04-25-2011, 07:54 AM
Heh I'm not calling you out or anything, if thats how it seems. I just don't want anyone to get the wrong impression if they read this post thinking they will have to spend months to gm a harvest skill. Originally from 0 it took 105 hours to gm mining, this of course is straight mining. During this weekend it was dropped down a bit and I am likely leaving it very close to how it is now, same with lumberjacking as that was a bit too difficult.
I just don't want skills like that to be easy because with more difficulty there is more dependency which is a great way to stabilize an economy from the very beginning. People will need to trade more to GM skill related to resource gathering, making people focus on gathering for a faster profit or crafts for a long term, larger profit.
This of course makes a rough start for many people but in the long run it will be worth it. Though there are already many vanqs floating around, two people can now craft plate, several people with enough alch and inscription to get pvp supplies going and so forth.
I just don't want skills like that to be easy because with more difficulty there is more dependency which is a great way to stabilize an economy from the very beginning. People will need to trade more to GM skill related to resource gathering, making people focus on gathering for a faster profit or crafts for a long term, larger profit.
This of course makes a rough start for many people but in the long run it will be worth it. Though there are already many vanqs floating around, two people can now craft plate, several people with enough alch and inscription to get pvp supplies going and so forth.