In my beta write up, I did complain about 2 crafting issues,
the first like you said a pre-schooler could do , and that is not really good enough, in my own humble oppinion,
it should be a bit harder to say the least, another is of course, lable the bloody things lol.
My second complaint was harvesting, I don't like the pick it up off the floor system, its lame when you are
surrounded by perfectly good trees, it really urked me and did not inspire me to want to do it, well done
Heth and Vic you had more gumption than me for it lol
Why sell the game short with conserns to crafting, it should also be integral if they are screaming inovation,
but hey its' beta lets hope they pick up on the craft and beta it acordingly.
To simplystic there is little or no need to ever harvest together as you woudl be scrapping over a node,
so far it's the big grrr for me, I don't like that really it seems it's a bother.
I am glad though that the peices that you did craft were good, that in itself is a big bonus for crafters,
makes it viable, also the planar drops seems really good would like just a craft/harvest beta to have a good
old go withoug distractions
hard not to get distracted.
But we will see it might change and be tweeked a bit, i hope so it would be such a shame if it were not.