With the help of three of our four new builders (Gemini is busy building Tarkas! <3) I’ve put a lot of time and effort into revamping crafts over the last few weeks.  I do hope that carpenters, tailors, dyers, alchemists, jewelcrafters, cobblers, chandlers, and potters enjoy their new crafts.

Yes, I’m aware the last three are still under serious construction, as you should be.  Feel free to submit ideas, or suggestions where you see fit, though constructive criticism is much appreciated over tells or osays in the vein of ‘this sucks, I can’t make any money!’

But really as I say that I realize that this post is a complaint, too.  It’s a complaint I’ve made before, many many times over.

It is NOT IC for a character to take on all of the crafts in the game, or even a significant chunk of them.  Truthfully, if you’ve more than three crafts and three gathering skills (six total), I do hope you can ICly explain the hows and whys of your character having learned them and no, people, one does not just ‘learn to make excellent tools at a forge on their own’ when they were raised to be a tailor.  I’m sorry.  It doesn’t work.

So many of our pbase has gone ooc with this.  You’re pissy with a player who’s character refuses to buy from you, so you’ve decided to just make what they sell, so you can refuse to buy from them too.  Or you just ‘don’t like to depend on others.’  That’s NOT okay.  It doesn’t work that way in RL, it doesn’t work that way in DI.

I asked nicely before.  I’m asking again and this time I’m not being so nice.

Stop.  Now.  Please.

Find a player with the craft, if all you really need farming for is to get butter, and stop making baskets on the side just to ’see how it works’ and then throw it in your shop to sell.  It’s blatant.

If you just need copper shavings to make copperas water, then find a smith to shave an ingot down for you.  Don’t take up mining and smithing as well to do it for yourself.

Every craft is calculated to make a profit, even if you buy some of your components from other players.  Every craft is deliberately designed to require other crafts.  It’s made that way to give everyone something to do, and a way to make money.   That doesn’ mean you, by yourself, need to know how to skin, weave cloth, make dyes, dye cloth, sew clothes, fashion leather, and cobble shoes to make a perfect outfit.  Buy the skins from someone else.  Spend a little on dyed cloth! (I dropped prices, too!).  Visit a cobbler.

Please.  A little common sense, or you’ll soon find nobody buying from anybody, and *gasps* nobody making any real money.