They could give you enough points for 7 days at a time, so 17,500 points. Enough for about 14 hours of gather-sp'ing or about 10 hours of gathering at low nodes. That'd help the weekend warriors get their week's worth of haul.

But then people would just blow it all by Tuesday and rage even harder.

People arguing that restrictions should be removed just don't get that they're asking for the problems to get worse. If anything, production needs cut and cut pretty dramatically. They argue that they have a right to gather as much as they have time for when...no they don't. No one told them that. No one taught them that. They just FIGURED.

And they figured wrong.

The only change in this regard that the economy can SUPPORT is to remove the SP penalties involved in gathering fatigue. we're already looking at an economy that needs more severe restrictions on production as it is.