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@queenofsprinkles If they really wanted to put in the effort, which let's be honest this is EA we're talking about and I'm not sure they like effort unless there's money involved, I'm sure they could implement some sort of script that would force the plants to produce whenever the lot is loaded. Then again knowing EA, instead of making a script exclusive to the science lab they would somehow mess up gardening in general. I mean it wouldn't be the first time, because they really seem to love messing up gardening. I'm genuinely surprised all my plants haven't reverted to piles of dirt, then again some did after trying to move them...
My current sim is in the science career, and it's been nothing but annoying. In order to achieve some of the daily work goals, I created a basement at my sim's house and turned it into a garden that grows only the plants specifically needed for serums. My inventory is flooded with junk as well, which is rather annoying. This pack really could have used a better way to store work related items instead of throwing it all in your character's personal inventory. If you ask me the science lab should have had its own unique storage container to keep things in, like plants and crystals and whatnot, then allow things like the chemical analyzer and chemistry lab to pull items straight from that storage.
Oh and speaking of the chemistry lab, it's bugged as well. There seems to be a thread about that already, so I won't bother going into details here. Not sure I'll comment there though, because frankly I'm getting a little tired of having to comment on every single problem in this game. But I guess as long as there are workaround EA doesn't care... unfortunately some players also don't care which is a shame. Well luckily us console users have access to mods to help with things... oh wait... we don't... hooray??
@queenofsprinkles Gardening is something I do on almost all of my sims, so to see it almost always messed up in some way is certainly frustrating. I mean pretty much every sim in my current save has some sort of garden, though as much as I like it the problems always make me want to just give up on it and not bother. I'd give my thoughts on a potential Sims 5, but I don't think I want to share that because 1) EA wouldn't like the words I would use and 2) it would be a LONG rant that I'm sure no one would want to read. Let's just say I have little to no confidence in a Sims 5 and I will not be playing it unless they put it on Game Pass.
@Knotwise13 I really hope more people feel that way too, because when I look around at the Sims fanbase I see too many people that just don't seem to care about things like quality. I mean look at the current state of Sims 4, if that gives anyone any confidence that a Sims 5 will be better then yes they are very much delusional. These delusional people are also a part of the reason why Sims 4 has fallen so much, and why a Sims 5 won't be any better, because EA sees they can get away with pretty much anything and some people will tolerate it.
It makes me think of a skit on an old comedy show that I love. The premise is that the specialty of a restaurant is soup that's so awful it's almost impossible to eat any of it, I'd say the name of the soup but EA censors wouldn't like it so let's call it "Crappy Soup". No matter how crappy it may be everyone still buys it and goes back for more, they even recommend it to friends which is what's happening in the skit. To me one reason that skit is funny is because in reality no one would ever pay for that soup or keep going back for more, it shows just how gullible and ignorant some people are, but that's what so many Sims players keep doing. No matter how bad it is, they keep going back for the soup so instead of improving anything the restaurant (or in this case, EA) just says "well that's our specialty and everyone loves it!"
