I have changed the default condition 100 on loot to RANDOM_ROLL(0, 100).

Looks funny to find broken gear, but also strange, if you find a 50% condition tomato. Who has eaten half of the tomato? So a random chance on generated treasures is more realistic. Finding broken gear down in dungeons is fun.

I was also thinking on doing the same with quality. But i still have problems with our dual quality definitions.

Quality alone is a clean logic.
Material alone is a clean logic.
Quality value in relation to material is a clean logic, it's mainly you have a factor to work with.

But reforging iron material to same quality than steel material is unlogic. Quality is material and if we say, we change quality but not the material definition, we break the logic.

I also come to the view, that quality is perfect to use to calculate for a kind of breakfactor.

But i still have problems with our reforging logic in relation to our material. If you have normal leather and replace it with better leather material, this should lead to a better quality.

Realistically you need a kind of material inventar for an object. But this leads also to another logic for repairing stuff.

So if we say our item is 50% broken, material is leather
-> then we have condition 50, quality 40

Now we go to a smith (leatherworker) and ask him to repair this item with better leather material (lets take the best 85)
->smith sees, we need 50% material to repair the condition
-> condition goes to 100%
->50 % of the quality 85 material is put in the material inventar of this item.
This brings the quality to 77,5.

This means both values, condition and quality are no more direct values, instead these values are calculated from this material inventory.

And repairing means the same than reforging, we fill the lost condition with a specific material.

Where one solution is, player can bring this material to smith
and another solution is, player can buy this from smithy. This is mostly a money related repair.

So a repair/reforge can looks like this

Repair with iron
Repair with forged iron
...

Having looked at it I don't think using materials to repair would ever be a good idea since cost isn't that great while results are far superior. If repair costs were 10x to 100x greater than now maybe it would force people to change. You've also got issue that acquiring materials might well be equivalent to the cost of a proper repair

I think it could also lead to exploits where you can get a 40 qua item, lower it's condition to 1 and then use meteoric steel ti get it to just over 84 qua that could be cheaper than reforging. There is also an issue of rounding since if I had a 99% meteoric steel 1% iron weapon and lowered it to 49 con and then repaired it again then it would be over 99.5% meteoric steel that could be 100% after rounding.

As a system goes it could work, although when players can freely use a small amount of money it seems to add a lot of complexity for a system no one would work. Personally only scenario I could see myself using it is either if it's a lot cheaper than money (e.g. 1 con exploit I described) or if repairs with money was removed.

Dunno what you mean here?
"to add a lot of complexity for a system no one would work."

work should be use

As far as reforge logic goes currently cost increases rises in increments of 10 so increase in cost isn't static. So depending on the implementation you might literally need tons of a certain material and in that case you might not even be able to carry it all. Depending on how materials are procured players might be unable to obtain enough of it and if a shop sells it then it's equivalent to using money with an extra step.

I can definitely see the potential with something like crafting and blueprints. I can even see the possibility of a quest where the blacksmith has run out of iron and asks you to deliver some. It's just repairing where I'm a bit skeptical as I've got used to clicking repair all and having money deducted rather then worrying about the material type of each of my damaged equipment knowing that if I don't have enough my equipment could be permanently damaged. When a simple automatic solution works a manual one that can go wrong isn't really worth using.

I'd say that possibly a better place to use the logic is in upgrading equipment. What I'm thinking is that if enchantments can also be carried over then it becomes a lot more useful. For example if you had +1 meteoric steel then when reforging there is a chance to add +1 to the final item. In the same way meteoric steel of str might have a chance to boost str by 1 assuming no other stat exists on the item. So that means that if you have enough materials and a good weapon you could eventually reforge it into a + 5 of superior damage weapon. It could be that the higher the boost the lower the success rate so for example let's say +0 to +1 is 100%, +1 to +2 is 80%, +2 to +3 is 64% etc (i.e. 80% of previous success rate)

Oh yeah, it was like i said month ago.  I removed quality from the damage and resists calculations. Instead i use quality against the damage roll.

Currently i use the fixed 2% chance+x for acid+x for magic weapons against the quality, so this is not how i will look at the end.

But so far removing quality from damage and resists brought back the early game. The originally idea of using quality for the max condition was not the best and with the change to lower quality ranges this idea becomes more worse, also with the split to 100% condition. So the 100% condition was a good step. Still keeping to try to save to original idea of percent quality not.

Without this quality adjustments beginner gear is again nice to wear and weapons inflict good early game damage. Of course all weapons have now 100%. Only condition reduces the damage and resists. This increases the late game damage, but late game resists are mostly the same, in relation to 100 quali late game armours, like Kaotm.

The focus is back to find better weapons and not to find better quality gear first. Quality still influence damage and resists, but on a different way.

More you fight, faster the condition goes down on lower quality items. So theoreticaly if you fight with a ceremonial glass sword, one hit on this item could be enough to break it.

Quality should also show a difference between a player wearing a robe and a player wearing a platemail.

Next is i will try to roll the real damage against quality to get the item damage value. So in early game, it's enough to wear low quality gear to fight against ants, but reaching more and more higher areas, players should better look for better quality gear. If not their garbage gear will break very fast. This is how armour should work. Fighters should have always the best armours against item_damages. Mages have more problems, wearing cloth gear, but they are tricky using magic robes or mithril gear and don't speak about late game armours like Kaotm. Also they normaly avoid to fight close.

Edit: i have tried this now.

Rolling a RANDOM%damage against RANDOM%10*Quality. So in early game low quality gear is enough to withstand enemy hits, but for late game you need more and more better quality gear. Thinking of damages around 1k, we need also quality around 1k. Currently i don't want to touch qualities over 100, so i used the *10 modificator. I know we have more damage than 1k in lategame, so this must be adjusted. It's mostly eperimental. But next steps could be, reducing clothes quality, improving metal quality. Currently out best materials like mithril have quality 100, but i think good metal gear should be closer there.

And if you ask, why i changed this, old code has a TODO in there, has a bug in there and has some hardcoded unlogics in there.