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Tradeskill split
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It's because of this that the prices on them are so disgustingly low; it's because players can become semi-AFK factories that the supply so grossly overwhelms demand and drives down prices. But I've never seen an Alchemist complain that this is the problem; they only ever complain that the prices, as if set by people who don't produce the curatives, are too low.
Will the serverside curing system be updated to allow for Dedication/Continuation (the paralysis cures) or is this something we'll have to script ourselves?
There will be "training" versions of the different weapons available from denizens, which sacrifice damage/speed for to-hit, allowing for higher accuracy at lower skill levels.
There are a few other considerations, too. For example, potash (1 sulphur, 1 gold, 1 silver [= 1 sulphur, 1 mercury]) costs less in terms of raw primes than quicksilver (2 mercury, 1 silver [= 1.5 mercury]) - but it uses two different primes, which is more helpful to me because I can extract all three in a room. In addition, every tonic/balm uses mercury.
I tried to make a spreadsheet where I can input the number of each prime which I have, and get out the number of each mineral/balm/tonic I can make*, along with how much of each prime I need to synthesise to each ametal in order to get the maximum of that mineral - but slowed down when I realised that I can't remember the maths which I did about ten years ago (and that was relatively simple examples, as I recall, so I'm not sure how easily I could adapt it straight to this), and have stopped with the advent of the trade skill split, because I'm not sure whether I'll have the relevant skills (I'd like to keep them, but I'll look at whether the market becomes flooded: I believe curatives in Aet sell for 1gp per, and I cannot in any way be bothered with it for that price).
*The relevance of this is that it would give me a more even keel on which to judge the "value" of each mineral before combat use. As it is now, the "value" is just how many primes I need to make it, not taking into account that I'd rather spend one each of salt and sulphur than two mercury.
A ) Re-obtain all four remaining skills. The three license skills, and gathering. She is receiving about 3400 lessons, and needs 3800 lessons and 100cr to have all four skills. So, that will cost her 260cr, including the cost of lessons.
B ) Give up on Cooking and Gathering, and relent to paying others to make her cupcakes that she relies on for sustenance. This will only cost her just under 1400 lessons, so she'll have a bunch of lessons for when some tradeskill she wants more comes about, but she's losing 200cr in a license token she may never be able to use.
@tecton: Is there any plans for a refund, even partial for license tokens for those in situations like Renoir, where just the tradeskills, no class skills are leaving her in a situation where forced to choose between investing a large amount of credits to stay slightly worse off than she was, or just lose out on about as much resources?
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
Exhibit A:
Okay, sorry, are you actually whining about a skill that allows you to make money while doing other things?
"How'd you die?" "Tetanus."
Especially after these changes, nobody, regardless of class, is forced to do any one thing for money. You choose to do it, and if you don't like doing it, you go off and do another thing.
One thing that I feel has happened in the years since I became a tailor/jeweller/cook though is the cost of creating and maintaining patterns has become really prohibitive to making any thing off the skillsets whatsoever. 200 credits for a license, all the lessons to trans it, all the comms to make the items, and then the cost of creating, submitting and maintaining those patterns doesn't equal the proofreading services we're offered that help manage the system, especially when there are routine complaints about how patterns are handled, questions about style that keep coming up, and general snark coming out of the Craft Guild at times.
I'm not bashing the lovely Amarisse or her assistants (they're great - they are why we can do what we do). I only mention this because if we're making comparisons between the trade skillsets themselves, then yes you get a lot with tailoring, jewellery, and cooking but those also come with a lot of pitfalls and headaches too that the others do not, the least of which may actually be making a profit off the skillset.
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