Besides:
- SF "silver farming" can be made without major energy consumption (in a smaller scale)
- Other Energy forms exist other than Charcoal that can be equally powerful

Small scale silver production is useless and yes there are other unconvential energy sources (which are a pain to produce) but that doesn't change the fact that spruce (and with that charcoal production) took a major hit.

I disagree with spruce restricted to cold biomes it gives people incentive to trade spruce more in bulk and gives people in cold biomes more trades

i don't think you understand the suggestion Gav7, pls read again. it's about increasing silver rates.

silver farming just inflates the prices. you work weeks to get a naval region or win a siege, but some noob gets more money by placing dusts from one machine to another

you also work weeks for a silver farm so i don't get the point you're trying to make

The need for money give value to such resource. Increasing the output of silver, since it's is an RENEWABLE source of income that can and is being exploited at great intensity, would reduce the value of such resource.

We can even make an comparation with real life events as simple as the cost needed for a cup of coffee today and 10 years ago. The current coins themselves, thanks to inflation along with other factors, are starting to render useless in smaller scales.

If a town or a player cannot keep up with the balance needs for their activities such as upkeep or siege resources purchasing, they should rethink and reduce their activities to match they productivity and not beg/request for an "all-mighty god" (typification of the hole staff team in the CCNet Universe as an comparision to some IRL philosophies) for some most likely temporarily overpowered solutions.

On a final note, I always have stated that the limitation on Automatic/Electrics SF Dust Grinding should be heavily nerfed and restricted due to it's nearly unlimited capability to expansion and superindustrialization with very little limitations while still allowing new players or those who decide to manually perform those actions have an slightly advantage over the outcome as they are already limited in several aspects by default.

Deal with it 😝😝😝 besides cold biomes now have another small advantage comapred to a lot of disadvantages auch as crops not growing

Just use buckets of fuel bro. Since you live in the cold area, there will be tons! It's kind of annoying to set up at first but I am happy to teach you all the tips!

kevin the whole point is that he doesnt live in a cold biome