Um... Feylin, there is a saying in English: "If life hands you lemons, make lemonade." That's what people are doing with this quite open secret.
What is certain is that this "secret knowledge" goes back at least as far as Game Forge (*ptui*) days, is known to CSRs, devs and the like, and that no one has been punished for using it. Therefore it is not an "exploit of a bug" but rather "the use of a 'negative' feature in a positive way."
I am fairly sure that the original devs did not forsee the positive uses of the consequences of this mode of crafting, but I am equally sure that given the complexity of the crafting system that they did not forsee some other "secrets of crafting". Certainly some of the recipies for some items are "not as expected" and you are not calling them bugs. Atys is full of surprizes.
-- Bittty
What is certain is that this "secret knowledge" goes back at least as far as Game Forge (*ptui*) days, is known to CSRs, devs and the like, and that no one has been punished for using it. Therefore it is not an "exploit of a bug" but rather "the use of a 'negative' feature in a positive way."
I am fairly sure that the original devs did not forsee the positive uses of the consequences of this mode of crafting, but I am equally sure that given the complexity of the crafting system that they did not forsee some other "secrets of crafting". Certainly some of the recipies for some items are "not as expected" and you are not calling them bugs. Atys is full of surprizes.
-- Bittty
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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