So - what is going to happen to our gardens / crops during 25h extended maintenance?!

[HEC-]

With many plants going bad in range of 14 - 16 hours and most resilient ones up to 24 hours this must be certainly concern for many of avid gardeners out there. I personally have currently in ground crops worth of tens of millions gils and while I'll aim to tend them just before the maintenance starts as well as to log back in right after it ends I can't be sure that they'll will survive that long or that something will not happen prohibiting us to login on time - either IRL or some issues with update or log in rush after and so on. And surelly not everyone will be able to do the same so they're guaranteed to loose their crop due to that!

Is SE planing to address this by reseting / "freezing" garden timers or to prevent the dissater to happen in any way? If not - there will be a LOT of angry and dissapointed players out there ...

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Time cannot pass while a server is not running.

[Aura_Shurifon]

You can just water your crop just before the maintenance, they can survive more than 24h on themselve

[HEC-]

Time cannot pass while a server is not running.

I seriously doubt that's the case here. Based on my own observations and detailed gardening and chocobo raising and colouring logs I'm pretty sure the whole system runs based on real time clock rather than some "server ticks" which means that once the servers will be back on it will add the passed time to status of all plants and they'll be (almost) dead

[Ulathskullsplitter]

Just an FYI but there was a 4 page thread on this yesterday.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2524528

[dragonflie]

Your plants only die if you don't water them for 48h. I tested it myself trying to let one die.
If you can't water them after maint, try asking a friend/fc/ls to check on them.