Is this a banana tree???

[VIDA!!!]

It's so weird bananas grow on apple trees. The folks at EA could have done more! Take a look at the Castway banana tree , much better!

[Jasumi]

Normally I don't complain about the game too much, but that is very strange. Even I find it a little annoying.

[simsample]

They are just following the precedent they set with potatoes growing on the branches of a bush. :D

[cameranutz2]

Horrible excuse for a banana tree.

[whiterider]

Default replacement time!

[crocobaura]

Default replacement time!

I so wish someone would do that to all the vegetables. It would be so much easier to know what you're growing just by looking at them, at least for things like lettuce, watermelons, garlic and onions. And the fruits should be more visible on the trees. Even for apple trees, you can barely see any fruit on them. I think they should have made them more like the TS2 harvestable trees.

[Zokugai]

Let us not forget that lettuce apparently grows on a bush in Simland.

[Elven_Ranger]

It didnt really bother me to much at first, but the more that has been added the more it seems to stand out as a bit 'wrong', definatly needs replacment for many of the worst cases. TBH, I was wondering were the bananna tree was and only realised when my sim started auto-harvesting at the park! Silly me was actually looking for something more bananna-tree-esk!!!

[rian90]

I looked so forward to a banana tree! We have them all over here, growing wild now. I will never use those weird banana trees. How lazy does EA get? I mean, they make palms but can't make a banana tree?

[kristie91]

It would be nice if someone made a default replacement for it. I would be very happy! :)
I wonder if they thought it was funny or they are just lazy.

[Jasumi]

Well, we do have to keep in mind that these are speedtrees. The trees weren't created by EA. Plus it might have been over their budget.

http://www.speedtree.com/showcase/

They have some nice coconut trees on that website :D

[Elven_Ranger]

Speedtrees? Thats not something ive heard of before.

[whiterider]

..aka, EA were too cheap to buy a banana tree model, and just reused the one they'd already bought. :faceslap:

[Elven_Ranger]

..aka, EA were too cheap to buy a banana tree model, and just reused the one they'd already bought. :faceslap:

Ah! Now I get it, thanks whiterider :) And yup, agree with that totally , thats EA for yu' :rolleyes:

[Redhead Creations]

But, they already have a banana tree in the game (it might be called a banana plant), but they could have at least used THAT as the model and it still wouldn't have been any extra meshing...

[cameranutz2]

Considering the number of palm trees they added for SHT you'd think they'd spring for a decent banana tree...cheap asses.

[AnnaIME]

Not that I'm defending EA, but I would have thought that a more realistic banana plant would mean new animations. Which they could have done, but there would have been more to it than just changing the model.

The strange banana tree is immersion-breaking, but the potato plant bothers me more. Don't they know that potatoes that have been exposed to sunlight are poisonous?

[simsample]

Ah, but they are sim potatoes and sim lettuces... not human plants. Don't you know eggs grow on bushes in simland, and so do burger patties? :lol:

[cameranutz2]

And let's not forget the cheese to compliment the burger patties!

[DaBoogadie]

I can't even imagine this game without all of the silliness. And I do love all of the silliness. If everybody got what they wanted in realism, the game would be impossible to play. Every item, animation, and lighting effect takes processor resources that most computers couldn't handle. It's a game, and I'm fine with pretend.

[crocobaura]

Every item, animation, and lighting effect takes processor resources that most computers couldn't handle. It's a game, and I'm fine with pretend.


Yes, but in this case they only needed to give us a proper banana tree mesh, not new animations or lighting effects. It's nice to be able to visually differentiate the crops otherwise they might as well have created a single tree that grew every type of fruit on it.

[DaBoogadie]

Yes, but in this case they only needed to give us a proper banana tree mesh, not new animations or lighting effects. It's nice to be able to visually differentiate the crops otherwise they might as well have created a single tree that grew every type of fruit on it.
Yes, but a banana tree is just one of the things that some folks want in the game to provide more realism. If they please everyone, the game won't run. My personal favorite is that Sims pull there pants down to poop. lol

[simsample]

In Sims 1, it was easier to think of sims as being 'not human' because the player was always watching from a distance; outside the fourth wall so to speak. But with Sims 2 and 3, you are able to immerse yourself totally in the world, and it's easy to forget that these are sims, not humans (especially with the realistic CC that is available).

