The plants cry when you harvest them... very depressing.

Beta is 50 Helio and 40 Triand.
Alpha is 25 Helio and 20 Triand.

Harvesting used to be fun and enjoyable but now you have yo change targets every 8 to 12 seconds and have to constantly keep moving often very far from where you want to be.
I don't mind the odd plant at 2 or 3 cycles but honestly the algorithm should check the area and force each "Area" looked at to have at least 5 plants at 120~ cycles.

The area can easily be 100x100 tiles. Honestly you can go around a beta island and clear a good 2km radius and have to do it all over again tomorrow to even keep production active let alone expanding.

I don't want all plants to have crazy high cycles but there isn't any point getting a Symbiont over a Gargoyle Mk2. Unless  you want better slope capacity for whatever reason. You don't even get to use the 5th harvesting most of the time. Hah.

all plants should have their cap rised then?
i can agree., x2 it

Is this some sort of seasonale thing in game, like 'winter' where they plants just don't get enough sunlight to grow?

As irritating as that is, it would be a nice game mechanic, as long as it swings the other way every few weeks to over abundant plants, and we can stock up.

Yes. If this is a prelude to introducing Helio and Tri incubators, they need to release them sooner than later, or production is going to come to a grinding halt very soon.

As a side: Hate the idea if its true, no way to keep any kind of alpha plantations safe from pillfering, so mostly someone is going to end up funding the alpha island gardens.

finally it will start to spread out on new islands... (with roaming npcs inbetween)