With croppers automatically selling crops now, profit shops have effectively been removed from the game. These were great in helping new players to make a start in the game and without them it is a lot harder.

I’m suggesting a cropper feature that would allow the owner to right click and set the payee for that cropper.

The owner would have 3 options.
1. Owner (default)
2. Closest
3. Choose player.

Owners could set the cropper in a room that closes when a player walks in (as casinos do) and that player would be the closest and get paid.

Or they could rent the cropper out to an individual by ‘Choosing’ that player.

 

We already can have croppers "choose players", that players simply had to place the crop hopper. A feature I think should be added, is that the croppers earn profits for the player that placed them even if the player is offline as long as someone is loading the cropper. It would make sense then that the fsrms are loaded but the player doesn't earn if they aren't online. All setting it to closest would do, is create a scenario where players try to island bypass your closed limits, to try access other croppers and lush players out the way from them. Ideally we could have a farm toggle option to let us collect our crops again.

 

I like the option to have it the way you want it. This is a feature that would let players have their croppers their way, and it would att more customisation of how to earn money which I like.

 

Agree with regard to choosing a player, in fact I’ve already been doing that by having them place croppers.
I’ve also effected ‘closest’ with my ‘free money profit shop’
I dont know if players should be able to earn money while offline. I could set up a massive mob grinder on my island to bring players there and never log in again and I would get richer and richer.

 

That's a fair point, I get it, but then compare that to say a shop where the owner isn't always working, but still receives shop profits. If someone visits through my island and loads crop hoppers, that farm is actively earning money except noone gets thatoney if the crop owner is offline. As you say about players staying on the farm all day and you getting richer, is that not how they used to work when players could afk sell from your cropper farms even if you weren't online ?

It would mean that the island owners can earn actual income from their farms that benefit other people then too. And it could create a way to have an alt load your farms, whilst you work on the other server for example, a good way to increase earnings since the vote rewards stopped giving us rewards for every server.

Yes players could alt abuse by leaving an account on whilst they're offline, but that would be no different to leaving the main online over night afk. And it would only give earnings when the fsrm is loaded and stop when its unloaded from other players visiting here and then.


Having croppers set to closest, would only encourage players to abuse the perms and steal profits fro other players. Like when they used to stand in another players spot. Great idea, not much practicality there though I feel

 

That is how they used to work, but I suspect that they don't want it to work that way which is why it is what it is now.
And yes your farms are growing crops and going to noone, maybe they are going to the same place taxes go? Taxes are meant to go towards providing service for the community.

That's a small issue that is resolved by island banning offenders. I don't see it happening too often.

 

Thank you for creating a suggestion!
Unfortunately after looking at it we have decided that we will not be adding this feature. We felt like this would not be possible or needed in-game, so your suggestion has been declined. Feel free to create a new suggestion, we're always looking for new additions!
This thread has been locked and moved to Server Gameplay Suggestions Archive.