06-13-2016, 04:36 PM
I imagine that what's in-place is the best, necessary, control that can be implemented.
Bowcraft, especially, gets clobbered by this system, as there are very-few item-types available to craft: please think of something to relieve bowyers! Otherwise, money-making-minded crafters should be able to rotate through at least a small selection of (semi-) profitable items, which would reduce afk-to-riches at least a little, if only because the best-return items can not be spammed ad infinitum.
There remains one thing on my mind, and forgive me if I somehow failed to read it: the "starting" prices that shopkeepers offer is also really low; the shopkeeper offers 11gp for unexceptional bows, instead of 23gp, and 12gp for exceptional, instead of 35, which hurts especially when the prices drop so drastically ... Tailors are less-mean, offering 16gp for a fancy shirt, rather than 28, and there are a number of tailor items that could be made to inject variety and maintain the earning of some profit.
And there's also some form of VDP-type-thing in play which shouldn't be: if shopkeeper pricing relied on VDP-style formulae, no one would ever have bothered to isolate VDP in the first place.
There does remain the problem of buying raw materials from the shopkeepers, which would guarantee loss in almost all cases under the current scheme, excepting-only established players with GM craftsmen who are crafting to sell to players. BoDs are only available at higher levels, too. There's a lot of "rich get richer, poor get poorer" to be found in this particular scheme.
At least I understand what's going on. In my personal interests, my bowyer serves the purpose of supplying me with bows "at cost", and my tailor is intended to work only what he readily harvests: marginal income, in some respects, but reliable.
For now, it will have to serve.
Thanks again.
A Stranger.
Bowcraft, especially, gets clobbered by this system, as there are very-few item-types available to craft: please think of something to relieve bowyers! Otherwise, money-making-minded crafters should be able to rotate through at least a small selection of (semi-) profitable items, which would reduce afk-to-riches at least a little, if only because the best-return items can not be spammed ad infinitum.
There remains one thing on my mind, and forgive me if I somehow failed to read it: the "starting" prices that shopkeepers offer is also really low; the shopkeeper offers 11gp for unexceptional bows, instead of 23gp, and 12gp for exceptional, instead of 35, which hurts especially when the prices drop so drastically ... Tailors are less-mean, offering 16gp for a fancy shirt, rather than 28, and there are a number of tailor items that could be made to inject variety and maintain the earning of some profit.
And there's also some form of VDP-type-thing in play which shouldn't be: if shopkeeper pricing relied on VDP-style formulae, no one would ever have bothered to isolate VDP in the first place.
There does remain the problem of buying raw materials from the shopkeepers, which would guarantee loss in almost all cases under the current scheme, excepting-only established players with GM craftsmen who are crafting to sell to players. BoDs are only available at higher levels, too. There's a lot of "rich get richer, poor get poorer" to be found in this particular scheme.
At least I understand what's going on. In my personal interests, my bowyer serves the purpose of supplying me with bows "at cost", and my tailor is intended to work only what he readily harvests: marginal income, in some respects, but reliable.
For now, it will have to serve.
Thanks again.
A Stranger.