Crafting is all changed and for the most bad IMHO..

Trade routes are gone, now you have to go cross-continental for gilda stars and 1 per pack yet the price of a trade ship plans has gone up to 400 gilda.

Not only that but the trade packs have all been changed and now require some intermediary ingredient, like chopped vegetables or some breakdown of other crops/mats, and on some you need 10k+ to make them.

Put into perspective to get a trade ship, lets say solo as I have been playing. I have to grow the crops (which have all been increased in prof to do so), pay with intermediary items so I can reduce them to some new ingredient, go to a specific bench (which only basic ones can be made less you have some new bench that is open to the public and something like 300 gilda to get) and make the thing and sail it across the ocean to sell it for 1 gilda. I next have to repeat all that 399 times to get enough for 1 ship which is fucking asinine.

May be the worst money I've ever spent. Bait and complete fucking switch IMO.

Some good points, some meh points and a whole lot of WTF where they thinking.

/sad