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Are my Butlers Cursed?!
SimAlexandria
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We hired a lovely butler and she was a great worker but she suddenly died at a young age and I have no idea what happened to her.
She was replaced by an elderly butler who was USELESS. After 4-5 Sim days of her not cooking, cleaning, or helping with the kids we fired her. Seriously the only thing this lady did was read books, watch tv and have baths in the family bathroom when the kids needed to get ready for school.
Her replacement was another wonderful young hard working woman like the first one and two days after hiring her she was dead too! Why are they dying? I have a butler quarters made for them with their own bed assigned to them, their own shower and toilet and I've double checked they could access it. Are they starving in our home, like do they need their own fridge too? The notiication only said give themm a bed. Seriously? What am I doing wrong?
Also, after the death of the second butler her replacement that just showed up was the one we fired again... *sigh* let's see if she does better this time.
She was replaced by an elderly butler who was USELESS. After 4-5 Sim days of her not cooking, cleaning, or helping with the kids we fired her. Seriously the only thing this lady did was read books, watch tv and have baths in the family bathroom when the kids needed to get ready for school.
Her replacement was another wonderful young hard working woman like the first one and two days after hiring her she was dead too! Why are they dying? I have a butler quarters made for them with their own bed assigned to them, their own shower and toilet and I've double checked they could access it. Are they starving in our home, like do they need their own fridge too? The notiication only said give themm a bed. Seriously? What am I doing wrong?
Also, after the death of the second butler her replacement that just showed up was the one we fired again... *sigh* let's see if she does better this time.
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She literally sat in a chair and watched my household Sim cook dinner...
the sim 2 had better npcs, the sims 3 and 4 ones are useless
Did you have something electronic/electric break down that's outside? I lost two Butlers in a row, because I made the unfortunately mistake of placing the Rock Climbing machine in the large back yard of my Sims' mansion. (In my own defense, this was before we got Seasons.) However, I never adjusted the lot once Seasons was installed. Well, of course the thing is electric and sparks were flying off of it. So, the Butler, a good man, took it upon himself to fix the thing. In the rain! He never gave up, even though he got shocked/dazed. Next thing I knew that dirge music began. The next day the Agency sent 'round another Butler, who was equally dedicated. He did his best to fix the Rock Climber, and even though my teen Sims did their best to distract him with other duties, alack and alas, we lost Butler number Two. I have since removed the deadly attraction, after attempting to find a way to enclose it.
The third Butler sent over was an elderly woman. I think she passed on, because another fellow was sent over to the family. Then one day, even though I'd assigned him his own room, with an adjacent, private bathroom and locked the door for all but the Butler, he was mysteriously gone. He didn't die, mind you. He's come to my young Global Superstar's concerts, many a time. Not only that, but he appears to live in his own household in Willow Springs. Why he up and left the family is beyond me.
Butlers are enigmatic, at best.
I find your suggestion about them having their own fridge a great idea. I have all but vampires, and there's that fridge you can have at work that has all kinds of snacking foods available. I may just add that to the butler's room.
Hope you have better luck with the slacker, second time around.
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No. No outdoor electronics... Learned my lesson about that one before I hired a butler haha 😂
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I find the butlers extremely frustrating and stopped using them. After the latest expansion, all they did was loaf around.
As for me, I've had the same one since VG came out and I love him, he's been great.
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To make them work for me... I usually praise them whenever they do good. I often check them in CAS and make them over a bit and sometimes even give them better traits depending on what type of story I want from them. I don't depend on the the Nanny or Butler to autonomously take care of kids even though often they will. I actually play the kids and ask them to do things. Like feed them, potty train them, use flash cards with them, read to them ect. They get better at doing things after they are trained some.
As for the dying in sleep I only assumed because she was in bed and then the grim reaper appeared and she got up and died, but it could have been from lack of food or whatever if she wasn't eating for whatever reason. Or old age, that one was super old. I just don't know, but she's the third to die so I'm done with butlers for now haha.
The 3 infants aged up now anyways so parents and teen and nanny will tag team potty training them as quick as possible and then things get so much easier haha! (We have two child aged sims in the household two and thanks to a mod we sometimes have foster kids there as well )
I don't rely on the game to give me what I want, so I made some sims I liked into butlers using career cheats.
My very first Butler I ever hired was:
Lazy
Slob
Kleptomaniac
Needless to say, we canned her soon after we learned her traits.
Next was a nice fellow:
Clumsy
Goofball
Foodie
Lost him one day after the family had traveled away.
Upon their return, who was back but the Lazy, Klepto, Slob they fired before.
Well... no deaths involved like yours, but I sure do hate the Butler I fired coming back in place of the one I actually liked having around.
Sounds like you were very lucky hahaha!
Yeah, based on the stories I've been hearing I'll probably do everything in my power to hang onto this one
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