Time Management

[Netphreak 510]

Greetings fellow people of Lord of the Craft.

I write this 'suggestion' in hopes that perhaps there may be some light shed on the issue of 'time management' here within the server.
This is in no way a ranting topic, so please do not start arguing wars.
First thing I would love to point out, (and I know this is just the beginning of 4.0 but I must say this) crafting, cooking, persona change, name change cool-downs and times are a /huge/ issue for some of the player-base.

I shall explain using my daily Mon-Fri (Sometimes Saturday) work schedule. Everyday, my work shift begins at 1:00 PM, ending at 9:30 PM (Not including Mandatory Overtime). 

 

This causes a serious issue, for my current situation I cannot afford to be standing around a cauldron, or a crafting bench, waiting 50+ minutes, for food, signs, and other needed items specifically for /roleplay/. When I get home at the end of the day, I would love to just come on, craft stuff needed, and go provide some roleplay, however I cannot do this due to time issues, and adding plugins that require us to wait even more for items needed to keep us going.. That kind of kills us.

 

Now, I'm not saying that /everyone/ has the same situation that I do, I am just jotting down what I am thinking of this situation.

 

To be able to come on LOTC, and craft things needed immediately is essential for players like myself who are /very/ limited with their time, and for this, I am posting the idea of a 'OPT out list' or perhaps some sort of 'get-around' for the time of crafting essential things.

 

This would help out those players, (including myself) who are not able to spend the countless hours that other players supposedly do, on here. I understand that these plugins are meant to make things more realistic, but let's speak realistically here.. Time is just an issue, and to add more walls to climb over, that just makes things so much more difficult for us with very little time to begin with..

 

Can we come to a compromise here? It would be most helpful if something like this was implemented. I know what most of you are going to say here, 'oh it will just make the lazy people want to opt out' or 'people will abuse it'. This may just be the case, however no matter what changes occur, /not everyone will enjoy it/.

 

It's just my two cents, we need to be looking more at the player-base and what's going on with them, instead of looking at what new plugins we need to have installed. The server is nothing without the player, so help us?

 

Thanks for reading.
 

[Samsan99 274]

Alot of the timer and issues like that are being changed and addressed in the next patch/update 

[Ryn Chirr 224]

It still would be nice though if they had an option for no craft times.. It took me 40+ minutes to make 64 arrows earlier..

[Yoff 328]

I've learnt to deal with it or bartered if I wanted something particularly difficult to find. I can still see how this can affect a character like yours however.

[Heff 2460]

If you make it optional then nobody will do it and it will ruin the plugin, I'm sorry but it's just not plausible that this could happen. Try bartering and trading for stuff, that's what I do for iron and stuff.

[zaezae 1098]

What if we had an instant craft token, once a day?

[TheBareSheet 194]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.