Mega
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This has been discussed over and over again. The problem with the loan feature (or fear of) is the scenario where people with big ped cards buy all the UL items and start of business of loaning what they have. Prices of things will go up with the speculation that you can profit just buy owning an item and "loaning" it out without any fear of losing that item. At the end of the day, you'll just create a monopoly with those that have high end items collecting revenue and those without the means, funding them. On top of the ammo and decay you pay, you're also paying the rental cost. Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
Perhaps this could work if you had a limit to amount of "loans" you can give out? Of course, hoarders would want a high loan number so they can turn over more rentals, and everyone else would want a lower number to prevent the scenario mentioned above. Yes? No?
And this is why loaning items cant be implemented by the developers.
Let alone the complication of trying to remove an item that is being used, or trying to return an item with a different TT value to when it was loaned, if MA could have done it, they would have done it by now, sadly.