24h maintenance and gardens

[Wavytiger]

tending... since we don't water when it rains and pull weeds instead

[winxbloom61]

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.

full day is 24 hours so ur basicly say everyone will loes there plants by the time they log on even if they watered the plants 20 seconds before the game gone down the maitances is 25 hours you realize that has caused everyones plants to die right?
i fail to understand why not stop the crops and other elemental timers when people cant get on all timers should completely come to a stop for maitance if its cuz the limits on tombstones for the weekly or not

[Wavytiger]

full day is 24 hours so ur basicly say everyone will loes there plants by the time they log on even if they watered the plants 20 seconds before the game gone down the maitances is 25 hours you realize that has caused everyones plants to die right?

wither and dead plants are two different things

[winxbloom61]

wither and dead plants are two different things

um heres the thing wavy i know this but the game is coming up pretty late or early for alot of ppl for me it comes up at 1am so by the time i can log on and probely others plants are dead ;p
but thats not what i dont get wavy its the thing that timers keep going when the game is down for maintenance what are the npcs getting drunk and partying in the advanture guilds while the game is down time should completely halt since no one can get on

[RakaMaimhov]

Sadly, gardeners should have planned for this being a possibility in advance.

I feel bad for the inexperienced gardeners, or people who planted expensive crops too soon before the patch. I had 8 thav onions down in a gardening patch, fertilizing them as often as I could to get them up in time (which I did).

I really wish the whole "clock still ticking" thing would have been confirmed a lot sooner than after the servers went down.

[Jeykama]

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.

Yah this super-extended maintenance has demonstrated that the tend timer is too short. When there were only FC houses you could make the justification that there should be SOMEONE around in the FC who could help tend when the main gardeners were away. With personal housing, the solo individual can only look out for themselves if they want to keep an active garden, and individuals may not be able to consistently log in once a day or be able to stay up until midnight to last-minute tend, or wake up post 1am to save their wilting plants. Or hire someone to tend them I suppose.

It would be nice if the tending timer was increased to 48 hours before withering, and somewhat unrelated, it would be nice if fertilizing the plants automatically tended them as well.

[Malakai]

I fertilized and watered my onions and other plants before patch but there's been days where like 4 hours after fertilizing and watering them they go purple cloud mode... so yea >< I have a feeling i just lost the garden lol..

[aerolol]

What if they screw up with the patch and maintenance stuff and ALL CROPS die because they took longer than 25h to put the servers back up?

Not counting that some ppl with not-so-good internet connections may require 3 or 4 hours to just download the patch, which still isn't up after over 20 hours the servers have been shut down...

After you download the 3-4GB patch, you may get blessed with login servers congestion and it may take even more hours till you login.

By this time they will start emergency maintenance because that happens after ALL major patches and this one is even bigger.

They really dropped the ball on gardeners for this patch.

I'm glad for the first time in my life that i was feeling lazy this last week and didn't plant anything on the garden. >.<


Thank you SquareEnix for making my Procrastination level up =DD

[Wavytiger]

I imagine chocobo fruit since it grows fast and if you didn't tend the day before servers went down are the only ones that need to worry. most plants are 4 or more days to grow and wont die until being ignored 48 hours. I'm sure there will be dead plants and there will be threads complaining, but most of us I think should be just fine.

[Nicobo]

sigh... every plant turned into purple already make me feel sad upon logon. ^^;
btw some ppl said plant only can have max. 3times of "purple" condition, is that true?