Now it's unprofitable to cut gems to earn money, would it be possible to
decrease the frequency and severity of fumbles? I.e. don't totally destroy
all the material if fumbles and the fumbles don't usually occur in clusters?

Sir the Master Merchant
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Sir the Master Merchant
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If things weren't profitable before, why was it tuned so many times since its
inception? But you do have a point, profitabily is relative, and right now it
is not profitable:

Let's take 1000 kg of emerald on the ground, and a player 100% in all the
necessary skills. By the time we mined it all, we have 500 kg of raw emerald
(and 5+ hours used). Then we amalgamate and it'll be down to 400 kg, then we
refine and it'll be down to about 350 kg. This if cut nicely, will make about
175k worth or so in shop at the present time, and less if you fumble or
decided to cut into smaller pieces fearing the fumbles. The average is about
500 gold per kg of divine stuff. Before this most recent tune, good gems were
worth twice as much and the return would be as well. And the tune before
that, the gems cost less material to the same material make so more money.
And the tune before that, the gems were more consistently better quality and
more money there...

My point is that why does fumble of gem cutting always destroying the entire
piece? Why couldn't it destroy part of it? And why does it fumble so often?

Maybe you're seeing it from the eyes of adminstration for balance, but I'm
seeing from the eye of profitability for the merchants.

Sir the Master Merchant
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Sir the Master Merchant
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Well, there were many reasons gem cutting has been tuned
over the past few years. Firstly was the ability to alloy
those gemstones in such frequency to make millions in gold
per day. Also, even with 4 or 5 hours of mining, a merchant
could bring in 600k per day, or over 1k/kg, depending on
frequency of materials available. The tunes needed to be
implemented, as it was easy money coming into the game in
mass quantities -- which is never a good thing As it
stands right now, there are other uses for gems than just
gemcutting to sell to shops, there are quite a few items
that use different types of gems.

Duke, if you have any questions, just toss me a tell and I can
try and catch you up with what has been going on with it, as I
am one of the few merchants who has been in the guild without
leaving it fully over the past years.

-d

-d

Yes, the money was really good at one time for gems. But there is no way to
make 1k/kg now to tell you the truth.

Sir the Master Merchant
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Sir the Master Merchant
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Nor should it be that way. Way to easy to make too much money
without any risk if it was still that way.

-d

-d

yes it was profitable , and then came along the skeep shops tune , now you get
fuck all for your gems from shops. b4 with the higher gems price payments from
skeep , the fumbles - high amount of material needed to make 1 decent gem was
worth making to get a cash flow , now i wouldnt even bother train the skill if
it was not a neeeded skill for other parts of the guild

-Delveling Deleveler