
Trade skill levels
Trade skill levels need to have impact. Ideally, a level 30 miner, is mining copper at a faster rate than a level 1 miner. Without this it really feels like levels are insignificant, since there is no developed market for higher tier resources. Currently we're mining a bunch of things that no one needs yet, because everyone is still using copper, and i'm mining iron. Ideally there could be something along the lines of TS specific timer reduction = TS * .5 for all resources you over level. In this example, copper would drop from lets say 100s timer, to 85s timer at level 30 mining, since you're 30 mining levels over it.
Possible considerations: instead of a flat timer reduction, a percentage reduction, lets say .5% for every level, so no one is ever hittting 0s for an action.
Vasta

As a fisher I can't agree more, the last "useful" fish is at lvl 10 and even then I even doubt its usefulness, the only real useful fish seems to be bluegills at lvl 5, I feel like my levels are completely meaningless. They just unlock even more fish that nobody wants. We need more reasons to even want levels. I don't know it just feels like whatever I do is useless in this game, my level goes up but I don't contribute anything.

Already in place. My mining level is 14, the base timer for copper is 60 and my timer is 53.
e: tested it for smithing too & found the same thing. Copper bars, base 60, my timer 53. Copper plates, level 2 requirement, base 60, timer 54. Looks like the level rate is exactly 1s per 2 levels over.

I downvoted this because as Oldskool said, it's already implemented. If the reduction already in place is not enough, there's a thread for balance issues.
As far as not hitting 0s timers, there is a minimum timer of 10 seconds.

This does work. As far as the fishing is concerned, fish other than bluegill should be gutted for their different meat types, which then have uses.
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This does work. As far as the fishing is concerned, fish other than bluegill should be gutted for their different meat types, which then have uses.