Farming A Useless Skill?

[Craven_Image]

If they adding livestock into farming I think it would make it much more interesting it would at least transform it from gardening into farming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Livestock and Farming

[Zonhottie]

actually its a very good skill but takes ages to get high...

[urza1488]

 

Yes, farming is worthless because it takes a long time to raise and the only good things that come from it are at high levels. Btw I bet runecrafting, herblore, and slayer are worthless as well, right? :roll:

 

 

 

runecrafting: death runes (blood later)

 

 

 

slayer: gran maul, whip, armoured boots, mistic.

 

 

 

herblore: high lvl pots...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fire making is more useless...

 

 

 

He was being sarcastic :oops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firemaking FTW :)

[Bloodveld]

 

Yes, farming is worthless because it takes a long time to raise and the only good things that come from it are at high levels. Btw I bet runecrafting, herblore, and slayer are worthless as well, right? :roll:

 

 

 

runecrafting: death runes (blood later)

 

 

 

slayer: gran maul, whip, armoured boots, mistic.

 

 

 

herblore: high lvl pots...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fire making is more useless...

I was being sarcastic :roll:

[horntail203]

Farming is GREAT!! its fun(for me at least ). I average 4-10 ranarrs per seed, which i buy for 8-15k. I sell ranarrs for 5k each, so i make a fairly nice profit, and my trees are great for woodcutting xp and fletching or fire making.

[1_dark_jedi]

farming does take forever but what alot of ppl dont realize is that you DONT HAVE TO STAND THERE and watch your plants grow. you can leave and periodically come back to water and/or anti-poisen your plants. if you're that worried about them, pay off the farmer to look after your crops.

 

 

 

Lower levels of farming, yes, are virtually worthless (potatoes, cabbage, ect) but, once you get into the higher lvls (mainly herbs and trees) farming can become very profitable.

 

 

 

If you have the patients to get your farming up high enough to grow a yew or maybe even a magic tree....imgaine the profit. a tree all to yourself. maybe a few trees all to yourself. no more switching worlds and areas to find yews and magics with little or no people at them...

 

 

 

also, growing herbs is very profitable. you can use the herbs to imporve herblore and sell potions or even just selling the herbs can quickly rack up some serious cash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so....final verdict.............

 

 

 

farming, definatley not usless...just requires time and patience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:twisted:

[r2-pleasent]

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you farm all 4 patches as say rannars u'll get about 40 - 60 rannars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

people can pay up to 2k for rannars from what i seen thts around 80k - 120k for 1 load of herbs whihc take 30mins to grow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd love to buy every ranaar you grow for 2k each :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they sell for more like 5-6k to be honest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I dont think anyone yeilds an average of 10-15 each harvest , nor any harvest at all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yea, paw your info on some things get skewed a little i think. no offense but ranarrs are triple that price.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

id seriously say, id get 24-35 herbs per patch. if they all lived. ant 25 ranarrs makes well over 100k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well my avergge yield is taken from what my friends have told me of what they get, when I ask them bout it cause they constanly try to buy all my herb seeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for rannar prices I said that as as minmum as I have never really traded in rannars and my only major exposure to them has been my merchanting friend trying to make a quick sale using his 'friend' prices where he offered at 2k each (shame I had no money then)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your friend should retire from Merchanting

[toastedspleen]

Farming is not worthless you can grow ranarrs (as already mentioned) and make pray pots and sell for 6k-6.5k each, or do barrows yourself and make tons more (maybe).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growing sweetcorn and cooking it gives you 104xp per corn. So if you have 1000 raw sweetcorn that's over 100k cooking XP right there for minimal effort. Then make the new tuna potato and use the food or sell it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A basket of strawberries heals 30, good for training.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And it is not slow, I went from 68-70 in 2 days. Of course it was expensive....

