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List of seeds and saplings is systematized.
So...
The new "systematised" seed list is a mess...
Like sure before was not much better. But I mean...
At least we had years of muscle memory built up to find where certain things are... now it's just... confusing????
Let us look at what the shop looks like in game right now....
Page 1: all the animals, okay fine.
But they are not even alphabetised? It's just randomly listed....
Like, you can choose either Left-to-Right-reading-by-line alphabetisation, or, down-each-column.... Just CHOOSE one please...
That would be the first thing I'd consider when making something "systematic".
To add to that, YAMS appears??? 'Y' is the second to last letter of the English alphabet... Whatever, let's see the next page
I guess if we saw YAMS, we are going to see FARMING prof. stuff next page, right
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NOPE Page 2 has Rare-grade saplings... oh and these too are not alphabetised... and no distinction between the FRUIT/SPICE tree for GATHERING versus trees used purely for LOGGING (i.e. those that you can
only cut down, you cannot "harvest" fruit/spice and leave the tree to regrow)
OH but look there is QUINOA at the very end...
SO I guess we have to follow this NEW theme of going by GRADE
?
SO the next page will have Rare grade seeds ? For farming... ????
Yes, fortunately page 3 does have rare grade seeds... non-alphabetised... and.. oh look no rhyme or reason distinguishing between FARMING prof. seeds and GATHERING prof. SEEDS...
Seems to be some trend going on with this...
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Page 3 also has... Grand grade Saplings... non-alphabetised... And no rhyme or reason splitting up saplings that are used PURELY for LOGGING, or, saplings that have a product that you get from GATHERING.... just all chucked together.... yet again....
Not only that, but, wouldn't it make MORE sense to group all the saplings together??? I don't care how you sort the saplings among themselves but, to split them up the saplings and then switch to seeds inbetween then back to saplings that doesn't make sense at all...
And I'll say it again, PLEASE make a distinction between the LOGGING prof. trees and the GATHERING prof. trees, it's REALLY annoying to have all the saplings jumbled together.... Like SURE you COULD cut down the fruit trees for Logging but... why
?
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Well then lets go look at the FOURTH page: continuing with rare grade saplings with no alphabetising... fruit and logging trees randomly dispersed between each other in the list...
and then... grade grade seeds with... no alphabetising...
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Fifth page... more of the same just weird order of stuff... all the aqua farming items just APPEAR here for no reason...
On the other had for these aqua farming items, I guess we're not trying to follow the example set before things of HIGHER rarity grade appear first... so why is Antler and Pearl Oyster, White Coral, and Blue Coral (on page 6 for the last two) on tail end of aquafarming ...
?
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Page 6 probably the WORST.. Worm compost out of nowhere, and then VITA SEED. the VITA SEED should be on the same page as the ANIMALS cause you use it for RAISING PETS and MOUNTS... which is something you associate with ANIMALS, don't you ????????
It should be where the frickin' YAMS is on the FIRST PAGE to make things neater following....
Then of course we have Basic grade seeds in what looks like random order and AGAIN no distinction between FARMING prof. seeds and GATHERING prof. seeds....
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Page 7, MORE seeds and same old story as before no alphabetisation and no distinction between FARMING prof. and GATHERING prof. seeds
Furthremore, the list turns back into ... SAPLINGS ??????? WOOOOOW
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Then Page 8.... just saplings huh... WAIT. COTTON SEED??? XDDDDDDD Honestly I'm not sure what to expect anymore....
And the same old story and same old story as before no alphabetisation and no distinction between LOGGING prof. and GATHERING prof. saplings
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Page 9... Actually makes some sense. It's all seeds/saplings for the stuff that would usually only either be found in the Wild, or, from a Farmer's thatched house
Would be nice to be alphabetised though just for housekeeping sake.
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All in all you can see that I've demonstrated how CRAZY the new "systematised list" of seeds is....
I do not agree with listing/group things by the item rarity grade at all... It just does not make ANY SENSIBLE ... SENSE at all and causes saplings/seeds to be fragmented from one another.
Like if I want to look at SAPLINGS only they should be all in one sort of "Group" - doesn't have to be ONE page but they should all appear in successsion to one another...
Same for SEEDs and AQUA FARMING and ANIMALS>
Furthermore, within for example the SAPLING group there should be a distinction between the GATHERING saplings for which the primary product is FRUIT/SPICES, and the LOGGING saplings for which the primary product is LOGS....
Like SURE you could cut fruit trees but... why ....
And again, ignore the GRADE of the item... just do it alphabetically.... That way you just go
okay hmm I want uhhh LEMON sapling... SHould be easy to find since it will be with all the OTHER
fruit/spice "gathering" trees, AND
in alphabetical order.
or HMM I want... CEDAR sapling.... it will be with the
"logging" trees...
Then for the SEEDS group them by FARMING or GATHERING and do alphabetic within each IGNORING ITEM GRADE.
And OF COURSE, leave the "stuff that would usually only either be found in the Wild, or, from a Farmer's thatched house" as its own section... on the last page... easy to get to.
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Edit: after some investigation it seems that this UGLINESS is only in the FARMER'S MERCHANT CUSHION shop
The SEED/SAPLING MERCHANTS standing around are... "fine"
They are still plagued by the issue of
GROUPING BY ITEM GRADE -- WHY? HARDER TO FIND IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE GRADE?????????
and
NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FARMING v GATHERING seeds,OR LOGGING v GATHERING saplings
Like why have Basic Seeds, then Grand Seeds, Rare Seeds, Arcane Seeds, then, BASIC saplings, Grand Saplings, Rare saplings, Arcane saplings, BASIC Aqua farming, Grand Aqua-farming GRAND Animals, Rare Animals and then FINALLY worm compost.
Is there meant to be no Basic Animals cause you can get them at the Livestock Merchant ?
Why not just MOVE the Animals ALL to the Livestock Merchant... Rather than having them split up like this...
At least the FARMER Cushion, has all the animals... just in the NON-sensical order that I wrote about earlier....
Please Please Please PLEASE CONSIDER reworking the list again by:
- grouping Seeds/Saplings by PROFICIENCY --> this does not mean you should SPLIT up saplings to place them in separate Gathering v Logging categories
- IGNORING ITEM GRADE for GROUPING
- SPLITTING between GATHERING v FARMING or GATHERING v LOGGING for Seeds and Saplings respectively.
Example of order/grouping: (for Farmer's Merchant Cushion; modify as required for the Seed and Sapling Merchant)
ANIMALS alphabetised
FARMING SEEDS alphabetised
GATHERING SEEDS alphabetised
GATHERING SAPLINGS alphabetised
LOGGING SAPLINGS alphabetised
AQUA FARMING alphabetised
WILD/THATCHED ONLY ('arcane grade') alphabetised