1. Sugested many times
2. I agree. Remove blueprints from shops even at begining of the sesion. Blueprints should be only in ruin lockers and dungeons.
But first you need to know that after wipe Combat Armor crafting will probalby greatly change (there are rumors that this will reuire new (old) materials: kevlar and maybe HQ fibers to craft it. Not confirmed)
3. Its not needed. After wipe you cant craft weapons with -1AP bonus (that the second thing you need to know about wipe) and combat armors will be harder to craft as i said
4. Sugested many times. We have level cap so this will be rather step backward. XP gain off some items (those used for hardcore exping now) will be probably decreased
5. Its allready announced:
Crafting & Gathering
- New item bonuses,
- Changed some bonus of crafted items,
- Some recipes changed to make top stuff more expensive to craft and requiring new resources,
- Gathering resources will be removed from private locations (except Private Mines) and moved to towns and other public locations with increased accessibility,
- Limited capability of slave mining, but manual gathering more effective than it is now,
- Rare items possibly craftable from rare materials and blueprints.
I like idea for these perks:
Iron Fist: Can cut wood and mine without tools (melee 100<, strength 8<, level 12)
In a Pinch: Can use repair tool as a melee weapon (20-30 dmg, AP 4) (melee 100, repair 150, level 12)
Iron Fist perk have potential. It can be final perk (24lv) for hth characters which gives bonuses damage, critical chance or something to happy hth players and option of cuting wood and mine ore without tools might be small addition to this
"In a pinch" is almost reasonoble but damage may be too high
Lover, not a fighter: 6 bonus movement APs, +AP to shoot (science 75, repair 75, level 6)
hahah this might be fun trait for TB fightes
but probably it will be used rather to chase than run :/
Sorry but rest of this gather-based perks/traits are not so good idea :/ some of them are imposible to make, some just will force players to make more alts