It's simple really, police harvesting. You care about how many plants
are being picked, then instate a minimum harvest roster and police your
own to make sure they adhere to it. I really cannot for the life of me
see how making us pay x amount of gold per plant is going to do anything
else but ad more gold to your pocket.

Jagara makes an incredibly good point, no matter how much the herb cost
us we still need it. Without it we are quite likely dead, the forestal
councils and guilds under their wing has us all bent over a barrel in
that we NEED their produce to survive. A person can live without the
extra enhancements that runes and certain enchantments give, A person
can live without toxins (yes it's true!) but even doing something as
simple as hunting for essence to offer a god cannot be sucessfully done
without herbs. We are at the mercy of the forestal guilds.

Just be honest about your motives, it's already been established that if
a person needs 40 of a herb they'll buy it. They wont look at the price
and say oh dang, i'll make do with 20.. because they -need- 40. Pricing
does not protect plants, it never will. What protects plants is policing
the harvesting, and that dear Khandava/Celidon/Aboreals/Hunters is what
you need to focus on.. not the end user, the person that picks it.

Liryan

Penned by my hand on the 13th of Naturalis, in the year 414 AD.