I shamefully admit that I forgot to consider the fact that recipes are a crown sink when I came up with this idea. You're both right and I understand that crown sinks are needed to maintain some image of a balanced economy.

However, I feel like my idea still holds some merit. Since these recipes would be bound, they would be for personal use only. This means that a F2P (or P2P) player would still be able to find, buy, and sell Basil recipes. As for going into the clockworks more often, I think that's more a matter of token-recipe pricing than anything. People who want a Polaris could go grind RT like 25 times or something to get the recipe, or they could (using the same amount of energy for elevators) go down to a Tier 3 terminal 50 times in hopes of finding it. Assuming that there was actually a 1 in 50 chance of finding a Polaris recipe at terminals, the ability to buy a recipe with boss tokens would simply give people an option as to how they want to get the recipe.

I'm supposed to be writing an English paper right now, so my BS levels might be higher than usual (and sanity levels equally lower), but does what I said make sense at all?