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Do Cocoa Beans need a price increase?

Poll closed Apr 10, 2013.

  1. Yes, to $1-2 EcoDollars.

    3 vote(s)
    16.7%

  2. Yes, to $0.50-0.75 EcoDollars.

    6 vote(s)
    33.3%

  3. Yes, to $0.25-0.50 EcoDollars.

    5 vote(s)
    27.8%

  4. The prices are fine as they are now.

    3 vote(s)
    16.7%

  5. No, decrease to $0.01-0.09.

    1 vote(s)
    5.6%

  6. RandomVotefortehloz.

    4 vote(s)
    22.2%
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  1. baguy3000AR Builder
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    Item/Rank/Feature:
    Cocoa Beans!

    Data Value:
    351:3

    Current Price:
    $0.10

    Suggested Price:
    $0.50-0.75

    Brief Description: You obtain this item by farming it, like any other crop.


    Open Discussion: Oh, cocoa beans. You are so precious to me. Why do they need a price increase? First, cocoa beans are only found in the very rare/very occasional spawn shop, in jungles, or dungeons. They are not as common as pumpkin seeds, melon seeds, wheat seeds, or sugar cane, which the crop for each are worth more than the crop for cocoa beans. Also, the jungle wood is either obtained from a jungle, which you have to travel a ways out to find, or bought from the spawn shop, which is very expensive. Finally, you have the materials to make a cocoa farm. Now, you have to build a large wooden tower to make a platform for planting, not to mention after placing a ton of jungle wood in a wall pattern. After finishing making the wooden platform, which you need several of them and at least a stack of ladders, you have to wait for them to grow, which fortunately only takes as long as pumpkins. Finally, you have to go up the ladder, start on one row of seeds, and farm straight down for every single row on that wall. A very efficient way to farm them is with Water, but remember, Water is a donation feature.

    See how much time and work is put into making and expanding a cocoa farm, yet for so little profit? Overall, I strongly believe that cocoa beans need a price increase. Thanks for reading, and don't forget to vote!
     
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    #1 baguy3000AR, Apr 7, 2013

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    +1 i see what your saying, and i have a quite large cocoa bean farm myself, but i normally turn them into cookies, but i think it should be raised to. :)
     
    #2 yokeby52, Apr 7, 2013

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    Its easy, just get one and you can get many! If you have bonemeal, then its easyer
     
    #3 AndroidNougat, Apr 7, 2013

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    Bump :D
     
    #4 baguy3000AR, Apr 7, 2013

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    I have never really farmed coco beans except when I was a builder but you never see people farming it so I think that it really dosen't need a price increase.
     
    #5 CapitanRedRoach, Apr 9, 2013

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    I personally would like them to be increased, but if they get increased too much, there would be problems. the economy would fall apart with too much money, there might be an increase in server lagg with people using massive auto-water cocoabean farms to get money. I don't think we need it, and I agree with what frenchhornplayer said above.
    Also, they would become incredibly popular if the price did get increased, and andrewkm would probably nerf them due to too much money/(lagg?).

    ~4tee
     
    #6 4tee, Apr 10, 2013

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    You all bring very good points to the table.... however, remember when fish went from $5 to $50? Sure, fish eventually had to be nerfed (not because of pricing but autofishers), but the economy didn't fall apart.
     
    #7 baguy3000AR, Apr 11, 2013

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    That's probably because you can't get an Eff V Fort III fishing rod...I could get a few double chests of pumpkins in an hour farming hard. That's more like a few months if you wanted that many fish.
    If you could farm fish as fast as you could melons or pumpkins, fish would be like 75 cents.
     
    #8 Intellectualist, Apr 11, 2013

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    Bump diddity bumpzorz!
     
    #9 baguy3000AR, Apr 15, 2013

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    +1 from me. I think that all the farmable crops should reach a similar profit. With cocoa beans only making $0.20 per full grown seed (including replanting) your not making whole lot of money. I use to farm cocoa seeds to make my money but after a little while i bought a perm at a farm dedicated town and just mined melons and pumpkins.
     
    #10 Pancakesplatter, Apr 15, 2013

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    Maybe cocoa beans do make as much money as pumpkins...
    Whens the last time you farmed at a 100x100 cocoa bean farm with a Fortune III Eff V Diamond Axe?
     
    #11 Intellectualist, Apr 16, 2013

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    when was the last time cocoa beans were expensive in shops? and just buy a jungle sapling for the wood
     
    #12 Monkeyz505, Apr 16, 2013

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    i havent, i use to have a giant 20x20 plot with cocoa beans, 3 blocks high, i made many stacks but still was only like $5 a stank i believe
     
    #13 Pancakesplatter, Apr 16, 2013

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    Buuuuummmp!
     
    #14 baguy3000AR, Apr 18, 2013

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    wow.
     
    #15 baguy3000AR, Apr 20, 2013

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    I think cocoa beans should go up. Not to some crazy price like $1-2, but something like $0.25. That way the user gets $0.50 for every grown cocoa bean, and more money can be made (in the long run)
     
    #16 Monkeyz505, Apr 22, 2013
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