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People cutting and clear wood trees

Let it be rememberer that a certain player is cutting down wood trees and, when told that these trees are rare and shouldn't be cut down (aka harvest and clear), saying "I do what I want!"

Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • No calling out players by name in the forums :( It's against the community guidelines. They are not rules, but strong suggestions, yet should still be followed :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If I could be so bold as to play devils advocate for a moment: What is the point of a rare tree? Why do we need these trees on public patches, if no one is allowed to harvest from them?

    Sure, harvesting from wood trees is more destructive than harvesting from other types, but if they aren't for harvesting then they are just a waste of space. If you want a wood tree to admire for its beauty, then raise one in your own house.
    Posted 14 months ago by MrGlass Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So? Plant another one. Ur is here for us all to change and grow and evolve. 
    Posted 14 months ago by Papa Legba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I understand. And i corrected that. No player's name anymore.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Lord Graham of Eli, For planting one wood tree you need to have Botany skill which some players, usually in an inferior level, don't have yet.
    I would plant it but at the moment I don't have that skill.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Buy a house & plant wood trees.
    Plant wood trees everywhere you can instead of other trees - they won't be so rare.
    Replant after you yourself waste the end of a tree.

    AFAIK you don't need to be a specific level to PLANT a tree, only to season the beans and they *are* avail on the auction house. Not to mention, you don't really need the wood at early levels so if there is a level requirement to plant that I just don't remember, then just wait until you can.

    You know, if this turns into another thing like the pigs, i may scream.
    Posted 14 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I worked hard toward the harvesting 151 wood badge today. I went around neighborhoods and molested some of your trees. But I never, not once, harvested and cleared. 

    If you wait five or ten minutes, the tree will let you water and pet it again, it'll grow to the next stage, and you can harvest that without clearing it. If you don't feel like waiting, move on to another tree. There are actually plenty out there now!

    I think it's wonderful to see wood trees in public and I hope to see more of them so everyone can get the wood harvester badges! =D
    Posted 14 months ago by Garney Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Join us in the Wood Tree Owners Association. We raise and maintain trees in our yards for use by the Glitches that need it for quests and such.
    Posted 14 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm a member of the Wood Tree Owners Association. My wood tree is at full health because I only harvest it when needed. Also, I gladly let others into my home to harvest my tree. 

    You can always get seeds from auction if you feel so strongly about the topic. I'll even send you some for free if you so desire.
    Posted 14 months ago by Papa Legba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or why don't you join the Vigilante Guardians of the wood trees?
    Posted 14 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And what is that the Vigilante Guardians of the wood trees do?
    I would rather join the Vigilante Arse Kicker of the stupid-selfish-arrogant glitch players.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • MrGlass, if wood trees are harvested when they are larger, they aren't destroyed by harvesting, and the larger they are grown (by frequent petting and watering) between harvests, the more wood they give at each harvest.  No one would say you shouldn't harvest public wood trees *at all*.
    Posted 14 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • MrGlass evidently doesn't know the difference between "Harvest" and "Harvest and Clear". :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe we should make a point to educate the newbies on the life span of a wood tree?

    Also, Kul Koba, check your mail. :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Papa Legba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My advice to those who want to preserve wood trees and prevent accidental clearing by people who cut down the last part of the tree:

    Carry Fertilidust Lite with you and use it every time you harvest a wood tree. This will cause the tree to "level up" back to where it was before you harvested it. You can also use it when you don't harvest a tree.

    Of course there's nothing we can do about people poisoning trees to clear them on purpose.
    Posted 14 months ago by Becky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Lord Graham of Eli , Thanks very much. :)
     I don't think i can't plat that yet though. I need to learn the right skill first.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kul, you don't have to have any skill to be able to plant any type of seasoned bean. You just have to have an empty patch and the bean. So you can plant wood trees yourself, so long as you buy beans on auction and have patches for them.

    You do have to have Botany to be able to kill other trees with poison so you can make an empty patch though.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had a wood tree in my yard at my old place.  I thought it was... interesting.   

    A few days ago I saw places where many cherry and bean trees had been replaced by wood trees.  I felt that was too bad.  The occasional wood tree is fine, but the planks aren't really good for much.  Better to have fruit and beans.  