I still play sims 1 though, so think of my sims as being a different species in a totally different universe to this. Therefore I love it when things are strange or quirky (like potato bushes and spin-to-change clothes) and get annoyed when things are too human, so you won't find any photorealistic skins in my game. My sims are censor blurred, and I'm happy that way! :lol:

[rian90]

I don't find banana's hanging from what looks like an orange tree to be quirky or cute. It is lazy. Banana trees are beautiful and would have added to the landscape. It is pure laziness on EA's part. I really doubt they did this to be cute. ;) I rather wonder if they forgot the banana tree with all their work on Simport.

[crocobaura]

I don't find banana's hanging from what looks like an orange tree to be quirky or cute. It is lazy. Banana trees are beautiful and would have added to the landscape. It is pure laziness on EA's part. I really doubt they did this to be cute. ;) I rather wonder if they forgot the banana tree with all their work on Simport.

I don't think they forgot. They just did the same thing they've been doing since basegame. Cheese and turkeys grow on bushes, bananas grow on apple trees. :sheep: :duck: :turtle:

[Periandre]

Yes, but in this case they only needed to give us a proper banana tree mesh, not new animations or lighting effects. It's nice to be able to visually differentiate the crops otherwise they might as well have created a single tree that grew every type of fruit on it.

Didn't they? :blink:

Let's not forget in the tree collection you have the regular cherry tree and the large cherry tree and neither are even slightly related to the "harvestable" cherry tree.

[Axe Gaijin]

I could forgive them the Banana tree, but the Money Tree looks nothing like the IRL one either....

[AdamantEve]

I said in an earlier topic that, to me, it feels like a genuine sims-style quirk.

They make a bunch of trees that produce fruit. They make a bunch of shrubs that produce vegetables. Then for potatos they just stick them on the same shrub, and for bananas they stick them on the same tree! It's a cute quirk, I think. Plus I don't see anybody complaining that a steak tree doesn't look like a cow! :lol:

I'm PRETTY SURE that an entire team of people is smart enough to understand that bananas do not grow on an apple tree-style tree. Implying otherwise is pretty horribly terrible to everybody working on the game. :(

[eskie227]

I'm PRETTY SURE that an entire team of people is smart enough to understand that bananas do not grow on an apple tree-style tree. Implying otherwise is pretty horribly terrible to everybody working on the game. :(

I'm pretty sure the entire team assigned the banana tree was limited in members (as well as seniority) and line budget. The most difficult decision they were forced to reach consensus on, was, should it be a bush or a tree. :gjob:

[Shimrod101]

They would have been better off placing the bananas on the plant type which the Life Fruit uses. Then at least one could imagine that this is a baby banana tree, still growing, already starting to produce fruit.

[Miss Puff]

I'm PRETTY SURE that an entire team of people is smart enough to understand that bananas do not grow on an apple tree-style tree. Implying otherwise is pretty horribly terrible to everybody working on the game. :(
No one in the thread was implying this. :wtf:

[Zokugai]

I could forgive them the Banana tree, but the Money Tree looks nothing like the IRL one either....

If there's an irl Money Tree I have somehow missed a drastically important detail about how the American economy functions.

[eskie227]

THIS IS BANANA!!!!!
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z364/damocles_the_damocrat/MADBANANAS.jpg

It looks like a banana on crack. :cool:

[purexevil666]

Seems like vegetarians in TS3 are lucky..

[aGOLDENbox]

I kinda don't get how the team couldn't give us an animation of the sim peeling the banana.

[Dramamine]

Let's not forget in the tree collection you have the regular cherry tree and the large cherry tree and neither are even slightly related to the "harvestable" cherry tree.

Yes but IRL those are called cherry blossom trees but do not produce actual cherries, that's just the name.

