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Hi! 

This is to do with the Economy changes that are upcoming. Currently, we have shortage issues across the board with Orgs struggling to maintain the sporadic demand. Would it be possible, before the Economy changes come in that would likely overhaul our markets, that we could see some bandaids in place?

Some issues that pop up:

• Crafting: Novices needing comms to craft their gear like plate or weapons
• Politics: Creating new, temporary avenues for commodity generation since some villages can't be utilized by opposing orgs (big, I know, bordering overhaul)
• Research: Possibly tweaking Research costs, since presently a number of guilds have lost levels and the costs are so high we are debating if we even should put forth the costs. (A solution proposed by Xenthos and others would be "turning off" the relic until upkeep is met without losing a level)
  
  

I know time tables can be really long, and I for one want it to be fantastic and do not want to rush it, but hoping tiny changes can be made to halt some of the troubles folks are facing. Thank.  

While 2020 personally sucked for me IRL as I am certain it did for everyone else, the stuff you all came up with in-game more than made up for it, especially when it reached the point where I wouldn't set foot out of my house unless I absolutely needed to. Kudos for the wonderful work you all put into making Lusternia enjoyable for us players and I look forward to seeing what you have planned for us in 2021!!

To add to the player groups questions.

Guilds. There's not much of a reason to really join them or rank up?
Obviously there's the lore, but if that alone isn't enough of a selling point then, given some stuff targets guilds (such as domoth blessings), it actually seems potentially more effective for an org to consolidate their population into one and then just make sure there is at least one active person in each of the others to maintain research and sit on the council.
Could we see improving this as a project and potentially also generally considered in projects moving forward? (for example, can there be an interaction between guilds and the economy)


Seconding the great house system, these can be significant aspects of a character's identity so it'd be nice to see them looked at. 

Families! It's been said before that the family system behind the curtain is a daunting and terrible thing, and so we shouldn't expect much, if anything, to ever change about it. But given the recent resurgence of flack when it comes to things like family honour, can we wish for this to get a good look over sometime in the far future?

Veneration! It's awesome conceptually, but sees little to no use given that order wars fell off the map years ago. Cults are also a very weird thing to consider when there's more and more orders popping up, but very few taking off population-wise due to folks hanging on to inactive gods, or the newer gods themselves also dipping. It feels like they're not worth working towards unless you're extremely lucky, and even then they might never flourish into what the design builds towards - is this something else that could be considered for a future project?

Builders! Is the mortal building program still intact? I haven't heard anything about it for...well, years upon years, though if this is something that is still ongoing and we can express interest in applying for, I'd love confirmation!