Farming plants, which are the best ways to?

[RogueDiego]

Hello,
I have looked at guides online and they seem to be outdated. A lot of them mention to just to FOB "Skull attack" mission on the medical platform. Currently there is the skulls attack event and I don't see any rewards for the Haoma plant.

I did see from a comment from somewhere that Haoma can be farmed through the Afghanistan and Africa map if you scout enough, then do enough missions so the plants "refresh" then I'd be able to collect them again. Is there are much more quicker way to do this, preferably FOB, otherwise offline farming? Deployment missions are fine but they take too long and too many of my staff die.

[RaNgeR]

There are no other farming solutions to my knowledge, for which I checked myself not long ago when I returned playing TPP after 8 years. As much as it takes time, I just rely on offline deployments.

[Tesper]

It's not ideal but you can use your PF points to buy them directly, just like with buying staff and processed materials

But yeah no other way to obtain them offline. If I were you, i'd just give FOB invasions a try, the medical platform specifically because they are very rewarding with plants. you can do the bi-weekly event if you want to be absolutely sure there won't be retaliation, or just make sure you reach the core of any player's FOB without getting detected. Most FOBs that have all platforms developed but only have ~200 staff are abandoned and you can just invade them without regrets.

EDIT: Actually, Skulls attack event started today, so you can do that.
Additionally, the double resource reward week from online FOB invasions also started today

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by RogueDiego:

I don't see any rewards for the Haoma plant.

FOB is the fastest way for most all resources. This picture shows an infiltration of a Medical Platform. As you can see, Haoma received from one infiltration is 1300. You could play every day for a month straight and you won't earn that much in the field. FOB is the way. Each FOB favors different resources. Do some of each FOB to find which one produces the most Haoma.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961156507

That being said. You've mentioned Event FOB. Event FOB is only good for blueprints. If you already have everything, leave the Events alone.

If you want to maximize your rewards you gotta attack higher level bases. Even Randoms can produce very good rewards. The way I do it is scroll through and look for FOB's with the most S++. There's not a direct corelation from S++ to resources, but in general, more S++ can mean high level base, and higher level base does corelate to the amount of resources you can get.

Looking for bases with 350 or more S++ means you'll get some S++ along with a good amount of resources.

[RogueDiego]

Thank you everyone for all the responses, I really appreciate it.

Originally posted by Tesper:

EDIT: Actually, Skulls attack event started today, so you can do that.
Additionally, the double resource reward week from online FOB invasions also started today

I didn't see any Haoma rewards that you would get from the skulls attack before deploying, maybe might get it after.

Originally posted by Tesper:

FOB is the fastest way for most all resources. This picture shows an infiltration of a Medical Platform. As you can see, Haoma received from one infiltration is 1300. You could play every day for a month straight and you won't earn that much in the field. FOB is the way. Each FOB favors different resources. Do some of each FOB to find which one produces the most Haoma.

Okay, thank you. I will give the skulls attack a shot.

[Tesper]

Originally posted by RogueDiego:

I didn't see any Haoma rewards that you would get from the skulls attack before deploying, maybe might get it after.

yeah, unfortunately the game doesen't show all the resources you get as a reward from a FOB mission on the screen before you start it, but only the "main" resource that is rewarded at a greater amount than others. But don't be mistaken, the medical platform rewards you with all 8 different plants at very high amounts, just some plants more than others, as you can see in @!RJ_Truth's screenshot

the Base Development platform for instance only shows Minor Metal as a reward, but gives you all 5 types of processed materials and no plants. the other platforms give you some but not all processed materials and some but not all plants at different amounts, so when you need very high amounts of a specific material or plant, invading different platforms makes a big difference

[RogueDiego]

Yep, I just tried playing the Skulls event and got a decent amount of Haoma (~300) from one run on the Medic FOB not on HARD which is decent. I'll move onto the HARD events but for now, doing a few of those is definitely more than enough for a good while.

Exactly what Tesper said, not all plants will be shown on the reward window before the deployment, it will be after. Definitely much quicker than running around offline looking for plants.

Thank you very much @!RJ_Truth !

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by RogueDiego:

Yep, I just tried playing the Skulls event and got a decent amount of Haoma (~300) from one run on the Medic FOB not on HARD which is decent. I'll move onto the HARD events but for now, doing a few of those is definitely more than enough for a good while.

Exactly what Tesper said, not all plants will be shown on the reward window before the deployment, it will be after. Definitely much quicker than running around offline looking for plants.

Thank you very much @!RJ_Truth !

You're welcome. Just remember, the greater the difficulty the greater the rewards. 300 from an event or 1300 from a random FOB. You're still better off, if you practice the higher level bases. You'll get to the point where you'll succeed more than you fail.


