Five hundred (500) favorite recipes...?

[Axlrose]

I remember an old patch message stating that Sony increased the total number of favorite recipes to five hundred. Since my avatars like to make a little of everything along the way, I will add nearly all the known recipes from where my current ability to x amount away - usually when the recipes are turning yellow will I quit adding to my favorite list. As I am successful towards a recipe, I will remove it from the list. Nowhere would all these recipes add up to five hundred per avatar. Yet if I return to the tradeskill container later, some trades I will have the green and light blues recipes that remain. A few will have the dark blues recipes while none will have any yellow recipes. This total remaining does not add up to five hundred. It appears as if the game was coded to restrict adding recipes from another avatar with a higher skill. But my intention was for a check list, which it seems to fight every step of the way.

Is this normal where added recipes will be removed without any reason?

[Ngreth Thergn]

some recipies are "autolearn"

These are not stored "per character", and do not count towards your limit.

When the list is generated, it looks for autolearened stuff ads the stored loearned stuff and makes a list (maybe not in that order... you would have to ask Tanker on that, but the idea is there.

the 500 is the limit of how many that are not autolearned that you can add to your list.