by Aelair » Fri Oct 17, 2014 9:59 pm
I think there's a lot about the crop mechanic and how production/trade/economics are handled that would really influence the variety (and theoretically the price of seeds and selling price) of crops. I'm hoping that there will be the 'traditional' kind of vegetable that goes along with the seasons, strawberries, turnips, tomatoes, peppers, and things like that, but I also hope that there are new plants. Maybe not magical, but have weird shaped fruit or (even better) really brightly colored flowers!
However, what I would find most impressive is different plant types: IE: there are tuberous plants that are single time growing like the noble red beet, sprawling plants like pumpkins or watermelons, tomato plants grow out and up, peas climb up rope and wire and corn can grow up and over your head! Plus, I have no idea how prevalent wild gathered food is but imagine cultivating a field of raspberries (tall, vine growing plants along string/wire much like grape vines) and blueberries (bush after hip-high bush of bright blue berries all around!). And then you have fruit on trees as well!
There's just so much variety, I'm worried that it will/could quickly become overwhelming. Yet, I think that if we had a good broad base of interesting crops to start with, there can always be more that are added on later as time goes on and there are updates or patches or DLC content. Gosh though, I'm gonna be so happy if I can grow raspberries!