Gathering global timers have to go... Personal Cooldowns for nodes.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Unless you give every single timed item it's own individual cooldown timer then this would indeed make the nodes themselves less valuable. Hell even just giving them the timer as you explain will make items less valuable just by the fact that I can log in grab whatever darksteel I need instead of either waiting for the timer, or buying it from the marketboard. The timer in itself enforces the scarcity of the items more than the time between gathering attempts.

Just as Blue scrips enforce scarcity of crafting items.

Right now, in 1 hour, you can mine 24 darksteel ore max.
With the personal cooldowns, in 1 hour, you can mine 24 darksteel ore max.
The diference is that you choose when in that hour.

Now, if im understanding this right, there are yes, particular nodes that spawn at similar or same times as others, forcing a selection between nodes. For this, is just as simple as adding a "despawn" once one node is mined, this way, if you for example, mine adamantite, after you finish, you also spent your node on other spawn item of the same tier, this way, to solve those little diferences. Which actually, are exploted by the very minimal few speed hackers that can travers maps and warps fast enough to mine diferent nodes in a timegate of just 2 minutes where a regular player usually can`t.

Ok. So now nodes are not contested anymore. That potentially means that one account per node. However bots since they have hundreds of accounts that means that node will generate X (X=Number of accounts per node). Instead of 1=1. Now botting for nodes becomes feasible because its not contested meaning you can generate 10,000 of the same resources from one node.

1=1=old way.
1=infinity=new way.

YES IT WILL LOWER VALUE. =D

Which would also help the teleport hackers. Since they can now go around at static areas making new accounts for each node.

Gatherers will not make as much money from their goods if stuff is uncontested.

Contested? Everyone can go and farm whatever node they want when the time is right, no one "fights" for nodes. No one can farm more from a single node than anyone else. 1 node = X amount of mats. That will left unchanged.

Your hacking, boting and multiaccount/character examples are way off, anyone doing that, for personal use or profit, is an exception which has no value against the game experience of the vast mayority of the playerbase. Besides, players that do profit hard from this system right now, already multi-account, so, if the actual system we have right now had the porpuse to "enforce scarcity" the players who want to, are already overcoming it. While, the rest, has to suffer a very badly thought gathering system that has 0 flexibility.