Jagex, embarrassed of farming?

Sk8er4567 · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 1:32 am

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Coal Miner20
12 Aug 2005 22:07

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Fist-off, let me say that if this is against the rules, then mods please lock it at any time. Also, not quite sure what forum this goes in.

Ok, now to get to the good stuff.As you do or don't know, Jagex recently had a poll of what people thought of the farming skill. Well, the results aren't what Jagex might have hoped for, meaning most of the votes were either farming isn't for me or I like farming but not speaking it or something along the lines of this. This poll lasted 2 days, the shortest poll ever. The point of this thread however, is that if you click on that poll it says: Poll is currently not availible to see or something like that. Could it be that Jagex made a crummy (in my opinion anyway, I'm not trying to put down the people who like farming in any way) skill that they got red-faced over, and they hid the results of the poll.
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What do you think?

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Thanks for reading,
Coal Miner20

EDIT: Had to re-spell sell to see.

Another edit: I posted in recent events as the poll I am talking about was updated today. If it's the wrong forum, mods please do what nees to be done.

Now please read on to the third post.

Last edited by Coal Miner20 on 13 Aug 2005 06:07
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Coal Miner20
12 Aug 2005 22:09

This is the current poll.

What do you enjoy most about quests?
-Exploring New Areas
-Fighting Monsters
-Learning Story Lines
-Gathering Items
-Watching Cut Scenes
-Solving Puzzles
-Seeing Skills in Action

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Now, this is an interesting poll, to help Jagex make better and more enjoyable quests...the thing is...take a look at this other poll released on 29 March of this year:

What do you enjoy the most during a quest?
-The new monsters and/or big boss
-The puzzles
-New areas on the world map
-The story line
-Adventuring the world map
-Continuous story lines
-Applying your skills to a quest

Hmm...you see any resemblance? So why would they make, pretty much an already done poll, just two days after a new one had been released?

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Credit to Priorio for this information.

To me, now it looks like Jagex is putting up an exucse for a poll just to have one up because they hid the farming one?

Everyone thought growing there own tree was going to be 1337

They have to change the entire skill completely.. theres no way to make money unless you have 82 herblore + 70 farming.

It was a good idea, but when they added it into the game it didnt work at all... its like firemaking, but firemakings better :lol:

What do you think?

Adbot · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 1:32 am

Geniestreich · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 6:14 am

Farming is fine! There is nothing wrong with it and you can make bundles of money if you took the time to thieve the seeds from the Master Farmer. Ranarr seeds you can get around like 7 herbs from an herb plant when done (super compost or something) and theres 3 easily reached. Normally you get 3 or 4 so even so u get 12 ranarrs. 60k for 1 hour and most of the times u dont even have to be there to watch over them! Farming gives us those awesome poisons and stuff. Okay it might be boring but its a side skill. Bored of watching crops? Make a farmer do it for you! Cant make a farmer watch over crops for you? Plant herbs, bushes, trees, and fruit trees!

Sick and tired of "Blah blah farming is bad i have to wait 1 hour to get a 1 lvl. I hate farming blah blah ban blah farming blah blah blah"

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wildrice · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 7:29 am

Geniestreich wrote:

Sick and tired of "Blah blah farming is bad i have to wait 1 hour to get a 1 lvl. I hate farming blah blah ban blah farming blah blah blah"

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Yeah, I am tired of hearing all of the complaining as well. I will admit that farming is not my favorite skill but it is not that bad to train at all. Like Geniestriech was saying there are many crops that do not require you to stand around and water them. I for one am 42 farming and happy that I can grow ranarr and the other herbs because it will help me continue to train my herblore something I really havent done since getting 45 for legends. I say just be happy Jagex keeps giving us more to do for when we get bored with our favorite skills.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 7:38 am

Not at all. They had thousands of results..what more reason did they need to keep it up there for? Also about the repeat poll thing..jagex are getting hundreds if not thousands of members sign up..and over the past four months ALOT can change..that's my guess..what's to be ashamed of? Thousands still liked the skill. Also:

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They have to change the entire skill completely.. theres no way to make money unless you have 82 herblore + 70 farming.

