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So you literally couldn't take the "proper" lvls of grind, went back to the game when it became EVEN MORE CASUAL and then decided that NOW you loved grind? And you're now pushing grind onto other people?
I suggest you draw a parallel between your own actions and the responses of others to your suggestions. You couldn't play the game because it required you to grind. So you quit it. You then came back when you found out that there's an easier way to play that didn't seem as much of a grind to you (as if.... YOU WERE ENJOYING THE PROCESS).
Now look at the responses people have given you. Most people said "they don't want grind" and some said "even if there is some grind, it should be the one that the players can enjoy". So pretty much everyone who's responded to you LITERALLY AGREES WITH YOUR POINT OF VIEW. But you've misconstrued your own pov to such a point that most of your comments can only bring out hateful responses. Half of the reason for that is probably your lack of ability to properly understand and express your own preferences and half of that is your lack of experience in mmos.
But the latter could be sidestepped if only the former didn't completely ruin your ability to look at what people have been telling you this whole time from a 3rd person pov.
Everyone wants AoC's economy to be strong and well-designed. Everyone wants in-game items to matter and be valuable (that's part of the economy being well-designed). Everyone wants to have the kind of grind that they'd themselves prefer. And all of those "wants" culminate in just a single design. That is of a deep and intricate artisanal system.
A good artisanal system will have sinks. A good artisanal system will have small personal scale (with small easy numbers that you like so much) with a huge potential for immense depth of market trade (where you'd need a calculator). And all of that would support "gold being valuable".
These past few days of these samey threads and discussions were of such utter uselessness and pointlessness that it frustrates me to no end. Everyone was pretty much agreeing with everyone else, but the arguing kept on going. JFC