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We want Artisan commodity requirements to make sense in a logical way, to be fair and realistic with modern commodity costs, and also to respect that many of the items are very long lasting in comparison to a lot of trades. Please keep throwing out ideas if you've got any - we don't need you to be able to say "Teasets should be X commodities"! It's useful enough to say "I think the price of Teasets is too high", because then we know where to look for benchmarks.
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To make sure we're getting these right - because some of the changes are huge! - we wanted to run these by you first. We're including them both in a handy coloured version, and in a plain text.
As some insight into how we approached this: Artisan is a strange beast because it has such a huge variety in the longevity, purpose/effect, complexity and potential materials of its items. We considered all of these things whilst looking at new values.
You might see that something that would be larger than something else actually requires fewer commodities. This will be one of those other factors - it's more complicated, or its "stat benefit" is much bigger, or something along those lines. It's not quite as simple as scaling all the costs by size, sadly, or this would have been much easier!
So, to the values:
Red (or obscurely pink - we blame those of us who are high on chocolate) means the design's value has changed. Only one cost has gone up (fighting rings); all others have gone down. Green values are not changing - this includes some of the values we already changed in the initial round.
Please give us any feedback by posting here ASAP, and we'll review the comments through the rest of this week. Thank you again for bearing with us!
EDIT:
This is my own personal speculation on commodity costs between the two. Largetables are meant to be full and proper dining tables, and can seat however many chairs you can have to go with it - which is like ten to twelve, depending on pantograph, etc. That's pretty big! So exactly how big is a smalltable? I think that's where there's some sense of ambiguity with it. I imagine most people are more thinking of end table size, but it could really be any table that isn't a proper dining room table at that point.
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Here is a copy of the changelog for the login challenged:
On a similar note, we forgot to mention in the changelog (and have now appended) that the changes to tables will only affect designs crafted since the change.