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Re: Can't plant anything in any season.

@GednaaThe biggest reason you want to try it in a new save is to see if its a problem related with your save. I've noticed playing a single save for a long time will cause it to do very weird stuff. Try it on a new save, even for a short time. Just to see if it works on a new game.

If it fails on a brand-new save, then it must either be a problem with a mod or a glitch in the game. If it works on a new game, it CAN'T be a mod or a game bug.

Since you seem like the kind of person who doesn't mind experimenting... Try it both ways. Leave mods in, try a new game and see if planting works. If Not, remove the mods and try another new game. It will help you narrow down the cause. If it works with mods on a new game, then you know there's a problem with your good save. Then you can concentrate on that. Load up your good save and try a different household/house/town. If it works there, then it's not a problem with your WHOLE save, just that one house... analysis is your friend.

And clear the cache files, I've said it before, but really... that fixes a lot of strange stuff in the game. There's currently a glitch with fences where if you hover a fence gate over the fence too much, the fence will disappear. (I have a Youtube video demonstrating it) When this happens it breaks MANY lots across the game. Fences become invisible across the game. The only thing that fixes it is clearing cache files.

Oh, and don't worry if your sims don't always get awards at the award shows. It's a logistical bug in the game. The longer you play a single save, the more famous people you get. The more famous people there are, the less likely you will get an award. The award show only lasts for 4 hours after all. There are ways you can increase your chances... Use a mod like MCCC. If a sim wins an award, use MCCC to make them leave the lot. The host will immediately skip to the next winner and you don't have to wait for them to finish their speech.

Wow... that sounds like a good idea for a mod... Instead of 7pm to 11pm, make it like 4pm to midnight... increased chances of winning... Hmmm...

Lol. Pretty much my entire world is gay. I use MCCC to change marriage and preg rules. Women only marry women, men only marry men. Same sex pregs are enabled. Laff. It's fun. Bella Goth has spontaneously married Lily Feng on quite a number of my saves for some reason. It's very interesting how some townies just gravitate to each other. I'll make existing couples (Bella and Mortimer) gay and they immediately separate. But some couples like Eliza and Bob Pancakes NEVER separate, no matter what. It's very weird. I guess its a testament to how strong their relationship is.

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  • Gednaa's avatar
    Gednaa
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @Psychotps Firstly, I have to say how brilliant your knowledge of the game is and secondly, thank you so much for sparing me so much time. I will move my save folder to my desktop, start a new game and see if I can plant. I got Daniel to travel to Sulani, but typically there was nothing to harvest, only take a cutting from. My cache file is totally empty, which seems weird...

    Oh! I didn't know you could do that with MCC, make a sim leave the lot. Actually, now I think about it I might have noticed it somewhere along the line, but didn't think I had need of it. Another naughty thing I did was change the bouncer door requirements so only 5 star celebrities can get into the awards. Bye Bye, Thorne Bailey, Octavia Moon (now Bailey in my game) Judith Freaking Ward! (Did you know she had a middle name 😉 ) so more chance for us to win... or so I thought. Their names still get read out but they can't get in to accept! Ha! Ha!

    I love what you've done with the Pancakes and Goths. Just when I first started playing, Daniel made friends with Eliza Pancakes and went to her birthday party. Next day he got a text saying she'd died and he was bereft. This is all before he got famous and I knew nothing of mods, so he was in a hell of a state. He's also peed himself numerous times from those early days and repelled a woman by being covered in a cloud of green! Lol. Those early days, last year were hard but also very funny!
    So... back on topic, I'll do that new save and see what happens. See you later!
  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @Gednaa Well, plants take time before they spawn. Neighborhood plants always spawn within a few days tho. (Assuming they are in season, but then I DID make a mod that makes all plants always in season...)

    Also remember, plants in public areas (all areas for that matter) only spawn at 5am. So, unless you're on the lot at that time, it'll be hard to harvest if your house is not native to that 'hood. Just travel to a park or business in that hood and stay there the day. Give the plants time to grow and spawn. If they haven't grown yet, it may take a while. Do that for a few days and they should grow.

    Unfortunately that's a core bug in the game and my mods can't fix that. EA needs to revamp the core of how gardening works. There's too many bugs in the current system.

    Well, changing the lot for only 5 stars will help when your sim is 5 stars, but not when they're less than that. I'll see if I can make that mod I mentioned. 4pm to 12am award shows. See how it works.

    Yea, relationships are my forte. Been messing with that since Sims 1. It's very interesting how certain sims relationships work. Like Nancy Landgraab. Whether I make her gay or not, she'll ALWAYS stay with Malcom until he dies and then gravitate towards Clara Bjergsen. It's like she married for power and wants to stick it out until she's free to choose for herself.
  • Gednaa's avatar
    Gednaa
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @Psychotps Good luck with the mod. I wish I knew how to make those. I love all things tech, so I'll have a look on google. That's interesting... I had no idea plants spawn at 5am! Thanks for this info. My sims are always out somewhere and rarely get the chance to harvest! Sometimes they'll stay out clubbing for a couple of days. I even put a video station at the discotheque so they could record their videos when called without having to go home! Then they just go back to dancing!

    Relationships... My 2 favourite and first sims have been together forever, but before mods one was straying. He's obviously bi-sexual as he went awol and I found him at Brindleton with Kate Austen (from Lost). I deleted her! Then their came a mod to confess to cheating, so I got him to confess to Daniel and he forgave him but was pretty upset for a while. Now they're blissed out thanks to cheat codes for the sentiments! Otherwise, these two would not be together. Also straight after their wedding, one of them died of hysteria, so I had to go back on a save, get them married again and not let him take a bubble bath after the wedding. That's not what I think is in your first thoughts when you just got wed, but he wanted to, so I stopped him. Now they're all immortal. Can laugh all they like, get as angry as they like for videos. There are so many aspects to this game, I never get bored! Anyway I'll have a look around Del Sol for some plants to harvest on a public lot. Can't wait to see if it works!
  • Gednaa's avatar
    Gednaa
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @Psychotps The Thot Plickens... I started a new game I removed all mods first, added them one by one and every one was fine. The sim could plant things. Today, I went back in loaded up my usual game, still couldn't plant on my lot, so travelled to Sulani and could plant there! Then went back to del sol, got onto our neighbour's lot and found we could plant there. So there's something about my lot, but what? It was fine till a few weeks ago. I bulldozed it and downloaded it again, but still no planting. Don't really want to lose the house, but I might now try another house from the gallery and see if I can plant there. Sheesh!
  • Gednaa's avatar
    Gednaa
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    Eureka!  It was the house I was playing.  I had to re-download from my library to the first version of it, as subsequent ones that I'd built extra rooms on were all corrupt!  So I'm very happy but now have a lot of building to do to get the Lot back as my sims like it.  Boy I'm glad I thought to try that!  Thanks for the help with this and I'm now about to mark this as solved!  Happy days!

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