[urza1488]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you farm all 4 patches as say rannars u'll get about 40 - 60 rannars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

people can pay up to 2k for rannars from what i seen thts around 80k - 120k for 1 load of herbs whihc take 30mins to grow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd love to buy every ranaar you grow for 2k each :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they sell for more like 5-6k to be honest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I dont think anyone yeilds an average of 10-15 each harvest , nor any harvest at all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yea, paw your info on some things get skewed a little i think. no offense but ranarrs are triple that price.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

id seriously say, id get 24-35 herbs per patch. if they all lived. ant 25 ranarrs makes well over 100k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well my avergge yield is taken from what my friends have told me of what they get, when I ask them bout it cause they constanly try to buy all my herb seeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for rannar prices I said that as as minmum as I have never really traded in rannars and my only major exposure to them has been my merchanting friend trying to make a quick sale using his 'friend' prices where he offered at 2k each (shame I had no money then)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your friend should retire from Merchanting

 

 

 

:lol: So should R2. I mean, 15Cents of profit per felt hat? :oops:

[Sy_Accursed]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you farm all 4 patches as say rannars u'll get about 40 - 60 rannars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

people can pay up to 2k for rannars from what i seen thts around 80k - 120k for 1 load of herbs whihc take 30mins to grow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd love to buy every ranaar you grow for 2k each :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they sell for more like 5-6k to be honest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I dont think anyone yeilds an average of 10-15 each harvest , nor any harvest at all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yea, paw your info on some things get skewed a little i think. no offense but ranarrs are triple that price.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

id seriously say, id get 24-35 herbs per patch. if they all lived. ant 25 ranarrs makes well over 100k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well my avergge yield is taken from what my friends have told me of what they get, when I ask them bout it cause they constanly try to buy all my herb seeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for rannar prices I said that as as minmum as I have never really traded in rannars and my only major exposure to them has been my merchanting friend trying to make a quick sale using his 'friend' prices where he offered at 2k each (shame I had no money then)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your friend should retire from Merchanting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because he is willing to sell cheaper to his friends?

 

 

 

Because he was selling cheaper neway to make quick money for a deal?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Belive me if I show interest he drives a hard bargin

[zaun345]

Growing sweetcorn and cooking it gives you 104xp per corn. So if you have 1000 raw sweetcorn that's over 100k cooking XP right there for minimal effort. Then make the new tuna potato and use the food or sell it.

 

 

 

well if u have 1k raw sweetcorn... do u know how hard sweetcorn seeds are to get?

[Luke]

You can make a nice tub of money from it when you know how, trees own for woodcutting xp, and it also assists with other skills, i.e - herblore.

[trunksrs]

People say its useless cause they think they have to stand there watching them. I use super compost and get on with the game, stopping by 2 or 3 times a day to harvest and replant, and I very rarely hvae dead crops. I also use the flowers wich help. My patch in Catherby has nastriums, and combined with super compost, I have never had any watermelons die on me. My farming is 53 wich isnt that bad, but not that good. It is my highest ranking skill on the highscores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, the herbs and 2nd ingrediants you can grow bring in big bux if you sell them to pot makers. Also, baked potatoes (even though the butter takes FOREVER to make) can heal ALOT of damge, so being able to grow sweetcorn its a big plus.

[Silentone64]

farming gave us "super poison"...leading to dds's which alot every pker carry, i wouldnt say that's useless? :P

[toastedspleen]

well if u have 1k raw sweetcorn... do u know how hard sweetcorn seeds are to get?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since I steal all my own allotment seeds, and have 1.5K sweetcorn in the bank, yes I do... I'll estimate worst case...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

approx. 10 sweetcorn seeds per theiving session on the master farmer

 

 

 

1 theiving session is about 10 minutes

 

 

 

average of say... 10 corn per 3 seeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you need 100 crops * 3 seeds = 300 seeds for 1K sweetcorn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To get 300 seeds, it would take 30 theiving sessions at 10 minutes each = 5 hours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can grow 24 seeds at a time, so growth time is (300 / 24) * 55 = approx 11.5 hours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 hours + 11.5 hours = 16.5 hours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This concludes today's math lesson.

