It’s part of the problem. But you can’t ignore the fact that, at much user outcry, they made farming not only sustainable but scalable with no external input or effort after setup.
You literally could not regen farm exo yams and sell them for 3c without either taking a huge coin loss, or farming mats/crafting tools/forging tools/harvesting ingredients/crafting food/farming the yams 100% solo and then ending up with basically nothing to show for all of that.
Compare those hours (or coin equivalent) to amortizing your farm setup time over 100 harvests at a 900 plant farm that generates both extra seed and 900 crops in a couple of hours. Several times per day if you have the playtime.
What’s that, a total community investment into farming 900 yams on an existing farm is nothing but maybe an hour of playtime? I haven’t farmed, even if it’s two hours vs the entire food and tool chain required to gather them from the wild, or a regen farm, there’s no equivalence.
I realize there’s a lot of love for farming sims. But it’s definitely not the whole story.
I’m not even saying it’s a bad thing. The largest effect on me personally from the change to yams particularly is cheaper food so, yay?
Though I still probably have more persisting pies from before the farming release than some players will ever use lol…
Less gathering and regen farming = less food and tool consumption = less market share for merchants and crafters and forgers = overall less actual economic activity and people who want to grind a farm sim vs a gathering game wind up minting their produce.
So the cooks and crafters and forgers and regen farmers fade out and that has a hard impact on players in EVERY profession, bringing us to a self reinforcing paradigm of a dead economy and needing to do everything yourself to get to a little bit of the part of the game that you enjoy.
Anyways I’d like to say this is sort of a side factor for me, a bit of discussion. I don’t personally want to play this kind of farming sim so on the surface it seems like i could ignore it. But as the impact spills out across the game and the fledgling economy, it definitely affects us all.
IDK not trying to be argumentative I’m enjoying the conversation, so there’s that.
Yep.