Gardening bugs with Eco-Lifestyle
Something has gone terribly wrong with plants and gardening. Last night, I decided to try out a gardening sim with the new expansion. So I planted a bunch of things (at normal quality) and played for a few hours. But eventually I noticed that my plants were up to perfect quality already, but I had never evolved them. However, the produce they generated was not perfect quality. (This, incidentally, also made progressing in the gardening aspiration impossible because I couldn't evolve 5 plants; they were evolving automatically.)
I tried again tonight. Made a new sim. Planted things at normal quality. Took a break from the game for an hour to have dinner. When I loaded it up after dinner, those plants were Excellent quality. The same ones that were normal quality when I quit the game.
There are also some odd bugs with Sage. It sometimes doesn't list having a season, and it goes back and forth between its planted bush-like shape and the small herb-like shape even while planted. (So sometimes it looks like a piece of sage is just there on the ground; sometimes it is a bush. I keep thinking I forgot to plant it, but no. The graphic is unstable.) I think I saw one of the other herbs (basil or parsley) do that once, but I couldn't remember which one.
A lot of wild plants are also now having weird bugs. For instance, they will sparkle like they can be harvested when they aren't even in their fully-grown form. (I saw this on plants in the Willow Creek park and also just plants around the neighborhood, so it seems to be pervasive.)
Also, I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but bonding with bees generates a huge amount of influence, which seems odd. (Talking to plants does too.)
I hope the auto-evolving issue can be patched at some point because I really love gardening in the Sims! But it isn't satisfying if the plants just magically become perfect!
