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Since my plant grew to medium it attracted 'helpfull' attention - the only building I own is a PA hall so lots of people have admin - only two of them 'helped' and they both mailed me to tell me (not that it wasn't obvious) but sadly that has put a crimp in my experimentation. Keep constant eye on your plant and don't forget that what it says on examine may not be true until it has fully loaded.

The requirements at medium seem to be the same as at small for my plant. I like the idea of a grid to home in on where your plant prospers, I'll use it if I need to at large.

I do remember there being a farmer in the village in stage one who said that they used low water levels and (I think) high nutrient, there was also a farmer who said that he had only a dead tree to show for his farming skills. The only village farmer in phase two is the one who killed his tree (I'm pretty sure its the same one, the informative farmer was outside the village walls and the failed farmer is in the same spot he was but I didn't note the name).

Another farmer said something about how the land had been lush but the Nightsisters had cursed them. Or something like that. I don't think that these guys are anything to do with this plant but I could be wrong, especialy if various people can confirm getting diferent responses, perhapse at diferent times of the day or something?

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Nameste wrote:

I'd bet my last credit that music has no effect (but people have tried stranger things).

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A guild mate and I tried 'nice gardner, nasty gardner', it didn't have noticable effects but I guess it would only effect weak minds ...

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TitanDragon wrote:

sometime it changed from very slow to wilting and back in 1 day without doing nutrient or water in

strange plant

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First thing to look for is that you don't accept the first /examine, the first time you do /examine after you enter the building the plant is often not loaded to the server and didn't update to its true condition, you can force an update by adding and subtracting a dose of water, that should give you a true indication of its status.

Next keep an eye on the exact levels of nutrient and water - remember that each catagory has two steps: you add two doses of water to go up from normal to moist and the plant can react diferently to 'normal +' than it does to 'normal'.

Finaly consider that the health of the plant can effect the conditions required for any particular growth rate. This can create a feedback loop...

OK so what can be happening is for example...

at 'good health'
your plant has say 'wilting' growth at Normal / Normal
So when the plant next updates it looses some health
Lets say it goes from 'good health' to 'fair' health
Now that can chage the requirements - so lets say in this instance with 'fair' health the plant has 'very slow' growth at normal / normal

So the next time the plant updates you get a rise in its health to 'good' and the growth rate will say 'very slow'.

At 'good' its growth rate will be 'wiliting' (if the levels are still normal / normal)
So the next time it updates it will loose condition and go to being 'fair' with 'wilting' growth rate.
It can See Saw between these until either you change the nutrients or it uses some.

Furthermore....
The 'feedback loop' can be triggerd by it using nutrients and water which can be dificult to detect (in the above example if it had been one dose above normal in each and then used one dose, you may not notice because it would still say 'normal / normal' but it would trigger the feedback loop because the plant reacts diferently to 'normal' and 'normal +').

This is how I curently understand the plant behaviour, I could of course be wrong

Message Edited by aachil on 10-02-2004 05:14 PM

Message Edited by Ciredor on 10-02-2004 07:15 PM

Message Edited by Ciredor on 10-02-2004 07:16 PM

Message Edited by Ciredor on 10-02-2004 07:23 PM

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BovineX wrote:

aw man, if you get any positive growth...

STOP SCREWING WITH IT, UNTIL IT GETS BETTER .

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Since the guy ended his post with the statement that he was going to stop messing with it since it was growing, I don't think you needed to shout your "helpful" advice since he was already doing that

Good to know about the inventory. I need to travel for a while and was dreading the fact that I was going to have to ask a friend to care for a plant. I'll give it a shot and post if I have the same "suspended animation".

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aachil wrote:

The only village farmer in phase two is the one who killed his tree (I'm pretty sure its the same one, the informative farmer was outside the village walls and the failed farmer is in the same spot he was but I didn't note the name).

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Angof wrote:

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TitanDragon wrote:

hi all

got mine plant now for 6 day's on near death

everything i try i get always growth lvl on verry slow or wilting

i keep the water lvl on below normal

and the nutrient lvl on above normal now for 3 days and nothing changed on the health lvl

i got some food with a PE of 1000

and some water with DR 973

OQ 993

enny1 now a solution plz tell me

wath i'm doing wrong .....................

note : i got plant now nearly 3 weeks and never i got healt above GOOD

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As i said in an earlier post if its growing AT ANY RATE dont touch it. very slow growth will go up a level every 4 days ish so just leave it to grow like a real life plant.

So if you love it, leave it alone

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well thx i got it finaly on sevely wilted (not so good )

but it is going beter :

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Ciredor wrote:

Just trying to clarify...your plant's needs changed from one Village Phase to the next but the plant itself did not grow into another phase (e.g. small to Aurillian or Aurillian to large)?

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thats right yes it didnt change to a medium just the requirements changed.