Eco Footprints no longer change very quickly from “Green” to “Neutral.” Knox rejoices.
Fixed in Patch 1.68.154/ 1.33
This thread was a bit of a mixture so if you're still having issues, please create a new thread.
@KTSimCreationsI want to contribute in this problem.
To be clear, there are two ecofootprint metters:
1) Street Ecofootprint (the one you can see)
2) Lot Ecofootprint (this is hidden)
Lot eco footprint can be changed:
1) By buy mode objects
2) By build mode objects
While buy mode objects change the eco footprint of a lot progressively, the ones from build mode will change it immediately by adding points to that metter.
What happens with EA building from Evergreen Harbour is that most lots DON'T fulfill the quantity of build objects required to change the ecofoootprint of the lot immediately, so anytime you visit the lot, or travel from one world to another, the lots will lose their industrial eco footprint because they don't have "enough points" to have it.
And to be clear, the buy mode objects will change the lot ecofootprint throughout time. The more you have, the quicker it'll be, but this won't affect other lots unless you visit them and stay on them until the ecofoorprint change (which a found silly, honestly. It wasn't that hard to add an update service)
@KTSimCreationsI hope so. Honestly, it's silly the way it is right now and there is NO CLUE of this anywhere. The only thing we can do is a lot of people find this silly too and make the developers change it.
I am having what I think is a related problem: I'm trying to get a previously existing neighborhood (Foxbury campus) to change from neutral to green, but I can't get the Eco Footprint bar to move AT ALL despite redoing all the buildings with green materials and having my sim put eco upgrades on virtually every appliance on campus. It's not even that I simply haven't tipped to green yet, it's that the green bar isn't filling even slightly--the neighborhood still reads as dead neutral even though when you toggle eco footprint mode, several of the lots are listed as green.
