Business And Economy Archive

First off, I don’t think it’s a server issue. In beta resource crates used to hold 250u instead of the 100k we have today. Factories had hopper capacities of 1000 and there were no ‘lots’ at all.

Few remember the punk that caused a literal server melt (as in completely corrupting the server database requiring a character wipe) with his field of havesters and factories. I can’t remember his name but he is why resouce crates cap is at 100k now and factory hoppers cap at 100 and a limit of 10 lots per toon.

If it were a server issue they’d most likely talk about increasing the resource crate cap to like 200-250k.

If it were a server issue they’d might talk about decreasing the size of factory hoppers but, I doubt it.

If it were a server issue they’d better not talk about decreasing the number of lots per toon.

No more likely it’s this percolating notion that crafting is a point and click game with no player skills needed. There is a rising tide of this type of player and that’s just unfortunate.

I think most of us crafter types like the sub-texts within the game mechanics. It’s not about just grinding crafting xp to train up skill boxes. That part is fairly easy (almost too easy). Consider the following.

• The art of collecting just the ‘right’ materials.


• The art of keeping up on current resources and jumping on opportunities.


• Going the extra mile to get those skill tapes for those extra experimentation points to be able to produce superior products.


• The art of arranging your shop to attract customers.


• The art of customer service.

These are lost on way too many. Most noobs these days just wanna make uber stuff with the click of the mouse and be done with it. They justify this attitude with arguments such as "Hey @$#hole, I paid my money, I ground my way to master, I want my phat loot now!"

And that is just sad. This type of player can’t engage is a decent argument and sure hasn’t got the staying power of most of us SWG junkies and isn’t going to be around for more than a couple of months anyway. No amount of appeasement would keep these jerks around any longer anyway, so as a revenue stream, they suck. Why SOE would even listen to these punks is beyond me.

And as to the original question? The only valid reason for resouce hoarding could be bad would have been if the resource spawns were finite as they had originally been designed to be.

In beta, when a resource spawned, there was only so much of it on a planet and when it was all harvested it popped. Whether it took a few hours or a month didn’t matter. But the dev’s seriously underestimated how fast peeps could pull stuff up. In this situation, peeps were pulling it up in matter of hours and hoarding it and lording it over the rest of us. No matter how much the dev’s increased the cap on the spawn it would be mined out in a manner of hours and that was only using the personal harvies. The mediums and heavies would have made it even worse. So the dev’s finally desided to quit screwing around with that mechanic and took the cap off all together and put a 5-8 day timer on spawns.

So as it stands now, you can pull up as much as you can in the time given. No one can deny you. No one can corrner the market on a spawn. Therefore, there’s no downside to hoarding material. And really, since there is no cap, one couldn’t really be said to be hoarding anything since it’s available to all.