In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[StouterTaru]

I don't understand why people spend ANY overhead within the context of gardening. I make bank, but I farm every seed and soil.

My retainers farm them for me, except for unspoiled node seeds. Whether you call it overhead or not, you're using a decent amount of time and materials that you could have sold.

[Abelfei]

you're using a decent amount of time and materials that you could have sold.

Not really. Each node takes 30 seconds, and spread the amount needed throughout 5 days, which is the average cycle, it's not much at all. Some nodes can get up 15 seeds each gather cycle, opposed to some are 1. And the materials you " could've sold " is a moot point, cause when interseccting seeds, you are upgrading your value on each cycle, for example growing blood peppers or glazenuts. You could sell the old world fig and prickly pineapple for 10k each, or intersect them to blood pepper and glazenuts for anywhere from 125-300k. So we've dismissed the time argument cause it is minimal, now we've dismissed the " materials you could have sold " because all they did was up their value exponentially. And while time can in a way be considered overhead, it doesn't affect the bottom line because you didn't spend any gil. They grown on their own, minus the watering.