I pondered, and liked the idea of, special recipes that are asked for for red / blue scrips that, unlike the current system, would not require all those nasty, expensive, irritating secondary and tertiary required materials. Instead, these special recipes would only call for the use of the primary, level relevant material of that craft - birch lumber, adamantite ingots, morels, ect. for level 60. These would be used in balanced quantities so that no one craft comes ahead of another.


Such recipes would be something along the lines of Storm-Hardened Adamantite Ingot, Shrubbery of Morel, blah-blah-creativity-blah. Used only for scrip turn ins like the Beast Tribe crafting recipies were used for quest turn ins - only we have to gather (buy) the materials instead of being given them by those blessed Ixal.

Make up a better, flashy name for the special recipes - and boom, no more BSM going insane buying exorbitant amounts of glue or wood, no more CULs swearing and sweating doing 5x the crafts as their ALC counterparts.

When new tiers of Red / Blue? / Green / Indigo scrips are added, the devs come up with a few new recipes per craft and add them to the scrip crafting section al la Beast Tribe recipes.

End of story. Easy peasy.