Plants no longer change their quality or evolve on their own after Sims traveling.
Fixed in Patch 1.68.154/ 1.33
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Also having this. Key Point, Sulani.
Lot has always had traits Oceanic Paradise & Off The Grid.
Third trait varies: Reuse&Recycle, Great Soil, Dog Hangout
The eco footprint of the neighborhood rapidly went to Green and has been unchanged since very early.
(Off the grid lot with bonus, redid wreck as Eco Community Lot w/bonus items, another house is unoccupied)
It happened before I bought a beehive, and with plants planed after I removed the beehive.
It seems to be this lot, or maybe this neighborhood. I have never, ever had the action to evolve a plant appear! And most are perfect, or will be so withing one growing season. It makes the second gardener aspiration step not doable, as you never get a chance to manually evolve. The only way a plant doesn't almost instantly max to perfect is if it is planted dormant. But you still can't evolve those. The minute it sprouts *BAM* perfect.
Maybe it is designed to flux with the footprint, but that is pretty overtuned. And ironically, prevents the garden related aspiration from completion.
@HechiceraSim I've noticed Green Eco Footprints = rapidly perfect quality plants. Industrial Eco Fooprints = rapidly normal quality plants. In industrial I harvested a perfect plant I placed down from my library and that action alone sent it spiraling down to nice quality! I've also heard other people complain as you are that with a Green Eco Footprint, suddenly all their plants are gaining quality without being touched. If you are really desperate you can always cheat your eco footprint multiple times a SIM day to ensure it STAYS where you want it. In your case you'd want the neutral. So Neutral Eco Footprint – eco_footprint.set_eco_footprint_state 1
The way to do it is press Ctrl + Shift + C, testingcheats true, eco_footprint.set_eco_footprint_state 1, testingcheats false, press Ctrl + Shift + C to close the cheat window again. I've kept myself in a green state so you do have to do this a little too regularly for my taste, but I'm desperate to keep my perfect plants perfect the way you might be getting desperate to keep your plants growing more normally.
Edit: Now that I think of it, in your case you might want to just go in Options > Eco Lifestyle Gameplay > uncheck the second option to just get rid of eco footprints. It's probably easier and you can just enable it again once you've done that part of your aspiration.
Yes, I didn't check those out as it was my first run after the expansion and I wanted to, well, play it.
Gardening was the third aspiration for one of the Sims on the lot, and she died now in my game. Next time I do that aspiration it does look like I may need to turn some of the options off. A better, dev needed, way of handling it though would be for the plants to be ready to (de-)evolve but *not do it on their own*.
That would both allow for the aspiration to be complete, and to show the player what was happening to the plants in real time. Right now it is just a mysterious thing that happens.
@HechiceraSim I personally just tried getting rid of the eco footprints. Now this is an ongoing game so maybe it is just permanently bugged from having eco footprints from the start. I don't know, but once I unchecked the option for eco footprints and harvested my plants, they all degraded to nice quality from perfect quality. I ended up so frustrated I needed a break because for me the one thing that is game breaking is when my plants are messed with. I love gardening and to see that happen was just a shock. I felt sure a neutral, non existing eco footprint would save the day.
So now I'm left with trying to restart my game with the eco footprints turned off from the start which I'm finding a hard time motivating myself to do as it will have been my 5th restart of the game to try and weed out the unplayable bits as best I can...or go back to eco footprints and just keep cheating my way up to a green eco foot print continually because I've noticed they do stay perfect in even a cheated up green eco footprint. I noticed with the MCCC mod I can go to my vast garden and cheat them back up to perfect, but that takes a really long time, especially when you start from a nice quality.
@PriestessAvenara: for a work around:
You can create a room with all your perfect plants, save this 'hortus botanica' in your library, and use it in your new save. My experience so far is that they stay perfect!
