Why EA is not fixing the "plants reverting to dirt piles" issue?

Heya @SandyLee149

This issue hasn't been fixed because the root cause (pardon the pun) has yet to be identified. The issue is still under active investigation at this time.

What do you mean? They often revert to soil when Evolve is used, and always have. And that can even happen if a golden hen 'spells' them. If that's a bug it's never bothered me because they regrow when in season.

It is a difficult problem to solve because it doesn't happen constantly and not the same for everyone. I think ea is trying to fix it. Unfortunately unsuccessful until now. Occasionally I have plants who are affected, sometimes I everything is fine. I have a feeling once a plant is 'infected' it keeps reverting regularly and I have to replace it.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-In-Season-Plants-revert-to-dirt-piles-Patch-1-68/m-p/9726151/highlight/true#M161166 This was posted November of 2020 and had 13,057 views. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-Plants-reverting-to-dirt-pile-Patch-1-76-81/m-p/10475991/highlight/true#M188190 was created in July of 2021 with 16,041 views. The last 10 pages of this thread were posted within the last month, with the last 2 on Tuesday, 9/27/2022. Check it out and don't tell me this isn't happening currently or it's due to an issue that is easy to fix. Pretty sure we'd know about the fix by now. Maybe I am wrong, but I have a hard time believing their devs can't figure out a how to fix a glitch after at least 2 years and 30,000 views on 2 threads.

Also, if your game is running correctly, this will not happen when your plants evolve. I have evolved lots of plants without this happening, and other times my entire garden will revert to dirt piles because I've logged off, traveled or did some other random thing.

I guess this bugs me (excuse the pun) because it's embedded into a lot of the game; vampires, get to work, realm of magic, cottage living. Maybe more. Those are just the ones I can think of quickly. They keep pushing content that contains an aspect of the game that is broken.

I'm inclined to believe that they don't know how to fix it because no modder has been able to fix it either.

Actually, you make a very good point I've not considered. The modders are very talented. If it were an easy fix one of them would have done it. I appreciate your input. However, we should be able to count on EA to fix their glitches. If it's so hard that it can't be fixed, they shouldn't keep embedding gardening into new content.

Given how inconsistent this bug is to reproduce, I believe EA when they say that they don't know how to fix it. I rarely encountered it in my pre-Seasons game, and even after adding Seasons it is still rare for me and doesn't follow clear patterns. Even when the bug occurs, there's no rhyme or reason to which plants are affected - in the millionaire save one morning it hit a random thirty of 200 lilys.

Also, the normal corporate word for "No" is a telling silence. If they just didn't want to fix the bug, they wouldn't say "We don't know", but gloss the matter over altogether, as they do with the Wants/Fears toggle.

I guess I've had a hard time believing while they can produce this game, they can't fix a bug it contains. Also, why they knowingly say they can't fix it, but they keep pushing content it contains. I think that is what bothers me the most. However, I do appreciate your response and input. Thank you.

Part of the issue is that it's caused by the rules set in the game itself.

We talked about it last year in this thread bienchen and littlemssam shared some helpful info about what you can do to prevent it as much as possible.

• Don't use low quality fertilizer.
  
• Don't have the eco footprint change a lot.
  
• Don't be on another lot when your season is changing.
  

To add to what @logion said, I also read to not use the Great Soil lot trait