LifeSkilling Suggestions :)

As most of us know, the majority of players from Retail are lifeskillers that have stuck around much longer than people that just grind. For this reason, I believe that GameZ would benefit from some lifeskilling buffs.
Not an increase in hards/sharps but instead an increase in the amount you gather (Ex: Instead of getting 1-4 bloods in a fluid collection, getting 5-8).
Another change that would be welcomed is that plants can be gathered more commonly. So at a farm that gives potatoes, you can currently gather 2-4 plants in the entire farm but increasing the plants you can gather would bring a big boom to the material side of the Marketplace. Currently its filled with rock gathering and tree gathering because thats the main two ways a player can gather effectively.
These additions would cause more people to become interested in the lifeskilling side of the game and offer something I feel is missing. I've always been interested in lifeskilling but waiting for workers to gather plants for me takes much longer than it would if I were able to gather these items myself.

By plants I mean anything thats harvestable in the already created in game farms.