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Hero

2 years ago

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Sim evolves vertical garden plants by talking to them

I don't know if this is by design or a new feature or if I need to file a bug report. It's never happened to me before. I can evolve plants normally except for plants in the A Ok Bloomer vertical pla...

gameplay issue

CGrant56
2 years ago
@simsplayer818 @GiardiniDiMarzo @crinrict
The way evolution of garden plants works in the vertical planters today is the way it used to work for every plant originally, going all the way back to base game release. A sim had to go to each plant and evolve them individually. Seasons changed it so that we could just evolve them immediately without a sim having to go to each plant. Seasons also changed the number of evolutions required to get to perfect quality from 10 to 5 and also changed weeding to give us the leaf blower weeding to weed multiple plants in a planter simultaneously. Before that, each plant was weeded individually with a sim on their knees like sims with low gardening skill do it still.
Vertical planters came with Eco Lifestyle and plants in them have always required that a sim go to the plant to evolve it so imo, it's by design.  Why the devs did it that way is anybody's guess. It's not consistent with how the plants in the pots and floor planters are evolved but tbh, I don't mind having to send a sim to do the evolution for just those plants. What I do not like about the vertical planters is that evolving a plant in one does not count for the Gardening aspiration milestone to evolve 5 plants. But that's the way it is so you have to manage your garden to meet that milestone.
Hope this helps.

crinrict

Hero+

2 years ago

@simsplayer818 I have no idea if it's a bug or not.

I'd say, if it bothers you, create a bug report so the devs can look into it and make a call (and other can chime in)

CGrant56

Hero+

2 years ago

@simsplayer818 @GiardiniDiMarzo @crinrict

The way evolution of garden plants works in the vertical planters today is the way it used to work for every plant originally, going all the way back to base game release. A sim had to go to each plant and evolve them individually. Seasons changed it so that we could just evolve them immediately without a sim having to go to each plant. Seasons also changed the number of evolutions required to get to perfect quality from 10 to 5 and also changed weeding to give us the leaf blower weeding to weed multiple plants in a planter simultaneously. Before that, each plant was weeded individually with a sim on their knees like sims with low gardening skill do it still.

Vertical planters came with Eco Lifestyle and plants in them have always required that a sim go to the plant to evolve it so imo, it's by design. Why the devs did it that way is anybody's guess. It's not consistent with how the plants in the pots and floor planters are evolved but tbh, I don't mind having to send a sim to do the evolution for just those plants. What I do not like about the vertical planters is that evolving a plant in one does not count for the Gardening aspiration milestone to evolve 5 plants. But that's the way it is so you have to manage your garden to meet that milestone.

Hope this helps.

simsplayer818
Hero
2 years ago
@CGrant56 Thanks! I hadn't noticed that before as I don't use them much. I added a wall of them to my redesigned Science Lab. I think I'll need to remove some as it's taking her all day to Evolve them and tending to them doesn't count for the work tasks. Staff aren't looking after them either
I wasn't sure because most of my gardening is currently broken and I didn't know if this was yet another gardening bug. I'm glad it's not! 🥀
@GiardiniDiMarzo and @crinrict thanks for your input on this one.
- CGrant56
  Hero+
  2 years ago
  @simsplayer818
  I didn't know about them not counting for the Scientist tasks. Thanks for mentioning that. Since the Seasons change where plants only begin to bear fruit at 5 AM, I haven't had any plants at my lab after they all died off. I just ignore the gardening tasks now. So, I never tried a vertical planter there.
  - simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @CGrant56 I've had the problem with them dying off too. They also rarely produce any harvestables at the science lab whatever planter they are in. I keep them for the task bar and because I wanted the alien plants there along with any unusual plants and things I need for serum recipes. But since they don't produce anything, my Sim sometimes has to take an early morning trip to a garden stall to buy some serum ingredients if she can't find them in seed packets, etc.
    So the garden will be getting some pruning today as it's not much use right now. It's a shame because it looks nice but I added a robotics department and there's only so many hours in the day to garden and create Servos, etc.