddy can very well borrow a bone knife and two, now lets say one stone hammer and one hammer from you, teehee I've never had a REAL hammer before! - and hand Shady a set of tools. Now he can't know for sure that Shady will be awake and that he'd give Buddy and you the rights to take those things back from him, but that's a matter of trust.
You get what I'm saying?
Anyway the list would be the same but if they try to borrow a tool that you're already using on a project or if you've run out of that stuff then it would give an error. But anyway preferences should stay even if you don't have the item at the moment since what if Buddy borrows both of your stone hammers and then gives them back, but when Shady tries to come loan one, it's not in the list anymore because they were gone for a while. Not much sense.
-- j/k *pinches Kinvoya's cheeks* )
