C’mon FC, you know that description is way off base. It doesn’t reduce waste of base materials OR lower the costs of forged items. It burns hotter and smelts faster.
“The heat-efficient furnace is comprised of a short hearth in the shape of an inverted pyramid centered beneath a stone chimney. A moveable cap on the chimney peak affords the smith a greater degree of temperature control, greatly speeding up the smelting process at the cost of fuel.”
You think that’s bad, That’s frigging perfect compared to the descriptions for many of the server settings. With those it’s not even possible to know if increasing the slider makes it (whatever it is) happen faster or slower. Whoever wrote those was probably a) having a good laugh, b) suffering from sleep deprivation after binge-watching “Family Man” for 60 hours straight, c) was hired to write English even though they were brand new to the language, or d) all of the above. LOL
Or just straight up inconsistent. To decrease the respawn rate of harvestables, decrease the value. To decrease the respawn rate of npc’s increase the value. I wonder if the underlying code is this inconsistent. My guess is yes.