Curious responses, quite curious.

Some think I'm calling it useless.
Others think I'm dismissing it.
Others seem to think that I'm demanding to do more of it.

I've gotten this far and nothing has forced me to make even one collectible item. I have gotten used to making HQ items, and I've gotten used to the idea of beast tribes demanding them. Perhaps if they required a collectible and worked it in with the plot, more people might start doing them? Without Rowena on the first, why NOT have a beast tribe be the ones who handle the collectable market? Maybe they'd finally get somebody who's somehow avoided even putting collectable onto my bar, to actually learn how it's done?

Sometimes the game is good at holding your hand, others it tosses you into the deep end. Maybe I should have learned it by now? On the other hand if it's only used for things that I can quite easily skip over and never have to worry about, items that arn't made anymore, that arn't needed anymore, and are obsolieted by items that are easily made in other ways...