Dear Square Enix - I want to Craft

[dspguy]

The change today was laughable. I don't think crafters cared about how many items they had to craft to get red scrip tokens. They care that they can:
1. Only craft 9 subcomponents per week...
2. .... assuming that gatherers are willing to spend their red tokens on favors.

Have them spend red tokens on unlocking the capability to get ooids. Then put the ooids on some rare node, hidden, whatever. But don't make them expend red tokens to obtain them every time.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Have them spend red tokens on unlocking the capability to get ooids. Then put the ooids on some rare node, hidden, whatever. But don't make them expend red tokens to obtain them every time.

While the change today was indeed rather laughable (it does not one bit to affect my ability to cap the Red crafter and Red Gather scrips)keeping the crafting materials walled off in a fortress made up of both red Gather and red Crafter scrips is just silly. They should be locked off behind the BLUE gather scrips. It would not reduce the tedium in getting them, but it would allow for a few more materials to be obtained and thus crafters could, y'know, actually CRAFT rather than trying to strike up an unhealthy relationship with some gatherer.

[dspguy]

They should be locked off behind the BLUE gather scrips. It would not reduce the tedium in getting them, but it would allow for a few more materials to be obtained and thus crafters could, y'know, actually CRAFT rather than trying to strike up an unhealthy relationship with some gatherer.

That would work very well.

[Ayerinn]

The change today was laughable. I don't think crafters cared about how many items they had to craft to get red scrip tokens.

Some of us did - I wasn't going to spend hours crafting 100's of items(I am including crafting all the components yourself) worth 2-5 million gil for 1/3 of a weapon for one job. There are MANY other issues with crafting at the moment, this helps ease the pain by a very small fraction but a fraction none the less. RED and BLUE scrips should be earned through daily quests like the Ixali dailies, not cost us millions every week. I don't think battle classes would appreciate paying 100k per boss kill to get their Esoterics and law which would be the equivalent.

[niwaar]

The change today was laughable. I don't think crafters cared about how many items they had to craft to get red scrip tokens. They care that they can:
1. Only craft 9 subcomponents per week...
2. .... assuming that gatherers are willing to spend their red tokens on favors.

Have them spend red tokens on unlocking the capability to get ooids. Then put the ooids on some rare node, hidden, whatever. But don't make them expend red tokens to obtain them every time.

While the op has many complaints, and I agree with some and disagree with others (including your #1, 9 is fine we are being gated, I am okay with that, its an MMO. Should the gate be higher, yes but its not the end of the world. The ONLY thing to craft is the crafting gear itself right now, everything else is worthless). Your #2 is the real problem. The Favor system is fundamentally flawed. The purchase of crafting materials is also too expensive. When combined they make an untenable situation.

There is a real logical reason to have gathering linked with crafting. Its almost impossible to unlink them in fact. However, they both need to work together. By making the gathering gear uncraftable, they are forcing the amount of players willing to use red scrips on favors much lower than it needs to be for the system to function.

[Aeyis]

While the op has many complaints, and I agree with some and disagree with others (including your #1, 9 is fine we are being gated, I am okay with that, its an MMO. Should the gate be higher, yes but its not the end of the world.

Ofcourse it is. We enjoy crafting. When you limit that you limit our enjoyment. Nevermind that 9 is only materials, and not actually 9 finished items.

In reality its closer to 2 items per week. And thats assuming you can gather them yourself, because not many freelance gatherers will be willing to grind hours a week on top of their normal gathering.