Crafting and gathering moving forward

[Felis]

So the topic is not about turning in collectibles for scripts, but about favors?

That's fine that you like it... but the entire point of the specialist system was supposed to be to make crafting MORE accessible and get people into crafting. Do you honestly know anyone who has started crafting because of it? All I know are people that stopped, myself included.

A system that drives people away should be looked at long and hard from a designers perspective.

The idea was to make self-sufficient crafters not too self-sufficient anymore. That you need to be a specialist to craft specific recipes or to buy it from other specialists. It bring live into the market.