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Event Based Gardening - The Bug and A Public Relations Based Solution

Product: The Sims 4
Platform: PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.109.207.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of the packs and DLC
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Get to Level 5 Gardening, take a cutting, which may or may not be an option, take a cutting was not available in my last save. Graft a plant, and then try to graft another plant and grafting may or may not show up as a choice again, if it shows it, I tell my Sim to graft it and it doesn't work so I can't complete the gardening tasks for the event, and I was playing on 10/13/2024. and I can't research gardening now...
What happens when the bug occurs? I can't take a cutting even at Level 5 and I can't graft. In one save I could take a cutting only once, the rest of the time, cutting and grafting don't work at all.  I click on the computer, do Web...Research, and it says Research Gardening not Research Grafting
What do you expect to see? Having a cutting in my inventory and have the ability to cut and graft more than once.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

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I have two Sims, both are Gardening Level 5 and I have and/or combination issue with cutting and grafting. Sometimes I can cut, sometimes I can cut and graft but only once. The prevailing situation seems to be: being able to cut and graft only one plant. Dd I do something wrong or is it a bug?

This occurs 100% of the time: after game repair, no mods or CC and trying new sims in new saves. I am so tired of the standard answer: "Gardening is Buggy"
 
Disclaimer: I've worked in PR before. I can't show you my credentials without Doxing myself but please know that I am an honest person who dislikes liars because I've been lied to so many times. The following statements may seem harsh but I think others are also sick of the event bugs also.
 
EA: If you know Gardening is buggy, (and we all know that you know it is because we've been telling you for literal years) -  and we need gardening for Ambrosia, why would you base an entire event on Ambrosia? If you really need to give us a lead-up event for Life and Death, you could have done it in a much more effective way!
 
 
You could have done this with an SDX drop and said something to this effect: "Here are some new items that Grim would want you to have when you see him in the new Life & Death Expansion coming October 31! Preorder for more items that Grim would totally approve of!"  
I thought that was what SDX was for anyway, dropping new content on the fly?  I'm not saying to use SDX because I want the rewards or that I'm too lazy to do event tasks but the mechanisims behind the event don't work.
 
From a PR standpoint, it could go a long way. 
 
Besides, if players have already invested so much time and effort, and money into the game, we don't need a buggy event to want the new pack!
The community voted on it. Therefore, I think we don't need an event leading up to pre-orders or release date. You have so many expansions, none of them got events. You think just because it's Life and Death release date on Halloween, that we need an event centered around Ambrosia? We have Halloween packs, they're called Spooky Stuff and Paranormal. No other community voted packs: Nifty Knitting, Snowy Escape, Goth Kit, Grunge Kit and Castle Kit had events so why are you starting now? You saw what happened in the other event, and fixed it, yet you give us an event that centers around a broken system. 
 
I don't think I have to even say this to the Sims Community, but EA is Guilty of (This is not a list of all of the problems - just the ones that make me convinced they've stopped caring)
 
