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meeshmeesh3
5 years ago
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Unable to evolve plants - they are all perfect too fast.

Hi there, I hope this wasn't already a question, but I'm working on the freelance botanist aspiration (and have been for a long time), and I can't seem to get passed the "evolve 5 different plants" g...
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    Psychotps
    5 years ago

    @meeshmeesh3That sounds about it then.

    Just to be sure, keep an eye on the plants and their current evolution stage. IE. "Normal, Great, Magnificent", etc.

    "Tending" to a plant won't make it evolve. You MUST click on "evolve" normally for that to work.

    If you see a plant suddenly jump from say "Normal" to "Magnificent" or "Perfect" and you didn't hit Evolve, then that's the ECO Footprint. There is NO WAY to stop it from doing that without turning off the Eco Footprint.

    The lot traits and tiny lots gardening boosts I mentioned won't make the plants jump in evolution. You still have to click on Evolve, the problem with the gardening boost traits is they evolve too quickly. I'll evolve a tomato plant one day, and the next day, it wants to evolve again. Since there are only 4 or 5 stages, and 2-3 days to grow from planting, they're all perfect in a week. I'd much rather stretch it out a bit... or a lot.

    @RandomBuzziness Well, yeah. That's exactly the problem.  It's the Eco Footprint flaw.  Every time a neighborhood goes "green", all plants immediately jump up 2-3 stages in evolution without you doing anything.  Problem is, the ECO Footprint is so BROKEN, it's constantly jumping around. It goes from Green, to Neutral, to Industrial, and back to green within a day. And every time it does, your plants jump around with it. Green = +2 to +3  stages. Industrial = -2 to -3 stages.

    If the darn ECO footprint would just stay still and not keep jumping around... it might be better.

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Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

@meeshmeesh3That sounds about it then.

Just to be sure, keep an eye on the plants and their current evolution stage. IE. "Normal, Great, Magnificent", etc.

"Tending" to a plant won't make it evolve. You MUST click on "evolve" normally for that to work.

If you see a plant suddenly jump from say "Normal" to "Magnificent" or "Perfect" and you didn't hit Evolve, then that's the ECO Footprint. There is NO WAY to stop it from doing that without turning off the Eco Footprint.

The lot traits and tiny lots gardening boosts I mentioned won't make the plants jump in evolution. You still have to click on Evolve, the problem with the gardening boost traits is they evolve too quickly. I'll evolve a tomato plant one day, and the next day, it wants to evolve again. Since there are only 4 or 5 stages, and 2-3 days to grow from planting, they're all perfect in a week. I'd much rather stretch it out a bit... or a lot.

@RandomBuzziness Well, yeah. That's exactly the problem.  It's the Eco Footprint flaw.  Every time a neighborhood goes "green", all plants immediately jump up 2-3 stages in evolution without you doing anything.  Problem is, the ECO Footprint is so BROKEN, it's constantly jumping around. It goes from Green, to Neutral, to Industrial, and back to green within a day. And every time it does, your plants jump around with it. Green = +2 to +3  stages. Industrial = -2 to -3 stages.

If the darn ECO footprint would just stay still and not keep jumping around... it might be better.

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meeshmeesh3
5 years ago

Thanks everyone. I didn't know that the eco footprint would *evolve* my plants like that, it should just make the process move quicker imo. I will try turning off the eco-footprint and see what happens (I am doing a legacy challenge so I don't want to have to move my family - they are in (I think) oasis springs - in the landgraab's lot. I definitely haven't been evolving them myself, and they are definitely evolving on their own - so I guess that all narrows down to the fact that I have Eco Lifestyle installed and it basically makes everywhere have a green eco footprint after a few days of playing (kind of OP if you ask me). 

I'll keep you all updated after I turn off the eco-footprint to see if that fixes it, but I will assume that will do the trick as it is the only explanation I can think of for this. Thanks again for your ideas! 

-Meesh

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