I'm in two minds about this. I like the idea that new players are helped - because the broker system isn't the most intuitive in the world. But on the other hand, my carpenter cost a LOT of money to level and the only thing he can habitually sell is salesman crates and storage boxes. Sure some of the high end rare furniture sells, due to the status reductions, but the majority of his sales comes from storage. The trouble is, people don't upgrade their storage like they do their armour, or buy storage on a regular basis like food, totems, arrows and spell upgrades. People tend to buy the biggest they can afford and only upgrade when they really have to. My provisioner, tailor, jeweller and woodworker are all self funded - and even turn around a nice bit of profit - but my carpenter isn't. To keep from removing carpenters' main market, they'd have to make the free crate something pretty useless like a 10 slot, which would kinda defeat the object.
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