Make garden plots available on islands.

[Jojoya]

I have access to a single plot. In the past I had access to three and I put the tanta in the corners and let them sparkle and planted either old world figs or kukuru between them.

If you're leaving the Tantalplants in place, you'd be better off just using 3 instead of 4. Place them in the top corners then one in bottom center (or bottom corners and one in top center). That way each bed will have an adjacent Tantalplant to cross with but you'll have 5 potential seeds to harvest instead of 4.

[tsuchii]

I tried it once and gave up. I just do voiddrakes now. No maintenance, low income. It's good as side gil but nothing remarkable.

[Themarvin]

I think it would be a good idea for people to be able to use Island Sanctuary for that... and also.. reducing the incomes on actual gardens.

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

Since the vast majority of us will never get a house, even with the new wards, you should allow garden plots to be placed on our islands so we can grow our own Thavnarian onions and other things.

Only the best players can get a house, the garden is the reward for our effort.

[Eraden]

Mao wonders what the fuss is over Thavnarian onions. Thems dirts cheap on Mao's world. Almost to point where is not worth effort to grows them anymore. Mao thinkings only peoples who would enjoys gardening for sake of gardening would bother to grows onions at this point. (This post was done in RP mode for those who might be confusled.)

[Themarvin]

Only the best players can get a house, the garden is the reward for our effort.

Not really, I am not quite awesome...and I got a large plot... I also run a small FC in a medium plot.... I see no reason in why we should be able to make millions on the gardens or the workshop by selling higher end materials needed for ships and submarines.

[Gserpent]

You know why they are "expensive"? Its not because they arent enough plots to produce them. Its because its f****** annoying to raise and crossbreed them. One day you arent log in and groom them and 2 weeks progress is wasted. Thats why nobody bothers beside enthusiasts to grow more to reduce the prices.

People who wants gardening plots simply have no idea how lackluster the gardening feature is. It begins from the crossbreeding till the most annoying menue you will ever see in FF14. They should ask a friend to be a tenant or in the FC to take care for the patches for 1 month. Believe me most players will neglect it after one week.

It blows my mind that Yoshida has said that he wants it to be okay to take breaks, meanwhile if you take 25 hours off from the game, your crops *die.* Just do the Stardew Valley thing and they just stop growing until they're tended. Crops dying because you took a break (or, hell, just had a busy week at work or something) is absurd.

But gardening is abandonware. Like many other things in XIV (gold saucer), it's something that was added to the game and then wholly abandoned afterwards. I wonder if it's a Chocobo Racing thing where it was literally just one person that had anything to do with it, that person got promoted/moved, and now there's no one to do it in their absence.

[Nepentha]

It blows my mind that Yoshida has said that he wants it to be okay to take breaks, meanwhile if you take 25 hours off from the game, your crops *die.* Just do the Stardew Valley thing and they just stop growing until they're tended. Crops dying because you took a break (or, hell, just had a busy week at work or something) is absurd.

But gardening is abandonware. Like many other things in XIV (gold saucer), it's something that was added to the game and then wholly abandoned afterwards. I wonder if it's a Chocobo Racing thing where it was literally just one person that had anything to do with it, that person got promoted/moved, and now there's no one to do it in their absence.

Simple solution to the crop thing. If you know you're going to be gone for a bit or maintenance is coming up, drop them into storage. Yoink them back out when you return/game comes back up and voila. Not dead.

Also I had no idea either of those things were abandoned. They do tend to them every so often with new things. New gates, new seeds, etc.

[Iscah]

It blows my mind that Yoshida has said that he wants it to be okay to take breaks, meanwhile if you take 25 hours off from the game, your crops *die.*

If you chose to plant crops, then presumably you weren't on the verge of taking a break from the game.

If you want a break, don't start on something that needs constant in-game attention.

(And no, your house is not a thing that needs constant attention either. Even with the demolition timer active, your sub only needs to be one month on, one-and-a-half months off.)

[Gserpent]

Simple solution to the crop thing. If you know you're going to be gone for a bit or maintenance is coming up, drop them into storage. Yoink them back out when you return/game comes back up and voila. Not dead.

Also I had no idea either of those things were abandoned. They do tend to them every so often with new things. New gates, new seeds, etc.

Adding a seed that's a single step and doesn't actually interact with any elements of the system isn't really adding new content. You can grow allagan melons in flowerpots. Actually adding something to gardening would be a multi-stage process involving crossbreeding.

When's the last time they added a GATE? Adding a map to Leap of Faith doesn't count, that's not actually new content.