Well hopefully we can keep a fair suggestion up so the Dev's can read it cause I know a lot of people who do not like the current system. It really does seem to just be broken. Also another difference between the Fo3, NV repair and this that makes it worse is that the max dur of items didn't drop when you repaired, you just couldn't repair as high without higher repair. Even when you can manage to repair items in the current system they become worse and worse eventually requiring yet another item to be made.