For years I kept the Baja Magincia Public Garden going. TOBY and I would change the plants according to the season and/or Holiday. It was something we enjoyed doing for the shard but after watering, adding potions to each of the 160 plus plants every day we got burned out and pulled up the plants. I even pulled up my plants that I had planted around my Magincia house that were 4 years old.
For a while I had been asking for a way to hire a gardener to tend plants and of course within 2 weeks of me pulling up all the plants UO came out with gardener contracts that you could buy. That was good zen practice. That's all I'll say about that.
So now time has past, a couple years, and I've decided to do the garden again since it will be much simpler to do when using these new contracts.
So @Mesanna , this morning I proudly planted my first seed, went over to Isobel the Gardener to buy her contract and the cost was over 10,100 gold!!! For 2 weeks she will care for my lil one plant for over 10,100 gold. So @Bleak there are over 160 plantable spots in the garden which means in order for me to not have to care for each and every plant(160) every day, I will incur an expense of over 3,300,00 gold per month, or 40 million gold per year. Even the Royal Botanical Garden or the Brooklyn Botanical garden's budgets aren't that high!
I think if the cost was more realistic, say comparable to what a armor repair deed costs then maybe there would be more idiots, I mean people like me, that would enjoy creating a public garden. I can create a garden in my house for free (raised garden bed) but when doing one that is public, for the public, I think 40 million gold is beyond my and most players capability to do something nice for the shard.
I love that the gardener deed was implemented. Thank you for that. If the price was modified I would greatly appreciate it.
Now I know this doesn't effect most of you but please have so compassion for old farts like me.
Thank you.
AW
For a while I had been asking for a way to hire a gardener to tend plants and of course within 2 weeks of me pulling up all the plants UO came out with gardener contracts that you could buy. That was good zen practice. That's all I'll say about that.
So now time has past, a couple years, and I've decided to do the garden again since it will be much simpler to do when using these new contracts.
So @Mesanna , this morning I proudly planted my first seed, went over to Isobel the Gardener to buy her contract and the cost was over 10,100 gold!!! For 2 weeks she will care for my lil one plant for over 10,100 gold. So @Bleak there are over 160 plantable spots in the garden which means in order for me to not have to care for each and every plant(160) every day, I will incur an expense of over 3,300,00 gold per month, or 40 million gold per year. Even the Royal Botanical Garden or the Brooklyn Botanical garden's budgets aren't that high!
I think if the cost was more realistic, say comparable to what a armor repair deed costs then maybe there would be more idiots, I mean people like me, that would enjoy creating a public garden. I can create a garden in my house for free (raised garden bed) but when doing one that is public, for the public, I think 40 million gold is beyond my and most players capability to do something nice for the shard.
I love that the gardener deed was implemented. Thank you for that. If the price was modified I would greatly appreciate it.
Now I know this doesn't effect most of you but please have so compassion for old farts like me.
Thank you.
AW
