I guess I am not suggesting the problem is that chest are too easy to make, I
actually thing in generally they are on the hard side to make. My
lumberjacking and refining comments are both a result of my observation that
obtaining wood is way too easy. Given the ONLY large dump for material in the
game is chests, and the cheap/easy availability of wood, it isn't hard to see
the conenction - merchants make alot of chests for wood because it is the only
material you can get 1000s of kgs in a few hours. We had tunes to this guild
recently for just that issue (alloying and the supposed ability to make 1000s
of kg of diamond/starmetal in a day). I don't think my suggested changed will
drastically make chests hard to make, but might force merchants to investigate
other possibilities than mass producing wood chests. But heck, you are right,
in the end it is all supply and demand.