Future Plans for Gardening Plots?

For awhile gardening has been reduced to empty plots. Are there any plans to revive gardening?

I've been around many of the housing areas and most if not all the plots are just sitting there, empty. Can we have more options for gardening, some suggestions maybe crystals, clusters, rare items, anything?

Kittara Rayne

No more rare items please!

There's so many things those with gardens can grow for profit they don't need any more. I'd rather they Se implemented a flower pot system so that those with no house or FC gardening privilege can still grow stuff even if it's lower yield.

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Originally Posted by Kittararae

For awhile gardening has been reduced to empty plots. Are there any plans to revive gardening?

I've been around many of the housing areas and most if not all the plots are just sitting there, empty. Can we have more options for gardening, some suggestions maybe crystals, clusters, rare items, anything?

Kittara Rayne

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The gardens are probably empty because a lot of houses are essentially abandoned.

If active players owned them, you'd most likely see more things planted.

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Originally Posted by myahele

No more rare items please!

There's so many things those with gardens can grow for profit they don't need any more. I'd rather they Se implemented a flower pot system so that those with no house or FC gardening privilege can still grow stuff even if it's lower yield.

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"Let's neglect a feature of the game because some players are making money off of it." Let's delete gathering and crafting while we're at it. :rolleyes:

I don't bother with my gardens anymore because there's literally nothing I need from them. I can't grow any new HW mats.

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

"Let's neglect a feature of the game because some players are making money off of it." Let's delete gathering and crafting while we're at it. :rolleyes:

I don't bother with my gardens anymore because there's literally nothing I need from them. I can't grow any new HW mats.

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Talk about comparing extremes gardening =/= gathering/crafting

And with a "flower pot" (something that's been requested multiple times) gardening will be accessible to everyone.

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Originally Posted by myahele

Talk about comparing extremes gardening =/= gathering/crafting

And with a "flower pot" (something that's been requested multiple times) gardening will be accessible to everyone.

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Your only argument against adding new content for gardening is because some players are making gil off of it, which is absurd and selfish. And while adding a flower pot would be great, it should not be a mutually exclusive request. There's no reason we can't ask for new stuff while also asking for flower pots.

Not a single thing has been added to gardening since it was introduced - unless chocobo food/dyes came in a separate patch (I forget). I was expecting something exciting with Heavensward but not even any new seeds. When I saw new 'soils' appear in the gathering log I got my hopes up... Nope. =(

I wouldn't mind if I could just plant it up and keep watering the flowers once they bloom but even that's impossible as they die if not ripped out. You can't even water them after they reach harvestable size.

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Originally Posted by myahele

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I just want to say that, I have small FC made of friends irl (like 5).
We too have a gardening plot.

In the past, I have tried to grow rare items before.
The process is a painstakingly long. I had to constantly look up a crossbreeding charts/guides to see if I would get the desired outcome.
And because the Rare item yield is only 1--I think-- and having a small gardening bed; it felt more like a chore than a rewarding experience.

So when you say, "No more rare items please!" I think I understand where you are coming from.

I'm sure others may disagree with me. That is just my experience with gardening for rare items, nothing else.

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Originally Posted by myahele

No more rare items please!

There's so many things those with gardens can grow for profit they don't need any more. I'd rather they Se implemented a flower pot system so that those with no house or FC gardening privilege can still grow stuff even if it's lower yield.

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Actually no, since they made thavnairian onions drop from 2 or 3 quests in heavensward, the price of these items dropped dramatically and it was the biggest seller from gardening. Now garden owners are only limited to jute and glazenuts (as well as a couple minions that barely sell) and neither of them are amazing sellers since they are for mostly furniture.

Please give us more reasons to have a garden, SE.

My point when I started the thread was to just give us something to do with the garden plot besides take up space. As I said in my original post I'd be happy with anything and I'm all for a pot to plant in as well. I always liked having my flowers and plants growing in 11.

Hope something happens, because gardening has been neglected pretty much except for minions, chocobo food, chocobo coloring. Would really like to see something for everyone to enjoy as well.

I've been using gardening solely to get stuff for my choco - onions & food. I have all the onions I need and probably need 1 or 2 more batches of Krakka root to get my bird to level 20. After that time, I'll have zero need for the garden (or the stable for that matter). This is in bad need of additional content.

Gardening is fun, I wish they would add some kind of gardening log though that you can look through and see what crosses yield what plants, for ones that you've already achieved, kind of like the fishing log or something similar.

