Hey there, gonna try to answer this myself!
Prior to Planes of Power there were many combines that resulted in a small profit while doing tradeskills. The Devs never saw this as a problem because tradeskilling was such a pain in the rear thing to do. However people started to get smart and create programs that automatically purchased components, did combines and sold the finished tradeskill items to vendors, while nobody had to be at the keys.
These programs did all of this much faster that a human could, and there was no fatigue factor. People ran these programs 24/7 for weeks at a time netting hundreds of thousands of platinum with absolutly no risk. During PoP there was a huge tradeskill sell back adjustment because of this, which pretty much removed any profit combines.
While you are correct in remembering this as classic, this is one of those "classic" things that will never be implimented here on P99 because the programs still exist, it would cause a huge influx of platinum and destroy the servers economy.
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