Farming nerfed?
 

So i logged in to farm my tomatos and they lowered the price to 2$ People are raging saying that "if you don't buff the farming I'll leave" so i made this thread to see what you think about this. Personally I think it was fine how it was but now farming is trash. :angry:

They really shouldn't have nerfed it IMO. I don't farm, but if I was a player who had a farm and they nerfed it I'd be pretty mad. Up to the players now if they want to quit over it haha.

To be honest, Why release farming when the prices are not fixed yet.

People were making a LOT of money. Due to the previous prices, people were easily making money - and it ruined the purpose of the other jobs. This is how I can understand why the prices were reduced - but now everyone is threatening to quit, rate the game 1 star and talk a lot of nonsense.

I'm fine with the price reduction - farming is meant to be one of the ways in which a player can make money. The prices are still giving me decent amount of gralats. But it will be hard to deal with the 8 year olds who were used to high prices, and big moneh.

Because you can't truly "fix" pricing until you actually see how things play out with an actual playerbase. Big companies like Blizzard can afford to hire people who specialize in economies and maths and such and can probably predict pretty reliably how jobs will play out with a playerbase... we can't. The best we can do is release, monitor, and tweak until it matches what we actually intended for it.

It needs to be fixed, I have about 20 farms I planted watermelons which take hella long time, made 800$ like wtf.

I do agree it shouldn't have been nerfed. You're making very to little profit on farming. I'll do the calculations later to see how much profit you make.

Blueberry

Time: 10 minutes
Cost of seed: $25
Profit: $4
Profit per hour: $24

Onion

Time: 3 hours
Cost of seed: $25
Profit: $15
Profit per hour: $5

Jalapeno

Time: 1 hour
Cost of seed: $32
Profit: $8
Profit per hour: $8

Corn

Time: 4 hours
Cost of seed: $30
Profit: $14
Profit per hour: $3.5

Raspberry

Time: 5 hours
Cost of seed: $25
Profit: $17
Profit per hour: $3.4

Carrot

Time: 15 minutes
Cost of seed: $20
Profit: $4
Profit per hour: $16

Pumpkin

Time: 2 hours
Cost of seed: $30
Profit: $10
Profit per hour: $5

Rice

Time: 1 hour
Cost of seed: $25
Profit: $7
Profit per hour: $7

Wheat

Time: 30 minutes
Cost of seed: $15
Profit: $5

Strawberry

Time: 30 minutes
Cost of seed: $20
Profit: $5
Profit per hour: $10

Tomato

Time: 45 minutes
Cost of seed: $40
Profit: $8
Profit per hour: ~$10.67

Watermelon

Time: 6 hours
Cost of seed: $28
Profit: $16
Profit per hour: ~$2.67

Well obviously farming would get nerfed. I dont understand how people get mad at it. If the best current weapon costs 3k whats the logic in making players able to make 100k in 2 days by farming? And no, I'm not exaggerating, I literally know people who have 100 gardens and make money fast as hell

I think it was smart on their part. Blueberries seem to give you the most money, and take hardly any time at all to grow. So if you want to make money from farming you will have to stay online to pick and regrow your blueberries

Farming nerfed?
 

They could put a max number of farms at like 20, and you can't have 100, they won't fit.

I understand why they done this, but you must consider the amount of time it takes actually planting/collecting these plants in the process. It is still a job, and the people making a lot of money tend to have a lot of gardens which means a lot more tedious work. Making these crops sell for this minimal value though? It's just discouraging.

Like imasks chart said with blueberries for example, 24$ an hour my ass.

Most of those are considerably less as the times are all wrong, for example plants that take 3 hours to grow take 5 hours.

Which is even WORSE for the profit per hour portion of my stats.

It's less than thate, the times in the descriptions must be wrong because when using real clocks blueberries are closer to 15-20 minutes than 10. And my watermelons have been growing for almost 7 and a half hours (1 hour longer than it's suppose to) and it is only just past halfway. And waiting roughly 8-9 hours just to make a $16 profit is pretty ridiculous

IMO prices shouldn't have been changed just the times, I can make 100 gralats minimum in 15minutes of collecting plants compared to the $3 profit per crop every 15-20 minutes blueberries give. Even with 20 crops it will take you 40 minutes to make even half the amount I can make getting plants or mining

This is getting fixed right now to match the times in the description.

With farming it probably actually is possible to have calculated how much money people will make from them before releasing because they are all fixed variables. The other jobs like mining and collecting plants you can't calculate because it's random how many/how often people will find plants/rocks, it's random which item you will get and how much it is worth, and the times for collecting are all different, but with farming you just say ok lets make blueberries $10 and have them give you 10 berries with each berry worth 3 gralats. The time for growing them is 15 minutes so players can potentially make 120 gralats every hour- 40 gralats from rebuying seeds. 80 gralats an hour which I would actually say is a fair number. Done

They nerved it because it where to easy to get money. Getting 3k per 10 min is way easy and when stuff cost like max 3k gralats you can get most of it! you should be glad that stuff is so cheap

That's why we should revert back to the original profit, and put a limit on how many farms you could have. This way, you can only make a maximum of x gralats per hour.

Tf u smoking? The damn gardens cost 250$ and with this *** profit it'll take forever for someone who let's say bought 20 farms to make that back, it's impossible.

I had 20 farms and only made 1k every 20mins -425 to rebuy seeds, the only people making 3k are people who bought gralat packed 20k worth of farms

I have 48 farming plots and made 3k per 10 min if you seed blueberry it where op and stuff in ol west are cheap. Staff team did right too nerf it.

It is literally impossible to make 3k from only 48 farming plots and blueberries took 20mins not 10

48 plots- 14 berries, $4 per berry - $56 each plot
X 48 - $2688 gralats every 20mins - cost of buying berries
25x48= 1200
2688- 1200

1488 Gralats profit after 20minutes

Not everyone has 48 gardens.....

Before setting final prices per x amount of time, please fix the times in description because they're all invalid

actually the game is still in beta, so we have to accept what are the changes at the moment

descriptions does not affect the game, changing descriptions everytime nerfing will takes time.

Screw it, let's all leave the game.

Kill the manager :o

Farming is more like a side chores and I can see why they would nerf the job. But at the current conditions, farming is probably rated as one of the slowest and worse paying job in Ol West at the moment. seeing as the selling price were decent to make enough gralats to survive, I bought 45 farms which is equivalent to 11,500 gralats. A day later I found out it was nerfed and of course I was very furious. But then again it's my fault for buying them and I should have known better that everything release will eventually be nerfed/altered.

Blueberries and carrots are two fastest growing crops, 10 minutes for Blueberries and 15 for carrots. I tested both and came to the conclusion: 45 blueberries seeds= 1125G, 1260G after selling it, 1260-1125=135 profit for every 15 minutes; 45 carrots seeds=900, after harvesting and selling the carrots the total was 1080 so you are only making $180 profit per 10 minutes with 45 farms. As you can see this is one of the worse paying job in Ol West. And collecting flowers or mining can easily double or even triple that in that amount of time.

I believe farming prices should be increased not neccessarily to its original price and have timer reduce. Otherwise I don't think anybody is going to farm and most people are starting to sell their garden. Farming is a cool/creative job, don't let it die.

I hope this helps!

I'm actually earning money just with farming, I don't even know how much profit I get, I only have 28 gardens and I get $84 profit every 10 minutes

Don't forget farming has its specialty. Unlike of mining and everything else, you can leave your farm and go do your things. Perhaps, you could go mine while your veggies or fruits are growing. Hence, farming imo should not be the best profit making job.

Players who making the farm as a main job are mistake, it's actually a side job.