Feedback: Updated Gardening System
The June 19th patch made changes to the gardening system. There are now only five stages to evolving plants from normal to perfect. And if you have the Seasons EP some plants will grow during certain ...
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Personally I didn't find a problem with gardening before although labour intensive but it gave lots of skill points quickly, so I don't understand why it was changed. Watering was a problem at times, but nothing a garden sprinkler added into the game wouldn't have solved! Keeping plants was only a big problem when you got to level 10 and then quite time consuming, especially with a "big" garden. My Sim opted to join the gardening club and had them come over to help out, found this to be a big help! I have not even explored this with the new patch!
I do like we can sell harvests instead of going into the inventory (as the Sim's inventory is basically a mess) and having to sell. I don't have Seasons yet, I just installed the latest patch and saw the changes to my plants. Until I play a family without any gardening skills I don't really know how this will effect the gardening skill in my game. I don't like hearing reports of splicing not getting the results but I can't comment until I have tried this or how much fun it will be with the new Season's EP. In some ways installing the new Season EP will change my game a lot and how I play. I feel that adding a new EP or Game Pack into the game should not change things too much, just add to the gaming experience.
My thought's about changing things in the game............... Either it has not been thought out what content is going to be added for future packs during development, then as the the years roll by deciding that something needs to be changed. I understand they are trying to make it things different (maybe better) with the addition of Seasons or other packs but for those of us without Season's at the moment we still have to take some of the changes with the patch. I can't every remember this happening with the Sims 1 and 2. All we had were improvements in my opinion not what I think where substantial changes. We had a choice of installing patches back then not like now. The problem with playing the game online we have no choice in patching the game otherwise we have to play offline continually. No choice is there!
I hope I will find the new changes over time beneficial and fun, especially when I install Seasons. I try to stay positive being a long time Simmer since the Sims 1 and continue to play
I do like we can sell harvests instead of going into the inventory (as the Sim's inventory is basically a mess) and having to sell. I don't have Seasons yet, I just installed the latest patch and saw the changes to my plants. Until I play a family without any gardening skills I don't really know how this will effect the gardening skill in my game. I don't like hearing reports of splicing not getting the results but I can't comment until I have tried this or how much fun it will be with the new Season's EP. In some ways installing the new Season EP will change my game a lot and how I play. I feel that adding a new EP or Game Pack into the game should not change things too much, just add to the gaming experience.
My thought's about changing things in the game............... Either it has not been thought out what content is going to be added for future packs during development, then as the the years roll by deciding that something needs to be changed. I understand they are trying to make it things different (maybe better) with the addition of Seasons or other packs but for those of us without Season's at the moment we still have to take some of the changes with the patch. I can't every remember this happening with the Sims 1 and 2. All we had were improvements in my opinion not what I think where substantial changes. We had a choice of installing patches back then not like now. The problem with playing the game online we have no choice in patching the game otherwise we have to play offline continually. No choice is there!
I hope I will find the new changes over time beneficial and fun, especially when I install Seasons. I try to stay positive being a long time Simmer since the Sims 1 and continue to play
