No apology necessary. I am glad to see such good feedback. Could you explain your concern in a little more detail? When you mention the mercenary, do you mean that I should add one or that your having compatability issues with a pre-existing one?

I am thinking more along the lines of something that could be implemented in the future. I have spent a long amount of time playing skyrim, and I play at a very high difficulty scale. I play on legendary mode regularly, with Arthmoor's Unofficial Patches, with enhanced combat AI. I still find myself unchallenged as much as I used to. I have Vanilla, Dawnguard and Hearthfire installed, I have been following and playing TES since Morrowind and am a deticated fan to the series. However, I find the Idea dating back to morrowind, which was with the Khajjit Slaves being bound to the Telvanni. Call me a Khajjit friend. :) I feel that the concept of the Item Recycling could be very pivital in posible TES development in the upcoming TES online metagame. I feel that if properly conducted, this concept could be used to fix problems concerning player economy between the evergrowing metablocker of thief, mage, and warrior archetypes. Would you agree?

Yes, i would agree.

However, I don't see how what I do can effect the development of other TES games.

That is true. I am a silly one, but I try to promote a good idea well. I was mainly thinking that recycling could be balanced by the fact you could in certain patches in the game order a companion to pick up an indefinte amount of materials and virtually have a walking, unkillable piggy bank following you around may be a bit overpowering. However, I also like the idea of doing what you want with the trophies you take from the people you call, in each player's own Skyrim way "A true enemy of the Dragonborn".

How this would be implemented in TES Online, the game I am much anticipating is not my job, I know. Though, I do think that the two could posibly be linked in some sort of fashion.