Regarding Auto-Crafting

[TrystWildkey]

I do NOT like this idea.

I can't see any logical reason why this would be necessary, and I can see how this will be exploited. Crafting is hard work, it should remain that way.

[PSxpert2011]

Good evening!

We have seen a variety of suggestions for automated crafting such as a system that you can place materials into, logout, and come back to have 50 items created for you. ...

Talk about lazy motha-$@#!*s!

That would be something RMT Gill-sellers and Bot-farmers would love.

[Mikita]

Good evening!

We have seen a variety of suggestions for automated crafting such as a system that you can place materials into, logout, and come back to have 50 items created for you. ...

Talk about lazy motha-$@#!*s!

That would be something RMT Gill-sellers and Bot-farmers would love.

Rest assured. The second half of that paragraph reads...

However, looking at the in-game economy, there is a necessity to place limitations on how many items can be created in a certain amount of time. Taking this into consideration, we do not plan on implementing a system like that.

Any automation could be used by RMT so SE needs to tread carefully.
However, from legitimate players, there is a valid desire to make certain crafting actions less of a chore.

What we are considering for A Realm Reborn is an "easy crafting" system that will allow you to automatically create a predetermined amount of items. We will let you know more as we progress!

When your level is much higher than the recipe you get no experience from it. And when you are Level 50 in multiple crafts, everything except trying to HQ something is of not much interest.

Perhaps at that point it would be nice to have an "easy crafting" option where you can batch craft more items than we can with the current system.

I don't want SE to make things too easy, and especially not things that will benefit RMT most. But if they implement a well-thought out easy crafting system then maybe I can finally clear out stacks of flax, fleece, and iron ore that I've been meaning to get to "one of these days" when not busy with LS events.

[Ruisu]

Crafting is hard work, it should remain that way.

There is nothing hard about crafting. It is incredibly tedious. If you're levelling up, sure, I can see why you need to manually craft. However, if I'm mass producing ice shards or something, I should be able to automatically do it without the minigame.