Edit:
Here's a level 58 base. Gave 1600.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961572549

[!RJ_Truth]

Here's one more for you. A level 78 base with a couple thousand S++ Yields 2000 Haoma. That's about the best your going to get in a single infiltration.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961604501

[farislaco]

Originally posted by !RJ_Truth:

Here's one more for you. A level 78 base with a couple thousand S++ Yields 2000 Haoma. That's about the best your going to get in a single infiltration.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961604501

what do you still do after 6000 hours in the game?

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by farislaco:

what do you still do after 6000 hours in the game?

I go in spurts what it is I'm doing at any given moment. Right now my thing is infiltrating FOB's with women staff in a swimsuit. Just to show that it can be done. I have successfully infiltrated level 78 bases in naught but a swimsuit and a couple weapons. Combat, Medical and Support are too easy and I've pretty well maximized S++ you can have in those units, so I've moved on trying to do the more difficult to infiltrate FOBs. Intel, R&D and BaseDev is what I'm trying to concentrate on now. After a while you'll notice the system dismissing S++ of a given unit and you know it's time to move on. My units pretty much stay maxed at 162 since I don't just infiltrate just to infiltrate. I look for bases heavy in whatever unit I'm targeting.

It's also an exercize of proving the fear mongers wrong. I don't PVP. Not very well anyway, though I did make LGT press hard and he only cored within the last 20 seconds. He was stressing thinking it wouldn't happen. That's not really my thing though. I'm not good against real humans. LOL Proving that you don't have to PVP to gain tons and tons of resources like so many of these newbs are afraid of. They worry so much about what will be taken from them when what they should be concerning themselves with is what they can get from others. I think that's like my main goal. Get people to play FOB.

I still play missions too. I love looking at a particular mission in a different way or considering how else it could be done. Even that I'll tend to match up my field missions with my FOB missions. If I'm playing a girl in a swimsuit on FOB, I'm doing the same with my field missions. I also try to remember to swap out which staff member I'm play every 3 missions. Whether that's FOB missions or field missions. It takes 3 successful missions to earn a medal. Once a medal is earned, I can move on to another. Which is another thing I'm doing. Earning medals for all my female staff. Though I'm pretty sure I have more than 350 female staff members, so I can't DC everyone and play as them, but I have enough on DC now that I've pretty much played all year so far as a female.

The main thing is to switch things up to keep it interesting. I think I've played with all different kinds of loadouts just to have fun with different weapons.

The game is really what you make of it in the long run. If you have the desire to continue to find enjoyment, then you'll find it. I do have to say this is probably the best value of any game I've ever bought. over 6000 hours for whatever I paid for it in 2016. To me, the value is well worth it.

[farislaco]

Originally posted by !RJ_Truth:

Originally posted by farislaco:

what do you still do after 6000 hours in the game?

I go in spurts what it is I'm doing at any given moment. Right now my thing is infiltrating FOB's with women staff in a swimsuit. Just to show that it can be done. I have successfully infiltrated level 78 bases in naught but a swimsuit and a couple weapons. Combat, Medical and Support are too easy and I've pretty well maximized S++ you can have in those units, so I've moved on trying to do the more difficult to infiltrate FOBs. Intel, R&D and BaseDev is what I'm trying to concentrate on now. After a while you'll notice the system dismissing S++ of a given unit and you know it's time to move on. My units pretty much stay maxed at 162 since I don't just infiltrate just to infiltrate. I look for bases heavy in whatever unit I'm targeting.

It's also an exercize of proving the fear mongers wrong. I don't PVP. Not very well anyway, though I did make LGT press hard and he only cored within the last 20 seconds. He was stressing thinking it wouldn't happen. That's not really my thing though. I'm not good against real humans. LOL Proving that you don't have to PVP to gain tons and tons of resources like so many of these newbs are afraid of. They worry so much about what will be taken from them when what they should be concerning themselves with is what they can get from others. I think that's like my main goal. Get people to play FOB.

I still play missions too. I love looking at a particular mission in a different way or considering how else it could be done. Even that I'll tend to match up my field missions with my FOB missions. If I'm playing a girl in a swimsuit on FOB, I'm doing the same with my field missions. I also try to remember to swap out which staff member I'm play every 3 missions. Whether that's FOB missions or field missions. It takes 3 successful missions to earn a medal. Once a medal is earned, I can move on to another. Which is another thing I'm doing. Earning medals for all my female staff. Though I'm pretty sure I have more than 350 female staff members, so I can't DC everyone and play as them, but I have enough on DC now that I've pretty much played all year so far as a female.

The main thing is to switch things up to keep it interesting. I think I've played with all different kinds of loadouts just to have fun with different weapons.

The game is really what you make of it in the long run. If you have the desire to continue to find enjoyment, then you'll find it. I do have to say this is probably the best value of any game I've ever bought. over 6000 hours for whatever I paid for it in 2016. To me, the value is well worth it.

Well looks like you are a real MGS enjoyer. There is always something to do in this game. I hop from messing around in free roam to playing fob missions. It really has the best value.