Quote Originally Posted by Sollux View Post
Their intent (In my opinion) with 3.0 was to discourage omni-crafting and encourage us to rely on other people which would in turn revitalize the market and keep it from stagnating because most people can craft everything themselves.
I think that was their intent, yes. On the surface I don't have much issue with the intent, but the implementation has been awful. Since most folks are used to being able to omnicraft (and there are a lot of crafters that focus solely on crafting), they naturally leveled everything to 60 anyway, and there are still a lot of incentives to do so, and essentially no incentives to specialize at this point in time.

The scarcity of materials means that the simplest way to craft ones own i170 sets, for instance, is to omnicraft, so that you can make all of the components. With how scarce things are, relying on other crafters just simply doesn't work that well, as you need ways to mitigate costs as much as possible to make the whole enterprise worth it.