Game Development: Creamy Crop Circle

[Enjoyment_2]

The cap is still primarily determined by a local quality field. You can increase that quality for the duration of a growing season by building one or more crop circles.

soo... if anyone can build it - what is the point of it?
and if not anyone can build it - you literally allow only those who bot salt and leaves to use it. more than that you insist that only those botters will use it since neither dreams nor entrails (that possibly can be acquired by normal players) will define the q of this circle.
that's just hilarious.

[Nizuto]

Oh trust me, people did. Some crops are capped at like 170-ish at our place. We reached it long time ago with no chance to get it higher and field searching being a huge pain....

Somehow I never encountered this issue. I must've been privileged to live in places where quality cap has always been above 300 in every crop in all the worlds I played so far, including that 2 years old world where all my crops were in the 400-800 range minus pumpkin because it grows too slow to properly test it. I guess others know best about these caps better than me.

[Zentetsuken]

I figured the idea behind crop quality limitations were to inhibit some form of trade.

It was, but the same retards who wrote novels about how much they hate having their crops being capped are already crying about this update.

Sadly the people who bitch the loudest make the biggest impact on development.

[thomas_ewing]

no one sane and self-respecting is going to go out there to look for better quality nodes for weeks to gain that sweet sweet +5 quality on turnips

That hurts.

I planted turnips all over the western continent.

The cap isn't a particularly fun mechanic, though, I agree. I kind of doubt this will make it much better.

What problem was the cap trying to solve?

[Ardennesss]

Oh trust me, people did. Some crops are capped at like 170-ish at our place. We reached it long time ago with no chance to get it higher and field searching being a huge pain....

Somehow I never encountered this issue. I must've been privileged to live in places where quality cap has always been above 300 in every crop in all the worlds I played so far, including that 2 years old world where all my crops were in the 400-800 range minus pumpkin because it grows too slow to properly test it. I guess others know best about these caps better than me.

These caps were just added this world.

[Zentetsuken]

Wouldn't it have made more sense to make crop circles simply remove quality loss instead of increase quality cap?

That way the entire idea behind the crop node mechanic wouldn't be instantly negated and people could safely trade crops and buyers could continue to safely grow them at the traded quality without loss


this thread from the other day proposed some ideas in this vein

http://www.havenandhearth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=68934#p863655

[DDDsDD999]

Pretty cool, would've been better to just remove crop caps because they're needless tedium, but can't remove content haha.

[MrBunzy]

What problem was the cap trying to solve?

The problem was that the only way to have the highest q crops was (is?) to run a farming bot nonstop for longer than anyone else. A mechanic that so blatantly encourages botting isn't all that healthy for the game, and shifting the system to make crop q a result of effort or rng is for sure an improvement. Making it a resource sink just seems like an odd approach to me, as it doesn't seem very accessible to most players.

[jason1982]

just another way to waist more valuable resources.

[Nizuto]

These caps were just added this world.

The cap itself? Yea. But I see some changes since W10 where location mattered and how each crop above its own local quality cap would usually lower in quality on average. Sure hypothetically it could still increase but in practice rolling the dice for the -5 +2 range and keep going up is quite the feat. I still never encountered that issue.