Quote Originally Posted by Nepentha View Post
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.