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Gardening improvements for sims 4
albertwhisker
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I think EA got lazy on the way they make harvestable plants in the game, that is something EA needs to fix in sims 4.
First of all Onion and garlic doesnt grow in bushes, Look how beautiful onion and garlic plant is, You can also harvest the leaves of it which can be treated as spring onion.
garlic
Onion:
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harvestable cherry trees should have been pink or white not green:
EA Banana tree looks like this:
and you can harvest 3 things from the banana tree, The fruit which is consumed worldwide, The trunk which makes a silk like fabric and the flower which is a popular vegetable in Asia, and Africa.
--- Truffles grow underground, under oak trees, In sims 4 the sims must have an oak tree to harvest truffles.
One more thing, I dont like the fertilizer system in sims 3, why the heck we use fresh produce, and live animals as fertilizers?
It should be leftover food, spoiled food and biodegradable garbage.
First of all Onion and garlic doesnt grow in bushes, Look how beautiful onion and garlic plant is, You can also harvest the leaves of it which can be treated as spring onion.
garlic
Onion:
harvestable cherry trees should have been pink or white not green:
EA Banana tree looks like this:
and you can harvest 3 things from the banana tree, The fruit which is consumed worldwide, The trunk which makes a silk like fabric and the flower which is a popular vegetable in Asia, and Africa.
--- Truffles grow underground, under oak trees, In sims 4 the sims must have an oak tree to harvest truffles.
One more thing, I dont like the fertilizer system in sims 3, why the heck we use fresh produce, and live animals as fertilizers?
It should be leftover food, spoiled food and biodegradable garbage.
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And I'm one of the ones who focuses on gardening
Then children are starving in strangetown and they were using fresh produce as fertilizers. :shock:
Fertilizers should be more about recycling not wasting.
I mean... The fruit trees don't even flower.
also some of their ornamentals plants are suppose to be edible and harvestable in real life
I hope to have a better gardening system in sims 4
It is cutting corners. I am going to give the people on the Sims team SOME credit in knowing how plants work.
If you havn't noticed the original game only had 4 plant types: Tree, Money Tree, Bush, and Vine.
They barely expanded upon this.
and yet not to the gems or metals.
You mean, the same people who think plutonium is green and safe enough to be stored in a display case, despite the fact it's the most unstable naturally-occurring metal that naturally undergoes nuclear fission on the planet?
But realistically, I also agree that there are far more important, critical things I'd rather the devs focus on. Like fixing the chronic, game breaking bugs since day 1 of the game release.
Instead of wasting energy posting a thread like this which will be ignored, why not redirect your energy toward making a mod that remedies the problem? Quite a few tropical plants which came with Sunlit Tides make excellent candidates. And don't forget the real bananna tree which has existed in build mode since the base game. All of these are great modding opportunities to remedy the lack of dev oversight. :-)
Don't ask me why the devs decided to be lazy and not code this bananna tree to produce bannanas. They either 1) got lazy, 2) forgot it even existed, or 3) just ran out of time. In all fairness, I'd suspect #3 was probably the case in order to meet the Showtime ship date.
The bottom line: The devs obviously won't be correcting this brain fart anytime in the near future. Especially since Uni is in development for next year. So if you want realistic banannas and other fruit trees in the game, then you're stuck with using mods or making your own.
acutally, cherry tries are only pink while flowering and not when the tree bears fruit. So for the sake of realisim, you'd never be able to harvest pink cherry trees. I suppose they made a reasonable compromise with how the foilage changes color for autum season. But it would've been nice to have cherry trees turn pink in the spring, then green in summer/fall for harvesting.
this suggestion is for sims 4 which have all the time in the world to perfect both major and minor aspects as its under development still, about me making mods, I got D on my computer subject,
i think they should update. they were going off on how pretty the lucky springs new trees and bushes were.. if they took the time to do those trees, they can change the COLOR of a cherry tree. they have NOTHING to be proud of anymoreee! lol
Yeah, I'll agree he does. And after a bit of researching since I last posted (read as: I used Google for about ten minutes to see if it would be difficult), there's actually no reason they can't do this in Sims 3. It's just using an alternate graphical representation; the game mechanics would be unchanged. Like having an alien-looking sim instead of a normal sim.
sims 2 have a better fertilizer system, you use garbage as fertilizer not fresh veggies, fish, reptiles and amphibians.
I respect killing animals for food but killing the for fertilizer.....
Actually, I could agree with that. I'm sure EA was thinking convenient, quick ways to keep your garden soil rich, but perhaps they could have a specific compost bin that bad leftovers get carried off to for fertilizer. And after a cycle of perhaps 3 Sim Days, the compost would be ready for your garden, not much different from having to wait to clean the horse stall for fertilizer. This is a good way of "going green" as everyone else seems to be on about these days. Plus, kids could learn something, since such arts are practiced largely as a hobby, anyway. We shop these days and leave the growing to the food companies. ::Shudders:: And that's the least of it.
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And another thing: You know how many kids these days would be mindboggled by the idea that the fruit or veggie of a plant is not the only harvestable thing? They really should include that. True, this is not some herbology or botony class, but they could open a whole new realm of skills and, just for fun, alchemical ingredients, or spell potency on Supernatural. Witches love their plants. And stones for that matter... was rather disappointed with how limited my witch is. And all the familiar seems to do is increase the speed in which your witch hones their magic skill.
I wouldn't be so annoyed by this myself, but in Seasons I did get really annoyed. They really messed up both Winter and Spring. Somebody really needs to tell EA a lot of bushes and shrubs lose their leaves for winter, and VERY few of them - not all of them - flower during the winter. And somebody also really needs to tell EA that trees and shrubs/bushes bloom during the Spring. Not all of them, but there are, in fact, some present in The Sims 3 that are supposed to bloom for the Spring.
The fact that EA teased us by putting the eternally blooming (in this game) cherry trees abundantly in the screenshots of Spring really makes me more aggravated at this obvious lack of attention to detail. I know EA loves to do some false advertising, but that one was too much. Because you can't even use the Seasonal Lot Marker to place them there just for the Spring, you'd have to manually place them.
indeed, Sweet potato leaves is edible, Taro leaves is edible, Pumpkin seeds are edible, sunflower seeds is edible, Banana flowers are edible, Pine 3 needles are edible.radish and carrots have edible pods,
that will be educational for sure...
They just have to do careful research. Not all food plants are that way... tomatoes, for example, are one where only the fruit is edible. The rest of the plant is actually highly toxic. Of course, it is a type of nightshade...
Yes it is. But they could have used that for an alchemical ingredient. Granted, I am aware a Sim cannot fatelly harm another Sim, but they have prank-like potions, like that Nausious one. It could have been used to make something like that or similar. It could have still been of use, I'm just saying. Belladonna: Relaxing tea or sleep poison, depending on how you use it in the game. They overlooked many nifty things.