o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[Okiura]

Don't necessarily disagree here okiura. Have said many, many times that while the mini game is fun for a while it ceases to be so after you have spent a while with it. then again the same can be said about most things becoming boring and mind numbing through bulk repetition. And your right the state of the back and forth has changed since i last posted in the thread.

But to those that want the system as a whole to remain as is and want the dev's to change the crafting mini game.
Mark my words, even if they were to totaly revamp the mini game and I'm talking a total change be it to randomly connecting pipes or even to something along the lines of the dol mini-games. With in a month or two there you would be right back to the same place of "crafting being boring and repetitive". Want a really big hint to why that would be and what would be at the root of increased fatigue and burnout on the system use? Well it just might have something to do with there being 6-7 sub synths involved with making a simple leather belt from scratch.

The whole darn mess needs to be reworked, and the work has to start somewhere. tackling the recipe side first (the bigger of the two monsters) seems like a good a place as any to me.

i fully agree with this, my complaint on the recpie side is there addressing the wrong issue there. you should be able to make parts with almost all raw mats then tie them all together in the final synth, the need to do little fiddley bits like a belt buckle is over kill. atm it is raw mats > ingot > plate > buckle just for a part, personally i like it like that and my ideal non mmo rpg would work like this, but in the mmo world i can see it's too much it's the parts recpies that i feel they should be addressing and not removing them all together.

Edit: using a belt as a example was porb not my best decsion what i'm saying is making a buckle for say a front part is a step too far, stop @ the plate stage and use that instead althouh this may only seem like 1 less stage a plate is more universal and can be used in lot of other synths where a buckle is normaly specific to only 1.