[Devs] Please clarify

[Koroem]

I have concerns here too. If the yield is small, and the FC is medium to large, the greens get handed out based on how the FC operates. 90% of the time this will mean whoever the FC leader, or "gardener" is gets to decide, and they will choose their "inner circle" or best friends first. Without information, this system sounds like its already set up to rip FC's apart and start displacing people who feel like they are being ignored or excluded from their FC choices and actions. In my case I recently joined a large FC. I'm obviously going to be at the bottom of any inclusion lists, but my choco has been rank 10 for months and I don't want to be told I have to wait weeks/months to get my turn at increasing my choco rank. I don't want to have to turn to the overpriced market board either...

Without more information I'm already feeling annoyed at how this could potentially play out.

[dcdistro]

To be fair, it makes sense fruits/vegetables would be from gardening - It would be a bottleneck to get certain results if it came from other events, especially dungeons - No one wants a repeat of the previous update Hard Modes and how it dropped crafting mats over tangible gear.

At least, I wouldn't like to run stone vigil and get a tomato for my hard work. It'll be fine, yoshida clearly doesn't want everything to be FLOODED the second the patch goes live.

you don't need to do dungeons there are hourly nodes for example prickly pineapples, dezmel tomatoes... etc that you can get certain harvest-able goods from as well as the seeds for growing them. We just would hope that SE didn't overlook the idea of trying to grow enough food for we will say 300 people to be able to feed the chocobo daily.... they said u can feed once an hour... so that is a lot of food!! gardening takes several days to grow feed/tend harvest from so if u get 100 pieces of food per garden and lucky enough to have a large house that is 300 pieces of food every few days its not much... i am just saying i hope they didn't bottleneck and limit options

[Lokark]

Weren't glazenuts and those other things gardening only as well ?I'm sure this stuff will be the same way. They'll be widespread eventually. Just give it time

[dcdistro]

glazenuts were not required for every person to use once an hour to feed a pet though.. it took over a month for anyone to even discover the right recipes. and on our server they are still around 200k a nut... something people dont want to be feeding every hour for a chocobo...

[Alukah]

Weren't glazenuts and those other things gardening only as well ?I'm sure this stuff will be the same way. They'll be widespread eventually. Just give it time

That's the thing, people will use pet food every hour, unless each seed bag gives a substantial amount (unlikely) if they go with the standard 12 you can only harvest 96 with a small house every few days, a small FC of 16 players will only get 6 per player every few days when you can burn those 6 in a single day, now imagine a medium FC with a small house....

And doing this also locks you out from gardening other stuff.

[Gerolan]

Ya our FC is worried about it too, as we do have a medium house but the garden plots are always in use, and the thought of dividing it between everyone to grow choco food is worrying to say the least.
It would all be ok if gardening plots were per person, so each can grow their own.a bit like each person can use stables to raise their choco.
Of course we do not know full details yet so I'm hoping they planned for this and it won't be some item that costs 300-500k per item on MB

[HaelseMikiro]

I foresee Gridanian Soil (that's the one that increases crop yield right?) becomeing VERY popular, very soon

[AttacKat]

The following items can now be obtained through gardening

Bad planning, or the lack of, on SE's part; unless personal housing is right around the corner; which we have no words on it.

8 plant per harvesting cycle (days) for 512 members? It will take 4-6 months before you get your turn. Your chocobo will be dead by then.

[Wavytiger]

got 144 krakka roots in 2.5 days from 8 plants

[dcdistro]

thats not so good at all!!! we have over 50 chocobo's in our stables and if we grew all 3 large gardens it took us 3 days for harvest... 144 / garden > 432 carrots thats a max of 8 carrots in 3 days you can feed and train it once a day... not including time to harvest soil, feed, tend etc... and thats with only 50 in the stables. If you want to trya nd make the others seeds and foods they will starve