300 starberries in two hours? Ouch. Also I want to vote, but can’t. 
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Exactly…
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This. 100% this.
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I see it all a little differently! The game is not an internet browser game - some waiting times have been too long! … The shortest time should be 24 minutes and the longest 4 days maximum! What comes next? Buy small boxes in the shop so that the waiting times shorten?
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I’m already totally bummed out when I need to mass produce Ancient vital essences and it takes 12 hours to make a mass-craft. Urgh.
Can’t imagine seeing "yeah, you planted so expensive cr@p, see you next week! 
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If this was a game with a mandatory World-of-Warcraft-like subscription to play, I’d understand the need to make us wait… but in a game where you can play without the Gleam Club… meh.
So if taking care of a small farm takes 5 minutes, but it’s a high tier item which takes 7-14 days, how is that impacting it ‘being a game.’ It’s 5 minutes out of your standard gameplay every day.
There are so many things in this game that take time to do. You don’t get to build marvelous cities and builds and pieces of art in a few days. You have to harvest the resources first. You have to then build materials. Then you have to plan out your build and actually do that work. Then you have to chisel and more to perfect your build.
I just do not see the difference in a timer being over the course of days if you only need to give it a few minutes of care daily.
It does not detract from it being a game or being joblike to me. I do find all the work it takes to build to be joblike, which is why I don’t do much of it, also I suck at creating designs to build.
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I have been playing Minecraft for quite a few years and find the times really good there! In Boundless it was very annoying in the beginning, if you had to wait from time to time to continue building! But: I got used to it! … But if I have to wait weeks now, it will be corrosive!
Unless they want to do it like in Harvest Moon - water and maintain! For some, that would be quite a fun extension! But then the yield would have to be big enough! If you let the plants grow easily and do not care about them, the yield should be lower!
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I think this is what a lot of us are thinking and would like also, but the dev team stated in the past they want to introduce a totally new way of farming, something different and unique so we will see!
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I strongly believe that the amount of time you put into growing your own will be alot less then spending the full 2 hours breaking blocks, Therefore for people who want to, for example only spend 15 mins of active time setting it up, and don’t mind waiting a few days for the result, will see this as a bonus.
If for some reason the design of this system is such the case where that the amount of effort put in is equal to the effort put into breaking blocks, then there is little bonus outside of it being more convenient, and it gives the player the choice of which they prefer to do.
It is also possible that there may be other bonuses to farming that we are not even considering, and if that turns out to be the case, then that can also change the out come of
.>> „Many boundless players ask the question; “Izzet worth it to grow old items?” “ <<
I will finalize my responses with the following,
I am not fully against existing items, having a sub 1 day time to grow, thou I would not prefer it, if it enables exponential growth.
But for anything new that is added with this update and from now on out, The new stuff I feel should take at least 1 day to grow.
But once again, with the amount of information I have. I can not come to a factual conclusion about the situation and therefore. My responses are based on how I think and feel the system will/should be designed, based on my what I know from the farming systems in, Minecraft, Stardew Valley and World of Warcraft. and then formatting that in a way I think is reasonable for an MMO enviroment. which could be 100% wrong. Because No Info.
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I am oddly okay with the top two times for fastest and slowest growing crops. 24 minutes and 1 hour for fastest works fine for me. 1 week and 1 day works out as well. I have a lot of stuff going on during each day so it works out nicely. I did originally want 1 hour and 8 hour (since 12 hour wasn’t an option).
I just want more content in the game at this point.
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I hope it will be good too! But we all hope so! 
If it is oriented in the direction of the old Harvest Moon games, they will attract with absolute certainty also new players!
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Oh sure, it takes time to build and harvest things, but it’s time spent actively doing things, clicking, moving, searching.
Having to wait for a machine to produce something is completely different.
And it feels terrible when you’re building something, and you suddently find out “oh, I need to make more of this item to keep building” but then : 12 hours of production in the machine, and you have NO WAY to make it go faster right this moment, and it blocks your progression.
You were pumped and ready to keep building, but you got forced to stop because of some arbitrary duration.
Well, this is the exact situation I got myself into yesterday.
I’ll be honest, if the devs add a consumable I can buy with the cubits I collect over time to make a machine queue finish instantly its work, I’d take it.
Ok I totally understand and agree with you on the waiting part. That would be garbage. The process that I was talking about (let’s be honest have no real clue what things are going to be like right now) but for those who barely wanted to farm, they’d be able to with just a bit of care, right? For those who would really prefer and enjoy the farming aspect, of it was more engaging by doing things like fertilizing, tilling, watering, and who knows what other mini games that could be created for the system itself, would that be something more interesting and fun long term then? Assuming farming is something you would enjoy spending a lot of time on if it was designed in such a way.
I’ll be glad when they give us more info on how the system is going to work so we don’t have to speculate 
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Oh sure, I’m already preparing to make some farming spots in my build, and I’ll make proper irrigation, with water canals and aquaducts. That’s the kind of game activity I find fun.
But if the good crops take more than a week to grow, I’ll definitely be bummed out.
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Some people seem to be missing the idea that it’s not the wait time that is the issue, it’s the lack of short term rewards. That sounds like the same thing, but it’s not.
The issue is gear. More specifically, that Boundless doesn’t have any. When you play and MMO or an MMO light (looter shooter) like Division or Destiny there is an instant reward loop. You go out, do the mission, get back and go through all of your new gear. Some you break into mats or sell, but others you use and they make you instantly more powerful, if only by a little.
That’s game loop. That’s what hooks players for long term play…and Boundless doesn’t have one.
That’s the problem. That’s what people like me are hoping farming will fix. So that every time you log off from the game you feel like you have made real progress…not just spent the day preparing for your next session of preparing.
You need to give new players instant gratification that isn’t just “oh, more ash yam”. Give them better gear, cool in-game cosmetics…or a crop of something VALUABLE you were able to harvest before you went to bed.
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That’s the problem, you’re talking about two entirely different gaming populations.
Instant gratification seekers vs those who enjoy ‘work’ towards progress. I dont play any of those instant gratification games because I do not enjoy them for that very reason.
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Nonsense. Use one of my examples.
The Division.
Every time you play The Division there is instant gratification. There is always better gear, you always feel like you are getting more powerful.
Or I used to play ESO. That was the same thing. You ALWAYS felt more powerful when you logged off then when you logged on. And it didn’t matter if you played for five minutes or five hours.
That’s why you always come back to long-term games. Instant gratification coupled with long term reward.
So either embrace the Minecraft concept or embrace the MMO concept. But trying to straddle the two is giving us the worst of both.
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Well, take a game like Overwatch. The instant-gratification is only cosmetic, and it works fine.
I’m not looking forward to Boundless having gear with affixes like World of Warcraft and other MMOs. The game is already waaaay too dense with all the forge affixes on chisels, weapons, bombs and stuff.
The main thing that makes Boundless stand out compared to other MMOs would be the building aspect, and that’s fine with me.
HOWEVER, I’m totally looking forward to Boundless having cosmetic armor/clothing, to be able to dress-up my hunter like a fighter, and my builder like a noble civilian. :3
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But is not Boundless the same for builders? I only bought it for release because I also used Minecraft! Every time I go offline I had a few lvl ups and more cubits or I finished a new building! 
i got more than before!
But…we don’t have in game cosmetics.
I probably sound like I’m down on this game that I love, but with each update I keep hoping they will finally add a gameplay loop and it just never happens.
Again, if building is the thing…why would they play this over Minecraft? Everything in Minecraft takes ten times less time.
If being an MMO is the thing, what are the short term fixes that keep you coming back for more?