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simsplayer818
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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 planters. For those vertical planters my Sim has to walk over to it and speak to each plant in turn to evolve them, she sounds like she's praising them it's so weird. I usually just click Evolve and my Sim doesn't need to do anything, I often do them as my Sims sleep. But not with the vertical ones. There are plants right next to them in regular planters that evolve the normal way. She was fishing and I was checking the garden and I started evolving plants until I noticed she'd queued the vertical plants. So I stopped her fishing and she ran over to them and started talking to each plant.

I'm on Xbox Series X with all content except for Vampires. I attach an image of it happening.

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  • CGrant56's avatar
    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.  

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    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.
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    CGrant56
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @simsplayer818 

    None of the plants in the Science Lab zone will ever bear any fruit.  You might find them on the plants out in the world the first time you go there in a new save.  But, after that, you'll never get any fruit off those and those in the planters in the Lab.  The reason this happens is that before Seasons, plants would bear about 24 hours after the last time and time of day didn't matter so if you planted anything while at work as a Scientist, it would bear during work hours when you were there.  Seasons changed that so that every plant in every world begins bearing fruit at 5 AM and reaches maximum harvest at 5:30 AM.  And you have to be in the zone at that time for them to bear.  So, since the work hours of a Scientist are 10 AM to 7 PM, you are never there and will never be able to harvest any plants.  There is no point in having a garden or any plants at the Lab anymore.

    Hope this helps.

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @CGrant56 Thanks, it's helpful to know that as I'm figuring out what's broken and what's not broken with my gardening.
    I think I'll keep the science lab issues separate from my other gardening issues and just accept that it works differently there in some instances and that a lot of that is by design.
    My robotics Sim (I think that fits with the Pioneer of New Technologies role) has made a gardening bot today and despatched it to water the garden... or at least what's left of it after today.

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