Technically speaking adding "random" bonus modifiers to ordinary crafting could be doable, and not terribly hard to implement. However PS has already a way to do this and let people add the modifier *they* want, not just a random one. In fact it's possible to enchant every currently craftable equipment in game.
I'm a bit unsure if adding random modifiers could really improve the game playability or fun. I will consider the idea, however.

Speaking about rewards, some of you may not know we have recently implemented "daily" quests.
These quests can be taken every X hour of play, adapt to the player's level (ask different tasks based on what the player can do) and reward the player with experience, money AND a skill point. Yes a skill point.
This means, for example, that rising your cooking skill no longer requires the player to grind for hours to practice the skill (players can still do it if they wish, of course) but there is the option to go in game, and ICly quest to raise your competence every once in a while (e.g. Sorry buddy, I'm busy helping Harnquist produce 20 maces for the BD fortress).

We still don't cover every single implemented skill for now, this include several crafting skills and the combat skills. However we have a plan to implement them all, one by one.

So why isn't everything done yet? Simply put: time and manpower.
However the good news is everyone with a bit of creativity, a bit of time and the will to help can help us. Coding, syntax etc. is not even required. We already have a technical format ready to fill in.

This kind of events can be done, but they require the collaboration of GMs and players alike.
The GM team is always helpful, but it can happen real life things happen to them too, therefore an extra hand from player is more than welcome.
The GMs, can reward players with both experience and money so it should be some thing worth having. It would also be possible to award skill points (but imo there would have to be an IC reason: i.e. Banquet with a show from an entertainer showing people how to play music).

From the point of a programmer (or mathematician), "recursive" means a special kind of technique which describes a sequence as relation of a desired element to each previous element(s) of this sequence, starting with constant value(s). The Fibonacci sequence is a famous example, starting with (1, 1) and containing sums of each two previous sequence elements. An explicit formula to calculate elements directly is very complicated, in contrast.

I can hardly imagine a "recursive event" without assuming that the result of each next event will depend on the results of previous events. Instead, the term "recurring" (known from "recurring payments" for premium services) means only "regularly and repetitively occuring" to me. This is just my experience.

From a programming point of view the npcclient code and server code are looping programs, and therefore the term recursive, describe better and more precisely (for my experience) what really happens code-wise than the "recurring" term 

Ok I will now stop with esoteric explanations because I think you all got the message anyway 

For sure I agree on the fact these in-game events may need a bigger public exposure. But imo this is not the only feature not very well known by players. A few examples:

• did you know the Ojaveda rogue will not attack character with enough faction point in the thief faction? (call it professional courtesy)
• did you know some monster can be charmed (and commanded like pets) using an AW spell?
• did you know the planeshift code host a feature that may eventually hallow to hire NPCs and eventually allow players to script simple quests themselves in-game through hired NPCs?

Of course, that's no players fault, it could be devs fault eventually but honestly none of us has the time to develop and make PR at the same time. 

Quote from: Eonwind on October 17, 2016, 04:54:29 am

This recursive treat ...

Rather "recurring", I believe...

I'm curious if that will actually "happen" some day, as a scheduled "world event" which can either be stopped with a large raid, or will cause an increased population of monsters in this area for a while when not...

it already is, at least partly. There are several invasion scheduled on given in-game months, if not stopped or killed the invading monsters will roam in the area usually considered a lower danger (BDroad 1, for example). These invasions are active since quite some time and the hydlaa guards tells the population of any incoming danger from the bronze door area.
The frequency of these invasion is not too often on purpose, for now but they could be increased in the future.
Of course low danger areas (like hydlaa-oja road) will not have such problem. That's made on purpose.

You just have to set up a goal system. I bet a modified quest line that works like a regular job for a character and  lets the players become a junior guard would work. Then you can send them on regular directed hunts that gradually build up to higher strength mobs. It always surprises me but it seems to hold true for most players, the game has to tell them what to do or they won't figure out what to do or will lose interest in doing.

You just have to set up a goal system. I bet a modified quest line that works like a regular job for a character and  lets the players become a junior guard would work. Then you can send them on regular directed hunts that gradually build up to higher strength mobs. It always surprises me but it seems to hold true for most players, the game has to tell them what to do or they won't figure out what to do or will lose interest in doing.

Not sure you have recently done some questing lately (in case I would be interested in hearing a feedback), however some quests including the tutorial are currently trying to focus the players on a "main theme": the stone labyrinth invasion.

This recursive treat is intended to be one of the main "world problems" to create tension in-game and keep the Yliakum society unitedo to some extend and - why not - create conflict as well (between PC and PC , between PC and NPCs, etc.).
Also many in game mechanics have been shaped that way in order to create that same feeling (there are recursive invasion of monsters coming from the bronze doors).

It could be the message and the goal is not clear enough, or hasn't been added in enough place to feel like enough of a threat for everyone. In case this can be fixed, more hints can be added in the quest and - why not - players can even propose more game mechanics around this (like more frequent invasions, repeatable invasion quests, etc.).
I'm sure many of this features can be added, given time.

I agree with Venalan answers, I will only add this:

Weapon Balancing - [...]  Looting aside, what about two handed weapons?  Their damage per delay ratio is always worse than duel wielding two one handed weapons and they have no noticable damage reduction or block advantage or rating on them.  On the opposite side of the spectrum daggers have a fixed delay that cannot be modified by either enchanting or looted names.

Before going back to check each weapon DPS, we are working on a new damage calculation system that will be more balanced as a whole. Once this is done it will be possible to check the weapon balance.
Regarding dagger speed there is minimum delay set by the server of 1.5s no weapon (daggers included) can have a lower value.

Speaking about player character names and history: I think this answer is pretty accurate:

As for players... I have not signed the contribution license... or at least not that I am aware of... so my character Thoss... has not been submitted as a permanent part of the world... if he becomes famous, all players know about him, he is still not a permanent part of the world... as I could simply never play him again.

If the team wants to immortalize Thoss as a permanent part of the game, and I agree that that would be super cool, I am assuming that I would then need to sign the contribution license... because the years of development put into Thoss and making him awesome... would be a hefty contribution to the game.

The character you have created as a player belongs to you, the name, the concept, etc. on top of that the scope of the sentence is to prevent characters' ownership created and submitted to the settings (read NPCs) are not claimed back creating big problems to the project as a whole (imagine what would happen if harnquist or Trasok's creators decide they don'y want us to use the characters anymore).

So, don't worry feel free to use the character as you wish
Also we like PlaneShift side projects started by fans
Usually we have no problem at all letting people use the art owned by ABC for fan project, just make sure to let us know if/when is the case