    The best place for wood trees is in the quarters.  Groddle quarters typically have spaces for one or two trees on each block.  Most people ignore these on their way out to the wider world.  They're good places to plant wood trees and have them stay unmolsted. 
    Posted 14 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Actually, planting wood trees in residential quarters is no help for those of us trying to keep a few around.  There are various tools that people use to hunt those down and they end up getting cleared out as well.  There is no shortage of fruit or beans, so replacing a few of those for wood is good for maintaining bio-diversity.
    Posted 14 months ago by KhaKhonsu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Little Miss Giggles Got it, you are right!
    And thanks again Lord Graham of Eli!
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wood trees aren't rare.  There's 2x the amound of wood trees than spice.  There's 3x the amount of wood trees than paper.  There's 25% more wood trees than gas.  There's roughly the same number of wood trees than egg plants.

    Considering they're close to useless.  Who cares if they take a couple extra minutes to find?
    Posted 14 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ♥Linnaea♥,  are you using the data from http://glitch.alwaysdata.net/? Because that database includes Wood Trees in private yards. Use the one at http://zoggish.appspot.com/locations and you'll note that there are only 10 Wood Trees in public areas.

    EDIT: I just realized that you might be the Linnaea that made that database...
    Posted 14 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They are not in private yards.  They're in housing blocks and are accessible by everyone.
    Posted 14 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I see.
    Posted 14 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • People can do what they want. 
    I wish people on forums would stop whining about what other people do in game. 
    If an option's available to do in game, then you don't get to dictate that people can't do it, or decide it's 'wrong' and then have the nerve to call them out about it on forums. 
    Really, what on earth would make you behave in this manner?  

    If someone wants to clear a wood tree. They can. 
    As I've said before, unless you're staff here and have the ability to change how the game functions, then you don't get to make the rules!
    Sick of seeing people on these forums who think everyone should play their way. 
    As for the player saying "I do what I want". Well good! So he or she should! It's called playing the game.  
    Posted 14 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @♥Linnaea♥, I don't know how did you calculate that and how did you get that statistics, but anyway I can tell you that it is very easy to find gas and spice trees. Have you been looking in the right places for that?
    About being useless or not, I don't share the same opinion. I could say the same about bean trees or paper trees. But all them are useful.
    And when compared to paper, wood can be used for many things. You need wood not only for splanking and to sell but also for projects and even to cook.
    The only problem about the wood trees is that they are easily "killed". While the others you need poison and the Botany skill, these can be killed with the option "harvest and clear" available to everyone.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Ebil, sure... it's called "playing the game" - in a very "friendly" way. ;]
    I guess then Glitch should be renamed to SuperFarmville.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Farmville... The Revenge.
    Posted 14 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • two days ago i came to a wood tree on a street that had three.

    i fertilidusted ALL of them up to full level and went to harvest (but not clear) the last.

    some do-gooder came up to me and told me "don't hurt the trees".

    pfft.
    Posted 14 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I'm starting to get a bit irked at being told to do the 'right' thing either right before or right after I had just done that very thing because I wanted to. Which then makes me want to do terrible things* just as a knee-jerk reaction via my issues with authority and being told what to do. 

    Lean back in your chairs and take a deep breath, peoples. We know you love this game, we get it, now relax and breeeeathe.

    ________
    * Not that I would, I'm a goodytwoshoes kinda person who feels horrible and looks around all guilty for poisoning trees in my own yard, erk.
    Posted 14 months ago by Garney Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Is Fertlidust the only way to get a wood tree up to its full level?  I'm been watering and petting mine, with the help of a friend, and haven't harvested it at all, but it seems stuck.
    Posted 14 months ago by Leites Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Watering and petting will get it up there, too. I can't count the number of times mine has sprouted a branch after my careful petting.

    They only get about two trunk sections high with about four branches on it, so if your tree looks something like this, then you're doing it right, and there's not a bug. If it doesn't look similar to that, then there may be a bug, and you should report it.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wood trees take forever to get to full growth manually. Even longer now due to the recent tweaks.

