Concern of ordering in materials

perhaps the council should be the only ones allowed to import such things and only a certain amount per week/month?

Ohhh, is that what you thought we were saying?

No, we were saying someone with high Social Standing has the money to order in bars of Ventine (likely through some form of social roleplay, as opposed to combat-oriented roleplay.)

Rather than expending health, they expend money.  The important distinction is, however, that the bars would just come in as bars.  There's no conceivable way to bring in ready-made armor and weapons, so no businesses end up being skipped in the process.  It's just the Obtaining step, not the Working step.  The character in question would still have to go find a smith to work it, and all that jazz, much the same as any other player might.

Just, instead of fighting with sword and shield, it's with words and gold.  The Staff still expects to see solid RP time put into obtaining said item.  Sorry for the confusion.  I didn't recognize the disconnect at the time.

My problem is just that though... If I have a social standing themed character. I can just rp for a while, before having my own npc ships bring the supplies in? Really no matter what, unless they have to go through the same hoops as the other players... which does not have to be combat. I just do not see the fairness, in apping in wealth and the ability to get things others have to work harder for. And what happens, when people start making second characters to do exactly what we are talking about. Then the material will no longer be rare? Because I am sure, not everyone is going to just be content. With players shipping themselves items, through their own npc rp.

That's how it already works.  It's part of the application process for obtaining items, handled with admins.

Hello Draefend. I would invite you to read the page we have on our website in regards to the various metals and how they can be obtained. (That page is here: isleofvalesk.weebly.com/metals.html )

For a lot of the metals there is a Social Standing rank required to obtain one with little difficulty. A person may seek a means to acquire the metal despite the Social Standing requirement, by contancting a SW or an Admin for an RP route.

However, just because a Social Standing rank says it is easy for them to obtain a metal, doesn't mean the metal would be there always to obtain. The page also specifically states that the Rarity of a metal determines the amount of its supply (so to speak). Rare metals would not frequently be on hand for someone to purchase, Social Standing or not. And the Very Rare metals are almost never simply onhand. Which means, Social Standing rank or not, the metal shouldn't be considered as simply lying around waiting to be sold.

It's pretty safe to say if someone is coming up with the right Social Standing rank and asking for a Rare or Very Rare metal, an admin or SW should be referred to in order to ascertain if the metal should be considered as even IN supply. And no, you most certainly can never simply NPC out the acquiring of them, much less NPCing out the acquiring of an imported supply.