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eliasthemango
Seasoned Newcomer
11 days ago

reapers rewards broken

ever since the beginning of the reapers rewards event, my game has been broken in various different ways. 

the first thing i noticed was that once i completed a task, and received a notification saying i can claim a reward, the button promoting for me to open the event ui doesn’t do anything, and when going to the events menu on the main screen, i still can’t claim anything as it wants me to claim them in live mode. 

i then thought to ignore that issue for the time being and instead focus on just completing the tasks first. however, the tasks to plant a lily and a snapdragon won’t recognise as completed. initially i thought it may have been because the lily was out of season in my game, however, even when moving them indoors to a greenhouse, neither of the flowers were recognised as being planted, so i couldn’t progress. 

i also experienced issues when building the greenhouse for this task. my game seemed to be glitched, and wouldn’t allow me to remove any objects. if i clicked on them, it would highlight them and make the sound as if they had been removed, but they stayed there, and it was impossible to delete them. 

finally, when it came to shutting down my game to look for solutions online, neither the exit, or save and exit options would work. the exit button wouldn’t do anything, and the save and exit button left me in an endless saving loading screen. 

i thought maybe my mods caused an issue as i have quite many, but even after removing my entire mods folder out of the game, the issues still persisted. i’ve seen a few things about solutions other people found if they have the game from steam, however my game is from the ea app, so none of those solutions are possible for me. 

  • Cyanide68's avatar
    Cyanide68
    Seasoned Newcomer

    Having the same problems! Exactly the same problems. Can't open the UI, I've planted enough lilies and snapdragons to supply 50 floral shops. I'm going crazy.

    • Jujush4rp's avatar
      Jujush4rp
      Rising Newcomer

      Lmao this made me laugh because my backyard and even inside is full of snap dragons and lilies with all different planters lol 

  • shameenk's avatar
    shameenk
    Seasoned Newcomer

    Me too. My Sims have just stopped moving but time keeps going. I can't click anything on the live mode UI and when I try to exit to main menu, go to manage worlds, or even quit the game I can't and I end up having to restart my computer. The only thing that's changed around the time this started happening was reapers rewards, I haven't got any CC or added any new packs recently. Hoping they release a patch....!

  • ELEUTHER1OS's avatar
    ELEUTHER1OS
    Seasoned Newcomer

    we need an option to turn it off. It's ludicrously buggy and not even enjoyable. get rid and fast, EA. 

  • k7hg43tlttoc's avatar
    k7hg43tlttoc
    Seasoned Newcomer

    The Things I Have Tried For The Lily And Snapdragon... That All Didn't Work;(

    1. Plant Them In A 2x2 Planter.
    2. Plant Them On The Ground.
    3. Plant Them In A 1x1 Pot.
    4. Try Every Method Of Planting... Every Obscure Button... EVERYTHING On 1-3 Five Different Ways...
    5. Cheat Them To Full And Harvest
    6. Don't Cheat Them To Full And Harvest..
    7. A New Save File..
    8. Raising Their Quality
    9. Watering Them
    10. Weeding Them
    11. Spraying Them
    12. Raising The Gardening Skill
    13. Researching Them
    14. Selling Them
    15. Completely Disable Mods And Repeat All Other Steps Over Again, Exept This Time Crying So Much That My Room Is A Pool Now...

     

    Safe To Say It's Not A You Problem, It's A Game Problem...

  • eliasthemango Cyanide68 shameenk k7hg43tlttoc  The planting task not completing is a known issue:

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Reaper-s-Rewards-Planting-Flowers-not-checking-off/td-p/14083979

    There's a workaround here, under "planting of flowers not recognized":

    https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2024/09/reapers-rewards-event/

    The user interface is broken for some players:

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/WORKAROUND-Reaper-s-Rewards-GUI-not-showing-tasks/td-p/14084056

    eliasthemango  You do need to claim the rewards in live mode; please let us know if that's not working.  For the issue with building, does it sound like this?

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-Can-t-make-changes-to-build/td-p/13291226

    • ELEUTHER1OS's avatar
      ELEUTHER1OS
      Seasoned Newcomer

      Are there any fixes for the eternal wait for the ambrosia society newsletter (which arrives and is read, but disappears without any acknowledgement of the fact!)

      • kaysee1228's avatar
        kaysee1228
        Newcomer

        did you end up finding a fix? I'm still stuck on this 

    • eliasthemango's avatar
      eliasthemango
      Seasoned Newcomer

      sorry for the late reply! i was able to fix a couple things while experimenting. with the building issue, it seems to be a bug regarding downloading a build from the gallery and then attempting to edit it, which i found when i stumbled across the thread you linked here. i basically rebuilt the gallery build myself from scratch and everything worked fine there. 

      seen as the game wouldn’t let me exit, i restarted my pc and reopened it, once i went back onto my reapers rewards save, the issue with the claiming rewards button not working was fixed. so im not entirely sure what caused it to break the first time, considering my mods folder was removed. besides changing the build, i didn’t make any other changes to the save that could’ve impacted the functionality of that button.

      thank you for the help with the flowers task too! i haven’t logged on today, but i’ll definitely try that later and see if i can get it working!

  • Jujush4rp's avatar
    Jujush4rp
    Rising Newcomer

    I am still having the same issues as well. I cant get the plant lily or snap dragon to show as completed. They hype up these events then release them broken :( they need to fix this