Curious about Tradeskills??

[mmiles8]

December 10, 1999:

Stance on recipes/formulas: This site has always left the posting of cheats/recipes/formulas to other sites. My reasoning behind this was that, without player experimentation, we don't find the new and undiscovered recipes. I've provided some links here and there throughout the site for recipes and such for those who want to learn things without costly experimentation. When I return, I might directly link in some of the recipes that I, and other contributors to this site, have found. However, this is a 1-person site that has tried to stay ad-free (other than the remotely hosted message board) and low-maintenance. On top of all other considerations, the amount of extra time I'd have to spend per week on handling corrections/additions to those recipes, handling often irate and incoherent email asking "why do you have these recipes and not those recipes that I really want?" and a myriad of other issues, makes me very hesitant to expand the offerings of this site. I love helping folks learn new things about tradeskills, but I love playing even more. Thanks for your understanding on this.

This is why.

Essentially, anything that can be made with classically available components was classic and works unless posted on the Broken Tradeskill Combines thread in the bug forums.

Edit, also Eqtraders was under a different website until late 1999. Which is why it doesn't go back farther on the wayback archives. Finding classic information is a painstaking process, but has been a collaborative and largely successful attempt one item at a time.