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Trehpike
4 years ago

Re: [OPEN] Plants look dead while being in season/inside and functional

Hmmm, What about snowy retreat? I am not going to just say "it might be a problem" like all the rest of the answers. Honestly, I am still not sure what is or has caused this. I have tried so many things I haven't ruled anything out. I do know that my Mods have no effect on it. The only success I have had is to remove Seasons entirely. yet, yesterday, I was playing along and installed seasons to take pictures of the dead plants around the worlds-plants that are "wild" plants and are not a part of a lot I play on. I took pictures of Sylvan Glade where the plants in it are dead or dying, Brindleton Bay, Hensly, etc. I returned to the "home" of my sim in Willow Creek, let her sleep for the night and woke up to green plants and flowers blooming. (no cheats, No Mods, No CC) I was so amazed I just stared at all the greenery. Those plants were Dead when my sim went to bed! Yet here they were! 6 AM Green! I took a couple pictures then started playing, happy in the miracle of miracles that my plants were back! I saved the game, had supper for myself, came back to dead plants. Lasted about 8 hours of Sims Game time. I didn't do anything except save the game. I didn't close it, didn't burp or fart or sneeze. I paused it, I saved it, I ate supper, poof they were wilted, brown and dying or dead. ONE thing has been different with my game ever since though. My plants that I am tending to, aren't "dying". They are wilted and brown, but not dead. I have a butler that seems to be able to water some of the trees. I still cannot water the plants at all except right after I plant them. (Without seasons in my game I played for 46 days and harvests, with green plants, then decided to try getting pictures of Sylvan Glade with Seasons installed I can still go back to my game without seasons, I copied it all, just have to uninstall and reinstall (except for Seasons) for the 14th or 15th time and copy it all back over) I still believe it is an Alien Conspiracy set up by the game masters and that may be the game pack they are going to re-work!? LOL (just me being funny, I blame space Aliens for everything) Here are a few pictures of plants in Sylvan Glade and "wild Plants in my game neighborhood that show the same blight. 

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  • sillybear101's avatar
    sillybear101
    4 years ago
    @Trehpike oh and the game play gets weirder....dammit, i really need to file for a divorce from sims, after years of failed promises and disappointments, Im not sure why i still bother....must be dam aliens.
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago
    @sillybear101 Yep, I blame the Space Aliens myself. I have my theory but when I write it out it reads like a bad sci-fi novel. Problem is Everything is the truth of my finding Aliens in Hensley-Bags. Elementary school children in the town alerted me to suspicious activity when I left the bar after winning the first-place ribbon for a Blueberry pie. Strangely enough, I told my sim to go home, the game did NOT do the usual cut/arrive at home thing. Ended up with my bicycle being taken from me. I wandered the town. Followed the trails up to the park in the brambles, crossed the river at the island with ruins, then made my way up the mountain. Next day I had my retired scientist career sim move up to the brambles, scanned for Aliens, discovered Aliens all over Hensly, brambles, etc. Thats when my game went bonkers. Now, Whenever I start a game after reinstalling one of my first encounters is a townie, like in Willowcreek it is the townie Summer Holiday, Invites me to the local bar for Aliens Night. "COME ON! IT WILL BE FUN!" she says... I f I go, the next day Liberty Lee will walk up to me and slap the crap out of my sim in true Agnes Crapplebottom fashion, without an explanation of why. Not like I put the moves on Summer Holiday... After three times of this I no longer want to interact with the neighbors. I reinstall the game, hide in the house behind locked doors until after the welcome wagon-turned house warming party-until the day turns to night and back to day.
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago

    And here is a picture of my Abandoned Lot in Willowcreek. Brook Bungalow. Yes, I moved to Brindleton Bay and left this house behind with dead plants. You can see the satellite dish on the roof. I had modified the house to accommodate my family of 4 and a live in Butler and Maid. NOW all the dead plants are green and thriving? The house is empty, the chickens running around and rabbits. I upgraded the Chicken Coops with Automatic feeders and long healthy lives. The house is empty. Or is it? Despite the game being screwed up I keep playing to see what comes up next. LOL Check out the picture of the Plates with Veggie burgers remains on the ground in the picnic area behind Brooks Bungalow. Veggie burgers cooked by Athena Silversweater? Talk about getting weird.... Athena Silversweater is ONE OF THEM! and she has been watching my house from here in the park, eating her Lactose free Veggie Burgers and leaving the leftovers

    @sillybear101 wrote:
    @Trehpikeoh and the game play gets weirder....dammit, i really need to file for a divorce from sims, after years of failed promises and disappointments, Im not sure why i still bother....must be dam aliens.


    here!!!!!!!!! It just gets weirder! Conspiracy theory in the Sims 4... I have to quit playing this ridiculous game. 

