Vyse wrote:
What did you mean by "20 boards,(50 Timber)"?
So when you go chop down a tree you're harvesting units of timber. But timber by itself isn't usable, first you have to turn it into wood (boards would be a better term for sure.) So you take a saw over to a work bench and convert 5 units of timber into 2 units of wood. The same process applies to mining ore. You take 5 units of ore over to a smelter and with your tongs(? not in game at the moment and I'm blanking) and turn it into 2 iron ingots.
I believe stone which is harvested from rocks is directly usable for city building (and the few weapons i've seen that use it.)
Wolvyn wrote:
currently right now the only viable source for gold is pve hunting or pvp hunting the pve people out "farming" gold. harvesting resouces sell for 1 gold per ten. in the time that you mine 10 stone/metal/wood/fish/herbs to make 1 gold, you could have killed a few goblins for roughly 60 gold.
Let me comment on this. PvE is definitely a fantastic way to make money but you can make money harvesting so long as you sell to other players. Its true a NPC will only give you 1 gold for a stack of 10 ore, but I've seen players offering to buy ore at 2g a unit and timber at 1.5g a unit often enough. Personally i like that selling to NPC's is pretty worthless, it promotes lots of trade and a vibrant economy.