Will Apartment owners ever be able to crossbreed plants?

[AriesMouse]

I remember reading somewhere that part of why they don't have crossbreeding with apartments has something to do with the way the weather is coded, but I have no idea how valid that is. I wish they would give us cross breeding inside apartments. They could do some really neat things with a wall mounted garden plot with 2-4 slots on it. It would visually be nice at least. They already put in those hanging plants, it wouldn't be all too different from that. Again, for all we know, it's some weird coding thing, but I still find that to be a weak excuse at best.

Unfortunately, best you can hope for right now is to try to find a friend you trust, or fc, and see if you can use the garden in their house.

[Penthea]

I remember reading somewhere that part of why they don't have crossbreeding with apartments has something to do with the way the weather is coded, but I have no idea how valid that is.

The weather? But weather doesn't even affect plants.

I wonder if it has to do with not wanting to let players cross-breed more than their plot would normally allow. If apartments get access to a furnishing for indoor cross planting, then houses would too. Not that I care but maybe SE does.

If SE gave apartments balconies from the beginning this issue wouldn't exist. Sigh.

[Dustytome]

The weather? But weather doesn't even affect plants.

I wonder if it has to do with not wanting to let players cross-breed more than their plot would normally allow. If apartments get access to a furnishing for indoor cross planting, then houses would too. Not that I care but maybe SE does.

If SE gave apartments balconies from the beginning this issue wouldn't exist. Sigh.

It probably has to do with the way plants are tended with the weather (watering in normal weather vs plucking in rainy weather). It feels like they made some rather obscure choices as to what gets tethered to other systems and for some reason can't just pull those variables in other spaces. If 3rd party sites can pull weather variables, anywhere inside the game should too and it shouldn't block feature progression. Or, just copy that portion of the code for indoor use but hatchet off the weather portion and just have it use the watering animation always.