3. Give crafters (and gatherers) more interesting things to do with their job besides sit in town. They could have their own form of behests via hamlets; i.e. help the hamlets rebuild a workshop, chop down some trees, whatever.
ok this suggestion made me happy when i read it ^o^ I don't mind the mindless mass synthesis of the same item over and over to rank.. its kinda soothing in its own right, and if youve actually ever done any kind of weaving of any type in real life.. after a little bit, YES it will get tedious, but you work hard and endure because of the beautiful end result. However, it would be nice, if perhaps there were more quests we could do to make the crafting more interesting. Something to be all "i did this for 3 hours but look at how BAMF this is" instead of.. i did this for 3 hours and NPC'd it all and made about 100k after all that time when money really is in abundance anyways in game.