Game Guides Archive
Thread: Aurilian Plant Care
AlayaDArk
Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:23 am
#456
I'm coming with you for the contest Angof.
6 weeks and my plant is still small...
MalLorin
Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:44 am
#457
Angof, I was considering putting in a ticket myself. Maybe I still will.
My nutrients and water drop a level independently of each other, the time varies for each between 24-48 hours - it does not seem to be the same amount of time, even though I'm always using the same resources. When water drops a notch, my plant does not change from very slow growth. When nutrients drop a notch, it either stays at very slow growth or drops to no growth. I guess that just depends on whether the update timer comes around before I come around to add a dose of nutrients.
If it is doing what it is supposed to do, then the programmers are sadistic @$$&$. Bleh. If it ever does evolve to medium, I had better be able to get more than very slow growth, or I'm going to be launching it out of my YT1300 and using it for target practice.
BlueTygur
Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:14 am
#458
I'm still looking for more info on the behavior of the large plants, so keep the info coming!
My large plant is in perfect health (drops to "full of life" when I mess up the settings). I have one combo that gives "slow" growth, and I am trying other settings to see if I can dobetter ... no luck so far.
From Ciredor's post above, it looks like the large plants DO give fruit at the "slow" growth setting, so maybe i should just leave it like that. I am afraid that every time it drops to "wilt" I may be losing out on fruits.
Does anyone know if the fruits appear more/faster if the growth rate is better than "slow"? It makes sense that it might. In that case it may be worth messing with it some more, to try and find the magic combo.
Ciredor
Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:44 am
#459
Since my plant hit large,I haven't fiddled with the settings, so its growth has remained at a constant "slow". What a few people have posted (especially worthy of note was the person who had a fruit producing large plant) is that no matter what they seem to try, since Phase 2 of the village started, their plants remain Slow or Very Slow and fruit production has slowed significantly as well.
Maybe the village phases are tied to the plant phases and all of our plants will be slow until phase 3 rolls around, no matter what we try to do.
I will be watching this one very closely, so for those out there frustrated, give your plants a few more days before you use them for target practice.
SlapmeSilly
Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:57 pm
#460
Lol, now this is just rather annoying.... I've had this plant since day 1 of the village, kept it at exactly the same levels this whole time, and it's STILL only a small plant.
It has maintained "perfect condition" and a very slow growth rate this entire time. I know we need to have patience but this is rediculous.
I think I got the runt of the litter 
AtomPolaris
Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:32 pm
#461
like to share this experience:
today my plant was wilting at very high water and nutrient lvls, was really mad cause of this (just got to aurilian plant though)
so high was bad, i then moved it down to the high lvl of the normal lvl for water and nutrients
and the plant went up one spot in health and from wilting to below normal growth, thats sweet....just gotta find how to please the dam* thing, all guessing
today my plant was wilting at very high water and nutrient lvls, was really mad cause of this (just got to aurilian plant though)
so high was bad, i then moved it down to the high lvl of the normal lvl for water and nutrients
and the plant went up one spot in health and from wilting to below normal growth, thats sweet....just gotta find how to please the dam* thing, all guessing
MalLorin
Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:44 am
#462
Well I just had an awful thought (don't have many good thoughts these days when it comes to these friggin plants): if the plants are tied to the village phases, what if they all die or stop fruiting entirely after we roll back to village phase 1 again? What if they only do their thing for one cycle of phases, and you have to get a new plant every time phase 1 comes back around?
Flucka
Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:01 am
#463
NanoCrystal
Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:17 am
#464
Flucka wrote:
Eloran wrote:
I finally have a piece of fruit from my plant. Clicky
duration 0mim 0sec?!?!?
Eat it! what happens? it looks like a heal for 1000 on each bar more than a stat enhance
MalLorin
Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:22 am
#465
Got an answer to my ticket (I requested someone to take a look at my plant and make sure it's behaving as it's supposed to) - the CSR said there is nothing they can do about the matter, and directed me to the message boards to read the game guide. Gee...thanks!
Ciredor
Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:05 am
#466
Think of the fruit like a damage stim, not a buff. For someone like me with no med at all, it comes in handy!
Eloran
Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:45 am
#467
NanoCrystal wrote:
Flucka wrote:
Eloran wrote:
I finally have a piece of fruit from my plant. Clicky
duration 0mim 0sec?!?!?
Eat it! what happens? it looks like a heal for 1000 on each bar more than a stat enhance
I believe it works more like a stim for all stats.....not an enhancement. So, if you're in battle and your bars are fading fast......then you can munch on this fruit and become healthy again..... I don't think I ever said it was an enhancement.
GarfBiocap
Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:56 am
#468
Patience may not be the answer...
You could be in a loop. The nutrient/water requirements are diferent at diferent health levels.
So imagine you check your plant at say noon each day it could be that your plant uses water and nutrient at say 6pm then goes to wilting due to this change. At 1am next day it drops condition to full of life. But the nutrient/water requirements are diferent at diferent levels so lets say that with Full of life condition it requires the new (lower) levels. It becomes Very slow growth and at say 9am it pops into Perfect condition again and then you check it - it says Very slow (the most recent rate of growth) and perfect, you top up the nutrient levels and the cycle repeats.
To break the loop you need to pay the plant more attention and be able to top up the nutrients imediatly they drop. Of course if you ignore it then chances are eventualy it will do a double update or something and the cycle will break.
This is just a posability of course, I don't know what is going on with your plant.
I may have to agree with you there. My large plant has dropped from normal growth to very slow. I ran out of my regular nutrients, Hi-Q berries, to beans. The beans have low flavor, but the rest of the stats are comparable to the berries I was using. I have also not paid the plant as much attention during the last week. So either it is the nutrients I used, or the attention I have not been giving it.