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Anonymous
7 years ago

Spraying plants for bugs stopped working?

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Norsk
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.45.62.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get together, get to work, city living, cats & dogs, spa day, parenthood, backyard stuff, luxury party stuff, perfect patio stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Plant plants in your garden, doesnæt matter if it is in a planter on on the ground. Take care of them and wait until one of them needs to be sprayed for bugs. Spray the plant.
What happens when the bug occurs? You can spray the plant for one full time, and then the flies do not go away, the option to spray does not go away, but if you try to spray again then you only spray for a second and you can repeat this over and over if you want. My sim leveled to level 9 gardening so she could do "all in one" gardening, and she ended up being stuck just spraying for a second, pausing, spraying for a second over and over.
What do you expect to see? Spraying, bugs leave and the option to spray gone when you click that plant.
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? Neutral/Not Sure 

This suddenly happened without me adding new packs or mods or anything really. One day she sprayed the plants and everything worked out fine, the next...this happened and every single plant that has been needed to sprayed after this has had this issue. It has happened to both "small" plants and trees, and the only "solution" I have found so far is to delete the plant with the issue and replant an identical plant... which kinda sucks when your sim has the gardener aspiration.

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  • I have the same problem except for the fact that they don't actually finish spraying the plant. You cant stop them because if you X it, It restarts. 

  • MsSol65's avatar
    MsSol65
    Rising Novice
    7 years ago

    I am having the same issue.  I have no mods or cc, I do have all packs.  I am updated and have tried repairing game.   My sims and the npc gardner have the same problem and now I have several plants infested.

  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    7 years ago

    @MsSol65

    Go to The sims4 game folder in Documents. Find localthumbcache.package file and delete it. The game will create a new one file but without saved errors. Then once more fix the game in Origin. You have to wait until Origin will fix all packs, not only the base game.
    If your save isn't damaged this should help.
    If it will not help try doing a factory reset as described in this post:
    http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4/FAQ-Troubleshooting-Steps-amp-Known-Issues/m-p/3621199
    Always save the "save as ..." option to prevent overwriting of saves. This sometimes causes bugs like this one.

    I don't work for EA

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    5 years ago
    I'm closing this thread to stop it being necroed.

    If you have any issues with Sims 4 please make a new topic about the issues you are having and what kind of steps you have tried to solve it.

    /Atic