I have spent the last month or so doing a lot of lumberjacking and bow making, and one thing I have found to be lacking is what to do with spare wood after you have run low on a stack. I have more than once chucked a stack of 2-3 pieces of lumber because I know it will take me a good while to find more of that particular wood.
Here is a suggestion...open a lumberyard in the engineer's guild that would basically work something like this.
You can sell any extra lumber you have to the lumber yard for credits in the lumberyard...this lumber would then be placed on wood piles for purchase by other crafters.
you can purchase lumber stacks from the lumberyard with the credits and/or coins. The stacks for sale in the lumberyard would be placed on piles by quality (low, average, high) and pricing would be based on which stack you buy wood from and the type of wood.
Hobbies or Career in engineering would either give a discount for lumber purchase, or high quality wood would only be purchasable by someone with the career/hobby.
Example 1:
You have some leftover oak lumber of average quality.
>give lumber to clerk
You offer the clerk your oak lumber, he examines it closely and writes down a few calculations in his notes. He looks at you and says, this is average quality oak lumber. For 2 stacks of average oak lumber I can give you 103 kronar credits for use within the shop. To accept this amount, offer again within 10 seconds.
Example 2:
>look on average pile
On the average pile you see a stack of 9 oak lumber, 3 mangrove lumber, 2 ebony lumber and 15 balsa lumber.
>buy 5 oak lumber
The clerk comes over and looks over the stack of lumber you are requesting. He hesitates a moment as he appears to be doing calculations in his head. I can sell you 5 pieces of average quality oak lumber for 720 kronar. You currently have 500 kronar on credit with us, so you need 220 kronar to purchase the lumber. When you make a decision, please Buy again in order to finalize the sale.
