Changing weight of boards, cloth or ingots, will affect how ship repairs are handled, and the limit to how many resources a ships hold can manage. Galleons have extra hold space to accomodate the excess weight of these particular items. Pack animal limitations and resource gathering would be affected as well.
Instead how about anyone with 5 or more craft skills totaling 570+ skill points (including bonuses from gear/items) gets a strength boost. This will limit offensive skills on those IDOC farmers (can carry a lot but weak at defense and attacks). This is a crafter request so it should have a crafter solution IMO.
Could also create a Crafters Talisman that has weight reduction (for specified resources only) with random craft bonus just like the 'No-Fail Talismans' add it to BoD rewards table as a Heritage Custom Item.
I don't agree with the leather changes. Gathering resources is a specific activity and players should have to compromise to do it.
Good points Red!
To be honest, I didn't even think about the IDOC toons in the game, or the Packys. The blue bug and Packys are limited to 1600 stone I believe and as such I think their capacity should not change. Other script resource gathering toons could also be impacted by the lighter weights.
Regarding the ships and repairs, again a good point! Is a ship or Galleons capacity limited by weight or number of items or both? Someone in an earlier thread suggested that redeeming Commodity Deeds in ships holds could be a possible solution. I like this idea but with some reservations however. Would it be possible to carry deeds in the ships hold strictly for the use of repairs? To be clear, I'm not saying make them redeemable for the total amount on the deed but rather as the supplies are used for repairs the deed will lower in value. As an example, instead of 1000 board value on the deed after repairs the value is lowered to say 875 boards or what ever it takes to make repairs. Perhaps a "Ships Repair Deed" for ships that can hold a certain number of resources, say 500 boards available through the Harbor master or the Ship Wright. (Possible Gold Sink)
Crafters Talisman is a good idea, make different Talismans for different resources, available through the BOD reward system. I like it!
The original poster, Omalley, makes a good point too. I seem to fail alot when crafting through the Carpentry menu and have to always replenish the boards in my pack. It's a pain in the rear I know but after all these years I have come to expect it.
