This is new to all of us and many have questions. I don’t have any answers, sorry, but do have some suggestions. And yeah, I know I can’t seem to say things in few words. sorry.
Don’t get frustrated and quit too early. This is a learning experience. In some ways I’m glad that it wasn’t made real easy, dig a hole, toss a seed, pour some water and harvest three days later and get three crops and two seeds for each plant.
What we got is something that will have us thinking of what we need, how we should set it up, find a design/layout that we will like an fits our needs. We get to use our brains.
We get to experiment, try designs that can be functional and appealing to us.
We can see it as a challenge, as a way to do something extra and not count on it for the main source of our food items and what we gather, or that is how I saw it and still see it.
Yes, if you want to make a huge farm and spend all your time working it, planting, growing, harvesting, selling your excess you can and should make a profit.
However, It shouldn’t be that we can toss out some seeds and get a huge bounty and flood the market which can help or hurt, depending.
Right now, the amount of seeds we are finding are less than what we need and should have been given at the start, my opinion. Since we can no longer get them the way we did before, that the numbers we find in regen farms have been dropped, it would have been nice to have been given a nice bumper crop to hold us over and get us started and then lower the numbers, letting us know that it would happen.
But, it wasn’t done that way, and some are struggling to find what they need to tide them over while they search for the seeds. I’ve stated that several types are hard to find. Those who are going I got a nice amount either got there first and cleaned it out, or just got lucky.
But that isn’t the important part, important, but my post is to encourage players who are struggling to hang on, the devs are reading our posts, they will check into it and I know they will do something about it.
The forging has a glitch, and they learned of it and are now working on it. they have the forging problem, the seed problem, lighting problem and who know what other problems they are working on.
Give them a break, give them time to work on all the problems that we know about and ones we don’t.
Let them know, don’t hesitate to state you are having trouble in this and that area, but do so nicely, Please.
And for those of you who don’t have that problem. Try seeing it from their viewpoint, they Are having the problem and don’t need to hear but I have found plenty of such and such. I am glad for you, but that doesn’t help me, in fact some would see it as rubbing their nose in their failure to find the seeds.
So, farming. Can be fun, challenging, frustrating, annoying, nerve-wracking; AND a time to help each other by telling them to visit your farm and maybe, if you have the time, answer a question or two. Maybe provide a few seeds, five or six can be help. I need three items to have a mass craft of something. Sometimes that two or three can be the one that lets them finish what they are working on.
We do need to realize that some aren’t “lucky” like me and no longer work so time wise I can play as much as I want (real live, health keeps me from that, sometimes I can play 6 hours some times just one hour – today is very little play time for me, sadly).
Many here have jobs, family, commitment, sickness, death, marriage, birth and many other events that can keep them from playing as much as they want.
If you are that person, speak up, some can give you a few seeds, advice, something to help you out. A new friend just gave me some flour because I didn’t make ahead and the guild I am part of is being Fantastic and making a farm for me of a couple plants so I can make pies. Her gift to me is letting me make pies for them and for me so we can all pitch in and help each other, they make the farm, I am doing some gathering with them to help find the seeds/plants and I have forged some weapons for them to use. A partnership.
That can be done by those of us who can help each other.
Let’s offer support, not tear down, let state that we understand how stressful it can be to not find seeds or plants because they may have been cleaned out, especially on exo planets, instead of going “I’ve found plenty”. Lets share what we learned that helps, not go you aren’t working hard enough then on it.
Be friendly. Be helpful, Be supportive, Be nice.
off my bandwagon.