On the other hand, we actually do have a real banana tree mesh already in-game, it came with WA. Everyone seems to think the reason why it's wrong is because they didn't pay for a new tree mesh, but they've already released one. So... why couldn't they just put bananas on it? It wouldn't have been any harder than putting bananas on the apple tree.

Right? ... right?

[RomerJon17]

Yep Electronic Arts buggered up the seeds.....

[MystiTsu]

Yes, its unrealistic and yeah EA might be lazy. The real question is this: Are there new recipies for this banana? Can we feed them to animals like the carrots? What do we do with them besides eat them and when my sim's skill is high enough grow them? (haven't even seen this tree in Starlight Shores yet. I am sure I will come across it.)

[simsample]

What do we do with them besides eat them and when my sim's skill is high enough grow them?
Throw them at bad performers!

[tofanpw]

Throw them at bad performers!

shouldn't that be tomatoes? :D

maybe you can make sundaes with them?

[simsample]

Hehe, you can throw tomatoes too!
http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/5/2/8/4/8/MTS_simsample-1285503-Bluefunk_0407-Apr-1209.30.jpg

Although I think the reason for bananas being in the game was to throw. Not sure if there are any banana recipes in-game?
http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/5/2/8/4/8/MTS_simsample-1285501-Bluefunk_0207-Apr-1209.29.jpg

[MiniMimi]

IIRC there's a new recipe for a sandwich with peanut butter and banana. Is there more?

[eskie227]

IIRC there's a new recipe for a sandwich with peanut butter and banana. Is there more?

Actually, that's a FRIED banana and peanut butter sandwich. Sounds yummy, doesn't it? It's on my list to try right after the tofu turkey recipe, which is REALLY low on my list of foods to prepare.

[crocobaura]

Actually, fried bannana doesn't sound so bad.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Fried-bananas-recipe/

It reminds me of this receipe Fried Sambucus nigra and Robinia pseudacacia flowers.

http://www.ardei-iute.ro/retete-culinare-ardei-iute/flori-de-soc-si-de-salcam-prajite-in-aluat.html

[calisims]

Fried peanut butter and banana was one of Elvis' favorite recipes, iirc.

[eskie227]

Fried peanut butter and banana was one of Elvis' favorite recipes, iirc.

And look what happened to his waistline...............

[unionpacific13]

It's so weird bananas grow on apple trees. The folks at EA could have done more! Take a look at the Castway banana tree , much better!

where you get that? :!!:

[Generis]

where you get that? :!!:

Sims castaway is a standalone pc game that came out during the sims 2 days. there's a banana plant in that game that looks like an actual banana plant. I think someone made a mod to import the banana plant from sims castaway to sims 2.

... why do people call it banana tree? it's a plant... a herbaceous plant that happens to grow to large proportions but still a plant, not a tree. :P

[CreativeMommy1985]

I haven't even noticed that tree yet. They could have done much better with that!

[EmmaSims]

I kinda don't get how the team couldn't give us an animation of the sim peeling the banana.

theres so many things they could do like that, like toilet roll holders why cant we change them? cleaning the cages to birds, why not actually see them place the paper down?

[Prawler]

Maybe they wanted to test the skills of their fans

[HarVee]

I think someone made a mod to import the banana plant from sims castaway to sims 2.

J. M. Pescado over at MATY (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=10993.0) did such a thing. I'm assuming this is what you're referring to.

[Generis]

J. M. Pescado over at MATY (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=10993.0) did such a thing. I'm assuming this is what you're referring to.

Most probably. S3 is the first time that I ever used cc and mods, since back then a vanilla sims 2 completely satisfied me, so I have little knowledge of the cc and modding community of sims 2.

I just edited a lot in S3 and realized that S3 has a decorative banana plant from WA... was wondering before why the earlier posts said that EA made a banana plant mesh for sims 3... My mistake, just made quick glances at the posts instead of reading through them all.