    My two currants as someone who spends a fair amount of time planting small wood orchards on side streets: People who harvest & clear don't both me so much. HOWEVER, people who claim to want public wood trees, harvest at any level and then don't fertidust? That's what gets me. Shouldn't but it does.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Little Miss Giggles - that's what my wood tree looks like now.   You're saying that's as big as it is going to get (two sections with four branches)?   Kinda ugly looking.
    Posted 14 months ago by Leites Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yup, that's as big as it gets.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Flask & @Garney, it's VERY different to say "Don't do that." than "You shouldn't have done that, because..."

    And this is for EVERYONE here: Nobody is imposing anything. People still do whatever they want to do.

    Newbies sometimes do things because some lack of knowledge about how the game works. Even myself in the beginning, was cutting down these trees because I didn't understand that they can't be easier found in comparison to others, and that in the end I would also be affected by my own actions. The only concern i had was collecting wood - I didn't know.

    But it's bad when you try to kindly explain and the other answers back rudely. Should that, pure arrogance and rudeness towards to others, be considered also "I do as i want."? Fact is that I could, I can and everyone here can, be rude with all of you/us but I am not. And why? Because I am not here only to WIN the game but also to make friends. That's why I am playing Glitch and not "SuperFarmville 2 - The Revenge"!

    And that's all I have to say.

    EDIT: http://youtu.be/pipTwjwrQYQhttp://youtu.be/-Tx7nZt6BRo
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The fact of the matter is, this is an open world, sandbox game - where resources are free for all, and people are playing the game as intended. it might rain on your parade when you have trouble finding thing, but it isn't like you CAN'T find it. it isn't like you can't fix it. I don't get your comparison to farmville, I really don't.

    If i decided to cut down, even poison a tree, was that not what they gave us the tools to do? was that not the INTENDED gameplay? Yes, yes it is. The spice tree wars are EXACTLY what this game was intended for - we build, we destroy. it is a sandbox.

    I also think you confuse "blunt" with "rude" or "arrogant"

    EDIT after your edit: Ah and with your videos, i get it, you are a TROLL!!!! You know even charlie says he was being an ass with all that winning crap.
    Posted 14 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Pixieyelsraek I know how the game works, no need to explain me. :) Might sound contradictory for some, but I like the game as it is.
    No, I don't think I'm confusing the words. Rudeness can be the result of explicit arrogance... Some people can be blunt and therefore rude, but I don't think it's the case (obviously not 100% sure though).
    Farmville = the game where you do what you and to do and you play alone for yourself in one isolated farm, to have the best farm, planting, etc... (hope you got the point now).
    About trolling, I am not. Don't know what the real Charlie Sheen said after that, but many others Charlie Sheens (like that) keep existing among us, for sure.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kul's not a troll.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Vigilante Guardians Of The Wood Trees Of Ur are growing in numbers daily.

    Anyone with a desire to plant or protect wood trees is welcome to join us and affect just how vigilante (or not) this new group of like-minded Glitches becomes:
    www.glitch.com/groups/RHFMG...
    Posted 14 months ago by Helium Penguin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i havent seen any wood tree yet! where are they???
    Posted 14 months ago by mordashkina Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I suspect when they introduce the 'Home Improvement' options (customizing a house) that wood may become very useful.  It might even be worth stockpiling for when the new features come out.  I could be wrong, but I doubt it, because most stuff in Ur comes from crafting some raw material.  And wood is an important raw material that there isn't much purpose for at present but that exists for some reason.....  hmmm...

    So come January when the new features are rolled out, wood trees may become important to a lot of people.
    Posted 14 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I regularly poison a bean, bubble or fruit tree (just the odd one here and there - no tree wars!!) in an out of the way street, replace it with a wood tree and fertilidust it to adulthood.  I do it mainly because it's helps with xp and getting the planting/tending/bean seasoning achievements, but I also do it so there are more wood trees in public areas.  

    At home I use fertilidust to keep my wood trees healthy and I also carry around some fertilidust lite so that if I harvest a wood tree in a public place I can restore it to where it was before I harvested it, and perhaps grow it even further if possible.  It would be great if everyone could do that but the reality is some players don't have access to powders like fertilidust or don't care enough to use them anyway.  If I plant a wood tree in a public street I expect it to be gone 20 minutes later, I just hope at least one of the harvests might have been used by a player on the quest.
    Posted 14 months ago by spunsugar Subscriber! | Permalink