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BlackjackWidow's avatar
BlackjackWidow
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago

Re: [OPEN] [ECO] Bits and Pieces Count reverts to Zero

@crinrict wrote:

There's a known bug that they revert to 0 when you move: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-ECO-Bits-and-pieces-disappearing-after-moving/m-p/9185853

Questions to everyone

  • Can you get new ones ?
  • Do they disappear again after loading/travelling ?

The patch seems to have reset the display of how many bits & pieces you have, but they're still there. I resurrected a couple of my backup saves to see how many I had before I traveled, but every one of them said I have zero bits & pieces on my home fabricator. So I don't think you need to travel at all. I had several thousand of each before the Sep 3rd patch.

So, to answer your questions - Yes, you can get new ones; And no, they're not really disappearing after loading/traveling, but the display will always say you have zero quantity.

Here's how I came to that conclusion -

On my home lot, the Fabricator said I had zero bits & pieces. After traveling from home lot to the Community Garden lot, the Recycler also said I had zero:

I did 3 batches of recycling at the Community Garden; each time it registered that I was receiving bits & pieces in the bottom left corner of the screen (my screenshots only captured both amounts once, but I got both bits & pieces each time)

Spoiler

I was able to choose & fabricate the Outdoor Trellis, even though the Fabricator also said I had zero bits & pieces in the hover; it did show that I had enough to do them in the fabricate menu. (Side note - as usual, my sim was unable to complete the fabrication because of another bug & so I had to reset the fabricator. It may have returned the bits & pieces to my inventory, but did not show any refund)

Spoiler

When I traveled back to the home lot, the fabricator hover showed zero bits & pieces, but the fabrication menu says I have enough to fabricate the trellis again:

Spoiler

So, it appears that the Display is not counting the bits & pieces, so it looks like they've disappeared. However, there is nowhere that I can find to tell you how many you actually have. I know I had at least 8,000 of one and maybe 4,000 of the other, but since I had so many I really never paid much attention to it. I can find nowhere that tells me how many the game thinks I have right now, so it's possible that I have lost some, but I haven't lost all of it because I can still fabricate everything. That's why I'm concluding that the display is wrong, but the parts are still there.

All testing in Win 10; Base Game + EL, NK, DD & freebies; no CC / Mods, never used

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  • Voldarian-Empir's avatar
    Voldarian-Empir
    5 years ago

    I can attest to this being accurate as well. Im having the same issue with a family I started yesterday, and just now began using the recycler after deciding one of my sims would start fabricating. After trying the recycled a couple times the b/p remained 0/0, yet I am still able to use the fabricator. I had no b/p before starting today so the recycler must be working and the numbers not showing, just as blackjack said.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    Funny that experiences are different.

    I didn't have many but they were gone for good. I could not fabricate anything new.

    Recycled some new stuff and got new ones.

    Also travelling and reloading still made them show the right amount for afterwards. Maybe it's an issue that it changes once you have a certain amount.

  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    There appears to be 2 issues going on with bits and pieces that I have found in my save.

    1 - @BlackjackWidow  summed up the issue with the recycler and fabricator showing zeros very well.  Only thing I can add is that if you mouse over the household funds, the amount of bits and pieces will show there even when it shows zero on the machines so you can always see what you have.

    2 - Second issue is that the bits and pieces disappear altogether and you really have none.  I had that happen when I moved a sim into a household to drop off some portraits I had forgotten when I split the original household and then moved him out again back to the original lot.  All the bits and pieces went with him it seems even though I transferred no money.  

    On the dumpster diving.  I have noticed that there appears to be a cooldown on the dumpsters out in the EH world when you first load into a lot.  Options are all greyed out at first but later on in the day they will reappear.  I think this is probably by design to simulate dumpsters filling and being emptied during a day.  And how many times you can dumpster dive a particular dumpster seems to vary from day to day.

    Hope this helps.

  • Schwarzbart00's avatar
    Schwarzbart00
    5 years ago

    Also have the issue that Bits and Pieces show at the household funds but not at the mouse over the machines.

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