Originally Posted by Snowball  |
I don't really believe that right now to be honest!! (at least not for gardening anyway) Just a few days ago, I started planting 2 of the same seeds, (thing they were vege) and both in 2 pots of exactly the same type, (in brass pot) feeding them both the same crystal, and on exactly the same days too!
My result from this harvest was rock salt. I got that in "BOTH" of the 2 pots I started with too! So I MUST have done SOMETHING right to produce this result!
I just cannot remember which day I started planting that's all. I'd just have to work out the days, so that I can get the result I want.
I know that a lot of FFXl revolves around random this and random that, (which I find a bit annoying sometimes) like the drops you get from mobs and other things. And one of the reasons I remember someone saying about this, was something to the fact that it helps to prevent lag in all areas.... so that too many players are NOT camping or ganging up on the same mobs all the time, hence less lag. I guess I can understand that, as lag can be quite a painful situation! I probably wouldn't like it myself either.
But what about gardening though? With only 1 player allowed in their mog houses at a time, there's no grouping up for anything! I guess I just don't see or understand a reason for randomness there right now!
If I just get all my days right for planting, then hopefully it should work. |
(de-bolded for my own sake)
Anyway, believe it or not, what you believe isn't true. What it is is coincidence.
I used to be a professional gardener. I had 4 (up to 6 when I stopped) mules which I gardened on, and each of them had the same things: they all had the same type and number of tables for the moghansement, the same gear (harvesting gear), the same flowerpots. The same seeds were planted, fed, and harvested and even examined at the same time. However, I was still getting different results for every pot. Occasionally I would have the same results repeated (IE, get the same number of crystals), but that wasn't all that common.
This is best shown if you go for Ores. Over a ~30 day process, with 10 seeds planted, fed (both times), harvested and examined at the same time on the same character, you will be lucky to get 2-3 ores.
There are indeed many hidden factors involving what your results are: beyond the obvious moon phase, feeding crystal and elemental days of activities, there's also a flowerpot's innate element, a cities innate element, and others I couldn't possibly comprehend, all which make gardening as random as it can get. The best you can get is a rough estimate -- the wikipedia actually shows this pretty well, where multiple results are given for the same flowerpot, seed, and crystal.
Just ask any seasoned gardener.