Breaking strings - More problematic for Short scale, or Long Scale basses?

[rockbassist]

I have been playing for more than 30 years and have never broken a string. I have heard of other players breaking them but this was usually due to a problem such as a burr in the bridge.

[peoplechipper]

I am a heavy hitter, and always found that within a few hours of saying  these strings are dead they were dead and broken; bass strings too...
 
scale length doesn't matter really, it's where you hit the strings and how, especially with an Alembic, as they're set up so well there's no problems on that end...Tony.

[terryc]

The only time I broke a string was when I was using ultra light guage(90 on the E) when I was doing my slap thang!.
Since going back to 100's none for many a year

[jet_powers]

In 30+ years of playing a bass I've only broken a string once. It wasn't even my bass. I had been invited up to play a song and, count them, two notes into the song, the E string broke. It was a Dean Baby (short scale) and the owner confessed they were the original strings. He had owned it nine years.

[edwin]

I recall back in college at UC Santa Cruz, the band I was in was playing an event at the school. I broke a string (on a Gibson EB2-D, short scale) and the remnant cut my finger. I borrowed a bass, bled on it and broke a string and then borrowed another and did the same thing! There were three three string bloody basses by the end of our set.
 
 I used to break strings a lot, but I played way too hard and used to slap a lot more than I do now. These days I also get my basses set up better and have the bridges attended to more carefully so breaking strings is not so much of a problem. Also, in my great string search of 2001, I discovered that for me, DR strings broke a lot less often than some of the other brands I tried.