I’m not sure if I like the new watering system that simulates the time factor in watering a plant, but some may enjoy the simulation of, uh…watering. This is greatly improved by the new system where you only have to click on the soil once to pick it up, and use it multiple times before putting it back. In the old game, you used to have to drag the soil from the bag every time you pot, and drag and drop every tool as well. Since Plant Tycoon is so closely modeled after the original, it’s really the little things they added to the game that really makes it shine. Your customers will eventually buy all your plants if you leave them there long enough, regardless of whether there are enough of them. The soil system works quite well, but I always found the nursery decorations to be little more than vanity buys. The images don’t really help much, to tell the truth.Ī lot of the old features carried over: more expensive soil and water is a necessity for your fragile cross-pollinated plants, decorations brings in more customers, etc. One really “missing” feature is the names of plants being displayed when you click on a seed, after it has been planted and should be in a family tree. What LDW gave us, however, is the same info given in the mobile Plant Tycoon – you will find out about each seed’s parents as you click on them, and that’s about all it’s going to give you.
#Plant tycoon on line full
One of the features on my wish list for the PC version of Plant Tycoon was a full family tree, or genealogy chart, as you go on through generations.
#Plant tycoon on line trial
What I’m saying is, you better get a screen grabber and a pen and pencil ready, because in order to make this more than just trial and error, you will be taking a LOT of notes. It restocks once a day in case of accidents. If you destroy your original plants by accident, you can always buy stock seeds from the Supplies store. You can place tags on your plants to sell them in the nursery or trash them to make room. Once your plants produced seeds (or not – you don’t HAVE to pollinate) you can save them to your seed box to be planted later. There are no hints as to what these plant varieties could be. The goal is to create 6 special “magic” plants. When you cross-pollinate, you create new kinds of plants that are “unknown” species until they are fully mature.
Plants in Plant Tycoon have set of genetics for each seed. Here’s where things get interesting: when your plants are fully mature, you can start pollinating. As time goes by (and slowly, it does, unless you manipulate your PC’s clock – but that would be cheating, wouldn’t it?), your plants will shoot, and after some more time, they will bud. Into these pots go soil, water, and seed, sometimes fertilizer. You have 3 rows of 5 pots in your little greenhouse. The core game of Plant Tycoon hasn’t changed much, to tell the truth. It was a matter of time before the game would move on to a bigger screen with more detailed graphics, and time it did take. When I poured coffee on the entire thing I was in shock and didn’t speak for an entire evening – mostly because I lost my Palm Pilot, but I was secretly grieving for my plants.
I would water them on the subway, check them on the bus, cross-pollinate after rehearsal, and sell my plants while working behind the desk at an uptown cybercafe. In 2002, when I had a palm pilot (I’ve since migrated to the PPC), I was obsessed with my virtual plants.
I waited for the release of Plant Tycoon with baited breath.
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