Dear S.E., please consider my suggestion to alleviate players' complaints with the favors system.

Reduce the favor "buff" time duration to 5 minutes instead of 15 minutes each. To be consistent with players who have already spent favors, this would require tripling the favor node spawn rates during that time, in order to ensure the average number of rare items obtained per favor remains unchanged.

The end result would be the same possible quantity of favor rare items generated each week, with the benefit of making your new 2-star crafting/gathering system much more "casual-friendly" by only requiring 4 hours per week, rather than 11 hours per week. I actually enjoy the new favor system, but the time requirement is far too much. Very few people on our server are doing favors and it is creating an imbalance.

If you agree/disagree, please comment in order to show S.E. we feel this is an issue that should, and can, be resolved.