Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
The development team understands it can be discouraging when materials are lost when disconnecting during crafting and they would like to do something about this...
Intentional disconnects cannot allow any benefit if the progress is resumed. The only real issue is exploiting a potential bug. Just save synthesis progress and stats after each step and you're done -- pause and resume any time. As long as you save stats (which you have to do as a result of Inner Quiet), you could never exploit it by switching foods between disconnects.

Still, it's worth noting that you're dealing with an issue a lot more than discouraging when you get disconnected making a gryphonskin ring and lose 1 million gil worth of mats. I've seen it happen to people. Unless you're incredibly wealthy, you can't afford to just shrug that off. This means crafters can't afford to use others' mats when crafting expensive items unless they are terribly wealthy already. 90k monster eats the mats, and now you as a crafter owe the client half a million gil for the stuff you took from them.