Oisin

hehehehe shhhhhh you mean more like 5 min or less, right? /wink

azakama

I agree 100% with this. If you have a home, and you have collected enough money and status to purchase the necessary components to work from home, then not only have you experienced the game's other crafting area, but you're crafting experience is evolving as well. This gives someone something to strive for, and allows for tailored gameplay.

To get to the point that you're always working from home, you more than likely have spent a lot of time in other crafting stations in other areas of the game.

If SOE wants to add other content around crafting in other areas, it wouldn't be too tough to come up with some reason to get TSers out to a new area to craft there. Otherwise, it seems like you should allow people who have been busting their ass to TS in their own home the opportunity to TS in their own home.

Personally, I'd forego the ablity to buy fuel within my home for the ability to work remotely for work orders. So you have to go make a run to the local crafting shop to buy stacks of fuel; seems fair enough to get TSers out of their house. I'm not really sure why SOE cares whether someone who's paying at least 15 bucks a month only wants to see one area in the game. (????)

The world today is all about off-shoring business models anyway, is it really that far fetched for a crafter in EQ2 to take and fullfill work orders from their home??

faerydreamer

Sage's (if they have the recipe) can make A work order minion or rush order minion (last for half an hour). If they have bought the recipe from the right faction merchant in Kunark.

azakama

Yup...saw that. Just curious, how tough and/or how much does it cost to pick up raw mantrap root?

Mheryl

Mantraps come from roots and food bushes, they are the cheapest rare besides incarndine on our server running between 50g-80g on average. Not bad if you harvest them, kinda sucky to buy and use them for a consumable tho.

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azakama

Exactly where I was going with the question

Areubleedin

1 mantrap + 10g fuel = 10 - 30 minute house writ givers = 300 minutes (5 hours) of writs for 30-70g (depending on server).

There is a recipe for both rush order and regular writs.

Bleedin

azakama

10g?? I don't think so...

If it was 10g, yeah, that's not too bad for this. If you're talking 50-70g (and I've seen them up to a plat), then that's just dumb in my opinion.

I'll save my money and go to the nearest crafting station, and focus on upgrading my alt chararacters spells to masters, or buying totems/potions for my main tyvm. But yeah, for those who have the plat to waste, and I know there are those out there who do, sure it's an option.

Rinion

Yes. awesome ideas. lets make it so you can do everything from your house.

that way I can set my house access to private, turn on a bot program, and grind to 80 while afk! and no one can prove i was actually tradeskilling while afk.

awesome idea. =/

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Kesselia

Psst Rinion ..um...people already do that...if you haven't noticed already....

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