Cottage Living milk, eggs, and meat not preserved in fridge on retail lot.
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.77.146.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Relevant packs are Get to Work, and Cottage Living. I also have City Living, Seasons, and Realm of Magic.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Open a retail lot and place milk, meat, and eggs from Cottage living inside a refrigerator. The spoil time doesn't change from the spoil time if it is placed in a sim's inventory. Also, place an oversized produce for sell on a shelf or display and it will sell for significantly less than it's value. As in, the value if I sell it from inventory is in the hundreds of simoleons, but sold on the retail lot to a customer only gets me like 20 simoleons.
What happens when the bug occurs? Milk, eggs, and meat from Cottage living spoil at the same rate as inventory (less than 24hrs) when placed in the fridge on a retail lot. This makes trying to run a bakery really wasteful. Oversized produce sells for far less than it's value on retail lot.
What do you expect to see? I expect eggs, milk, and meat to be preserved in the fridge on a retail lot so they last for days, not hours. (sim days and hours). I lose my eggs and milk faster than I can turn them into baked goods while on the lot. I also expect to be able sell the new oversized giant produce for a profit (or at least not a huge loss by comparison), so I don't have to manually sell it in inventory or at the faire.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
I would really like to run a bakery, and sell the goods from my new farm in Cottage Living on a retail lot from Get to Work. Like I said above, milk, eggs, and meat are spoiling at the regular unrefrigerated rate on the retail lot while my sims are there. This leaves most of it to waste before I can use it up. It is probable that the new oversized produce is also spoiling at inventory rates, but I forgot to check that since it lasts for days unrefrigerated anyway. Also, I can only sell my giant oversized crops like a huge pumpkin worth hundreds for a pitiful 2 digit amount on the retail lot. I'd expect to be able to get more of a profit, or at the very least the same profit, as selling it from my inventory. I've tried several different refrigerators and it makes no difference. I've reinstalled the game after removing the limited CC that I had. I haven't been able to find any other reports of this happening or any mods that fix the issue, but it seems like it would be a simple fix. I just don't have the skills to make my own mods. Please let me know when there can be a solution because I'm really liking the idea of Cottage Living and want it to work out.
The recent patch seems to have resolved the issue although it wasn't mentioned in the patch notes. I've been back to the shop twice and there are 16+ days left on the milk and eggs I've left there. Thanks for your help. I'll post again if the problem pops up again.