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.
Also if you turn them green through gameplay means. I first discovered the bug when trying to make Foxbury go green by adding green build elements and objects, enacting eco-friendly N.A.P.s, and having my student sim install eco upgrades on all appliances. That said, however, I had already updated the campus with lots I downloaded from the gallery a long time ago, when Discover University first came out, so I can't be certain that having a downloaded lot is not a trigger for the bug.
Upon further reflection and reading a number of eco footprint bug posts across the internet (not just on this site), I believe this problem, "Eco footprint changes too fast" (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/UNSURE-ECO-Eco-Footprint-changes-too-fast/td-p/9180818), and "Eco footprint bar continuously declines after one fire" (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-ECO-Eco-Footprint-Bar-Continuously-Declines-After/m-p/9180816) to all be the same bug.
What it seems is happening is that the two types of eco footprint--by lot and by neighborhood, respectively--are not communicating with each other, such that you can change individual lots to green or industrial, but the neighborhood eco footprint calculation is not taking the lot scores into account. As a result, the neighborhood eco footprint bar, in what it perceives as the absence of any data, either drives relentlessly toward neutral or gets stuck on neutral.
As this is a major, central gameplay feature of the pack, I hope the developers will give this issue their immediate attention and release a fix for it soon.
(And just in case it helps to know this, I formerly worked as a professional game tester, so I have been both rigorous and meticulous in my information-gathering and testing of this bug.)
Yes! I have done everything in my power to move port promise back to industrial because it changed to neutral as soon as I moved in and I am stuck at neutral! Every lot in the community comes up as neutral and it’s so frustrating because if I wanted to play neutral I wouldn’t have bought the pack.
The Starter Footprints in Port Promise and Grims Quarry are a little bit fake. I 've tested it with a fresh new game after I was a little bit astonished, how the lots in Grims Quarry can be green without any green content in the house. And indeed, if I choose the one houshold in Grims Quarry for activ playing it startet to run down to neutral. The overview for the world show also at once neutral. That's the reel footprint of this house. Then I 've made a short journey on every lot of these both neighboorhood. Nearly all lots became neutral. Only one in Port Promise - the empty lot - is still industriell. The neighborhoods have still the starter footprint of green and industriell.
I have understood, that the footprint is two sides counting: The lots charakter and the neigboorhods charakter. Living in a (in reality neutral) lot in Grims Quarry will run down your green footprint in a quick way, if you do not any green things for it. Only the green starter footprint of the neighboorhod will stop this a little bit. The contrary happens in Port Promise, if you choose a faked industriell houshold for playing. Only the real industriel lot will show an other behavier, but it is surrounded of neutral lots. I think, they gave a little bit real different Footprint for the start, so you have a better chance for staying green in Grims Quarry ... an easyer chance to become green in Port Promise, but feel a little bit industriell in the beginning - for a little bit gameplay.
Every one can reproduce the real footprints in the lots in a starter game: only make a jump to the left in Grims Quary and the a step to the right in Port Promise through all the lots.
