I believe that in the past, string breakages on the Bass guitar seem to be associated with the quality or the age of the strings given to us. If I'm not wrong, in 2000, we're still using an old stock of strings as ancient as 1990. Well, after 10 years of oxidisation, it's no wonder why they give way after a few harsh plucks.
Bass guitars these days don't seem to exhibit so much string breakage, but more on intonation problems which are even more annoying to correct. Every string seems has different tendencies at the octave and it's a pain to tune the basses with the rest of the gutiar parts.
I don't believe in down tuning instruments; I think the instruments need time to season to the tension of the strings and stabilise. Warping may occur if we continuously alter the tension experienced by the wood which may lead to horrendous intonation.
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