Going to be blunt here, but I'm tired of seeing the same thing happen all over, sweet thing you have no understanding of the concept of doing efficient things, yet you constantly come in on balance issues anyway. You're doing something because you like doing it does not mean it's a good and viable option, I've seen it on so many issues now. People are constantly quitting over these balance issues and you think nothing is wrong because no matter how bad they are you'll just do them anyway. That's not balance, not in the slightest.

If the 20 min food is more than two times easier to mass produce than the same food with a 30 min buff, it's badly balanced. That's all there is to it. You can do higher recipes, but it'd be a stupid thing to do. Balane is not just giving options, it's giving viable options, which this system does not at all. For every food the area 1 version is objectively superior and easier to mass produce.

I can't fail on fish either but I expected that because of the overlevel. Fish seemed to hit 100% success rate much quicker than hunting, so I guess it's an intended mechanic in my case. Too bad I've never been able to fail for exp on the new content though :p

The recent restarts have often been because of bugs and stuff though, maybe an even better solution, if possible. Would be to just save the food/aura and even what skill you are doing so it can just continue after the restart. I don't think people would mind restarts anymore if they just pick up where you left off.

I don't think premium or premium plus icons are necessary, however it's definitely needed to have a way to seperate moderators from players. You don't get to have the power to punish people without any of the accountability. If you do your job right and you're just and not muting people over disagreeing on an opinion and purely following the rules, then there should be no problems. I could only see a bad moderator want to turn off their moderator tag.

If you really feel the need to hide your moderator tag you shouldn't hold that power in the first place in my opinion.

High lvl stuff generally has no use, it seems you outlevel low lvl stuff much too quickly. even though all our miners are already the lvl for higher ores, we still constantly need copper ore. It gets even way worse for fishing, most high lvl fish have no use, and in a few hours of fishing you already hit the useless tiers.

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.