Problem: Items are Worthless

[Solipse]

Easy to make items like the silver needle will never be valuable. If that needle required a rare mat sure it would become valuable but then no one would skill up on that. People will always exploit the cheapest and easiest recipes to skill up on.

I agree with some of what you say however, it's a similar idea to what I push where each item that is designed to be valuable includes one rare mat. Not every item or mat needs to be valuable and rare and I believe craft SP is too low not too high. It should be difficult to take a craft to the cap.

Needles are one of the exceptions to the general rule, though.

When you compare needles to something like a Jade Hora, though, you can see the difference. NQ Horas aren't very expensive because people have to make 10-15 of them to get a +2/+3 version. Include the fact that pugilists aren't THAT popular and you can see the problem with excess items flooding the market.