i recently made my crafted travel power. it involved making loads of stuff from some other stuff, obviously. in the process i had to buy, say 1000 items from the store guys, and making 1000 items of stuff. just making this took me some 30 minutes of just staring at the monitor. on the other hand it would be convenient to say, press **** + buy on something and then have the option of indicating how many of it u want to buy. similarily if u wanted to make 30 of something, u could just have many of it crafted automatically without having to wait 2-3 seconds and then press for everyone, u could use that time to go make a cup of tea and some pancakes... or what not.