Either way a person who is crafting an item would have more than one shot of CLW available per day anyway. Craft wands = 5th caster level minimum, so the cleric should have closer to 10 shots of clw per day to put into the wand, if you use spells on a 1 for 1 basis (which makes sense). So using the system your working with, it would take about 5 days to make a clw wand with all spells spent on clw.
Now, Uriel, did you read my post on the last page with the analysis? I gave a system for judging crafting time that I'm comfortable with, but I need people's input, especially on scaling how real time relates to downtime in game. You keep discussing this as if nobody has submitted a solution, but I have, and if it's really FUBAR then give me some pointers on where to alter the idea.
The analysis is on the previous page, but here's where I got to examining a solution that I thought made sense given what I was able to figure, though I've tempered the wording a bit. What I'd like to know is how does this concept need to be shaped.
Proposal A
For every x days of real time spent crafting items (not adventuring), the character has 1 day of character item creation time to spend. For example, when an adventure ends, a character can spend x days of time in between an adventure to create one magic item of 1000 gp value or less.
This may need to be thoroughly altered when dealing with craft skills and profession skills. A possiblity could be to make 1 day of magic item creation and 1 week of crafting the same to try and make the two work more succesfully in unison.
An additional alteration could be to remove the "continuous" work clause of item craftsmanship, or provide a feat that allows this. That way, a 64,000 gp item could slowly be crafted in between adventures.
As far as selling items, the item economy we are currently using says that all PCs are selling items at 50% of their value unless they use the trading post or are members of the Trader PrC. This is our only clause that prevents a character from mass manufacturing CLW wands and selling them. We could also become more intricate with the economy as detailed in my analysis, but it would cost a degree of comfort to me. We could rule that items can be crafted and sold to NPCs at full price, but there should be a limitation of some kind (Trader PRC gains such a benefit, iirc, and if we are continuing the submission acceptance ideas in LEW which I'll bring up again at a much later date).
Lastly, perhaps characters of significantly higher levels should have slightly more time for crafting items during their downtime. This is of the least concern as an issue right now, and likely won't be much of a concern.
Edit Note: Days shouldn't accumulate. That just doesn't make any sense.
