People still make me cry with laughter all the time when i read.
300+ bile chars EARNED IT, If you think it was "easy mode" do not get your hopes up, even if the old purity system existed, an avarage hermit would NEVER OWN 1 x 300 bile character, An average village would never own a 300 bile char, not even in 6 months.
To grind 0-100% pure seeds, on all elements on all seeds is about 3000+ hours OF GRINDING ON THE OLD SYSTEM. (chopping trees, Making coal, processing, seed selection, replanting time etc etc etc etc).
I would love to have actual numbers to share on how much food it takes to cook and consume to get to 350 biles, because it will be close to 2-3k COOKED FOOD + 5k Raw produce thats for sure. Now ill leave you to do the small maths on oven capacity, crafting pie dough time, crafting the pies, cakes, crumbs, farming 1000kg flour, 1k aspens, 1k colewort ( Per char ), Let alone the T2 produce required also.
Newbs on this game have no ***** CLUE how HARD IT WAS to make a 350+ bile char from scratch.
PS: Then Add EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS GAME REQUIRED > Building a base, building mass amounts of defense, earning silver for upkeep of huge claims, and yea. It is funneh.