Anyone else waiting for bugfixes?

@PugLove888

I understand, but the problem is, they're all broken. I mean, look at the major features of ECO Living. What are they?

ECO Footprint - The ability to make lots "green", "Industrial", and get benefits from this.

• BROKEN - ECO footprint constantly goes up and down. As far as I can see, it's not possible to get a hood to "green" or "industrial". I put all kinds of plants, green flooring, walls, roofs on a community lot, and it ALWAYS stays neutral. If I do it on a residential lot, it goes green for maybe 30 minutes then goes back to neutral. If we can't get it to stay green or industrial, what's the point?

N.A.P.s - The ability to add new policies to hoods that add cool new neighborhood actions.

• BROKEN -  Townies and sims in hoods end up being governed by ALL NAPs in ALL hoods, and since there are 42 hoods in the game with 4 NAPS per hood, the sims end up being a COMPLETE MESS. Sims end up stealing critical items from commercial lots, completely breaking them.  Sims constantly interrupt ALL actions to bake cakes, play with lumps of clay and future cubes, leaving them all over the place and making it impossible to do even the simplest tasks.

New off-the-grid power and water generation items - Makes off-the-grid living actually viable! Generate and use your own power and water to go even more green!

• BROKEN - Power generation items like wind generators and solar panels generate NEGATIVE power when used, even without a SINGLE powered object on the lot. I had a completely empty lot with nothing but 6 solar panels and a wind turbine. NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. and was generating -4.93 power.

Fabricator - Create your own items from scraps

• BROKEN - (Fixed?) The sound gets stuck after a few uses. The sound is so severely grating and annoying, the item cannot be used. Haven't tested since the latest patch "claimed" to fix it.

Juicer - Create your own fizzy juices from your own plants!

• BROKEN - After a few uses, the device simply locks up. Occasionally after 3 or 4 days, it'll suddenly start working again, but sometimes won't. The item then needs to be sold and re-purchased, wasting money.

New Planters - Hydroponic auto-watering planters and vertical planters!

• BROKEN (kinda) - Vertical planters are on their own system. If you "sell all" on a ground planter, you have to do it again on the vertical. Hydroponic auto-watering planters don't auto-water all plants. Some aren't auto-watered which makes it no better than a standard planter.

(I would list the new broken billing system that was released with ECO, but technically that's an update for the base game and not a part of the pack. And if I listed ALL the bugs in the base game too, we'll be here for weeks...)

I really wanted this pack to work. There are so many things here I wanted, solar panels and turbines to make bills cheaper and actually play an off-the-grid lot... the ability to actually change the neighborhood, make it better or worse. More crafting options...

But none of it works. None of it.

@PugLove888 

I agree that it works great with one family in the save. It's worse if you have two families and the other one is in a different neighborhood and you don't play this family often.

@Psychotps 

The player must understand how the green footprint works before he gets it for the whole district.
And these are very simple rules:

1. Your house bills must earn you income, not losses.

2. A communal lot must have the status of a municipal garden. The option to change the purpose of this lot is only on the board that is exactly on this communal lot. This option will not be available on another board in your district or on your mailbox.

Unfortunately, if you play with two or more families when you start a new game, you must immediately enter the gameplay option and disable NPC voting, when choosing the world. This must be done before settling the sim on the plot.
In the end, if you can't win the vote, you can use "testingtrue on' cheat and Shift-click on the board, but I don't use it.

Edit:

Power generator has an industrial footprint and you can't use it unless you want the neighborhood to have an industrial footprint.  Every footprint whether green or industrial has its advantages and disadvantages

@Psychotps

You use it when you want the neutral footprint to change to industrial

@Psychotps 

You can lower your bills using power generators and by adding recycled particles to the cells in your equipment - then you will get an industrial footprint.
You can do it in an ecological way to get a green footprint. 

You start with a neutral footprint.

@Psychotps

What about water? The electricity and water consumption in your home must be covered by the production of it on your lot.
if you still have minus power generated instead of plus, it means that the device does not provide you with power consumption coverage. At my other family's home - I don't play there - I put 12 turbines and 12 water condensers before it gets green footprint without improvemen

@Psychotps,  I'm still not sure if the Eco Footprint is broken, or just that it doesn't work like we would expect it to. I see evidence for both.

I have not had that problem with the NAPs.  But like I suspected and @kreatora confirmed, that is probably because I've been playing only one household per save file. 🤔 This is how I play 98% of the time anyway. I've been playing that way since almost the beginning since I didn't like playing the rotational way.   I'm planning on doing some tests with me playing more than one household in a save so I can better understand what other people are dealing with. 🙂

I've had mixed results with bills  and the wind turbines and dew collector, and solar panels.  On one household It reduced my bills but on 2 others if didn't.  But I can see how having no appliances and having the power saving equipment increasing your bills would be a failure in this area! 

I still have yet to have problems with the Fizzy juicer.  I had one family use it everyday (sometimes more than once) for 2 weeks and haven't had problems with it yet. 🤔🙂

I did have the Fabricator sound bug on one of my family's lots, but not on my other family and not on the one at the community Maker Space lot.  I've had them break down a few times, but I had used them a lot before that happened.  Nothing out of the ordinary.😎  

I have only used the vertical planters (other than having garlic in a single pot ) so far.  I was playing with new Sims so their gardening skill isn't high enough to Sell All just yet.  But so far I haven't had problems with them.   Have not tried the hydroponic planters yet, but yes, by definition they should waler the plants! 😞

And while you didn't mention it , I did have some problems with the bug boxes.  I can usually keep one alive, but if I have 2 of them one always dies.  Still, I can usually get one harvest of bio fuel or cricket flour, or beetle nuggets out of the one that ends up dying. 

I haven't had any problems with the candle maker or the machine that gives you Bits & Pieces so far. 
I've also been able to successfully apply some eco upgrades to existing appliances! 🙌