Out of sheer curiosity..how would someone whos not even in the highscores for farming know if it's good for money or not? Tell me if im wrong but i planted 4-5 rannaar weed bushes and ended up with 40-50 ranaars..that's bad?! I think not.

Sabre Treky · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 8:57 pm

In reply to Geniestreich;

50k an hour might sound like alot, but if you look at it, it's not alot. 50k an hour is like getting 50 logs of magic trees, which isn't really alot of logs.

Now, if you have the patients to get the high Farming level required for Ranarrs, you've probably have got a higher woodcutting, which then, you would be wasting your time with making money off farming since you could just be gcutting for magic/yew logs. Also, if it takes an hour to grow maybe 7 Ranarrs or whatever, you could just go kill things like Shadow Warriors or Chaod Druids and get the same amount AND more of herbs in less then 20 minutes.

While I'm at it, even the tree aspect of farming isn't really great. The only good trees to plant that are worth it are maybe yew trees, and magic trees because everything else can be found in big quatities all over RS. And since you can only grow one tree in each spot, the tree wouldn't last very long so you'd have to wait for it to spawn, where as, if you were at, say.... magic tree tower, west of the legends guild, you'd have 4 trees to work with, instead of only one tree.

Personally, I'd pick 5 minutes walking over to the magic trees near the legends guild where there are four trees, then training for 7 days Straight to get one magic tree.

Sk8er4567 · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 9:13 pm

Thank you Sabre Treky! That is pretty much what I wanted to say.
I have tried farming, after 21 I found no reason to raise it anymore

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They have to change the entire skill completely.. there's no way to make money unless you have 82 herblore + 70 farming.

Change the skill, not remove it or replace it with something else.
Change as in making more connections to other skills.

Slayer is basically a fun way of training combat.. You can train all combat stats with that skill and end up making millions at the end.

Farming should be like that, Something that would be used.. yes the necklace of nature ( whatever it is

) Lets you know if your crops are Finished/dead/diseased but at 75 farming it would take quite awhile to obtain a magic seed by yourself and isn't much of a reward for all that work

There should be a reason to train it just like slayer. Something like the whips but more natural

I did not post the first post on the official forum the quote was taken from the official rs forums soon after they removed the poll so do not flame me for writing that as I did not. :evil:

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Out of sheer curiosity..how would someone whos not even in the highscores for farming know if it's good for money or not? Tell me if im wrong but i planted 4-5 rannaar weed bushes and ended up with 40-50 ranaars..that's bad?! I think not.

Not bad at all, but I still think there are many other ways to make money in runescape, With your stats 300k in an hour and 10 minutes dosnt seem like much

Adbot · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 9:13 pm

Sabre Treky · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 9:20 pm

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Out of sheer curiosity..how would someone whos not even in the highscores for farming know if it's good for money or not? Tell me if im wrong but i planted 4-5 rannaar weed bushes and ended up with 40-50 ranaars..that's bad?! I think not.

Not bad at all, but I still think there are many other ways to make money in runescape

Sorry, but your facts are wrong, and I'm pretty sure you didn't actually do that.

There are only 4 places to plant herb plants, and they aren't bushes.

And also, the max for a herb plant is around 6-7 per plant, not 10.

And don't forget the cost of runes for teleportation, plus you still must watch over the plants because of diesease.

Rocket2004 · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 9:42 pm

jagex got owned lol

robert91488 · **Posted:** August 14th, 2005, 11:22 pm

I got it to 30 to get it on the highscores...then I only continued to get rid of my 4 willow tree seeds....I can't wait for them to change it. I dunno wtf they were thinking....

Lisaz · **Posted:** August 15th, 2005, 12:24 am

i cant say anything good or bad but i think farming is like other skills... we dont need to flame it becouse its very tuff to train it.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** August 15th, 2005, 12:45 am

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Out of sheer curiosity..how would someone whos not even in the highscores for farming know if it's good for money or not? Tell me if im wrong but i planted 4-5 rannaar weed bushes and ended up with 40-50 ranaars..that's bad?! I think not.

