Many people here know cooking isn’t cheap to get up and it is a bit painful to gather all the ingredients. But, that is a part of the game. What if you people put in 24/7 events that are never ending in the main cities where players can go and be a chef or something in a restuarant until they earn a certain amount of xp and then have to wait 24 hours until they can join again.
That way it will help them get their cooking crafting higher by 1 level a day? It would be cool and would help all those who havent got the time or money to level up their crafting skills. sure theoretically people could have all crafting professions maxed to 400 in 400 days without paying a copper. But, 400 days? that is already longer than it would take anyway.
You could even have whacky NPC’s like a french chef or something or for armoursmithing, a big hairy norn guy with some stupid backstory. Well, just an idea.
I think it is cool