Suggestion: Potted plants

I have a problem with gardening as it is now. In a large FC, I can't garden because of the restrictions that are in place. I really want to work on getting the Mandragora pets, however my FC is focused on making Chocobo food.

My suggestion is a potted plant arrangement (big enough for cross breeding) for a personal chamber. It would allow some of us to grow what we want.

We'll probably be getting something like that when personal housing is released, but until then it would be a nice work-around.

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Originally Posted by Kiroh

We'll probably be getting something like that when personal housing is released, but until then it would be a nice work-around.

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I'd bet we will get our own gardens, but potted plants would work almost as well.

+1 for plant pots for personal rooms.

Yes they had this in FFXI and was nice. Would still be nice for those who will most likely not be able to afford the many millions it will cost for a personal house.

I am wholeheartedly behind this. Won't lie, I am married to Dragonflyy/Jasla, and this was an idea we have discussed at length in real life. Because as it stands right now, the major gardeners in our FC are all gardening to provide Chocobo Feed for the FC ---- and it's nowhere near enough feed and we don't have enough room to garden for pets, either. And gardening for the pets feels selfish, too.

All around, this is NOT a good thing for FC morality and friendship. Because there are going to be those people who maybe aren't into gardening or chocobo raising, but are pet collectors and want the Mandragora pets. OR those folks who are VERY into their Chocobo raising, and feel slighted that training items aren't accessible to them because there isn't enough to go around.

I really believe "Potted Plants" in rooms would be a great solution to this and it really needs to happen.

I like the idea of plant pots, absolutely! It can come in sizes of 1, 2, and 3 plots (for standard planting or crossbreeding) and have varieties for floor, tabletop, or wall planters as well!

I'd absolutely love to be able to garden in a private room - If I could then I would actually buy one!

Images for thought:

http://st.houzz.com/simgs/8161588202...d-planters.jpg
http://st.houzz.com/simgs/85c1eb0001...d-planters.jpg
http://st.houzz.com/simgs/bcc1759d02...d-planters.jpg
http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/ui...8-planters.jpg

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

I like the idea of plant pots, absolutely! It can come in sizes of 1, 2, and 3 plots (for standard planting or crossbreeding) and have varieties for floor, tabletop, or wall planters as well!

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Exactly! This was the thought I had in mind, too, and I think it would put a lot of versatility in gardening and make it a lot more fun. And it makes it so gardening is also a decorative thing, too.

100% agree. I don't blame FC's for only leaving gardening to certain people but it cuts a lot of members out of the option to do so. Not only that but if person 1 wants glaze nuts, person two wants broombrush and 5 others want krakka roots well.. theres not enough garden.. especially in a small where you only get one garden. Even if your fc just devoted to chocobo feed if its a large company it would be hard to keep to the demand. Many FC members don't have the option to garden and even the things being gardened usually go to the FC not to one personally so it seems important to add personal gardening to rooms, it was done in XI too and would give people more of a reason to spend that 300k on a personal room to grow their own glazenuts, minions, brushes ect. (especially with the amount of time required in cross breeding just to make some of the items you need for crafting)

while i agree, it should be limited to 1 or maybe 2 pots per personal house or room, if you can have lots of these per player, gardening will be meaningless as gathering is right now, because everyone can gather unlimited mats.

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Originally Posted by Renik

while i agree, it should be limited to 1 or maybe 2 pots per personal house or room, if you can have lots of these per player, gardening will be meaningless as gathering is right now, because everyone can gather unlimited mats.

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Correction, only those who pay the 300k fee for a bedroom would have access to gardening. And even then most things take 6 days to make and with crossbreeding, that's only the first step of many.

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Originally Posted by Kyri

Correction, only those who pay the 300k fee for a bedroom would have access to gardening. And even then most things take 6 days to make and with crossbreeding, that's only the first step of many.

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You can't have everyone growing unlimited plants, it would break the economy, actually gardening is the biggest source of gil for a FC, so yes, those who pay 300k for a bedroom or those who buy a personal house, you can't have everything for free.

Nobody was suggesting unlimited pots or anything like that. I, for one, do not think it would be unreasonable to allow different size planters up to a total of 8 slots. That way it's like each person having one gardening plot for themselves, that's it.

And yeah, gardening is a money maker right now....but so are a lot of other things. And players being gated out of various activities because a few guilds who want to use gardening to make cash are cornering the market on items and price gouging players is ridiculous. When Krakka root is going for 30k a piece on the market board, it's pretty bloody ridiculous. Don't even get me started on the pets.

i'm just saying you can't have more slots than the garden itself for every player, it should be enough to crossbreed, so lets say 2 per player, every house is limited on how much plants they can grow, 1 patch per small house, 2 medium, 3 big, this limitation is there for a reason. Also, i suggested rooms or personal housing because placing pots in a FC house would lead to the same, only leaders growing plants, an placing them in an inn room is absurd, it doesn't even have housing options, and it can't because it's not a housing area, the inn room server is not designed that way (not like i know, just guessing).

With 2 pots per room, and 2 pots + the patch for personal housing everyone with access to it will be able to grow pets, choco food and w/e they want, normalizing the prices but not breaking the economy, in the last live letter we saw they do care and control the economy, so they won't make something disproportionate like giving everyone 4-8 gardening pots.

A pot with 2 slots per room is a nice idea. I know people so broke personal housing will not be an option, they really don't care about gil :)