The more time I spend in WOW, the less time I want expend doing my “hanging in there” chores in ArcheAge. This morning I decided to take a chance on destroying one of my 16x16 houses in Lilyut, in favor of placing down my alt’s 16x16 farm. Doing so would let me increase the square footage of farming space and passive profit while simultaneously decreasing the maintenance required.
On a 16x16 house, the most you can do is to place fruit trees or medium sized animals at the corners and then individual items the rest of the way around – plants or chickens. You can get roughly 50 small items planted around a 16x16 house that has fruit trees at the corners. Doing that for two houses is a lot of harvesting, even with just pulling eggs from chickens, as you have to feed the first. So either way, you have to execute harvesting and planting actions x 100. I’ve been doing that for 2 houses.
Once my daughter decided not to play, the main reason I never converted one of my houses to a farm was because of all the land hacks. I was afraid to destroy the house, which is required to replace it with something else. Then hop on the alt to place down her 16x16 farm. It’s something that only I can do. I have to set the house for destruction on my main. Quickly log her out and switch to the alt that has the 16x16 farm design. There’s a risk someone else will notice, destroy the house and place something of theirs before I get back into the game on my alt.
Over the weekend I decided I’d take the risk given that I’m not playing as much. I decided to do it in first thing in the morning on a weekday. And that’s exactly what I did today. As soon as I got up for work I hopped into AA and swapped a house for another 16x16 farm. Within a few seconds of my house disappearing, leaving what seemed like an empty space when viewed from a short distance away, there were players sniffing around. By then, I was already applying the lumber pack to permanently construct the farm. *Whew*
The price of eggs has increased so much lately that I considered building chicken coops. However, to really do that right and reap the profit available, you need to tend the coops several times a day. I’m not willing to do that right now. I setup another Aged Cheese factory instead for the low maintenance of only having to harvest every 3 days. The timing for getting milk from the cows can be done twice a day – in the AM before work and when I get home. Which will also be the only time I feed and harvesting from my chickens, even though the can be eggs can be retrieved every hour. That’s down considerably from my former habit of doing them 5 times a day.
If there’s any long time reader or blogger I’m familiar with that is playing AA or would like to give it a try and have land available to see how it all works, send me an email. I’m open to setting up a Family on one of my properties to let you give it a go.
I got my first 16x16 yesterday near the city of towers thanks to a generous guildie. They also threw in an 8x8 nearby that i stuck a leatherwork bench on and an aquafarm off Lutesong harbor. Considering I've been playing for months now with a solitary 8x8 in the boondocks of hasla, this was a pretty epic day.
I also just hit 50, (I level slow). I know everyone has gone back to WoW. Even you went back to WoW. And i know that Trion sucks big fat donkey balls. But I'm loving this game. And incidentally, all the bloggers that have gone back to WoW that I respect are all blogging about one thing and one thing only:
Garrisons.
I'd sooner play AA.
Posted by: Adam | December 14, 2014 at 02:30 PM
Congrats Adam! I know how big of a deal is in AA. I have this love/hate relationship with AA. I love the features and the promise of what it could be. But I hate how the poor quality of the code from XL and how Trion keeps tripping over their own feet managing it.
I still log in regularly to take care of my farms to continue making money. But at the end of the day, I don't have a lot of faith in the longevity unless XL and Trion get their act together. With that being the case there's little use in grinding to make my gear, grinding to get weapons or accumulating massive amounts of gold. When you take that progression away, the game narrows considerably as those progressions are what MMOs are mostly about.
I haven't given up completely but I do continue to simplify the time required as it costs me nothing to continue in some manner and I can easily afford APEX and tax certificates. However, even the big mouth zerg guilds are whittling down and fading away. As long as you're having fun that's all that matters. EQ2 has hung around for a LONG TIME with a small player base. It remained a game that I resubscribed to for at least a couple of months every year. AA would be that for me except I'm so annoyed at XL/Trion that for now, they haven't shown the kind of MMO savvy I'd reward with real life cash. That could change :-)
Posted by: Alysianah aka Saylah | December 14, 2014 at 05:34 PM