Learn to put the game into stasis during maintenance, Square

So I thought I'd try my hand at some Thav Onions in my house gardens. It took two weeks or so to get enough crossbreeds for a plot full, then I planted them about 3-4 days ago as is... Not counting maintenance. And sure enough, even though I watered them right before servers went down, I logged in to a rotted garden. A million gil lost from this asinine oversight.

I have never in my life played an MMO that had time pass while servers weren't even running, and to log back in to this disgusted me enough to not even bother doing anything else. Literally the only way of avoiding this was "Don't touch your garden for an entire week" which is just as ridiculous, especially when there's no reasonable expectation that time would pass while it's not even online. Fix this in the future. Seriously.

Didn't they inform you in like a week advance that the servers are going down during this period?

I had a garden full of Jute that didn't die. I kinda felt stressed thinking that 48 hours of no tending would kill it off, but I made plans to have the crops tended immediately before servers went down, and made sure someone was available to water them again as soon as servers came back though.

its odd i also lost all 14 of my blood peppers (in my fc house) and 8 of my krakka roots, my midland cabbage (my personal home) was smoking but not dead. I even try ed logging in before midnight in hopes to catch them. while i am not upset over the loss of the krakka roots the loss of the blood peppers hurts. Is there anyway to refund the seeds if not the blood peppers themselves?

It was weird, I was planting stuff for Thav onions and most of my plants survived. Just my midland cabbages went bad but everything else was just smoking.

I logged in ASAP to save my jute, yep..

Unfortunately it's always been like this. Planting is a huge gamble with maintenance that long and should just be avoided. I would like to see it changed though, as you shouldn't have to worry about such things when no players have access to the server.

Lost all 3 one my gardens... one was a minion patch and another full of glazenuts :(

Glad I'm not the only one, although I only lost krakka at my personal house, and was able to save plants at my FC house for one of my FC mates. Shame that my FC leader's theory that plant timers were frozen during maintenance didn't pan out.

Wouldn't really work so well. ok when all the servers go down sure maybe no problems there, but when only a few go down if they stop the clocks on those servers they'd lose sync with the rest.

could end up with things like scrip resets being a few hours or day later on one server than the rest or something like that.

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Originally Posted by Melithalie

Shame that my FC leader's theory that plant timers were frozen during maintenance didn't pan out.

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Most likely they are frozen but when the servers come back online they sync back with the calendar and adapt them as if they were online while all that time passed.

Having only some things or everything frozen even after the servers come back online could do some funny things with lockouts. Especially when you consider things like some realms having extended maintenance or emergency maintenance. So while it's inconvenient it does make sense to have the servers act as if they were online during maintenance.

SE give a warning about wedding bookings but nothing about plants. An extra line about planting would be helpful.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

SE give a warning about wedding bookings but nothing about plants. An extra line about planting would be helpful.

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This. Pay attention SE. You probably discouraged every fledgling gardener whose hard-cultivated seeds were lost, and this at a time when so many new people are trying gardening while waiting for SB. Give us a warning when extended downtime will probably kill every crop of those who can't be online EXACTLY before servers go down and EXACTLY when they come back up.

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Originally Posted by Dzian

Wouldn't really work so well. ok when all the servers go down sure maybe no problems there, but when only a few go down if they stop the clocks on those servers they'd lose sync with the rest.

could end up with things like scrip resets being a few hours or day later on one server than the rest or something like that.

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Since the garden timers are all individual I don't think syncing them matters as much. The housing demo timers are offset by maintenance, no reason gardens can't do the same.

My hubby is a fairly new player with limited gil. He lost seeds during maint and is so mad he's canceled hehe. No MMO we have ever played doesn't stop time during maint. Bad game is bad. I reminded him to ask me about that stuff but oh well, he didn't.

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Originally Posted by Besame

No MMO we have ever played doesn't stop time during maint.

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Didn't realise this was common. Literally no mmo I played put anything in stasis while severs were offline, but they didn't have anything potentially delicate or expensive that required very regular attention like FF gardening does so no one really cared.

I have a garden but hardly use takes too much effort which I can make more money off crafting/gathering with same amount of effort.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

Since the garden timers are all individual I don't think syncing them matters as much. The housing demo timers are offset by maintenance, no reason gardens can't do the same.

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I'd say there could be plenty of reasons. For all we know, it's tied to all the same timers as leve/map/beast tribe allowances, squadron missions, ventures, etc.

Just seems weird from an outside perspective that the history of maintenance up til now hasn't taught anyone that timers keep ticking down during down time.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

I'd say there could be plenty of reasons. For all we know, it's tied to all the same timers as leve/map/beast tribe allowances, squadron missions, ventures, etc.

Just seems weird from an outside perspective that the history of maintenance up til now hasn't taught anyone that timers keep ticking down during down time.

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It's not weird, not everyone has been doing this as long as other people. I've started recently and I'm still learning so things like that can be overlooked easily. I'll definitely keep an eye out for timers but I wish SE would just freeze the plants while maintenance is happening