Not bad at all, but I still think there are many other ways to make money in runescape

Sorry, but your facts are wrong, and I'm pretty sure you didn't actually do that.

There are only 4 places to plant herb plants, and they aren't bushes.

And also, the max for a herb plant is around 6-7 per plant, not 10.

And don't forget the cost of runes for teleportation, plus you still must watch over the plants because of diesease.

Which is why i said 4-5 because i did it hmm..over 2 weeks ago? It was a guess one that - now i look back on was pretty off it is more like 30-40..which is STILL very good. To correct you though..it's actuley 6-8. Teleportation..err..didn't cost me anything..due to runecrafting..and ANYONE can easy afford a few hundred law runes..there really not that exspensive. No need to watch over them really..as long as you treat the soil most if not all make it with me. About your earlyer money point saying it's not worth it:

1) Not all skills are about money

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2) The secret is you pay your farmer to look after them or just leave them..and go away and do something ELSE. That way you're growing those AND cutting magic trees..double the money.

fuzzball · **Posted:** August 16th, 2005, 1:02 pm

well,i would enjoy farming but these idiots kept yelling i hate farming!farming sucks!blah blah yadda yadda.At least you guys are doing it calmly. :roll:

besides,why do you have to make money with every skill?the point of runescape is to meet people and have fun,right?

basicly im just agreeig with geneistreich and creepybacon.

silentcrisis · **Posted:** August 18th, 2005, 10:48 pm

Geniestreich wrote:

Sick and tired of "Blah blah farming is bad i have to wait 1 hour to get a 1 lvl. I hate farming blah blah ban blah farming blah blah blah"

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i have evry rigth to hate farming espicaly when i have to wait an hour for cruddy patoes to grow which i have no use for to begin with

it took me 3 hours to get up to lv 9 farming and that was 3 hours too many
firemaking was way better than farming and i hate that too but at least its usefull

trekkie · **Posted:** August 18th, 2005, 11:10 pm

i got 30 farmiung to get on the high score. now it's like bushes and fruits trees where i keept getting exp from picking them. also from guthix mini game and that's about it. i barly farm farm and if i am i just weed everywhere

Geniestreich · **Posted:** August 19th, 2005, 12:49 am

Sabre Treky wrote:

In reply to Geniestreich;

50k an hour might sound like alot, but if you look at it, it's not alot. 50k an hour is like getting 50 logs of magic trees, which isn't really alot of logs.

Now, if you have the patients to get the high Farming level required for Ranarrs, you've probably have got a higher woodcutting, which then, you would be wasting your time with making money off farming since you could just be gcutting for magic/yew logs. Also, if it takes an hour to grow maybe 7 Ranarrs or whatever, you could just go kill things like Shadow Warriors or Chaod Druids and get the same amount AND more of herbs in less then 20 minutes.

While I'm at it, even the tree aspect of farming isn't really great. The only good trees to plant that are worth it are maybe yew trees, and magic trees because everything else can be found in big quatities all over RS. And since you can only grow one tree in each spot, the tree wouldn't last very long so you'd have to wait for it to spawn, where as, if you were at, say.... magic tree tower, west of the legends guild, you'd have 4 trees to work with, instead of only one tree.

Personally, I'd pick 5 minutes walking over to the magic trees near the legends guild where there are four trees, then training for 7 days Straight to get one magic tree.

Umm..farming is a side skill. You can fletch, train, or practically do anything you want while your herbs are growing. So 50k an hour of doing something else is good. Like u log on every hour or so and pick up ranarrs and plant ranarr seeds you get 50k per hour even tho ur not even on for an hour!

Trees are an okay idea, not perfect tho. And i have a decent wc lvl, but im not doing farming just for the trees. Farming and Herblore are connected just like Woodcutting and Fletching is.

Like i said, its a side skill. You can do whatever you want. Its an ADDED bonus. I can be ranging and every hour i stop by the herbs pick em up and plant new herbs. Wa la! I get range xp plus make some money at the same time without any effort.