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Dadak0
Jun Member 2009

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I have been able to get to Plant Power (tier 2) and while it does say there is a drop in # of herbs able to pick, it is significant.

This morning while building up my currency harvesting Fellstalk seeds (the preferred seed), I avg 18 herbs with one seed, Seren of Crwys active and juju farming potion.
Now at Plant Power (tier 2), I avg 8 herbs with the same setup. When I planted 4 seeds, the most I got was 13 herbs.

If this new feature was designed to reduce the amount of herbs collected, it certainly work.

My advice, get the other “Unlocks”, and save the Plant Power till last, unless the harvesting #’s are changed.

07-Nov-2022 17:42:15

Dadak0
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Dadak0

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I agree time is limited, and you have to find what works for you, however I’m not sure about your math as to “…get far more total herbs…”, but here is mine.

Pre Plant Power: I plant 1 seed avg 18, keeping in mind at least half of my harvest were over 20. But for the sake of argument let say my pre-plant power avg is 15
Post Plant Power: I’ll even say I get 10


Pre Plant Power: 1 seed avg 15
Post Plant Power 1 seed avg 10

That a negative lost of 5 per harvest.

If I do 30 harvest during Cryws with Supreme growth potion (leafy), juju farming potions that means potentially I loose 150 herbs every 30 harvest.

So, it would appear that having plant power isn’t worth it.
In addition, there is now a dialog window, that slows down my planting ask it asks me how many seeds I want to plant each time, so I can't plant as fast as I use to.

But again I agree with you. You have to find what works best for you.

07-Nov-2022 18:16:12 - Last edited on 07-Nov-2022 18:17:51 by Dadak0

Dilbert2001
Jun Member 2006

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I agree time is limited, and you have to find what works for you, however I’m not sure about your math as to “…get far more total herbs…”, but here is mine.

Pre Plant Power: I plant 1 seed avg 18, keeping in mind at least half of my harvest were over 20. But for the sake of argument let say my pre-plant power avg is 15
Post Plant Power: I’ll even say I get 10


Pre Plant Power: 1 seed avg 15
Post Plant Power 1 seed avg 10

That a negative lost of 5 per harvest.

If I do 30 harvest during Cryws with Supreme growth potion (leafy), juju farming potions that means potentially I loose 150 herbs every 30 harvest.

So, it would appear that having plant power isn’t worth it.
In addition, there is now a dialog window, that slows down my planting ask it asks me how many seeds I want to plant each time, so I can't plant as fast as I use to.

But again I agree with you. You have to find what works best for you.

Your math still has nothing to do with the important TIME factor you acknowledged.

It is not how many herbs you get from 1 seed. It is the overall number of herbs we can get from planting more than 1 seed at a time. We get less herbs per seed but we get far more total herbs because we can plant up to 10 seeds.

07-Nov-2022 18:28:08

Daddy Roshi
Jan Member 2018

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So I read the news post and op is right u get less return on the seeds planted at the base rate with no boosts only using ultracomp u get 18 herbs from 10 seeds while using 1 u get 6 that's a huge rip off frankly and that's just base rates that's not counting all the boosts u can use that's a terrible trade-off if u ask me using 10 times the seeds u only get 3 times the herbs? Wow that's a terrible trade-off
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07-Nov-2022 18:38:28

Dilbert2001
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So I read the news post and op is right u get less return on the seeds planted at the base rate with no boosts only using ultracomp u get 18 herbs from 10 seeds while using 1 u get 6 that's a huge rip off frankly and that's just base rates that's not counting all the boosts u can use that's a terrible trade-off if u ask me using 10 times the seeds u only get 3 times the herbs? Wow that's a terrible trade-off

Before the update we get 1x the return when we plant 1 seed. After the update, we get 3 times the return on 10 seeds. We get 3 times the herbs with the update in 80% of the time or we get 3.75 times the herbs in the same harvest in 75 minutes.

The return per herb seed is less, but the NET herbs and profits we gain from them are significantly higher with this update.

07-Nov-2022 18:42:00

Fish Kitten
Sep Member 2013

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This morning while building up my currency harvesting Fellstalk seeds (the preferred seed), I avg 18 herbs with one seed, Seren of Crwys active and juju farming potion.
Now at Plant Power (tier 2), I avg 8 herbs with the same setup. When I planted 4 seeds, the most I got was 13 herbs.

I did a similar experiment, 20 minutes each time (greenfingers), using insta-grow pots I'd stockpiled from POF. First round was doing a single seed at a time like normal; second was using four. The net benefit just isn't there . Unless they boost the harvest ratios, the plant power "perk" is pointless.

07-Nov-2022 18:45:36

Fish Kitten
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So I read the news post and op is right u get less return on the seeds planted at the base rate with no boosts only using ultracomp u get 18 herbs from 10 seeds while using 1 u get 6 that's a huge rip off frankly and that's just base rates that's not counting all the boosts u can use that's a terrible trade-off if u ask me using 10 times the seeds u only get 3 times the herbs? Wow that's a terrible trade-off

The point of the update was to (quoted straight from Jagex): "{C}ut through the seeds clogging up your bank space in no time" .

I'm actually fine with dedicating the bank space to seeds because as you and just about everyone else with basic math skills noticed, the tradeoff comes at a terrible price.

07-Nov-2022 18:50:53

Daddy Roshi
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The point of the update was to (quoted straight from Jagex): "{C}ut through the seeds clogging up your bank space in no time" .

I'm actually fine with dedicating the bank space to seeds because as you and just about everyone else with basic math skills noticed, the tradeoff comes at a terrible price. cut through the seeds clogging up bank space? Then wtf is the point of having a spore sack? Ffs jagex y'all are killing me
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