Crp don't make any sense

[Joe777]

Carpenters in Eorzea get a chainsaw to work with wood rather than cut trees down with it. Is your mind blown yet OP?

[Fhaerron]

Because this is a game.

If you're confusing this for real life then maybe you should visit a doctor before you go pick up your sword and stab your neighbours because you think they are summoning creatures from the void.


And this is a fantasy game even, not a 'real life simulator'.

[Raven2014]

And this is a fantasy game even, not a 'real life simulator'.

I play the sims yo, I don't think it's very accurate there either ...

[Kaabi]

I find it more funny that culinarian tastes the dye as they make it.

Yep, that tastes purple!

[Fhaerron]

I play the sims yo, I don't think it's very accurate there either ...

Well the sims is still a game after all.
I can't imagine building a pool, inviting people in and then remove all the ladders so they can't get out and drown, or putting a pile of babies in a room and then remove the door so nobody can get in and they die.

I should have rephrased that line.

[Enkidoh]

Considering the same term for crafting from FFXI was retained here in FFXIV as well (Synthesis), which the FFXI specifically mentioned was not actually crafting something with your hands, but using crystals and a strong will to effectively transform the raw materials into the desired item magically, I'm liable to regard the same applies here, despite the use of tools like a saw (maybe the saw is used like a CNJ/WHM uses a wooden staff, as a conduit to direct the flow of aether in the process) - you're not actually physically making something with your hands, you're using the aether contained in crystals to transmute the raw materials into the desired item, with the tool directing the aether to do so.

In particular, Minfilia in FFXIV 1.0 mentioned that elemental crystals were lore wise a required component of item synthesis (so much so an entire crystal trade with the beastmen was necessary to procure those at the time rare crystals in order to keep the in-universe Eorzean economy afloat, I believe this theory is probably correct. So why does that then mean crafting requires ridiculous amounts of raw materials? Maybe the synthesis process has to consume a large amount of matter to create a 'smaller' item (rather like in real life physics with atomic fission where the difference between splitting an atom into two smaller atoms is given off as energy, maybe the excess matter is consumed as aether as part of the process.

Maybe I'm overthinking this though.

[Legewiel]

It's cause in Eorzea half of the materials goes to the god Byregot as a tribute, so you can receive his blessings!!

[WilhelmWhite]

I play the sims yo, I don't think it's very accurate there either ...

Agreed lmao. Last time I checked, I don't urinate on myself, miss work, and then eventually starve to death all because someone left a plate in the doorway.

[TristanBlane]

LoL this is a hilarious topic

[Frizze]

Was just looking at the lumber recipes in Crp and realized it takes 4 "logs" to make 1 lumber. Now I know something about Crp in real life and pretty sure 1 log can make at least 2 lumber (depending on size of log). SE please fix these wrong quantities.

I once watched something on tv... i think it was a documentary. Bugs Bunny might have been the host. Anyway, they took a whole tree and whittled it down to a single toothpick. If it takes a whole tree to get one toothpick, then my carpenter must be really good to get an entire piece of lumber from only 4 trees.