  • You cancelled Sims 5 - "Project Renee" Whether you liked the idea or not, Probably wasting ALL of the money you get from Sims 4 - It makes me wonder where my money is going now, I thought they'd be using a lot of it for 5. I guess it's all going to FIFA games now. If you want Sims 4 to stay on top of the simulation game genre, you need to hire people who know their way around buggy code and possibly a rewrite of the code in such a way that new and different systems can be added or improved upon.
  • Releasing Get Famous with missing toilets
  • Releasing Realm of Magic with missing roof textures
  • Releasing High School Years when your Teen Sim can't raise their grade unless you send them alone on Fridays - Totally ignoring the fact that HSY is supposed to be an active school pack - I stopped playing for a whole year because of this bug. I spent my birthday money on this pack because I preordered. I could have spent those $40 somewhere else but EA has a no refunds policy for DLC, only base game, so they're getting our money regardless. The bug they fixed was Sims not taking the exams at school. It said nothing about the fact that they have to go to school alone on Fridays or their grade won't go up.
  • The Detective Career is still broken
  • The My Wedding Stories debacle 
  • Only getting that ridiculous Hot Tub for an anniversary
  • Totally ignoring Sims 4's 10th Anniversary
  • 10 years - No cars, no burglars
  • Adding devices for people with disabilities, and yet - No wheelchairs
  • Saved the Best for Last - It took you TEN YEARS to figure out that ALL of the libraries should have skill books -   No Joke: I cried when I read this fix because I was so happy! Honorable Mention: Leaks that are 99.99% not leaks. If a company had as many "Leaks" as EA, they'd be more concerned attacks on their systems and people's accounts.  I think EA knows that their "leaks" are advertising games early and get Simfluencers talking and therefore they get their audience talking about it as well. No offense to Sims YouTubers at all. You are my source of entertainment much more than regular TV.
Spoiler
Guess what: If you're doing the event just to get ambrosia, you can just get Ambrosia off the Gallery! It doesn't matter packs you have or don't have! If you need a lot of it, you can download more or if you have Get to Work, join the Scientist Career and you can make a cloning machine when you're at a high level! 
 
 
 
 
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    5 months ago

    I need to be more specific this time. People said my last report was not clear enough because of my angry thoughts and feelings about the event. I'm afraid I won't get the rewards because of a bug like this.

    Product: The Sims 4
    Platform: PC
    Which language are you playing the game in? English
    How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
    What is your current game version number? 1.109.207.1020
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of the packs and DLC
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Get to Level 5 Gardening, take a cutting, which may or may not be an option, take a cutting was not available in my last save. Graft a plant, and then try to graft another plant and grafting may or may not show up as a choice again, if it shows it, I tell my Sim to graft it and it doesn't work so I can't complete the gardening tasks for the event, and I was playing on 10/13/2024. and I can't research gardening now...
    What happens when the bug occurs? I can't take a cutting even at Level 5 and I can't graft. In one save I could take a cutting only once, the rest of the time, cutting and grafting don't work at all.  
    What do you expect to see? Having a cutting in my inventory and have the ability to cut and graft more than once.
    Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
    Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

    I'll go over everything I have done and everything people in various Discord channels told me to do.

    1. It's been suggested that I use different Sims than I used for the first two event weeks but then I would have to skill then up again so that is the only I haven't tried because I'm dreading that that is the only way I can get the items for week 3 - but someone has to tell me definitively if that's what it will take before I can bring myself to do it. I'm rather attached to these Sims
    2. I Have no mods or CC on my game whatsoever - You'd be surprised at how many people asked me if I have mods when I have already said/wrote that I did not have any.
    3. I have no L files in my game folder whatsoever - I was told by Deaderpool's channel staff to remove them.
    4. I have repaired my game Several times to no avail.
    5. I have at least 3 save files where the bug occurs. but it won't let me upload them, if you want me to upload then somewhere. Maybe the game knocked them down to level 4 when I saved them for later use, that's a theory, not a fact but it might have happened...maybe I saved them when they were level 4. But that still doesn't explain everything. Even if they were level 5, it doesn't explain grafting not giving cuttings
    6. Also, and this is huge. A snapdragon grafted to a lily does not give an orchid. In my saves, a snapdragon and a lily gave me dragon fruit and strawberries - I fertilized with strawberries because I did not have anything else to fertilize with at the time. If that is my mistake, please let me know what to do to correct it
  • PurpleSweetTart's avatar
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    5 months ago
    @Gagea25 wrote:
    @PurpleSweetTart
    To 'Research Grafting' you have to click a plant, then the option wiil appear.

    OMG, Thank you, I feel so stupid. Research... is on the computer usually that's why I thought it was a bug. I don't usually garden in my regular saves so I wouldn't have known that.

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    5 months ago
    There's still the matter of the gardening bugs I am having...grafting not working...they say if you graft a lily to a snapdragon you get an orchid. I didn't get an orchid, I got dragon fruit. I'm going to plant all new plants and try again

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