Please use this thread going forward: Quality of plants not/very slowly progressing/ No evolve | EA Forums - 11945515
It's very annoying. I've done a game repair and folder refresh as well on multiple occasions. Also you wouldn't notice the evolve vanishing, it is so subtle you would think you were crazy. I only noticed because my rose finally had the sparkles. I clicked on it to be sure and evolve was there but I wanted to finish what my sim was doing with the bees first..when she was done I clicked the rose and it was gone. If I hadn't been checking the rose every time my sim was gardening and gardening at that exact moment I'd never have seen it. It only flashed once or twice before vanishing.
Yes to all of those. I even started a new household in CAS and went and harvested the old one (to start with better harvest). I definitely have checked without cc because you shouldn't be reporting anything here without checking that first. I have started new saves but I did import my old family from the gallery with the harvest on them. I've started a couple of new saves. This broke for me with one of the updates but I can't remember which one. It used to be pretty frequent that plants needed evolving so much so that I got an evolve all mod because it was annoying LOL. I removed that last week to double check it wasn't causing any issues though and no changes. Also played for two seasons (spring and summer) without mods after my refresh.
Theoretically it could be a save issue but I think it's a game one because new saves only evolve up to excellent as well. Wish I could figure it out.
Well, it's not a game issue because then it'd be doing it for everyone else. I've got well over 3,000 hours in The Sims and I've never seen anything like that in mine.
The only thing else easy I can think of is remove all your mods and CC, everything from the mods folder. Then start a new world with a new household and see if you get the same results.
If you've tried all of that, and it STILL has the issue... I'd consider doing a clean data folder. Basically back up your entire Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 folder somewhere and wipe the entire thing and start clean. It's a bit extreme but you've tried everything else, right?
I've literally done all of that, nothing helps. It could be something specific with my game versus yours because I am seeing lots of complaints online everywhere about this ranging from plants not evolving to wanting a fertilize all button because they're having trouble getting perfect plants. 75 of those people clicked me too on this issue as well. It could be a specific combination of packs or that I once paid for deluxe but don't now. It could be the order I bought the packs or maybe an update just borked on some people. Who knows, it's obviously rare and unclear what the issue and cause are but that doesn't mean it's not real. It could be a specific game item or way we're building or placing them. It could be pure chance and all but 4 of my plants have it and only one of yours has it and therefore you don't notice. Look close at your plants and see if any of them don't evolve past any level...you might be surprised to notice your garden of a long time has only low level plants.
I've heard people say to me it's because of an old update changing plant values and fertilizing so I got new plants. I've heard people say debug plants are buggy so I made sure not to use those. It could be an error or something tripping for me or who knows what. I've seen software error for different people for no real reason before. I used to work with forums and I've seen some weirdness just because it didn't like the server or a file transferred as ascii instead of binary or someone didn't end the file right and left off ?> which shouldn't matter but for some servers meant the website broke completely. We all have different environments...the game won't behave the same for everyone in every situation.
