How does logging out affect one's farming growth cycles?

 

Correct me if I'm wrong:

Herbs can only grow between 0:00-0:05, 0:20-0:25, and 0:40-0:45

If I log in at 8:37 and remain logged in, my herb will grow (or become diseased) at 8:42, 9:02, and 9:22

 

What does the personal farming tick thingy change to once I log out?

 

I've logged out at 8:37 before, then logged in as late as 8:47 and my herbs didn't grow at all while I was logged out. I thought they were supposed to grow at some point between 8:40-8:45? I'm not sure how the growth timers work once I'm logged out. >_>

The growth time of a crop is split into growth cycles

 

Growth cycles are 5, 10, 20, 40,..., or 740 minutes long

 

Growth cycles are made of 2 pieces: the growth period and the no-growth period

 

The growth period is 5 minutes long and is during the first 5 minutes of the growth cycle

 

Farming ticks are spaced 500 game ticks apart and start 500 ticks after you log in or you log out

 

When a farming tick occurs during a growth period, the crop grows or becomes diseased

 

So if your farming tick is set to occur at 10:43 am and you log out at 10:42 am, it will occur at 10:47 am instead and your crop won't grow

E:

Hedgehog explains it better than I did... ninja'd me. {Can delete this post if you want Hedge}

 

E2:
lol.. here I am trained that colors = mods. :D Nevermind then. I'll uh.. try to edit something useful in here.

I can't delete posts

http://www.indecentcode.com/farmclock/index.php?id=

 

Don't log in or out during the 5 minute period and it will grow.

More questions...

 

 

Logged in at 4:38, harvested and replanted all patches

Newly-planted herb grew at 4:43

Logged out at 4:44

 

Logged in at 5:38, one herb patch is fully grown, yet the others are not.

 

1. Why aren't they all on the same stage of growth? None were diseased. >_>

2. At 5:43 the other herbs finished growing. Why didn't they finish growing sooner?

3. Herbs have 4 stages of growth, correct? The 1st stage is a freshly-planted seed, the 4th stage is ready to be picked? Right?

Just finished an herb run. Planted my last seed at 12:36, logged out, hopped to world 1, and when I logged back in at 12:37, the freshly-planted seed grew to stage 2. All my other herbs are still at stage 1 though.

 

 

So yeah right now I'm relatively sure nobody has an accurate assessment of how these damn herbs grow lol

 

edit: Another herb just grew at 12:41. In other words, my Draynor patch grew, and then 5 minutes later my Ecto patch grew too. Which doesn't make sense since theoretically they should be growing at 20 minute intervals, at the same time.

 

 

EVERYTHING I THOUGHT I KNEW ABOUT FARMING WAS WRONG D:

Are you using your computer clock or the server clock?

I use my computer clock. This is also all in OSRS btw.

Oh.

 

Yeah farming is pretty glitchy in 07.

Damn. Guess I'll just avoid logging in during theoretical growth stages and estimate when my crops are done growing then :| Thanks for clearing that up though, I appreciate it!

Yeah, I've had periods where my herbs didn't grow for 4 ticks in a row for some reason.  Normally they grow in the theoretical timeframe though.  Like 95% of the time.

I sent a brief bug report to them for shits and giggles. That'd be cool if they fixed it but it's not that big of a deal. One less thing I have to think about.