sabinati wrote:you have failed, thanks for trying though
can't argue with one of the mentioned 'daddys' yeah.
But, let's look on example.
Pat village- developed one.
Pit village- newbie one.
They both reached ql 100 wheat. But there are 10 farmers in Pat village, and good tools, like scythe etc, and in Pit village there are 3 farmers and no metal tools at all (you can say that this is their own problem, they can just trade, but we're looking on fictional example). So for a 2-day cycle Pat village produces 100 wheat, and Pit village 32 wheat. They both craft hats. Pat village - 25 hats Pit village -8 hats. W/o update like this. Pat village uses 10 hats to equip their own farmers and continue developing, and sells other hats on market to other villages. Pit village -equips their farmers as well with hats, sells other hats on market, gets some coins, buys tools from Pat village.
With update like this.
Pat village equips 3 out of 10 farmers with decent ql hats, others are equipped with low ql hats, eventually in next cycle all farmers will get their hats, village prospers.
Pit village, bein unlucky (who calls one lucky if he can't even establish trade routes with neighbour?), makes one hat of low ql, others are shitty. In next cycle, they won't have tools , thus they will require more time to get em from trade, make new hats, etc.
....2 years passed. Pat village -generally prospers. Pit village -start sulking on forum that 'this is unfair, we can't reach the ql' etc.
So with this update quantity will start to mean quality. And not only quanitity will mater, but the amount villagers spend on game. So players who got a grip, have no real life (lol, thats a dickjoke), know how to macro etc will dominate even more. And thus it will make the gap between villages more big.
I can't say that this is too bad. After all if you're ready to sacrifice part of your life for an MMO, you should get results better than your neighbour, for sure. But what about higher ql? Will you sell the highest ql? No you won't. As OP stated, he is not even using ql 143 anvil and hammer. So you think that after this said update , after he will make ql 150 smitty toolset, he will sell it? I doubt that.