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TL;DR

The ability to see a timer on an item you are crafting in your hand telling you when it will start and finish.

What ?

When you hover your cursor over an item in your hand crafting queue it brings up a box with details about the item. I would like it if there was two timers in this box.
The first timer would tell the player when the item(s) will start crafting (from the current time) as this will let the player know when they will start receiving the item(s).
The second timer would tell the player when the item(s) will finish crafting (from the current time) this will let the player know when they will have the item(s) they crafted.

Why ?

In the game when I would craft a large amount of items I would find myself trying to calculate how long it would be before I had them.
I think this will help players know how long hand crafting takes and let them plan better.

It makes sense, but I think the devs do not want to add incentives that make handcrafting easier in a game where all is about automation.

Koub wrote:It makes sense, but I think the devs do not want to add incentives that make handcrafting easier in a game where all is about automation.

Correct.