Grinding / crafting and implementing an automated wage

100 days sounds like an appropriate amount of time to invest into 1.

NOTE 1.

1 single skill to level 100.

Which means you would be playing, every day, for a year, by Axel's logic, to get 3 skills at 100 and 1 skill at 75ish.

I don't understand what's unreasonable about that progression?

Nippon, choosing to grind the crypts solo is your choice, if you feel you're cheating the system, don't grind it so much? Problems won't be overlooked in the city, since I reckon most people out in the crypts grinding are doing it because they didn't get the chance to involve themselves in an event prior to going to the crypt. I know I for one would choose event > grind any day. I would take RP > grind, if the RP itself had some particular nuance or hinge to it that interested me personally. But if there's nothing interesting going on in the city, and I want to play some NWN2, I'll go grind the crypt and get some levels. Where's the crime in that?

yep I know my grinding will come to a halt once I start getting involved in DM stuff. Haven't had any oppurtunities just yet so far.

The suggestion doesn't necessarily stunt your crafting progression, if anything it might help it since more people who don't go out and grind as much would be seeing money, then want gear crafted more often. Which would mean that you wouldn't have to do as many personal injections of your own cash (if any) to see your craft progress, since other people would likely pad it for you. The suggestion doesn't preclude a 'screeching halt' of progression, it literally just helps distribute wealth to more people who would also like to progress but might not have the same amount of time to do so. Which means as a crafter, you get more people to potentially craft for. 

If you want to get involved btw with the coppers, send Pochoclo a tell asking him when the next events are, and letting him know you want to get involved, he's a good guy and will hook you up. 

I'm generally against automated wage systems (after having one on Legacy) for the following reasons:

- If it isn't accompanied by a sharp drop in loot you just get the same system where established PCs get extra money and new ones don't.
- If it is accompanied by a sharp drop in loot you pretty much kill dungeon activity and also screw over PCs who don't fit in to existing factions or who aren't in DM friendly time zones.
- There isn't a hugely pressing need for cash to participate in things on the server.
- Properly curating a wage system actually takes a ton of DM time and is very difficult to manage with offline PCs.

After discussing with PE, one of my major reasons for creating this thread is to be resolved through future updates, I still think that a wage system would be nice if a way could be found to implement it where it isn't redundant/crippling to the server, but it's ultimately the staff's choice.

I'd say it is. It means that in order to maximise all skills, you'd have to spend that much time per skill. It could easily amount to two years or more before you have everything maxed. This is without taking into account that advancing skill levels in one skill will slow down the progression for another skill in the same category, ie increasing Light Armor to 30, while Heavy Armor is at 20, will make Heavy Armor more difficult to level.