Quote Originally Posted by Arashmin View Post
While there's merit to cooperating, there seems to be far, far more merit to not and just reaping reward of the works of others while you work only to your own end.

Perhaps another way to address this...
-Have gathering randomly generate coffers in addition to whatever they're doing. That way, they still benefit the party while doing their own thing.
I don't view "pure material gain at the expense of your party members" as merit, though. Again, maybe that's just me. I'd rather not get into a nasty argument over something dumb with the people I'm going to be spending the next two hours with.

Gatherers do generate coffers, but they have crafting materials in them.