[nephite]

A little FYI:

 

Butter can be purchased after starting the new Recepie for Disaster Quest. The Bank Chest in Lumby basement sells them but only at a max stock of ten. A little world hopping and you're good to go.

[Rebdragon]

A little FYI:

 

Butter can be purchased after starting the new Recepie for Disaster Quest. The Bank Chest in Lumby basement sells them but only at a max stock of six.

 

[sarcasm]Gratz on the 3 month bump; I think you're ranked at about 50th in the Largest Bump League (decent bump but nowhere near the 2 year bump experts) Keep up the good work :mrgreen: . [/sarcasm]

[Zonhottie]

Farming, is everything except useless. I'm kind of fond for it and its really good herblore exp, iv gotten like 200 guams, 270 marrentil, 220 tarromin, and i still got about 200 seeds to plant... thats a hell load of exp..

[Fat_Slug]

A little FYI:

 

Butter can be purchased after starting the new Recepie for Disaster Quest. The Bank Chest in Lumby basement sells them but only at a max stock of six.

 

[sarcasm]Gratz on the 3 month bump; I think you're ranked at about 50th in the Largest Bump League (decent bump but nowhere near the 2 year bump experts) Keep up the good work :mrgreen: . [/sarcasm]

 

 

 

nowt wron g with his bump imo- he had some usefull info to contribute, so under the new rules here, his bump is perfectly fine.

 

maybe you should take a read of em before you come out with sarcastic remarks?

[12pure34]

back on topic after that short but stron message :P

 

Farming, usefull yes. But as many said, farming is not!

 

a) the best money making skill.

 

B) a skill where you have to stand around doing nothing.

 

 

 

What makes farming great, is that you can make money over time. While you can do other things, like runecrafting, cooking or herbloring if you like. Even mining and smithing is done, while people wait for their crops to be fully grown. Let's say you can make 300k with runecrafting per hour, which is decent. You can make another 100k by doing 10-15 minutes of farming your herb seeds before you go for an hour of abys. That is 100k in 10-15 minutes, which is more then your runecrafting average.

 

 

 

To my opinion, farming is a good skill, but mostly because it is something you do next to other skills. I would almost say: Phr33 M0n3Y Pl0x

[gildogg]

I find farming very useful and not nearly as boring as fishing or wood cutting. At least with farming you can walk away and do something else.

 

 

 

I have 2 of my own yew trees from farming, no more competing for logs anywere. If I want Yews I cut my own trees.

 

 

 

I grow all of my own herbs and limps for herblore. Without Farming my Herblore would be in the toilet.

 

 

 

I grow lots of Sweetcorn. When RFD came out I made good money selling raw sweetcorn and now I use them all for Tuna Potatoes. I use the Tuna Potatoes for myself and sell all of the sharks I catch.

 

 

 

I have also gotten lots of cactus needles, belladonna, and other secondaries for higher herblore that I can sell, trade for high level pots, or save for when my herblore gets higher.

[Sumpta]

I must say, I've grown to love farming :oops: ... I started it because of my current goal to get all stats to 50, and now I find I can't stop! Being a DIY-girl, it has also proven to be invaluable to my thieving (from master farmer), my fletching, woodcutting, fishing and cooking. I worked on those last four skills in farming heaven Catherby while groing crops and got myself a fairly respectable over-all level while other stood around waiting.

 

 

 

Of course, there are always folks who prefer standing around complaining about how boring farming is. Quite frankly, I couldn't manage wc and fletching if there weren't my crops to check on from time to time.

[Sy_Accursed]

you must be congratulated on bumping a 3 month old thread

 

 

 

no fofence but try reading dates in a thread b4 posting

[Plod2]

I love farming! and anyway just compare it to firemaking...

[Cj_Harty]

I use to use Farming to make cash. It's great! :D