Huh, do needles not decay?

They're dirt cheap and long lasting. They're not non-decay, but close enough on the esteem timescale.

Oh, that makes more sense. Never really dabbled in influence, so minutiae like that escapes me.

Well, thanks everyone for your replies, and i'll try to let everyone know when I create the aethermanse to sell the novice goods. I think what I'll end up doing is purchasing 5 clans, and give permissions to instructors from each of the cities/communes to induct original novices in their respective clan, and have permissions for each of those clans separate. That's what I'm thinking of as a solution to keep people from making alts and what not - but that's going to setback everything to come out for a year maybe or at the very minimum (depends on if I get any raises in work) by a few months heh

another idea may be play with manse permissions. This would/could save you a LOT of gold.

So, how i read this, is that you can set certain ranks of who can come into you manse, their example in the help is this:

RANK 10 OF ROARK. That permission would mean that people who are rank 10 in the Order of Roark pass the permissions test.

RANK OF
- At least rank in cities, guilds, or orders.

anyways really look at HELP PERMISSIONS before you go off buying a bunch of clans

from there you can restrict bins as you want really because you already selected the group of people you want to allow in. Sadly though, you are never going to be able to worm out those alts, you can only hope they will not want to spend more than a few hours as a novice.