Island Sanctuary feels intentionally slow and inefficient.

[Deveryn]

Island sanctuary is not without it's problems, (island coweries are next to useless, nothing can be bought with them that can't be found easier elsewhere, and seafarer coweries are rather difficult to accumulate) but overall it's a great addition to the game. it's a different style of content to what we've gotten before. it's a piece of content that keeps be occupied when i'm not doing battle content and it's something that will keep me occupied as a slowly build up my sanctuary over the next few weeks.

The dyes and materia are useless to those of us that have been here for a while. Newer people might find it more useful. Down the road, I'm opting for getting my dyes with this currency over any other method. Perhaps the next pentameld attempts will also require a stop here.

[Wyssahtyn]

Thus far the workshops won't do anything unless I manually gather every item they need to do things with.

I've just unlocked the granary so perhaps that will be better for acquiring materials. But up to this point there's been very little timegating and a whole lot of "this won't progress until you do it all by yourself".

Also, the mammets are obnoxious.

Granaries are horrifically inefficient at gathering normal mats as compared to just going out and getting them yourself, and their only real use is in the rare materials you can only get through them, two of which are required for rank 3 renovations to the workshop/granary. As far as I can tell they're just a blue cowrie sink when our income of them is bad enough as it is lol, at least in the beginning of the season, maybe the six hour crafts after you get your groove up will have better cowrie yields.

[xenahawk]

Not sure what you might have expected? I dont think it has anything to do with not respecting players time but more to do with the fact that they dont want people to rush an do it all then complain because there isnt more. As far as it goes with being dusconnected from the rest of the game pretty sure the mentioned that at least during the last live letter if not other times too. I get it. Personally i would like to "no life" stuff when i can and feel like im making progress 10 points per node i wouldnt call time gated. Might not be much but its something, but thats just my 2 cents and im someone who just flew around deadium for hours on end gathering stuff just because i wanted to be in game and didnt have anything else going on, lol

[RyuDragnier]

Imagine, complaining that a time sink like Animal Crossing is...a time sink. You knew what you were signing up for.

[Greyhawk]

It has been repeated I don't know how many times by SE - don't expect this to be anything fast. Don't expect this to be competitive. Don't expect housing. Don't expect too much out of this. Don't expect, don't expect, don't expect.

And some of you are expecting exactly what they told you not to.

Mind blowing. Really.

[Rolder50]

Imagine, complaining that a time sink like Animal Crossing is...a time sink. You knew what you were signing up for.

Imagine, people thinking that the time sink with actual engagement and customization options is better then Island Sanctuary.

[Packetdancer]

Crop growth is slow period. Even some housing crops take a week to grow depending on what it is. Would probably suggest just getting used to that.

*stares into the distance with the haunted look of someone who mass-produces Thavnairian onions for her FC*

[Packetdancer]

I'm trying to give it some time, but so far a lot of it feels pointless. I have zero idea what I'm aiming for or what the connections/benefits to the rest of the game will be if any.

I got a really nifty treehouse that I can sit in and craft raid food and pots while enjoying the pleasant scenery. This is a nice change of pace from the previous two tiers, where I would climb to the top of Kugane Tower to craft raid food and pots; I'll call it a benefit in my book.

(On a somewhat alarming side note, I was not the only person that insane; I still have three people on my friends list who I would find up there on top of the tower doing the same thing.)

[Moerser]

"I have zero idea what I'm aiming for or what the connections/benefits to the rest of the game will be if any."

Well, i enjoy cuddlin the animals and strocke the furry wall...just incase somebody slips me a jeffrey.
Ever heard of Zoo Tycoon?
Those green smileys above the animals...those smileys...i can still see them.

Greetz o/

[Valfreyja]

How can people not get this is meant to be casual content? It's not meant to be efficient or anything. And it's all inter-related.

If the Granaries give more items per day, the following happens:
1. Green shell vendor items will increase in price to keep things balanced.
2. Renovations, Construction, and Handicrafts will all require more materials, again to keep things balanced.

Same reason animals give 1-2 items per day and that's it. And why we are limited to the number of Produce items we can harvest in a day.

It's all balanced and it all is balanced really well. You get a variety of items from the granary for doing NOTHING at all.

Besides which, the Granary is meant to give Rare resources. It's not meant to be used to farm up other stuff. Those are just passive bonuses to get those high value handicraft materials.