I bought this expansion on sale and I seriously regret it. This is the worst one yet.. *everything* I have tried to do with it is broken.
1) The "sharing is caring" NAP is ridiculous. Fundamental items like counters randomly vanish from inside your home and you have no way of knowing who took them and no way to get them back. What is the point of that? It's not very "eco" for me to constantly be buying new furniture because someone randomly took off with mine.
2)
My Freegan sim steals from HIMSELF. He lives in an off the grid, volcanic lot in a remote area of Sulani. He does not leave this lot because he is constantly repairing his stuff and struggling to squeeze the land for enough money to pay his taxes. There are NO other houses or community lots nearby.
Yet, sometimes I get a pop up that says "___ has successfully swiped an item without drawing attention!"
What did he swipe? There is nothing in his inventory, nothing in the household inventory. Oh, joy, my own trashcan is missing. So I stole my own trashcan and vanished it into the ether.. now I need to buy a new one and he gets sad because we bought a new item. 🐸🐸🐸🐸.
3) Off the grid in general seems bjorked. I know this was a thing before eco life, but eco life made it more feasible to do. Except not, because I keep getting told that my house is out of power even though I have three wind turbines and NO items that should be using power. Does the off-grid shower use power? The candles? The bookshelf? Where the heck is the power going?!
3a) Also you can't feed your sim very well without a fridge, which sucks. I know there is an "off grid" fridge that you can put ice in.. but why do I have to have a fridge at all. If I'm growing my own fresh food, why can't I make salad with just a cooler and not a fridge?!
I've only been playing this expansion for two days. I'm afraid to see what else is completely broken the further I get into it.
Please fix this. You shouldn't release things like this!!
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https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/READ-FIRST-Compiled-list-of-reported-Issues/m-p/9184455#M135902
I'll never buy a pack at release ever again. I refuse to buy any future packs no matter how much I like them until they fix these bugs.
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YEEESSSS!!! Please link the mods!! This is my problem too. My sims are in Uni and in the middle of writing term papers, they stop to workout. Well they'll stop literally anything to do push ups! Also the amount of garbage around the house is crazy cause they keep getting out the ingredients for white cake. I've made so much money by selling tons and tons of clay! It's making it super annoying to play. I don't have any NAPS and they're acting like they're all picked. The cakes, the exercise, the kissing everyone (free love nap). My sims just keep getting made out with by a bunch of people they don't know (ah, college life! ha!) Dorms are also having everything stolen out of them and you can't go into buy mode to replace them either! ]
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I wonder what the plum is going on, goes to to Answer HQ and notice that simvasion has written a long explanation how the NAP behavior can get stuck on sims even if you remove them. And that he has made a mod that fixes it.
This pack is going to ruin the saves for so many people.
See, the thing is, I always playtest new packs with a new Save before opening up my longterm save. I played through 8 weeks sim time, encountered a few bugs here and there, but never had the issues I'm having now with the NAPs.
origin ID: maureenponderosa
what three naps did you use if you don't mind my asking?
1. Green Initiatives
2. Modern Development
3. Water Conservation
#3 happens one day a week when the water is shut off; so, my Sims just goes to one of his relative's house after work to take a bath and use their toilet; good time to visit the family. I also like number #3 because I enjoy receiving fines because he uses way too much water (super realistic to get fines) entertaining throughout the week.
No, it's not the Sharing is Caring one. It happened when my sims were off the lot when the Modern Development Project (may be messing up that title) passed. Came home to find no front door to their apartment. I can't add a new door because we cannot edit apartments in that manner, which is a design choice that I understand.
I had a blast with the NAPs in my test save and felt comfortable even with the small buggy things in my test save to continue using NAPs in my main save. I actually enjoyed them a LOT and wanted to play with them with my main save. The fact that my sims can not enter their home is a major issue. There have been multiple posts on the EA Help site about this happening. It is not just me. I shouldn't have to disable an entire feature of the pack (one that I enjoyed, mind you) just to keep something like this at bay.
If the glitch where sims are unable to enter their apartments were fixed, I would continue to use NAPs because it's a great idea and it's a lot of fun.... when it works. It has destroyed my save because when I roll back to a previous save, the issue is still there. I would have to go back 2 generations to "fix" it. That is a lot of time spent redoing things with no real guarantee that this issue would not occur again. Don't get me wrong, this could be an incredible pack. I, like many others, just need a massive bug patch.
origin ID: maureenponderosa
https://simvasion.wordpress.com/portfolio/nap-autonomy-fixes/
obviously i'm not one of the developers so this is just speculative, but it feels like they didn't really play test a lot of the features of EL. the fact that the NAPs system is so odd and that the effects stack if you go to other neighbourhoods is...very disappointing? in my game currently i had to download that tuning mod, run cheats to remove the active NAPs, and then disable voting completely so that no new ones will be voted in. forgiveness and patience is key, but when it's a billion dollar company with 20 years industry experience behind them, i'm inclined to be less so.
1- NPCs stealing objects in Community lots (making the lot corrupted) and in other sims' houses.
2- Sims cannot play dolls with kids, neither teach shapes to toddlers using blocks.
3- Plants disappear when harvested leaving a cherry where a cherry tree should be, for instance.
So, households cannot have guests or visit a community lot otherwise something will be stolen. Couples cannot have kids because they cannot teach toddlers. Sims cannot practice gardening because their plants disappear, even the cowplant!
EA PLEASE fix these things!