24h maintenance and gardens

I am extremely glad I have my business in order here then.
http://www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/...a2cc910921.gif

It has been 36 hours since I last tended my onion. Until now, patch is still not yet up. Since my download speed is low, there goes my onion (Already grew 7 days) -_-

Having let plants die on purpose before, I can tell you that it takes 48h for it to die. No water after 24h is the purple mist. If you watered at least a few hours before maint, you should be fine unless you have work. Ask a friend to water it for you.

We've known the patch date for over a week. You could have just NOT planted anything that wasn't harvestable before the patch last week. Also even personal houses can be watered by randoms so you could ask a friend you know will be on to run by your house and water everything for you. If anything the only thing they're guilty of is not saying something sooner about the fact the garden timers keep going. Also the reason the timers keep going is they're tied to the server's internal clock. When the servers come back up they calculate remaining time based on the current system time minus the timer start time.

Yup now it's confirmed. RIP my thav onions, mandragora queens, and curiel roots. You will be missed....

The only way that the maintenance kills a plant is if the plant was already glowing purple (or harvestable) when the maintenance began.

Withered state starts a 24 hour timer to tend the plant. As long as you tend it within that 24 hours, your plant will be fine.

Also, a plant ready to be harvested has its own 24 hour timer. It must be harvested in that time to prevent spoiling.

Why did it take until during maintenance to get this warning when the Japanese community was warned about this issue 4 days ago?

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Originally Posted by Lomloon

こんばんは。

サーバーメンテナンス中も作物の成長は止まらないため、メンテナンス中に枯れてしまう可能性はありますが、
現時点で存在するすべての作物は、水を与えられてから1日以上持ちこたえることができるようになっています。

長時間のメンテナンスでご不便をお掛けしますが、
栽培を行っている場合は、なるべくメンテナンスの前に水を与えてから
ログアウトしていただけますようお願いします。

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My plants are safe!

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Originally Posted by Raikki

Why did it take until during maintenance to get this warning when the Japanese community was warned about this issue 4 days ago?

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There is nothing stopping you from clicking the jp dev posts and google translating them.


My 3 gardens were not even wilting after 28 hours not tended.

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Originally Posted by Wavytiger

There is nothing stopping you from clicking the jp dev posts and google translating them.
My 3 gardens were not even wilting after 28 hours not tended.

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I found all my cheap plants were not withered but all expansive plants were withered ^^;
Maybe plants take longer time to grow will be withered in shorter period?

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Originally Posted by Raikki

Why did it take until during maintenance to get this warning when the Japanese community was warned about this issue 4 days ago?

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IMO most JP players have day job (salaryman) usually logon at between 19:00-01:00JPT.
Since the maint. started at 16:00JPT, it would be already 15hr no tending when the maint. started...^^;

Hello everyone,

Apologies for the long maintenance and making you concerned for your gardens.

In the future there is a possibility that we conduct maintenance for extended periods, and while the plans haven’t been completely fleshed out just yet, the development team is looking into countermeasures so that nothing happens to your gardens during the server down time.

My Jute died :<

I was sure I twnded them before the maintenance ... :(

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Originally Posted by Wavytiger

There is nothing stopping you from clicking the jp dev posts and google translating them.


My 3 gardens were not even wilting after 28 hours not tended.

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While prudent, it shouldn't be necessary for a non-Japanese player to check the Japanese forum for new posts.

How about automatically extending our subscription period, for free, by a day when you are conducting maintenance for a 24 hour period. Otherwise, we have literally paid for a day for nothing with our subs.

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Originally Posted by abacab1973

How about automatically extending our subscription period, for free, by a day when you are conducting maintenance for a 24 hour period. Otherwise, we have literally paid for a day for nothing with our subs.

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Oh yeah a whole 50 cents lost.

How about a thank you for all this additional content that was produced in this free patch.

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Originally Posted by abacab1973

How about automatically extending our subscription period, for free, by a day when you are conducting maintenance for a 24 hour period. Otherwise, we have literally paid for a day for nothing with our subs.

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You should have read the Ts&Cs.

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Originally Posted by OdinEon

How about a thank you for all this additional content that was produced in this free patch.

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..except it isn't a free patch. Try letting your sub expire and tell me how much you're able to play.

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Since crops and other elements do not stop during maintenance times, there is a possibility that they will wither, but watering your plants will allow them to last for over a day without further care.

