I have a question for clarification and two recommendations.Rias wrote: ↑ Virtually all crafted items are automatically priced. The calculation takes into account the following:
- The primary material of the item (iron is worth more than copper)
- The animal type where applicable (wechuge leather worth more than elk leather)
- The number of repetition steps required to craft the item
- The skill required to make the item
- All of the above factors for any components of the item
This generally means the harder something is to make or the longer it takes, the more expensive it will be. It also means an item made with cheap minor components will be worth less than an item made with expensive minor components, even though minor components currently have no mechanical effect (other than affecting price). All that said, the calculation isn't perfect and some processes may have been overlooked regarding their time/effort value, so please do report oddities or bugs.
- For the number of repetition steps, is the roundtime for those steps taken into account? I haven't done every craft, so I don't know if all the crafts that use steps use the same roundtime, but it seems a 5-second RT step should be worth more than a 3-second RT step.
- I think energy consumption should also be taken into account in the pricing, albeit it would be a very minor adjustment in value for perhaps a significant amount of labor. The current break-even price on energy is 0.0275 riln per energy, and would perhaps make the largest difference for construction and metalworked copper goods that could have been metalcast. It would also help to provide more value to miners and loggers, for whom it is often more beneficial to gain a second skill to process the raw material than it is to just sell the raw materials.
- Reduce the price of branches (and subsequent woodworked items) based on the ease of being able to forage for a suitable branch (usually within 1 to 3 steps to find a large straight branch even with no bushcraft). Shift the value of felled trees that was lost on branches into the large logs, as those are the vastly more scarce resource.
Edit to add: On the riln for energy, I should mention that 0.055 riln per energy is the more generous break even point. If you use that, you'll be paying people a bonus when they sit to rest, though that incentive is there whether there is riln for it or not, so I specified the lower break-even rate assuming people will sit or lie most of the time.