Fall back and regroup: time for crafting autoleveller?

[Peregrine]

What makes your solution of paying 90k per gold ore any better than the way it is now? Everyone can afford to spend time pressing enter to rank up crafts but very few have the funds to blow away 10mil per rank to get to 50. You're just putting crafting into the hands of the super rich with that. Sure you could gather that gold, but you already can't gather it fast enough to rank up GLD on it, no way you could if it was auto levelled. So you'd be forced to pay that 90k regardless.

That said no one would rank up GLD on electrum if ore cost that much. People already bot sea hares for red coral to rank up GLD on that because it's easier than botting gathering nodes and they get more GLD SP. So the botters would just heavily bot mobs that drop skill up items while people like us will be forced to pay for the ores because we can't compete with people botting mobs.

But anyway if you put crafting into the hands of the super rich you create a situation where the rich get richer and the poor stay poor because they can't afford to catch up.

My solution is better because if people are too lazy to gather, they're usually too lazy to craft and they just bot it up.
This system wouldn't play to the super rich.
I'd have all your gil within a month and a half even if you started with 350 million.
This system plays to people willing to work for it. Work well and work actually. Not simply putting in warm body hours like crafters do now. That's cheap labor.

Crafters who are too lazy to gather are also too lazy to craft. That's why they're barely there during crafting, if they are even there at all.
And this system pays them for that laziness.

If the bots all flock to sea hares, have a GM waiting for them. you can see that kind of lazy player coming from a mile away. Rule number one: they will refuse to work and yet they will demand the pay.

You want crafting to be dominated by drone players with the most time to mindlessly spam the enter button.
That's a poor game. You cannot defend that.