[imported_Cole]

I'm glad to hear the staff finally step in and give an organized opinion/decision here.

Carl, what i mean about self-sufficiency is this: It is by all means possible for a character to become self-sufficient, however, this should be quite difficult. If you want to master combats (for pvp and pvm), crafts, resource gathering skills, taming, etc (everything basically) then it should take you a damn long time! You shouldn't be able to do everything in a month and never need anyone else for anything. Some people are always going to be "better" than others in this regard, but that should be because they worked on it.