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Why EA is not fixing the "plants reverting to dirt piles" issue?
SandyLee149
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I have a very difficult time believing EA genuinely does not know how to fix this issue. I think they aren't fixing it simply because it is not financially advantageous. I don't think they care because they aren't losing enough money. I tried to do the math by googling the numbers of players in the US who play Sim 4, versus the number of players who viewed this issue in the EA bug report. I found the number of players reported in the US inconsistent and I found it difficult to research the number of players who searched for this issue.... but I still behind my conclusion. If they were losing money, it would have been fixed a long time ago. Yes, it stinks for the rest of us who are having problems with something as significant as gardening...and who spend good money on the game. Do you think there is a chance I may be correct? If they were losing enough money they would fix it, right???
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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.
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.
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.
Is there a mod that fixes this problem? Please let me know if there is because I am not aware of one. Thanks.
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.
I appreciate everyone's input. I don't mean to seem so negative; I just find it very annoying after 2 years and 30,000 views on 2 threads. I guess if I find it that annoying, I should just try to play without gardening, or with as few plants as possible so if I need to use testingcheats it's not time consuming. Thanks again.
Have you purposely tried to recreate the bug on a different save? Like the tips people suggested you, you could try doing all of that and try to see if you can recreate it. However, from the nature of this bug, it just looks like it occurs whenever it feels like it, and doing all of those things above doesn't necessarily guarantee you'll recreate it.
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I think the major problem is that there is more than one thing affecting the dirt pile bug.
I have great soul turned off all of my lots that garden now. I was told that might affect it
I fast forward through about 5-9 am now . ( as I heard that might be affecting it )
I heard that having over 16 plants will affect getting dirt piles,
I heard that you cannot use the same fertilizer more than once in a row, so I individually fertilize plants trying to use a different fertilizer for each plant . Example banana for one apple for the next onion for the third etc.
I use only cheap fertilizer, but I am careful to make sure and fertilize every time a plant needs it.
I noticed change of seasons sometimes makes dirt piles, even plants who are still in season and inside.
The main thing I do to stop dirt piles is save my game before tending plants, before leaving the lot to go to another lot, before fertilizing plants, and before evolving plants, and saving around 4 am. If I get the dirt pile after some one of these things, and it affects many plants I will get out of the game without saving and then go back in my game. Of course sometime I get complacent and forget to save and something happens….
@EA_Cade is there any way you could make a button for seasons where you can turn off seasons affecting when plants grow, inside and outside? I have heard some people who don’t have seasons say they don’t get the dirt pile problem. Besides, I would like to be able to grow all plants year round without having to have season affect what plant can grow during each season. That would help my game a lot.
Also, I will add….. I do not use CC or mods in the sims 4 and never have used them in the sims 4. I do however own all of the packs and kits at this time. I play on long life with aging turned off most of the time.