:: Pricing Suggestions :: Item/Rank/Feature: Wheat Data Value: The Item ID of wheat is 59 and the data value is 0-7 Current Price: 0.60 each Suggested Price: 1.00 - 1.25 Brief Description: 1. Plant crop 2. Wait about a half hour - hour for it to grow 3.harvest crop by hand 4.replant all the crops that you have just harvested Open Discussion: Unlike melons and pumpkins, wheat is one of those crops that everyone can harvest for a little extra ECD. When a player starts on the server they really only have 2 options to make money in the current market, 1 is going to the mining world (which if they have started close to the end of the month there is nothing really in the mining world) or to try to get a job with someone to make a little money. With the current market on wheat a new player that buys a 10x10 plot and builds a 4 level farm they are lucky to get about 194.4 ECD for about 20 - 30 minutes of work. In the proposed price increase a player could get around 324 for that same 20 - 30 minutes of work. Also because wheat, unlike pumpkins and melons, has to be replanted and as such not everyone would be willing to harvest a large area just because of how long it takes to harvest and replant the farm.
I have 1000 herbalism so like all the wheat replant itself so my profits are much larger them a person with low herbalism. But yes a small increase is needed.
From the last, granted rather inefficient test I conducted with wheat, it made about 10500/hour making use of Mcmmo benefits for it. Using the revised method for a similar crop I farm, it underwent a 16.6% increase in efficiency. So that'd give wheat 12.25k/hour. So I think a little bump might be in order given only the top echelon can farm at that efficiency anyways and 12.25k/h shies in comparison with Melon farming, which is surprisingly less costly than all the requirements for the method I have in mind.
