Hello and I hope that you are all well.
I have recently purchased two garden plots for my home instance and it is working good, but there is something weird with that gathering node.
NOTE: I know that only I can farm ascended plants (seeds) and nobody else can. And that is still bad. Change it.
Anyways, I have planted some regular basic seeds from my gardener in the home instance. They can be gathered by everyone.
Here's what happened:
1st test: A friend and I were in a party and we went to Rata Sum. She farmed the nodes from 3 of my garden plots before I farmed them for this day (daily). She had no issues.
2nd test: Another friend later joined me in the party and we went to Rata Sum as well. I farmed only 1 garden plot while being in the instance with her. She farmed 2 remaining garden plots (I still didn't farm those) and she farmed them with no issues. She even saw the nodes I farmed as "growing crops" and she was able to farm them. Strange, right?
3rd test: I've had 4 of my friends in the party 60 minutes ago and we went to Rata Sum. I had previously farmed the remaining 2 garden plots (all 3 garden plots farmed for me by this point) and they all saw them as "growing crops" and couldn't farm any of them.
Now you tell me:
1st test's question: How was that friend able to farm them all before I farmed them?
2nd test's question: How was the other friend able to farm the "growing crops"?
3rd test's question: How were the last 4 friends not allowed to farm "growing crops"?
Are we missing something? Is this a bug? I love letting people farm my home (friends, strangers or friends of friends) because it is super useful for them and I never charge any of them. I will never do that, even spending allot of time/money (in-game and real) on the nodes.
Please, read through this issue carefully, because I am not having fun. I feel like I spent the money on garden plots and I cannot let people farm them.
Have a nice day.
NOTE: This is what I sent to support yesterday and they said (this is an excerpt from their answer): "I'm afraid we do not have any additional information on how gathering from these garden plots work."
This is not what I wanted to see.
They also said that I should post it on the forum, so I did.