Well, we have Tokuno released for the blackbelt system, so everyone is managing Beehives. 


I finally hit 255 (max amount) on the honey quantity gump, so decided to clear it so the hives can produce more.  Then is when I realized how expensive it is to make honey, which has only one purpose ingame: Spellweaver quest requires 10. 


The tool required to remove from the hive costs 50k gold for 500 charges. then you need 1 empty bottles to make 1 "Jar of Honey". That's 105 g for 1 jar of honey! I try to sell it to NPCs, guess what, you cant.  Other then a few cooking recipies, which you cant turn a profit on, honey is useless.


3 suggestions I have:


1. Make the tool needed to gather the honey ALOT cheaper, say 10g per use.
2. Add a context menu to the tool so we can select how many to make at 1 time (instead of 1 made per click, make it a selector like gold or other stackables), because this is a sure fire way of making players have carpel tunnel after just 1 hive.
3. Make it so we can SELL (but not buy) the jars back to NPCs, for cost +1 gold(at least).


These suggestions make honey turn a profit, but not a big enough profit for naughty ppl to use as an exploit, & cut down on the risk of personal injury as we try to have fun in UO.   


I am aware that Kane has "plans", & when those are implemented, just make whatever it is cost 100-10,000 honey to purchase. I read something about some things were being bought using honey as the currency.  If this is reimplemented, then it will encourage beekeepers & an open market on players vendors.  It will help shift gold from those who "have" to those who "have not" etc.


Just some of my thoughts,


*hugs*


Sage


 Also, I dont know if your aware, but the "resource" page doesnt close when you open another, so I can have all 23 hive "resource pages up at the same time.  I throwing this out there, incase this is a possible issue for the server in some way.

We plan on making honey valuable again with the addition of the savage honey vendors.  It will also will be used in many systems to craft other items soon. 


Thank you for the input, we are reworking this system to be more balanced and will be added back in a content update