@rosemagwin This used to be different for fertilizing though which is why it's currently treated as a bug.
@crinrict wrote:@rosemagwinThis used to be different for fertilizing though which is why it's currently treated as a bug.
It *is* a bug , IMO then those who say it's not are wrong !
This is a bug, and it has gotten worse with one of the updates since 2019 (not sure which, but it's one of them).
I re-installed TS4 around April or so in 2019 and went for several months without updating (played disconnected from Origin due to reasons). I updated my game this week (February 2020).
Before I updated, I could use the same stack of items to fertilize plants. Occasionally, the game would seem to use the same item to fertilize several plants (often in planters), but the option greyed out as if successful. Whether the plant would go to the next level wasn't always a given, though.
After my game was updated, I can no longer use the same stack of items to stack up the fertilizing actions. The sims will still go through the motions of fertilizing, but apart from the first plant the option isn't greyed out and the item doesn't disappear from their inventory. I either have to keep several items in their inventory to pick from, or fertilize one or two plants, wait, fertilize one or two more, and wait, etc. This is really annoying, especially since it worked better before whichever update mssed it up.
I'm wondering when a "fertilize all plants with X item from inventory" option is going to be added, or a similar option for planters, because that would make things a whole lot simpler. I'm really tired of fertilizing 20-something plants one by one when my sims (and I) have better things to do, especially with this bug complicating things. Everything else has been made easier (like "tend garden" or "water all") so why isn't "fertilize all" an option?
I agree this is a bug now.
And my 2 cents, fwiw:
I probably wasn't clear about it, since I meant an extra option of "fertilize all with item X", but still being able to fertilize plants one by one if you so wish. I often use the same item for the entire garden, and my sims tend to have large gardens, and it gets tedious to click on every single plant.
I'd also like there to be a "water this plant" along with the auto function of "water all" because the game doesn't always seem to register all the watered/weeded plants for the gardening aspiration (for instance "water/weed 10 plants").