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

Your only argument against adding new content for gardening is because some players are making gil off of it, which is absurd and selfish. And while adding a flower pot would be great, it should not be a mutually exclusive request. There's no reason we can't ask for new stuff while also asking for flower pots.

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I'd also like to see the Grade 1 soil available more easily. It's bad enough that Grade 3 is on unspoiled nodes that no one farms anymore, shit's stupid expensive.

/is in charge of feeding our chocobos
/can't afford to keep buying soil

I agree, OP, we need something to do with our gardens again. Mines been empty for awhile... the price of fertilizer makes growing anything cost more than it's worth.

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Originally Posted by myahele

No more rare items please!

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Same thing could be said about airships.

I don't agree with either never getting rare items again. There are perks to having a FC house or a personal house. Just like there are perks to having a raid group, perks for having lots of gil(from gathering & crafting or playing the market), perks being in a FC that's helpful, perks for etc, etc. There's many ways to have an advantage over another player; that's just how it is on a MMO.

As for flower pots, I wouldn't be against the feature at all. But I suggest only having flower pots in personal rooms. Keep gardening within housing.

Hope SE add new plants in 3.1

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

I'd also like to see the Grade 1 soil available more easily. It's bad enough that Grade 3 is on unspoiled nodes that no one farms anymore, shit's stupid expensive.

/is in charge of feeding our chocobos
/can't afford to keep buying soil

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I hit the grade 3 soil nodes several times a day. I do our gardening and I feed our chocobos. It's not "stupid expensive" if you are smart enough to mine it yourself.

I wish watering the plants was less tedious. Watering 3 large gardens everyday is more of a chore than fun.

They should make it a single click for each garden, or make it so that the botanist retainer we have in our yard does something like tending the garden.

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Originally Posted by PotatoTree

I wish watering the plants was less tedious. Watering 3 large gardens everyday is more of a chore than fun.

They should make it a single click for each garden, or make it so that the botanist retainer we have in our yard does something like tending the garden.

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Interesting about botanist retainer,i want to see my DOW retainers train themselves by attacking the dummy (just auto atrack is fine enough !)

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Originally Posted by myahele

No more rare items please!

There's so many things those with gardens can grow for profit they don't need any more. I'd rather they Se implemented a flower pot system so that those with no house or FC gardening privilege can still grow stuff even if it's lower yield.

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You are wrong.
Gardening offers absolutely no rewards except a few minions that dropped in price a lot.

A year ago our FC gardening plot was always full, now no one bothers gardening because it is not worth it.
Gardening needs an update the same way as whole housing needs an update. :)

I have empty plots as I have nothing I need from it and don't bother to grow to sell anything because the effort is not worth it ie. gathering soils.

Well... MrHousing is gone... and thats the result!
Please com back WADA.

I'm a miner and I stopped gardening/gathering soils because there's nothing new and exciting about it. I already know what crosses with what to get what. I miss that discovery process.

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Originally Posted by Orspeth

I hit the grade 3 soil nodes several times a day. I do our gardening and I feed our chocobos. It's not "stupid expensive" if you are smart enough to mine it yourself.

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Mining isn't high enough.

Tried having our members gather it. They only do it when prodded and I got a grand total of 9 last time, three of which were thanalan.

Level your mining then, sell stuff on the way, have money for bird food seeds! The chocobos will be proud of you!

I also levelled carpenter and bot, so I could gather stuff to make my own stable brooms, sold stuff along the way, made money and it's very satisfying to take care of the beasties well.

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Originally Posted by meischoice

I just want to say that, I have small FC made of friends irl (like 5).
We too have a gardening plot.

In the past, I have tried to grow rare items before.
The process is a painstakingly long. I had to constantly look up a crossbreeding charts/guides to see if I would get the desired outcome.
And because the Rare item yield is only 1--I think-- and having a small gardening bed; it felt more like a chore than a rewarding experience.

So when you say, "No more rare items please!" I think I understand where you are coming from.

I'm sure others may disagree with me. That is just my experience with gardening for rare items, nothing else.

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A gardening log would be nice along and some more definite cross-breeding results. I don't know what SEs recent deal is with making every other item ridiculously scarce.

I'd love to try out gardening, but there isn't any land plots left on like any server and I don't have a FC with privileges to try it. I have to admit I'm hugely disappointed by the housing system. It just favors the rich, it's exactly like the Los Angeles housing market basically only without bakersfield level housing plots in the middle of nowhere.

Can we get more housing plots? Like a skid alley level poor people plots?