[imported_Horacio]

rofl 4 fields are not enough for 200 players

You clearly havent looked hard enough =P

There are some random places where I have found cotton (not gonna tell), but I think they should be more widespread to encourage exploration. I found one place that produces about 30-40 bales of cotton/ hour. I just GM'd tailoring with a tub in the bank, along with a 60K home and an extra 70k on the side.

People should not consider skills like tailoring, BS, carp etc as "free" skills. Yes, if you get your own resources thats great, but you're wasting something more important than money doing so..."Time". Time is much more important than money and for the time you spend gathering resources and converting them into something sellable, you should be reinbursed for your efforts.

I keep hearing that they want PvM to be balanced with Trades, but they really are not.
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Tailoring for example... *pulls out calculator*

It can take anywhere from 20 mins - 2 hours (usually around 1.5 hours during peak time)to gather 100 bales of cotton due to the demand of it.

it then takes 3 seconds/cotton to convert to thread, then .50 seconds/thread to convert the to cloth

100 (cotton) x 6 (1 cotton = 6 thread) / 5 (how much thread to make cloth)

100x6/5 = 120 bolts of cloth.....120x50 = 6000 cloth

now the time part.

3 seconds x 100 bales of cloth = 5 mins (not long)

.5 seconds x 600 = 5 mins (still not long)

time to spend crafting

in training bandanas.
The macro I had set, you make one bandana about every 5 seconds

6000 cloth\2cloth (bandana amount) = 3000
3000 x 5 seconds = 250 mins or 4.16 hours

Total time to make 6k = 90mins (collecting) + 10mins (converting) + 250 mins (crafting) = 350 mins (5.8 Hours)

in making surcoats(most cloth consumed that can be sold)
6000 cloth\14(surcoat amount = 428
428 x 5 = 35 mins

Total time to make 6k = 90mins + 10 mins + 35 mins = 135 mins (2.25Hours)
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Drastic difference in training and in being GM. i know you can sell colored clothing to players for about 500 - 1000 a piece, and thats where the good money is, but your colour is only hot for a certain time, then people move on to the next "cool" custom colour. I havent focused on fighting skills, so maybe someone can tell me how long it take to make 6k hunting?

Yea im bored at work right now...