How does the new symbel work?

[linkfanpc]

Okay, i have to be missing something here. My hunger is through the roof due to these symbel changes. How are you supposed to get symbel of higher quality of your highest stat? What about soft caps? The only early-game symbel are wooden things (Obviously can't get higher than q10 on those.), Earthenware Platter, Leather Coaster and the Stoneware Vase, and there's no way to get higher quality than 10-15 of all those at this point. Do we just have to wait until we get metal and skills and can start grinding qualities?

I mean, say my highest stat is 15. I need a good q25-30 symbel item. But my Dexterity is even lower, 14, and would softcap anything i find into the ground. I could increase it but then i'd be further trashing my hunger, but whatever i do that and then i have 25 dexterity. Hooray. But now i need something like 40-50q. Including softcaps i'd need q50-60 materials to make a q40-50 symbel item which straight up isn't possible, as this is early game, i have no crops or surplus metal or anything else grindable. Also my hunger is crapped now. There has to be something i'm not getting.

[Sevenless]

Conceptually speaking it seems as described that it would basically only work for fresh alts as written. How hefty the softcap is after that is kind of hard to say at this point. On paper it does kinda look useless to me without knowing the exact formulas.

I was really happy with making a Q40 wineglass, only to realize I'm already 50 in perc...

[MagicManICT]

You've got two choices right now: eat now, do your best to mitigate hunger gains; or delay your eating and improve your bonus. How you proceed is going to be up to a lot of factors. how much food can you produce, variety (cause those satiations dont decay that fast), willingness to wait to see if the system is balanced, etc.

No, you're not missing anything, unfortunately, and the disparity is just going to get worse as stats go up. quality is slow to increase after the first few weeks, and it never goes up as fast as stats.