100509-gathering-circles-and-limiting-what-can-be-taken

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I've been told that a character can only have one gathering node (excluding gardens, of course), so someone couldn't have a Mining and Relic node on the same character anyway. Putting my garden on a separate alt, but in order to have ht tier4 garden, I'd have to grind him up past lvl15 - I believe you need lvl45 for a tier 4 node, so it's a bit more than just a quick grind to 15 if I wanted a garden my circle couldn't hit. I haven't had a big issue with it myself - I've only had circle members hit my garden once, when I think someone accidentally hit my garden because it is beside the relic node. I've heard some folks have used decor to create walls - I think such a solution would keep honest folks honest and prevent accidental farming, but I don't feel like a "per node" sharing selection is an unreasonable request or one that would take a lot of resources to implement.


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Ah, gotcha. I thought there was some way to definitively know even at peak times. My Neighborlist is pretty well populated, and even at 2AM, there are about 7 or 8 folks online. Even if I were to ask all of them, I'd have to know who is being honest. I suspect whoever is hitting my gardens wouldn't be honest. Also, It might happen ion the times when I'm away form the game. (The solution there is only planting at the start of my gameplay, but I'm not sure I like that limitation.)


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Actually I joined the circle in order to help me level up my gathering skill as either a relic node hunter or miner. I didn't do it to get more resources while I'm away. And the issue with the garden is that it's kind of lossy: I may get some of the plants but not the seeds. I'd care less if I got seeds for every time it got hit, but the gardens don't auto-regenerate, so if someone comes and hits my farm, those plants don't come back and now I get more. I have to plant the seeds every time. And I can tell you that no one who is hitting the plants on my farm is replanting. With a mining or relic fab kit, the nodes come back on their own on a timer, it costs me nothing other than the original fab kit. The seeds and plants either cost me time to get them from the AH or to go out in the world and farm them. And bladeleaf is a *cupcake* to farm. Also, I have no way of knowing who is hitting my farm, since all the mail comes from Mr. Rotostar, and not the player himself or herself. So ideally this would be a change (if they don't want to make it so that I can just turn off the ability so that others can farm my plants) that would help and then I can just un-neighbor them.


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