Test of the Plantation
Plantation with a cocoa plant in front.
Build a Plantation Headquarters and convince other people to tend your cocoa crops. Headquarters must be at least 2000 ft (about 125 coordinates) away from Chariot Stops, and 75 coordinates from other Plantation Headquarters. Cocoa must be planted within 1000 ft of the Headquarters.
Passing the Principle
- Build a Plantation Headquarters
- Plant 3 seeds
- Have at least 7 cocoa turned in
- Earn an extra seed
Passing the Test
Text below this is based on an ENN chat (full discussion can be found HERE) and there is no guarantee that the actual mechanism will be even passingly similar to the description.
Each plantation has a limited number of trees (initially 3 which you get when you sign up) allowed. Even if you have more cocoa seeds, you may not build more trees than your plantation is allowed. When you build a tree, you must designate a tender which can not be changed. Only the tender is allowed to harvest cocoa, up to once per 12 teppyhours. You may not designate yourself as a tender.
The plantation owner receives credit for cocoa harvested from their plantation and stashed there within the week. No benefit to cocoa traded for nor obtained from other plantations. No benefit for cocoa that is harvested but not stashed.
Each week, the top seven plantations advance. Advance three times to pass the test.
In addition, each week, perfectly tended plantations gain 3(?) additional cocoa seeds and the ability to grow three more trees. To be perfectly tended, each tree must have a different, unique, tender, and the tender must have collected and deposited at least 3 cocoa during the week. Also, the seven closest non-perfect plantations gain extra seeds.
Gaining seeds is the only way to expand your plantation, so in the long run it is better to have different tenders getting, say, 7 cocoa per tree per week and growing, rather than the same tender getting 12-13 per tree per week and missing the perfect bonus. Your tenders will get the seeds for you when they tend after the perfect tend.
If you tear down or mulch a tree, you cannot plant another with seeds given to you from friends or alts... you can only replant with earned seeds (it remembers how many trees were there). If you messed up with mulching or tearing down trees, you can however Rebuild the entire plantation and replant with seeds given by friends, alts or traded. It will reset your score completely but will give you a clean start (you cannot get more seeds from the university by restarting the test). -- Just thought I would share that since I learned the hard way --- Oni.
Tenders
You only want 1 tree per tender. If you have more than 1 tree per tender, it no longer counts as "perfect," and you will not get more seeds. To count as "perfect" tends you need each tree in your platation to have a unique tender.
Unlocking the Test
This only needed to be done once to allow everyone access. You do not need to do this.- Bring 3 designated tenders to the University of Leadership.
- 100 silk cloth
- 100 fuzzy moss
Demonstrated by Deeva on 1/2/2008