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    sillybear101
    4 years ago
    @Trehpike woah, you have some really weird neighbours for certain....ummm, ok, but great to look at the pictures.
    meanwhile, the principle remains the same, if one removes a sim from a dead plant property in a dead plant world, and then goes into the property in build mode, all is well.... so there is our answer..and this is where i find myself,
    No one plays a sim, we just look at our empty lots and move pot plants around......grrrreat.
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago
    @sillybear101 Oh, I play the sims, I think I have shown you that! LOL. Problem is them dang Aliens. I believe you got the one where I said the plants in my neighborhood are dying as well, and the ones in Sylvan Vale are too. I put some pictures of those. They turn brown and scraggly, wilt then disappear.
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago

    Here is a picture of a lot I just started playing in Cottage living. It was green when I started but you can see the trees and plants around the lot are turning brown. Mid Spring, played for 2 days sims time. 

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    sillybear101
    4 years ago
    @Trehpike interesting that you get to see them "Turn" brown,
    I load a sim to play, and its all brown from the get go...
    At some point the techs might see enough of us with this issue, Im not playing at the moment, its all too annoying to uninstall and re install when i could be drinking tea and watching a Netflix series where the story line is almost as bad as that of some of my sims Ive made. Im not talking to sims 4 right now, we aint on speak'in terms, ,dam sims4.
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago
    @sillybear101 Understood. I am at the point of planting parking lots. They grow better than a sims 4 plant. Every Lot. Burn it down, insert sand and cement, let it rain. Ta-Da =Concrete. Too bad we don't have cars to park on my new parking lot.
  • sillybear101's avatar
    sillybear101
    4 years ago
    @Trehpike lol, growing up, in an Italian area, we and our neighbours cleared dirt and laid concrete, it was the daftest thing to do,given we were all avid gardeners, your message reminds me of how much we laughed about the concrete yards growing up, leaving a small bit of ground to plant vegetables. any-hoot, back to the frustration of the year, I tried sims again after getting a big patch from origin, Oh i was excited, they responded to my SOS, they heard me and and when I loaded a game, paused it, they have corrected one error, wait for it........drum roll please,
    when adding plants on my lot, they have now made sure all the plants, while live mode is paused, are dead in the menu so it all matches. Im so grateful, their attention to detail and saving me the disappointment of trying to plant green plants is gone, now they are dead in the menu, Oh good old Origin, so much to celebrate.......like...another year of sims, another moment of hopefulness, only to find, they were predictable....there was no fix.
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago

