I didn't argue your point, see you ASSUMED you knew the details of the loan system before asking... You know what they say about assuming, right? The loan system would simply be a screen right under the trade option, click and poof just like trade you put in your (Icebreaker) for say.... 1000 glimmer. for you there would also be a time slot, 12 hours up to a week. Once agreed upon the swap is made, and the weapon is exchanged, and like a glimmer booster or a weapon upgrade once the time is up, it vanishes. Or rather snaps back to to the original owner automatically. there for nobody is crying that they didn't get their weapons back and people have a way to be a credit to the team without the flaw of abandoning the stage because one or 2 people cannot cut it. That works for everyone and didn't require much effort in the way of coming up with. When you over think things, you tend to fail. Now then, for (YOU), parts may come easy but for a lot of us no matter how many hundreds of enemies we kill over the others, no matter if we constantly score the final hit on the boss, nor if we do the most damage by an incalculable number, we are STILL only rewarded Assendant ENERGY. Perhaps a shard here and a shard there, still not enough to do any kind of real leveling. 200 Energy to 15 shards is not a question of not working for it, it is a question of chance not being on your side. Like with people who only get the "Chatter White" Shader and "Aspect of Glass" ship form Hard mode of the Vault. So if I come down with a Hawkmoon or a spare Monte (that I have NO use for) I can sell it for the shards I need. For people who cannot find energy shards, due to chance or heck, because they have a family and cannot spend years growing to their couch and neglecting their families for the sake of colors on a flat box, I can level the weapon up for them before I give it to them, for an added amount of what I need, seeing as I can find so many shards. And even more so, it fits in with the story. Materials are supposed to be in short supply, we should be sharing what we have. We are all supposed to be helping each other fight the Darkness together. Most people have turned into out right holes because they think a little level increase makes them top crap, to the point of leaving one another down in simple things like strikes. They have no reason to be helpful. Money is the root of all evil, and it also tends to temper evil people. Long story short, it may stop this games community from turning to that of DC Universe Online where even within your league, good help is hard to find because nobody wants to share a thing. It would also keep prices from going overboard. "25000 Glimmer?! Gak face of Git will loan me one for the week for 3000. No sale friend..."