I'm not sure if this is where I am supposed to post, but I have found no answers (and was mostly ignored) to this problem I have has since the beginning of the game. One of the things I love best about Sims is collecting everything, completing all the sets. This is an issue I have had with multiple saved games, no matter which side of town my Sims live on:For the first few in-game weeks, all of the dig sites and frog logs spawn normally and can be collected from. After a little while, these stop spawning in every zone expect for the one my Sims home in in. After another few in-game weeks, they stop spawning there, too. I have not been able to finish the collections for the frogs, metals, elements, crystals, or fossils, with any saved sim, because no more can be dug up any more. I even had one sim live at the part for more than 2 in game weeks to see if you have to be in the zone for things to spawn (like the plants do), but nothing ever comes back again.I don't know if I am explaining this well, every time I have posted this before it is either ignored or people say they are not having this problem. But for me, it is making the game almost unplayable.Oh, and I use no mods, CC, or cheats.(The other thing I loved about Sims is designing and decorating homes, and we all know how that is without a color wheel. So between not being able to collect, and not being able to decorate, there is nothing left in this game for me.)

I am also having this problem where both mineral and frog spawners stop appearing on lots other than my home lot. In fact even those on my home lot now spawn less often. For example in Willow Creek in Magnolia Blossom Park when I visited for the first time in a while there were no mineral or frog spawned. In Willow Creek I visited Oakenstead and again nothing. I waited there for the best part of a day and eventually 1 (and only 1) mineral spawner worked.I also tried the Desert Bloom Park in Oasis Springs and again nothing. However having noted someone in another thread saying one possible impact was the presence of dirty plates I did find this to be the case here and after cleaning up all the mess lo and behold multiple minerals were spawned.So that is one thing to try - however it is not the total answer as it was not the case in my Oakenstead example. I forgot to look in the Magnolia Park example to be honest.Hope this is useful.

There's a similar thread here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Meals-at-public-venues-bbq-s-and-spawn-timers/td-p/3520273 but since you say it also stops on your current lot, then something seems off. Does this happen to new games too if you start one for testing purposes ?

Yes. It has hapened with every new game I have played. It takes a while before it happens though. When I go to a new zone for the first time it takes a while for everything to spawn the first time. After that, everything seems to respawn once a day or so. After a while, nothing in neighborhoods that are not mine will spawn. Then a little while later, they stop spawning there, too.

Wonder what could be causing this. I'm in my 5th generation now and the game is still happily spawning. I'll add

I'm having exactly the same problem. I read the suggested thread here and a similar one at the Sims 4 forums. Some people had good luck with turning aging on, but that made no difference in my game.

[BY DESIGN] Meals and spawners timers only count down when active Sim on lot

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crinrict
Hero+
11 years ago
There's a similar thread here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Meals-at-public-venues-bbq-s-and-spawn-timers/td-p/3520273 but since you say it also stops on your current lot, then something seems off.

Does this happen to new games too if you start one for testing purposes ?
piperbird
11 years ago
Yes. It has hapened with every new game I have played. It takes a while before it happens though. When I go to a new zone for the first time it takes a while for everything to spawn the first time. After that, everything seems to respawn once a day or so. After a while, nothing in neighborhoods that are not mine will spawn. Then a little while later, they stop spawning there, too.
crinrict
Hero+
11 years ago
Wonder what could be causing this. I'm in my 5th generation now and the game is still happily spawning.

I'll add
Anonymous
11 years ago
I'm having exactly the same problem. I read the suggested thread here and a similar one at the Sims 4 forums. Some people had good luck with turning aging on, but that made no difference in my game.
moremauz
11 years ago
Hi, just to add my voice to say this is also happening in my game. I have aging at normal but have been using the youth potion reward with my sims so they're not aging with the rest of the neighborhood.
moremauz
11 years ago
Hi again,
OK. I need to report that after 2 sim days of nothing spawning in my neighborhood, the spawners started again after I shut the game down and restarted it (just after I posted the above comment).
I find that a lot of the issues reported in this bug thread (not just this one), like sims not washing dishes and inexplicable poor environment score are solved when I shut the game down and start it again. I can even save from the point things go wrong and not lose any progress, but the issue is resolved when I get back. I have the downloaded game (not disc). Anyway, this doesn't solve the bug, but does allow the player to move on (temporarily). Having said that, some days I have to shut the game down several times a night - so not ideal.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I started a new game with auto-aging enabled from the beginning. After a couple sim weeks the spawners start to disappear again. I agree that restarting the game will refresh the spawners around the home lot, but it doesn't seem to do any good in other neighborhoods.
I'd like to know if EA acknowledges this as a bug slated for fixing - or not.
TheMarshyBear
11 years ago
Do you use any CC or Mods?
Could be that either an outtdated or incompatible is causing this glitch.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I've removed all mods and am removing CC to see if it helps. Sure would be nice to have a CC Magic for TS4! 😕mileyfrustrated:
Anonymous
11 years ago
This continues to be a problem with no mods, no CC, no nothing added to the game. I suspect it has more to do with completing a collection (possibly frogs) than any mod.