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<blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 9066661" data-attributes="member: 7040941">Sure. But buying stuff doesn't build your gathering skills, and you need those to build up your attributes and energies, and you'd have to go adventuring to get gold to buy stuff, and ergo you'll already be travelling, so why not gather? Why spend the time traveling doing nothing to continue building your character? The point isn't to force people to always do it in one very specific way. The point is to give a lot of good reasons to engage with all of these mechanics and no shortage of dials and knobs to emphasize more of one thing over the other. If you want to spend more time looting rather than crafting, you can trade that time pretty close to 1:1.It won't be optimal, by any means, but such players that care about that aren't likely to be that concerned with a lot of streamlined mechanics that aren't abrasive to the gameplay. Everybody wins.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emberashh, post: 9066661, member: 7040941"] Sure. But buying stuff doesn't build your gathering skills, and you need those to build up your attributes and energies, and you'd have to go adventuring to get gold to buy stuff, and ergo you'll already be travelling, so why [I]not[/I] gather? Why spend the time traveling doing [I]nothing[/I] to continue building your character? The point isn't to force people to always do it in one very specific way. The point is to give a lot of good reasons to engage with all of these mechanics and no shortage of dials and knobs to emphasize more of one thing over the other. If you want to spend more time looting rather than crafting, you can trade that time pretty close to 1:1. It won't be [I]optimal[/I], by any means, but such players that care about that aren't likely to be that concerned with a lot of streamlined mechanics that aren't abrasive to the gameplay. Everybody wins. [/QUOTE]

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