Hello,
Today in worldchat we were discussing this and thing that kept comming up was that they're to good atm.
Meaning there should be some kind of payment to trade the resources back to items. You added a smuggled coin. Why don't add some kind of currency out of those.
For example for you need 1 Smuggled gold coin to exchange 500 resources to form smuggled to regular form. (I said 500 but could probly work also with 250 if you increased the smuggled gold drop rate a bit)
Because there is already people banking lvl 50 in resources... I personally don't really care alot for that but I guess some crafters who don't want to go to TA are left out because:
1. Sacks continue dropping in value as people rather bank dailies in smuggled form now as it takes alot less space... Sacks are only used for people who're still training skills atm.
2. They already gather alot faster. Best example I for example never get attaked as I don't really got alot of people that're really hating on me. (Except for ben, xpwaste etc) as they kill everyone.
3. Double respawn times and double gathering is already enough. There is nearly no other gathering spot which has nodes that close and fast spawning near to eachother. I'm pretty sure for most resources you gather 3x faster in TA.
So I personally think you should change something about the 999 stacking because atm. The smuggled goods are just way to overpowered.
As always fill me up with things i probly did forget.