Mod questions... Plant evolution.

Do you happen to play on a Tiny House lot? Or does your Sim have the super green thumb trait? Do you fertilize your plants with valuable fertilizer (50 Simoleons +)?

I'm asking because in my game at least, plants can hardly ever be evolved at all (without mods).

"83bienchen;c-17448213" wrote:
Do you happen to play on a Tiny House lot? Or does your Sim have the super green thumb trait? Do you fertilize your plants with valuable fertilizer (50 Simoleons +)?

I'm asking because in my game at least, plants can hardly ever be evolved at all (without mods).

No, I can't play Tiny lots. It evolves like twice a day then.

This question needs to be put on hold I think... They JUST came out with a new update... need to check everything for broken mods now. Likely gonna take a week before I can play again.

"83bienchen;c-17448213" wrote:
Do you happen to play on a Tiny House lot? Or does your Sim have the super green thumb trait? Do you fertilize your plants with valuable fertilizer (50 Simoleons +)?

I'm asking because in my game at least, plants can hardly ever be evolved at all (without mods).

No, none of that. I'm not sure what's causing it. I have some mods that effect gardening but I tried it without them and it does the same thing.

I found the plant evolution tuning file and made some changes there. It seems to work better on the FIRST stage (Normal quality) but not after that. My first test resulted in a freshly planted plant to take a whole THREE days before it evolved! That's definitely an improvement!

The problem is, the default tuning files start plant evolution at 50 out of 100 on each stage. Every time it goes through an evolve check, it increases it by up to 30 points. This means every 2 checks results in an evolution. That's why it's evolving so darn fast.

I changed the starting evolution stage to 10 (because '1' results in a freshly planted plant to be dead. oops!) I then changed the stages from 10-20-30 to 1-2-3 and it's evolving much slower. But the subsequent evolution stages are still starting at 50 so I still need some work on it.

Edit:

Well, I figured it all out. Primary evolution stage and subsequent stages all start at 10 out of 100 and evolve no more than 3 per evolution progression (which is at least once a day). I've had plants growing two sim weeks and one has only evolved twice. Apparently there's one tuning file for the primary stage and a separate one for subsequent stages?!?!? So weird.

I'd consider putting this mod up on MTS, but I've never heard of anyone else having this problem. EVERYONE complains it's too slow but me. Mine's WAY too fast. I tried a TINY home once with the gardening boost? I never did it since. It was evolving at least twice a day. I couldn't keep up!

Well, I figured out more of it. Turns out I've been using a mod by Carl's. Supposed to increase the chances of combo spawns from spliced plants. Turns out a patch not long ago gave it a side effect of severely increasing evolve rates.

I'm currently... Adjusting... it.

With how much I've modded gardening, I'm seriously thinking about putting out a "Gardening Overhaul" mod...