One of my families has a butler because, due to some unforeseen circumstances, they ended up having four young children all at once, and all three adults in the house worked full-time. However, I don't remember the butler ever getting paid. I thought the funds were supposed to be automatically deducted from the household funds every Sunday? That never seems to happen, but I don't know why. Thoughts?
Also, the household switches between butlers for no apparent reason. Currently it is an old man, but in the past they have had the younger version of the old man as their butler (same name, at least), as well as a female butler. It seems to randomize who they get every time I play the family, and I don't know how to make it stop because every time I get a different butler, I have to reassign them to a bed and reintroduce everyone to them. I had another family with the same problem, and I eventually just fired the butler and never rehired a new one. Any ideas?
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I did have another household in the same save that had a butler. They had the same problem, so I fired the butler and they just make do without one. But, currently, only one of my families has a butler. I didn't realize that I had to completely remove the butler from the game. I thought once they were fired/dismissed they went away on their own.
I didn't realize it was every day. If that's the case, then my poor butler has never been paid .
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I'm pretty sure on the fine print on that trait states that only one-time services are free? If you have scheduled services then they have to get paid regularly.
It still applies for Butlers. I was surprised to learn this when VG came out but it is true.
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They do not.
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Guess I should really take advantage of this...
You should raise these issues as bugs over on the AHQ forum.
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as for the trading butlers, that is sadly still a very annoying thing. any time you change lots, you're bound to have a different butler when you return home than when you left. it mostly just cycles through the existing butlers in your game. but it's still annoying. especially if, like me, you've got very...specialized butlers for certain households. an alien butler for my space academy, a ghost butler for my vampire castle, and a vampire butler i created but doesn't belong anywhere. it's frustrating seeing one of these show up at, say, the landgraabs house...
> ...every one of my households that use butlers in my usual save have the free services reward purchased already, so i was exceptionally shocked to see money deducted in this test save daily when the household hired a butler. took a bit to figure out why they were losing money daily because i'd never seen it before (and these households all had the trait before butlers were even a thing. they'd taken advantage of the free gardeners then)
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> as for the trading butlers, that is sadly still a very annoying thing. any time you change lots, you're bound to have a different butler when you return home than when you left. it mostly just cycles through the existing butlers in your game. but it's still annoying. especially if, like me, you've got very...specialized butlers for certain households. an alien butler for my space academy, a ghost butler for my vampire castle, and a vampire butler i created but doesn't belong anywhere. it's frustrating seeing one of these show up at, say, the landgraabs house...
Greetings all...I am new here and I hope I am posting in the right place. I tried finding a solution on the EA sites but to no avail. I used the cas.fulleditmode cheat to change my butler, maid and nanny. I changed pretty much everything...their sex, age, appearance and even their traits and ambitions. I even renamed them. I only have 2 households that uses these employees. My second household hired these services as well and the butler, nanny and maid that showed up are the exact same ones. The game isn't randomly generating different ones.
kalaksed, I saw your comment about specialized butlers for certain households. How to you do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
I had a butler die a couple of weeks ago, but he froze to death. During winter he choose to read his book, while sitting on the edge of the outdoor swimming pool. Stayed there all day and then died in the evening. That's the only butler death i have ever had. I find disabling child care helps a bit with the other tasks but on most days my butlers just read there book or play on the gaming rig, instead of gardening and fixing broken objects.
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i'd edited one of my game's butlers to have green skin when she was working at my space academy, pretending that she was an alien employee, since most of that household is either aliens or half-aliens. then when i downloaded mccc to fix a few broken relationships in my game (the joy of having to upload/redownload two households that were related) i went ahead and used it to turn her into a proper alien
the ghost butler, i just used the sim id (easily gotten with the showsiminfo mod) and used it to cheat the butler hidden trait onto one of my ghost sims
all three work properly at times, but also have days where they just don't show up at all. which gets annoying. they're also up on the gallery, if really interested
I don't think it ever was fixed.