Are planters broken?

Gardening is messed up, plants that should be and may have been bloomed will revert back to dirt, started after patch before Eco Living came out. Im not sure about planters themselves tho. Sorry its not working, I hope it fixes

It's not just the planters. At least by using the planter, you can place the planter in the household inventory, and get back the seed, and is able to stop the continous loop of them trying to plant it over and over again.

Thank you for that @LaBlue0314. I was able to get back the ‘seeds’ and make them work by putting them in the inventory and trying again. :)

Everything related with gardening is a mess now, vertical planters are also broken I need to plant on the floor first and then move them to the vertical planters...I decided to stop using the planters and make the garden on the floor it turns out really good with some ground texture to make it look more like a farm. But some plants still have issues even on the floor.

Yep, I've narrowed the problem down after careful observation, when I put the already fully grown apple tree in the new planter it immediately went to a mound. It grows back, but that is taking forever and I was not happy to see fruiting trees regress. :s

How many patches have come out since this problem has been identified and nobody is addressing this. Literally all of my sims garden so I have a major problem on my hands, thanks so much EA. So I just bite the bullet and watch as they s.l.o.w.l.y grow back. :s

I am so out of patience with the Maxis teams right now I could scream. EL hasn't functioned properly since it was released, and today's patch was the best they could manage? How many more attempts is it going to take to get that error code 134 nuked, or the gardening issues resolved? And what about those new planters, the ones that were supposed to make gardening easier and plants take up less space while offering a bit of variety to the planters we were using? So few of the new features in EL actually work, I am regretting every dime I spent on that pack. And that update? If I had known then what I know now.....And hindsight is always 20/20, right? I had trust issues with Maxis before EL was released, and I have zero trust in Maxis now as my game limps along, and my mods folder grows as I try to sort out this mess. I can't disable the pack to stop it from loading and that wouldn't help at all anyway because the pre-ep update is what caused most of the bugs and glitches we're dealing with. One more argument against these mandatory updates can be made here and I am tired of being coerced into updating my game when the only thing those updates seem to do is bork a fragile game even more. Any and all hope I had for seeing the current issues resolved this month have gone right out the window. The worst thing about this patch is I will, once again, be forced to install it or Origin will punish me by taking away my access to the Gallery, plus the option to repair my game if I play off line to avoid patching, then spam me with notices to update before patching my game all on its own in spite having the auto update function turned off.

EA has been chipping away at our right to make choices even as it advertises Sims4 as being filled with ways to be inclusive of gender, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Which are all great additions to the game that were long overdue. But while making those possible, EA has been slowly leading us down a path where we have no choice but to quit the game, or deal with the game's problems on our own and be quiet about our unhappiness. That old phrase 'Play your game your way' EA tosses around, sounds a bit hollow when the game is filled with bugs that have haunted us for years, and every new pack, update and patch falls miles short of resolving even the most simple problems or adds exciting new content that actually works. No, that phrase should say 'Play your game the EA way and like it, or just go away'. Okay, EA, I get it. There is no interest being shown to fix the game, so I have but one choice left and that is to freeze my game where it is right now. And that means no new purchases or updates and patches. There are ways to go around Origin, and right now I happen to believe it is the only way to save my game from totally falling apart. After a very long year of testing and choosing mods that actually fix the game and adds relevant gameplay features that have been missing from Sim4 from the beginning, I choose not to lose the progress I have managed to make so far. EL and the lack of progress made to fix it, proves EA does not care about the franchise or how it is received as long as it continues to make money. And that just isn't acceptable in my world.

"Paigeisin5;c-17619850" wrote:
I am so out of patience with the Maxis teams right now I could scream.

Have a little patience and compassion. Its Covid. Perhaps they're on reduced staff or a lot of staff working from home. Or heck, their friends and family are in hospital and/or sick with Covid. I mean, aren't most staff US based?

I have family members and friends who are all working from their homes. And yet they are able to finish their work in a timely fashion while home schooling their children along with performing the tasks that come with having jobs and families. The teams have been working remotely for a while now, and I was patient while the team members set up their home offices and settled into this new norm we are dealing with. When it comes to performing day to day work-related tasks while confined to one's home, it is every team member's responsibility to make sure a specific time is set aside for work. If they have the time to post to Twitter and Instagram, and watch Spark'd episodes, they should have time enough to work on the game they created. But even before COVID-19 came into our lives, the teams were slow to fix the bugs and issues that plague Sims4. And my compassion is reserved for the players that are stuck at home and are looking at Sims4 to help them pass the time. Many of them are alone and cut off from family and friends. My compassion is reserved for them, and for anyone dealing with a family member ill with this virus. My husband and I have had to live apart for two weeks twice now since February because he has had to travel for business reasons. I know this is a tough time as well as anyone. But COVID-19 has never been used as an excuse to not do work-related tasks, or to ignore our responsibilities.

My main game is from an indie company that has always updated their game every single week. They are not a big AAA company with billions of dollars like EA. When any of their weekly updates comes with a problem, it is almost always patched the next day - they did this last week. They are working from home too, and have continued to provide weekly updates and support with no problem.

What they do not do is knowingly take money from people for a product that they know full well is too broken to sell to anyone. They don't blow people off for weeks and months on end after taking their money, and just leave them twisting in the wind with junkware to show for the money they spent.

They didn't have to sell anything that wasn't ready to go, but they did. They could at least support it once it's out the door, but they don't.

I'm with Paigeisin on this one. They are responsible for selling us the messes they knew weren't sellable, and there is no excuse for abandoning their responsibilities after the fact. If they couldn't support it and make it right, they should have delayed release.

Now they're just blowing us off. Again.

Yup, that along with so many other things have been broken since Eco Lifestyle came out yet they dedicate all their patches to sparkd content which nobody ever wanted or asked for rather than fixing their broken game.

I've had bugs that I reported as soon as EL came out and two months later I'm still trying to get them heard and fixed and just get met with nothing every time. Giving up hope that they'll ever be acknowledged at this point.