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Not trying to sound like a jerk, by what were you going to do if the changes stayed? The decision to reverse this was made pretty close to the final hour, just wondering how you were preparing.

Potnik

Absolutely agree. Even though I am an 11 pt smith, I wont partake in this destruction of the economy. I will be cancelling both my accounts today.

As I feared and why I begged JustG to delay the patch until they could take the crafting changes out. Way to go screwing the economy Devs!

It's an unfortunate situation and one that SOE hasn't taken sufficient steps to resolve. Everyone knows that most of the people in the Borgle cave are afk macroing and violating the TOS. I have no clue why SOE hasn't brought the hammer down. The impact of this one problem on game balance & economy is immeasurable.

The fact that you have to either cheat or be wealthy to get 12 points is a bad, bad thing.

Hi,

The problem isn't really the 12 point smiths, it's the fact that they let the new crafting patch go live for a day and allow us 12 point smiths to play with the patch and make tons of schems for a day. Even before I got the skill tapes I was able to compete as a MWS with 10 points and do a good business before the patch, made enough money to buy the tapes for the additional 2 points that way. With this fiasco I don't see how a new smith will be able to tread water at all for at least 6 months. I've made schems. Yes, I will make money with them. Is it good for the game....a resounding no in my oppinion.

This IS retarded. How can ANYONE compete now? I have 12 pts and am screwed cause I was not in a crafting mood. This is going to ruin this game for a LOT of people. These schematics should be torched. OR these changes should be KEPT in game now. Not only am I screwed as a WS. Try being an architect with 13BER harvesters when some Jagoff pounds out 100 14BER harvesters. Would you want the 13's???? I am tooooo scared to even bother looking at the stuff WS was makin last nite............

Oh so close to quiting!

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Orew wrote:

I am not that worried - it is enough for a few better resources to spawn and all those pre-unnerf schematics will be useless.

I have some of the best resources on my server and even so, every week i find something better.

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I think you may be wrong on this point - the quality increases I saw posted on single-line (APBH) and quasi-single-line (Adv.Sword Cores, etc) were significant - 2, 3 points or more for 12 pt. crafters.. and as long term crafters (I would consider myself one) are all using more-or-less the exact same, best-of-breed materials, I don't think you'll ever seen materials w/ stats to make up the difference.

12 pt crafters who used their time wisely yesterday have created a gap that simply cannot be bridged - at least not under the current rules.

See signature.

Now that is funny.