so that should mean that you are fine to travel to gecko or klamath to kill golden geckos etc too :>
I really don't see the problem. Why should leather jackets be hard to craft? At your lower levels you basically kill much geckos anyway - you have your pelts. Same goes for some brahmin hides when someone gets the first few levels killing them. A few fibers are also easily gatherable, so where's the problem? While progressing further in the game, you can finally kill then a few golden geckos, have their pelts and et voila, there is your leather armor. The metal armor is crafted quickly, yep, but therefore the effort and the danger getting the materials is much higher.The system works fine in my book.