Gardening Issue with Chocobo Raising

[Niqote]

So in other words, something else XI did better. I think in their path to "being as different from XI as possible" they seem to forget that XI did certain aspects so much better they seemed to step backwards rather that forwards in regards.

Keep in mind this is Chocobo raising, not breeding. Dear Altana... I mean Nophica... please let breeding be far, far better thought out then this.

*taps fingers on desk waiting for servers up so she can get some facts*

[Lumidus]

Is this just a way to make your companion level faster?

[Zumi]

Is this just a way to make your companion level faster?

You have to use the raising system if you want to go past rank 10 to a max of rank 20.

[Kanzaki0]

Is this just a way to make your companion level faster?

Yoshida said it would help with the chocobo "something" so it will have some effect in the Gold Saucer.

[TomTom1968]

Just reading patch notes and....

Magicked Stable Broom x20
Glazenut
Broombush
Bamboo Stick x5
Wind Cluster
Ice Cluster

Does this mean each craft yields 20 brooms? This feels like a one time use only item. What will be the time frame when we have to clean? Once a day? Once a week? Once a month?

Yuck. I have over looked this part in the Patch notes. So you need to know how to produce Glazenuts to raise your Choccobo? LOL. To raise your Choccobo you need to be a Gardener and a good crafter? Loosing interest in a Level 20 Choccobo more and more. I think I will respec my birdie and leave it at Level 10.

[Jeykama]

The knowledge to produce glazenuts and broombush have been out for a long time. If your FC has a house but no interest in gardening or crafting then the brooms and feed will be on the AH in due time while we figure out how to crossbreed the new things.

[Welsper59]

The knowledge to produce glazenuts and broombush have been out for a long time. If your FC has a house but no interest in gardening or crafting then the brooms and feed will be on the AH in due time while we figure out how to crossbreed the new things.

It's still a rather unreasonable thing to expect though, given the demand that they'll have and the fact that they take a LONG time to make. Especially when it seems like it's just to make a quickly consumable item. I'm hoping that the crossbreed changes they've made involves these goods, because as is, spending almost 1mil (on servers) just for 20 brooms isn't exactly reasonable.

I don't mind the idea of gardening for these goods that are generally going to be in extremely high demand (due to somewhat necessary use), but only if the wait time is acceptable. 2 days of gardening (without fertilizer) seems like a decent wait period. 4+ days of constant fertilizing (otherwise over a week of waiting), which is what it is/was, just to achieve several yields is not good design. You save that for the optional (but certainly worthwhile) items, not for the goods that will prevent a nerf. However, I suppose it isn't a very big deal if cleaning the stables, regardless of the amount of stabled Chocobos, doesn't need to happen more than once or twice a week. That's also assuming it isn't as long or costly to obtain those Glazenuts and Broombush.

[BobbinT]

So in other words, something else XI did better. I think in their path to "being as different from XI as possible" they seem to forget that XI did certain aspects so much better they seemed to step backwards rather that forwards in regards.

Bit OOT here, I haven't spending gardening in XI much time. Only tried few times and resulting some garbage stuff that I npc most of them. I wonder if Mog garden there has intercrossing feature too, since if I recall that it only has like 3 garden patch to plant stuff.

[Haneul]

Magicked Stable Brooms confirmed for consumable, as tested by a crafter in our server.

Now the question really is how long does it take for a stable to become filthy.

Speaking as the only gardener in my FC who breeds (and by ONLY gardener, I mean I am also responsible for mining the Grade 3/Grade 2 Thanalan Topsoil AND the Unspoiled Node seeds, AND the only one who fertilizes them, meaning that's a full-time responsibility and I want to do other things too, you know), breeding into Glazenut is a time-consuming process, and if people actually helped and cooperated (haha yeah right) would maybe take about 2 weeks or less.

As it stands, it's just not feasible right now to even train chocobos until a more reasonable way to clean it has been made accessible. That's just my opinion, though.

I mean I guess you could let your chocobos wallow in filth and keep using the stables. There's always that.

[Souljacker]

This is.... disappointing. I'm already overworked putting together things for the guild's crafting, and now everyone is going to be on me to get their stupid chocobo stuff grown - SE IT'S TOO MUCH!

Either add personal gardens SOON or change the things needed for these chocos. This system would have been interesting and great if it was a personal system, but I'm sick of working for everyone else's benefit and I'm very close to just telling them all to go pound salt. I don't think that this level of discord is what you wanted your systems to bring about in people, but that's what is happening as you make more and more content exclusively accessible (and therefore necessary to be produced by) the top tiers of FC leadership.

The whole thing is just terribly implemented, but I'm starting to expect that from this game.