Stronghold farm.

[76561198871380196]

I play for fun as not great at the game but my question is : I did the quest for the farm on my stronghold and it works but I have no trees or ores on it? I get the farming ones but not the ones I would have to do myself. Any ideas why it did not do it automatically when I did the quest?

[Utiviroo]

They changed how that works, you used to be able to harvest the trees and what ever yourself directly, now its NPCs toiling and you use the new interface to harvest everything in one click.

You might be missing an upgrade to get to that point, but you'd know the moment you saw the interface/buttons what you got or not. Also you have to designate stuff to grow in plots you have opened.

The old system was nicer imo, new one, not sure what the point is, you get way more mats if you go harvest yourself in the "real world" rather on the farm.

[Boink]

I only do the mandatory 60 Basic Oreha materials doing excavation farms. I just can't add lifeskilling as part of my routine. But like someone already mentioned you get more if you farm out in the world, especially if you have a high lifeskill level.

[76561198871380196]

Thank you for your help much appreciated.

[Kenuty]

İlk olarak Utiviroo tarafından gönderildi:

They changed how that works, you used to be able to harvest the trees and what ever yourself directly, now its NPCs toiling and you use the new interface to harvest everything in one click.

You might be missing an upgrade to get to that point, but you'd know the moment you saw the interface/buttons what you got or not. Also you have to designate stuff to grow in plots you have opened.

The old system was nicer imo, new one, not sure what the point is, you get way more mats if you go harvest yourself in the "real world" rather on the farm.

the point is management with the other new systems coming soon aka pets and such, you will spend too much time at the farm when it should be quick and simple, the purpose of the farm is just a quick harvest so you don't spend all day doing tradeskill bs if you have 11+ accounts rotating.

[Utiviroo]

İlk olarak Kenuty tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Utiviroo tarafından gönderildi:

They changed how that works, you used to be able to harvest the trees and what ever yourself directly, now its NPCs toiling and you use the new interface to harvest everything in one click.

You might be missing an upgrade to get to that point, but you'd know the moment you saw the interface/buttons what you got or not. Also you have to designate stuff to grow in plots you have opened.

The old system was nicer imo, new one, not sure what the point is, you get way more mats if you go harvest yourself in the "real world" rather on the farm.

the point is management with the other new systems coming soon aka pets and such, you will spend too much time at the farm when it should be quick and simple, the purpose of the farm is just a quick harvest so you don't spend all day doing tradeskill bs if you have 11+ accounts rotating.

Wait, 11 accounts?

Alts, all share the same global trade skill energy pool on the same roster, unless there is something I am missing, the only way of refilling it ahead of the daily reset is to buy or get the login reward for refilling trades energy, what ever it is called.

There was only a set amount of spawns, I think it took all of 10-15 mins to get them all in one fully enabled T0 to "T3" farm SH, the only way to get more would be to go to someone elses SH, if you wanted to keep with SH mats. Now that takes 1 second.

So at most you would spend 30-45 mins a day harvesting if you had a fully rested energy bar, each day after, you'd only be able to do about 3K maybe 4K out of the 10K pool, since it seems like you only get back about 3K plus per day of that.

Anyway, be interesting to see what pets are about, seems like a weird mechanic to add. Unless the buffs are amazing, I can't see many people hanging out at their strong holds just to beef up pets, or what ever else might be coming eventually.

[Dragonmaster]

İlk olarak anangel1953 tarafından gönderildi:

I play for fun as not great at the game but my question is : I did the quest for the farm on my stronghold and it works but I have no trees or ores on it? I get the farming ones but not the ones I would have to do myself. Any ideas why it did not do it automatically when I did the quest?

The manual labor of doing the mining/tree's etc in the stronghold is no longer a thing due to other systems that are coming soon. I prefer the new way since you couldn't get WTL's from farm stuff and it still took a bit of time to burn off life energy from doing it.

[JayaND]

Yeah I prefer the new way as well. I used to spend much of my life skills energy getting resources by myself rather than use the farm. However with most every life skill at or very near 30, I seem to do less and focus on other things. So the farm turns out to be very useful for collecting resources when my life skill energy is near 10k. And the daily farm output doesn't reduce my life skill energy so far that I cannot do any resource gathering when I have the time. The two combined is an efficient way to use those life skill pts IMO.

[Dragonmaster]

I do recommend putting on green tools if your going to do the farm a lot. Tools DO still degrade using the farm.

[JayaND]

Good point. Thanks Dragonmaster. I think I will put on Blue Tools so that I can do both field resource gathering and keeping things cheap for farming. I will only use purple tools when I really want to gather a lot of resources.

[♋Phenex]

İlk olarak JayaND tarafından gönderildi:

Good point. Thanks Dragonmaster. I think I will put on Blue Tools so that I can do both field resource gathering and keeping things cheap for farming. I will only use purple tools when I really want to gather a lot of resources.

Purple tools are super cheap to make so don't use blue. It will still take weeks for them to degrade to an unusable state so just go purple on all minimum and don't even bother with green or blue cause that's just suboptimal and way worse value.

[JayaND]

İlk olarak ♋Phenex tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak JayaND tarafından gönderildi:

Good point. Thanks Dragonmaster. I think I will put on Blue Tools so that I can do both field resource gathering and keeping things cheap for farming. I will only use purple tools when I really want to gather a lot of resources.

Purple tools are super cheap to make so don't use blue. It will still take weeks for them to degrade to an unusable state so just go purple on all minimum and don't even bother with green or blue cause that's just suboptimal and way worse value.

That is true but I do find Dragonmaster's suggestion quite useful.

Since the difference between the tools are the number of perks you get while resource gathering, and the perks don't come into affect when farming the stronghold, I can see why removing them would be a good idea. I find the blues cheap. The purple ones do cost 100 gold and for casual resource gathering (gathering stuff while running around the map doing other things), I think the blues are fine. If I do focus on spending a bit of time gathering resources and using my life skill points, I would definitely switch to the purple tools. Since both can be stored in the storage, I can access them anywhere I am so it is not too big a deal. Probably once I reach Vern and start opening up the daily tasks, I will have a lot more gold than I have now so I can use my purples on farm stuff and not care. For now, being pre-50 and not yet opened the daily tasks and having only 30k gold, I rather save that for other things like future honing.

This is just my preference and not a right or wrong argument.

[JayaND]

I am not sure what it was like last March since I did not have the Stronghold farm back then but farming resources is pretty easy now. All you have to do is set up what you want to farm and then each morning you click one "harvest everything" button and you are done.