Please use this thread going forward: Quality of plants not/very slowly progressing/ No evolve | EA Forums - 11945515
Oh and please try my save, let me know if it works in your game or not. And let me know what packs you have :D.
@yuk75I have all packs.
I played it for 2 sim weeks. I never fertilized any, just relied on the bees. They all were evolving just fine. It was pretty slow. Granted, you have a LOT of plants, over 50. Although, even indoors, I was expecting the evolve rates to be much higher than it was. I think it was due to the sheer number of plants. I'm wondering if the game only evolves a certain number of plants per day? Everything was working fine though.
As a test, I removed the walls and ceiling around the greenhouse area to see if the rates went up being not "sheltered". It went up but not nearly as much as it is in my own saves. That may reinforce my theory that it only evolves a few per day. I never got more than 4 evolves a day.
I never usually have more than 14-15 plants and they evolve like lightning outdoors. I've never had 56. I may try a LOT of plants on one of my own households some time to see if the evolve rates are lower.
In your save, during the first week I had 20 evolves. After week 2 four of them were perfect. So, it's working fine.
I'm not sure what the problem was, something by not having certain packs? Not sure what that could be.
I really think it's outdoor retreat. Since installing it (and admittedly those other packs) I've had ALL of my plants evolve some of them 2 times in just 4 days of gameplay. I think it might do 4 at a time, but it's happening all day, I think I had 8 total on day 1 and close to 16 or more on day 2. I REALLY hope that this provides the insight they are looking for. I don't know why it's causing issues NOT to have OR, but it's doing it. Also the amount of plants as you said maybe that's causing issues too.
If you do a search for people looking for auto fertilizers you'll find a LOT of simmers with this problem but they just don't know it's this problem they are trying to evolve through fertilizer but it's not working, they think it's them missing plants and want to get a fertilize all option..The error/issue is SO SUBTLE you genuinely wouldn't notice it on a normal playthrough. You'd only notice if you were sitting there staring at it (which I was doing because I had to solve this).
You don't know what a RELIEF this is for me. I play my game this way with plants every single time and to find out my garden isn't even past nice in 3 generations was genuinely soul crushing. I build them all pretty close to the same way also. Now I have OR I'm going to need a bigger garden LOL. My rose is SO CLOSE to evolving and I am terrified it won't now but I'm doing everything I can to push it forward :D. I have a chance now, if this is really solved :D.
Jungle Adventure also has several new plants.
I did add that one also because of the plants, but it came out a while after the error started for me so I didn't think it had anything to do with it...but because it did have plants I didn't want to risk it.
Also hoping that other me too peeps can confirm the packs they have.
I've all packs and plants indoors that are "sheltered" don't seem to evolve, ones that are outside do progress.