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So we just had a maintenance longer than a day and it killed all our plots. If plants are setup to only last a day why is the timer allowed to run or no warnings given on a 2 day maintenance?

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello everyone,

Apologies for the long maintenance and making you concerned for your gardens.

In the future there is a possibility that we conduct maintenance for extended periods, and while the plans haven’t been completely fleshed out just yet, the development team is looking into countermeasures so that nothing happens to your gardens during the server down time.

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"Look forward to it....3 years later still nothing"

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Originally Posted by Wolftamer

no warnings given on a 2 day maintenance?

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...b441ea1f36bc6a
Posted: 04/25/2017 5:45 AM

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...56680e40e2d494
Posted: 05/07/2017 10:39 PM

They warned us even before that.

Why not plan accordingly to avoid this? SE gave plenty of time and common sense, at least in my perspective, kind of tells you maintenance periods can be unpredictable at times. They gave plenty of warning, and if players still choose to gamble it should be on them -.-. Sorry if it offends some people, I kind of focus on logical perspectives rather then emotional.

Would be nice if it was adjusted, just pause the gardens or some such. Wont effect players that often but it feels a bit silly. Or.. give me a moogle I can train to keep my stuff from dying.. Oh did I say I want a moogle? :P

We knew this was coming for weeks. My gf finished up the crops she had before maintenance and didn't plant more.

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Originally Posted by Wolftamer

So we just had a maintenance longer than a day and it killed all our plots. If plants are setup to only last a day why is the timer allowed to run or no warnings given on a 2 day maintenance?

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As this person said

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Originally Posted by NolLacnala

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...b441ea1f36bc6a
Posted: 04/25/2017 5:45 AM

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...56680e40e2d494
Posted: 05/07/2017 10:39 PM

They warned us even before that.

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Plus I know least for me 5/8 (a week before) every time I logged in it shoved the notice in my face telling me about the upcoming server move maintenance and had to click the ok button to continue on.

I watered my gardens before servers went down. Logged in to half having withered. I'm actually quite a bit upset. I'd have hoped that gardens would have been frozen or something. Also, apparently, my shared estate setting was destroyed and I had to set it back up to take care of the other section of my crops. No idea why that would happen.

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Originally Posted by Wolftamer

So we just had a maintenance longer than a day and it killed all our plots. If plants are setup to only last a day why is the timer allowed to run or no warnings given on a 2 day maintenance?

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I had some plants that survived this maintenance. I made sure to tend to them about fifteen minutes before we went offline. When I got back on this morning they were purple with the stink lines, but they did survive.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

I watered my gardens before servers went down. Logged in to half having withered. I'm actually quite a bit upset. I'd have hoped that gardens would have been frozen or something.

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Hope is for the hopeless. It's a nice dream yet this issue has been going on for a very long time.

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Originally Posted by ManuelBravo

Hope is for the hopeless. It's a nice dream yet this issue has been going on for a very long time.

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Unfortunately, I didn't have an estate when this was first brought up *looks at the thread date* so I wasn't even really aware it was an issue. I should have known better. For how rare it is to have maintenance take more than 24 hours, that's probably why it's been dropped or forgotten. That and gardens don't wither [read: die] in a span of 24 hours either. Supposedly, in guides they say it takes 72 hours for a garden to die. RIP due to misinformation.

I am sorry about the gardens, yet I am still pleased time has passed if only for my 12 leve allowances (18 by time of log in).

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Unfortunately, I didn't have an estate when this was first brought up *looks at the thread date* so I wasn't even really aware it was an issue. I should have known better. For how rare it is to have maintenance take more than 24 hours, that's probably why it's been dropped or forgotten. That and gardens don't wither [read: die] in a span of 24 hours either. Supposedly, in guides they say it takes 72 hours for a garden to die. RIP due to misinformation.

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Everywhere I read said 72 hours. Lost a couple of million gil in blood peppers at least my ping is unchanged.

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Originally Posted by Shahdhch

I had some plants that survived this maintenance. I made sure to tend to them about fifteen minutes before we went offline. When I got back on this morning they were purple with the stink lines, but they did survive.

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Onions, Krakka Roots, etc will die in less than 48 hours. Onions go purple after 16 and I believe wither at 36.

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Originally Posted by ChiefDork

Everywhere I read said 72 hours. Lost a couple of million gil in blood peppers at least my ping is unchanged.

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Some of the longest ones will go that long, but sadly the more expensive ones usually have the shortest timers.