I'll start by saying two things:
1) Offtopic - this topic will have long sentences due to my way to exprime in english (I would appreciate it if you had the patience to read all).
2) Ontopic - in every MMORPG I've played, resources plays an important role - to create new things;
I wasn't very involved in the collection of resources, but i can say, as a player that had to do with resources in other games, that what is happening now, does not work as it should work (IMO).
Why? I will give my reason and on th