Farming

[Hugepieman]

Is there a reason to plant lower quality crops once unlocked better ones?
Do the crops those crops make benefit from the XP multiplier? or not?
I'm a little confused if you would ever want to crow the lower quality ones or not

[B&FB]

Yes you do want them. They give a multiplier to what they make based on the amount of harvested (not produced from higher tier crops). Getting a 5x, 10x, 20x, or 30x+ multiplier is insanely beneficial.

[Hugepieman]

so you need to plant & harvest them still?

[Zeustiak]

The multiplier only builds as you harvest each plant. Personally, I recommend 1 of each plant, and then extras of the best plant.

There are probably ideal transition points from one of each plant, to all plants of the last tier, then to all plants of the first tier, but I couldn't tell you when that is.

I generally transition to all plants of the last tier when my first plant's bonus is ~x15 or so, but there could be a better point and it will change as you get more plants and whatnot.

[kilarbourbon]

emmm I would keep everything balanced since it's grown automatically.
2*3 is easier to achieve than a 1*6

[Silberfuchs]

Originally posted by kilarbourbon:

emmm I would keep everything balanced since it's grown automatically.
2*3 is easier to achieve than a 1*6

It's a bit more complicated.

Because higher tiered plants produce lower tiered plants, and so on.
And plants produced this way are the foundation for your multipliers. Aka that's what gets multiplied.

Lets say you have 100 (10) of a plant, then the 10 would be used to calculate the plants multiplier, but you would produce 100*multiplier of the plant one step lower on the plant tier list => growing the amount of plants produced of said lower tier plant, etc.

You highest tier plant starts at the top of this chain of events, it's production will boost all other plants numbers. Downside: higher tier plants grow slower.

On top of all of this:
Shop upgrades have rather targeted effects, they tend to increase very specific numbers. For example your final production, or your multipliers, or your grow times, your rank exp... etc.

PS:
And then there are grasshoppers, those behave a bit like a secondary expedition system. that boosts farming stats even further.

[Tower Dove]

I personnally plant 1 of each in automateed fields then before prestiging I check if it is worth to snipe masteries. And then it's all about what gives me the best production for next run, you can't pass on any plant, even the 4th one got to 20x multiplier before my next reset, it would be borderline impossible to compensate that with the other ones I think.

You want to prestige when it's too big of a stretch getting new page 1 upgrades, then you focus on single plants that look like can attain a new mastery(page 2 upgrades) or 2 before prestiging, you effectively delay a bit your prestige but those masteries scale extremly well(bigger multiplier and faster).