We’ve putting in the initial balance for the farming update and we’d like to get input from the community about how long everyone feels the crops should take to grow. What’s the fastest and what’s the slowest? Some crops are entry-level for new players. Some crops are high-end for experienced players.
The following survey questions are referring to real life durations, so 1 day means you’ll need to come back the following day to get your harvest. Crops will obviously continue to grow whilst you’re offline. These times are durations from planting seeds to harvesting crops.
We’re interested in the range from the fastest growing durations for the entry-level crops to the slowest durations for the high-end crops. Don’t worry about the prestige plants which are a special case.
We’re keeping the responses private until we have 100 responses.
How long should the fastest entry-level crop reach maturity?
24 minutes
1 hour
2 hours
4 hours
8 hours
1 day
2 days
4 days
1 week
2 weeks
4 weeks
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How long should the slowest high-end crop reach maturity?
This should be almost instant IMO. 24 minutes is way too long for the most basic crop.5-15 mins MAX for the most basic crop.
Please keep in mind…“entry level players” are basically play-testing & deciding whether or not they will invest time in the game & tell their friends about it. Waiting 1/2 an hour for wheat (or whatever it will be) is too long.
I can’t really answer since we have no idea how it works in the end, we don’t know what products we can receive, how many do we get per plant or what the atmospheres have to do with it.
I’d hate to do a farming run on 9 different planets every 2 hours, if that’s what’s required to make a decent amount of X. But I’d also hate if I had to wait a week to get just a few X with a huge farm.
24 mins must have a reason, we could be deluded in tier 1 items? Maybe if we understood the rationale there it’s be easier to get behind. I also think 10-15 mins would be max ideally but perhaps there is a reason and it’s help if they told us why.
It all depends on what we will get in the end. 4 days and 1 week in my opinion if the reward is worth it
Do not forget that the players will build a HUGE farms.
I agree, i think yields play a big part in how long the plants should take. But maybe they plan to base yields on how long we want to wait between harvests
I think the hardest ones could be a “daily”, but make it 20h instead of 24 so your daily variances don’t mess it up immediately.
The easiest could be as you said closer to 5min, I was put off a bit in the beginning with all the 10min crafting times, but nowadays 10 minutes is a blazing fast speed.
I see a lot of people wanting near instant gratification of these things but I think that a longer period would be better. That’s of course if the yield was commiserate with the time/effort.
Perhaps there could be an option to extend the growth time if you wanted to increase the yield and efficiency.
I enjoy playing farming games. I enjoy real life farming and gardening. I’d really prefer if we didn’t get a mobile-lite FarmVille-esque version of farming but the masses want what they want.
so a lot of ppl don’t participate in that part of the game.