Yep. Its pretty bad at the moment..
The value of smithed weapons explode in a exponential way. Exponential prices are a good thing, but its ramp up so fast round about 10k.
I mean, its totally okay to sell a really, really good weapon for about 40k - BUT (and this is a very big but) you shouldnt be allowed to "smith" 3 of those weapons within 3 seconds. It should be taken multiple weeks, maybe even 1 or 2 months to finish a high tier weapon for 40k.So u have to work on your fine weapon in steps with a progress system. If u ran out of stamina, u can leaf and come back to work on it later. Also u have to work in steps in order to finish it - each step a part of the weapon or something else like sharpening. Also, also... at the end of each step u can see the quality of your work - if its bad quality, u can redo the step with a increased chance to create a part with better quality (also u need agian that material of course.) More material will also lower the profit margin for your weapon.
I also thought about the leveling method for smithing.. XP for smithing, refining and smelting is fine.
but what if we also..
- can work in the city for a smith and produce weapons for the locals. We gain gold for the work and XP for the smithing skill
> events can trigger. The smith can get a special order while we are working for the smith. We help him and gain much more XP and/or much more Gold for that work
- we can do quests for the smith and the quests dosnt include smithing at all. We are just helping in out. He will be thankful and give us some tips in smithing (smithing XP)
- we can study a weapon and gain XP. Also each studied weapon can give us also a unknown part of the weapon that we studied. We can only study one weapon of this sort. The studying will take some time, its like you are reading a book in warband.
- speaking of books. Include books. We can read them and earn XP
- we can meet a smithing master. His will appear rarly and can train us for a week to gain a masssssssive XP boost. But we have to pay a big amount of money for that. Also why dont include some quests with him?
and the possibilyties are endless.