[Menaceman44]

THIS! I HATE this EA excuse for a banana tree.
Yes it is The Sims, yes it is make-believe, yes it's just a game BUT STILL! There are certain quirky things that are looked upon as a bit of fun and believe me, I LIKE the quirkyness of The Sims games. I like that it is not 100% realistic but THIS.
I just think it looks stupid and I cannot bring myself to allow my Sims to grow bananas because of the apple tree they grow on.
I even started trying to see if I could create a default replacement mesh for the tree but I don't understand the files well enough and couldn't find any of the fruit trees with s3oc so I hit a wall and gave up.

[Deestar]

The most annoying thing about it is if you look at about 60% of the content including animations from Sims 3, it is imported from Sims 2, Sims 1, or the Sims Stories series. They had the tree from Castaway- they used it in WA, how difficult would it have been to recode the animations to work with Sims 3 and do it right.

I don't want things 100% realistic, I like the cartoony look of the Sims games and even like playing the pre-made families but at least aim for consistency with previous iterations of the game. If you have actual banana trees in previous games- use the meshes and animations in this one. After all you have imported some of the Gods awful ugly furniture from Sims 1 and 2 (Lips Loveseat anyone) into Sims 3, why not this since gardening is a pretty big part of the game

[morphius1]

In Sims 1, it was easier to think of sims as being 'not human' because the player was always watching from a distance; outside the fourth wall so to speak. But with Sims 2 and 3, you are able to immerse yourself totally in the world, and it's easy to forget that these are sims, not humans (especially with the realistic CC that is available).

I still play sims 1 though, so think of my sims as being a different species in a totally different universe to this. Therefore I love it when things are strange or quirky (like potato bushes and spin-to-change clothes) and get annoyed when things are too human, so you won't find any photorealistic skins in my game. My sims are censor blurred, and I'm happy that way! :lol:

I could not have said this better myself. Although, I hate the blur, so my sims aren't censored. :)

[Mornath]

As said previously: C'mon, we have bushes to grow burger patties. And a cheese bush, and an egg bush, and a turkey bush, and a money tree. And another plant that gives a life saver flower. Sure, EA does have palm trees, and thus, they can use it to be banana trees. But back in WA, we had the cherry tree, with their beautiful pink look. But no, actual cherries had to grow on "apple trees". This is how EA does things. They had only "followed the line".

Also, in terms of graphics, lets count the fact that we can harvest lots of fruit and vegetables, using always the same bush, the same tree, and the same... How is it called the tomato plant? I mean, those three plants grow everything. What makes the banana so special?

Just thinking...

[Sirah81]

But cherry trees are fine and perfectly realistic. Cherry trees are only pink while they are flowering, not when the tree bears fruit. So you wouldn't have a pink cherry tree with cherries. Cherry trees in real life look fairly alike to apple trees in that sense. The only thing they could have done to cherry tree is to put lots of white/pink flowers on the "mature"state, but it really doesn't bother me that much. The tree is correct shape, unlike banana tree.

Again, even banana tree doesn't really bother ME, since I also think of sims as their own culture and world. But I understand that others are annoyed, if they want to pretend realism. And tomatoes grow in a vine :)

[Menaceman44]

Yes but all of the burger patty and other such plants you mentioned don't exist in the real world so EA can take as much artistic licence with them as they wish.
The cherry trees around where I live that give fruit do not look like the WA cherry blossom trees and are actually more like the generic harvestable tree.
The banana tree has a well known real world counterparts and so the one EA provided us with just looks wrong.
Of course, this is my personal opinion on the matter and you do not have to agree with it in any shape or form. I am mearly voicing my thoughts.

[Sirah81]

Oh I do agree. I think plenty of people would have been happy if they would have pretty much re-made the banana tree from Sims2 Castaway Stories (which I'm still kicking myself for not getting, can't find it anywhere). it has the bananas even in correct bunches. Also, thanks for reminding me. one of my families just completed the Omni-challenge, I should plant a WA-book-tree.

[Menaceman44]

Technically bananas grow in hands, not bunches but now I really AM getting nit-picky and I should stop.