Artisan Archive

1. I see that you can deplete resources in a specific area. Do they star depleted, or do resources "respawn" somehow? Are resources limited so that they will eventually all be depleted?

2. How does an artisan gain experience from harvesters and wind generators they build and use themselves or sell to others?

Help with these questions would be great!

1. Players do not deplete resources. They change and shift on a time based system with turnover happening on a resource every 5-8 days. They are limited in the sense that certain types of resources will disappear and others take their place.

2. You only gain experience by crafting deeds for harvesters and generators. You make no xp just for using them.

You gain BUILDING experience for making deeds... which is great if you plan on being an architech, but would have been nice if they gave general crafting experience to help people advance through to the other professions in the tree.

From what I have read, the more a resource is extracted the quicker it will be depleated. It may look like a cycle of 5-8 days sometimes, but I've been watching lately and sometimes it takes less than a day for the resources to shift, and can be a couple of days before a particular type of resource comes back into the survey list.

It looks like the cycle is increasing now that people are making the upgraded harvesters.