    Broken is the new normal. They fixed your problem. You're better off following my eleven seasons plan. I used to decorate with the growable/harvestable plants. I don't much care for objects that do nothing. I am not into Knick-knacks. Just something else I have to dust when the time comes. If it doesn't serve a purpose, I don't find much use for it. I am not a sim house builder, or rather I WAS a sims player. I don't clutter up my sims lives with non-essentials. Just like the one I just renovated to use. It had a desk in the master bedroom sitting at an angle in the corner of the room. My sim would sit there and play video games, get excited and "POP" somehow slip from the computer chair into the gap behind the desk in the corner of the room. I would hear her baby crying to death while working with a couple other sims, I go to check on the baby to find the baby stinky and starving. Look for my sim, she is stuck in the corner of the room behind the desk in a panic since she can't get out and reach her dying baby! If I ask "why did my sim get behind a desk in the corner of the room where there is no way to get behind the desk in the first place?" The answer is... it must be some mod you're using.  I no longer decorate my houses with living, growing plants lining the walkway up to my house. I no longer name my houses "Prim-Rose Path" or " Lily Walk" Or "Walled Garden in Bloom". Now I go with "The Concrete Llama" and "The Cow Pie". Dead, wilted, brown plants are the new normal. I guess we live with it, until some CC expert finds a fix for it. I got a new problem. I had a Butler, she became like family, she got pregnant by some guy in StrangerVille. She went into labor while being my butler. She would test the kitchen counter for dust... finger wipe across the counter, stare at her finger and see if dust level is acceptable, then double over and grab her belly and crying out in labor pains. I tried to make her part of the family so I could help her have her baby.  Silly me! you can't add the butler to the family while she is in labor! After an hour of this labor pained butler wandering the house, I cancelled the butler service so she would go and have the baby, which worked... she left the house, "poofed" out, went home to MyShoeNo, had the baby at the Culpepper house, then returned to my lot as part of the family, but left her baby behind in MyShoeNo! We went to get her baby, we knock on the door, can hear the baby crying inside, her "parents" don't answer the door, my one sim teleported into the apartment, went through the apartment, located the baby's cries, but the baby is invisible and untouchable. Messages pop up about the baby starving. I tried Freebuild cheat, I now can find the baby and his crib, but still cannot do any interaction with the baby. I can get the baby and the crib half out the apartment door, but that just makes it so that the mother stands there watching her baby die. Currently my game is paused with the baby still stranded in limbo. An empty apartment in MyShoeNo with the eerie haunting cries of a baby, starving, echo through the building and my butler, my friend, my family. watches in horror, listening to the cries of a new born. They win, plants are dead. Pour the concrete. 

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    sillybear101
    4 years ago
    @Trehpike Omg I just couldn't bare it, Im afraid I would have to delete the whole game, characters and have a cry. Im just not cut out for crying babies, digital or otherwise. what a weird and depressing glitch, definitely time for a warm tea and some biscuits and a start over. isnt that what we all end up having to do at some point, just quit delete someone and start over.....jeeez.
  • sillybear101's avatar
    sillybear101
    4 years ago
    @sillybear101 As for dead plants, my Fav part of sims is creating lush green wilderness lots with underground hidden retreats ,
    water...swear...swear...swear...
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago
    @sillybear101 Well, I had a cup of coffee, and named one of my Golden Hen Chickens Golden Bisquit, does that count? (then again, I named the Rooster Golden Nuggets and my other Hen Extra Crispy)
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago

    And yeah, I deleted the game, started a new one. No matter what I did the butler would stop everything and "cry it out" 3 or 4 times a day. Gave it 2 weeks game time to see if I could maybe adopt the baby to my house hold but it never came up for adoption, lots of babies, but not the one I was waiting for. i couldn't bring myself to delete babies to see if maybe I had to make room for her kid in the system. BUT, here is a picture of my NEW GAME! Spring Day 3, the entire mountain of Hensley bag end is dead or dying. I noticed that when I first started playing Cottage living there was always an "Aurora Borealis" over my little farm at night. since the blight moved in I never get the Auroras any more. They are a byproduct of getting your Eco Neighborhood to "Green" status. Maybe that has something to do with it? I don't know. I turned all the pack stuff off, it was raining about 20 hours a day 7 days a week, everything was mud and puddles. My sims were slipping and falling down constantly until they were actually complaining about injuries and having down time to heal pulled muscles and sprains. Spent half the time in hot tubs or bed. Here is a picture. Your world isn't the only one with brown everything. Seems the more I upgrade the things around the farm, stoves, sinks, tv, etc. the browner it gets. Buy a computer, a tree dies, get a bigger tv, the roses die. New game day 3 spring. It was all green to start.

  • sillybear101's avatar
    sillybear101
    4 years ago
    @Trehpike Noooooo, dont say it, dont say thats with seasons uninstalled,
    (knee's trembling) thinking of the rooster golden nuggets,(nothing to do with it) sooo, my brain decides to focus on the unrelated bits and pretend there isn't a way to make a large wild lot, unless I play vampires forever, which defeats the purpose of being mad about green lush landscapes, sims 3 is starting to look less pixelated and greener at this stage.
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    Trehpike
    4 years ago

    The Dead Mountain picture is WITH Seasons installed.

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