Gardening suggestions

[Pacifyer]

I am doing pretty much gardening now and I enjoy it. But there are several things that are annoying me.

1. First and the main thing is about gadreding being available only for FC housing. It should be definitely available for personal housing when it releases! While it was mentioned by producer, I am really looking forward to it!

2. I do not like the limitation on patches number. 1-3 patches are VERY limiting! Having in mind we are talking about them being available for the whole FC makes it VERY sad. But I think having 3 patches per personal house would be enough. But personally I would take care of 5 no problem.

3. RNG RNG RNG - remove that! I am talking about intercrossing now. Most of recipes should work 100%! I'm sick and tired spending tons of gil on soil/seeds (while I do gather most of them myself), then waiting 3-5 days just to get level 20 seeds for useless junk and common harvest that mostly sells for nothing. And to make amount of seeds enough for 1 decent patch I have to grow like 5-6 full patches of useless junk. That is significally worse for something really decent like Thavnarian Onion which will end up like a month to grow a single seed (starting from non-intercrossed seeds)

4. I don't know why there is a pick window for Fertilizer as there is only one available. Can you please just use one from inventory without unnecessary dialog? It is pretty annoying as it is.

5. While it is acceptable as it is - I would like to have some bulk actions available like "Tend All" and "Fertilize All". Don't blame me for trying to simplify things. When you do it often you really get bored and can miss some patch due to misclick or something.

[Lenne]

I am definitely on board with #2, though more for the reason that house size determines how many patches you can have. My FC has a small house. The size suits us, as only three of us really play and we enjoy the aspect of sharing a house. However, even though we have no need for more space, we really would like to upgrade to a mansion purely to eliminate the restrictions on furniture types, npc permits, and gardening patches. Will there be an opportunity for us to pay for an upgrade to bypass these limitations so we don't have to move to a mansion? (Not that there are any left on our server...) I don't think anyone likes these restrictions and if everyone plans to upgrade houses, how will this be possible when there are only three mansions per ward? We need more options for growth on the land we bought and love.

Also, regarding #5--If I'm remembering correctly, someone in the Japanese forums made a request to eliminate the scarecrow in the middle of the large patch and add a sprinkler that you could click to tend all plants. Provided the post was translated correctly, I thought that was a clever idea and would be on board for that.

[Kio]

I wish there was an examine plant option that would tell you how much longer until maturation, how much longer until the next fertilization would be, whom planted it with what soil and when, etc. It would be useful information when you needed it, and wouldn't require clogging up the Free Company dialogue.

[Pacifyer]

Also, regarding #5--If I'm remembering correctly, someone in the Japanese forums made a request to eliminate the scarecrow in the middle of the large patch and add a sprinkler that you could click to tend all plants. Provided the post was translated correctly, I thought that was a clever idea and would be on board for that.

Converting scarecrow into interactive object is a great idea. It can have some table-like interface displaying different kinds of info on plants and can also have bulk action buttons. The table may contain info like plant time/date, maturation time/date, info on seed/soil that have been planted, fertilize cooldown timer, last tend time/date etc.

[mcgoo94]

What youre basically saying is gardening is too hard, I'm lazy, and I want to make tons of more money with more plots. But I know that it won't be worth it because I know people are going to do the same and the items will decrease rapidly on the market board not making it worth it. These are, in my opinion, bad suggestions.

[Amnesia]

I wish there was an examine plant option that would tell you (...) how much longer until the next fertilization would be (...)

Yeah, I think it's really annoying that when you try to fertilize your plants and you don't have any fertilizer on you, it complains that you don't have fertilizer. So you go get some and then it says that you can't fertilize anyway because it's been fertilized too recently.

[Pacifyer]

What youre basically saying is gardening is too hard, I'm lazy, and I want to make tons of more money with more plots. But I know that it won't be worth it because I know people are going to do the same and the items will decrease rapidly on the market board not making it worth it. These are, in my opinion, bad suggestions.

I am saying it is a matter of equal opportunities. Not many people have exclusive access to their FC's garden for their own profit. And current mechanic makes it hard to share responsibilities between several people within a single FC - only FC log can help you but that one is really annoying both for spamming FC log and real usability.

Gardening will still be limited because of 1) gathering yield and 2) lack of competence and dedication from most of people.

But I sincerely think that seed prices are waaay over the sane level having in mind that the end result is mostly junk (not counting end tier seeds).