Provide a warning about garden crops dying during extended server downtime

[SimonRose]

I have 17 gardens, most of of which I use for crossbreeding. I take care of 64 plants and pay friends to take care of the rest. Today I came on to find 8 Glazenut plants, 4 Blood Pepper plants, and 8 Krakka's dead. All the rest were ready for harvesting.

So, I not only lost those plants, but the expensive Than 3 soil they were planted it, and any possible crosses I may have gotten.

My friends have not checked in with me on how much damage was done in their gardens, but one of them grows my end-result crossbreeds of Blood Peppers and Thavnairian Onions. Those will be expensive losses.

I think it's bullshit that SE doesn't just freeze garden progress during lengthy maintenance when we have no control over tending our gardens.

[AzhiDahaki]

I have 17 gardens, most of of which I use for crossbreeding. I take care of 64 plants and pay friends to take care of the rest. Today I came on to find 8 Glazenut plants, 4 Blood Pepper plants, and 8 Krakka's dead. All the rest were ready for harvesting.

So, I not only lost those plants, but the expensive Than 3 soil they were planted it, and any possible crosses I may have gotten.

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I think it's bullshit that SE doesn't just freeze garden progress during lengthy maintenance when we have no control over tending our gardens.

I agree, and wow, I thought I had it bad losing my one plot of 4 thav onions & 4 glazenuts. Obviously even highly experienced and responsible gardeners like you are negatively impacted by how downtime affects this gameplay mechanic.

[TarynH]

I have 17 gardens

You lost me at ridiculous. You'd think with that many assets, you would at least keep track of when maintenance will occur. Like checking the weather in real life; maintenance warning was your frost advisory. Also, if you're staying on top of that many gardens consistently, your loss would be the equivalent of dropping a quarter down a sewer grate.

Edit: The first notice for this data center move was 4/25/2017 at 7:45 AM.

[SimonRose]

You lost me at ridiculous. You'd think with that many assets, you would at least keep track of when maintenance will occur. Like checking the weather in real life; maintenance warning was your frost advisory. Also, if you're staying on top of that many gardens consistently, your loss would be the equivalent of dropping a quarter down a sewer grate.

Edit: The first notice for this data center move was 4/25/2017 at 7:45 AM.

Besides the ridiculous part, you are correct. I do keep track of everything, including maintenance, but I wasn't about to shut everything down 10 days early (Thav. Onions). So I took a chance, and lost. My gil loss was somewhere around 3 - 4 million in lost product and supplies. And again you're correct, that is like dropping a quarter down a sewer grate for me, but it doesn't lessen the fact that this should not be happening and SE should do something about it in the future.