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    The Butler As A Birth Preventative?

    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,676 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    Up until now, I've sung the virtues of having a Butler over a Nanny. The Butler is diligent when it comes to taking care of the babies, in particular. My Rock Star just returned home from a concert, stopping by the studios briefly to release his new album. After what some players were saying on the forum this morning, I decided to have him change the diaper and feed his infant daughter. However, before he could do that, the Butler walked right into the Master Suite and fed the infant, who promptly went to sleep.

    In the meantime, after such an exuberant night my Sim desired some 'alone time' with his wife. But, yet there stood the Butler. Even after my Sim shooed him from the room. Of course, my bad, I had his wife praise the Butler for his good work in the interim. Once again, my Sim gives his wife a suggestion of woohoo and then shoos the Butler. What does the Butler do in response? He picks up the newborn infant to feed her once again. Face/palm.

    Is this his way of keeping down his workload? It's not like I chose "try for baby", or anything. LOL

    I do appreciate how diligent at his job he is, but c'mon on! The Sim just needs a little lovin'. LOL

    Please do share your moments when things don't go quite as planned. :*
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      calaprfycalaprfy Posts: 3,927 Member
      Butlers can be useless, standing still for ages before autonomy kicks in. Just lock the door so the butler cannot enter.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,676 Member
      edited April 2019
      calaprfy wrote: »
      Butlers can be useless, standing still for ages before autonomy kicks in. Just lock the door so the butler cannot enter.

      I would but he beat my couple to their own bedroom. He was busy tending to the baby. Guess it's time Baby got her own bedroom, eh? LOL
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      MLadyAzzeraMLadyAzzera Posts: 1,174 Member
      I use this mod from littlemssam called "Better Butlers" that fixes the butler issue: https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175405054223/better-butler-and-hire-more-butler-adjusts-the. I think the butler is currently broken in game, especially since he doesn't do anything I instruct him to do, he just stood there before I installed this mod.

      As for a moment for when things didn't go quite as I planned was when my sims had a birthday party for their kid and someone goes and takes a slice before they could put the birthday candles on. Talk about crashing the party...


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      ShadyLady89ShadyLady89 Posts: 908 Member
      The families I have butlers with all have huge mansions, so I lose track of my butler a lot. Lol. Some of them are excellent at their jobs, and others just read their book on how to be a butler all day. I've noticed most of my butlers are nocturnal, but they're not vampires so I don't get it.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,676 Member
      Mwuahahahah, I just got even with the Butler. If he thought he could hold down his workload, baby number three is on the way …
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      DevilNDisguiseDevilNDisguise Posts: 2,225 Member
      Can’t quite think of anything right now, but I will say how useless my butlers are. :# I remember being so excited when they were released. I loved having butlers in TS3. But since having them in TS4, I can barely ever actually use them, because they either don’t even show up or when they do, they do absolutely nothing and don’t listen to my Sims.
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      SimAlexandriaSimAlexandria Posts: 4,845 Member
      My butler all die afterwards 4 days of sevice.. can't figure it out. I see them taking care of their own needs so it is not that. No mods
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,676 Member
      SimAlexandria wrote: »
      My butler all die afterwards 4 days of sevice.. can't figure it out. I see them taking care of their own needs so it is not that. No mods

      Mostly the Butlers they send my Sims from the Agency are Elders.
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      SimAlexandriaSimAlexandria Posts: 4,845 Member
      GalacticGal wrote: »
      SimAlexandria wrote: »
      My butler all die afterwards 4 days of sevice.. can't figure it out. I see them taking care of their own needs so it is not that. No mods

      Mostly the Butlers they send my Sims from the Agency are Elders.

      Two out of four of mine were Elders so maybe that was it, but the other two aren't. They were young adult
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      AineAine Posts: 3,043 Member
      SimAlexandria wrote: »
      No mods
      There's your problem right there. :D

      Allons-y!

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      SimAlexandriaSimAlexandria Posts: 4,845 Member
      Aine wrote: »
      SimAlexandria wrote: »
      No mods
      There's your problem right there. :D

      I have since added MCCC into some of my game files, although I don't use it for all of them. And I have a foster-care mod so we can get a bunch of kids after having a full house already haha. I like the mods but I like the game without too so I only use them about half the time and my Butler's are all in a non modded game. Or they were I gave up on them LOL
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      SimskristaSimskrista Posts: 175 Member
      When I want to take care of the baby but the Butler is in the way, I click on the Butler and task him to make a meal. Then he’s gone for a little while and you can have some alone time :)
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      NekoboyGamesNekoboyGames Posts: 37 Member
      edited April 2019
      One of my sim couples left the baby and toddler with the butler to go out clubbing. When they get to the second club of the night, who sits at the bar, if not the butler who is supposed to be at the house looking after the small ones. As my couple arrives home, the baby and toddler are alone and running to the house and in through the door is the butler.

      Same butler passed out alot in the childrens room and refused using the bad assigned to her.

      I also once got a butler with the hate children trait....
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      AineAine Posts: 3,043 Member
      edited April 2019
      SimAlexandria wrote: »
      Aine wrote: »
      SimAlexandria wrote: »
      No mods
      There's your problem right there. :D

      I have since added MCCC into some of my game files, although I don't use it for all of them. And I have a foster-care mod so we can get a bunch of kids after having a full house already haha. I like the mods but I like the game without too so I only use them about half the time and my Butler's are all in a non modded game. Or they were I gave up on them LOL
      Yeah, I can understand not wanting to clutter your game with mods if you don't want the hassle - however with the current mess the game is at the moment, it's not really playable without mods. Well, unless you're fine with things like butlers doing weird things. A lot of it isn't even recognized as 'bugs' by Maxis, since they just didn't make the features with high enough quality in the first place. I don't expect them to 'fix' the butlers, or anything else that isn't a blatant bug. They made them that way, and if you want something else, you need mods. I couldn't play the game as is without mods. I feel for simmers that don't want to use as many of them for that reason.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,676 Member
      NekoboyGames wrote: »
      One of my sim couples left the baby and toddler with the butler to go out clubbing. When they get to the second club of the night, who sits at the bar, if not the butler who is supposed to be at the house looking after the small ones. As my couple arrives home, the baby and toddler are alone and running to the house and in through the door is the butler.

      Same butler passed out alot in the childrens room and refused using the bad assigned to her.

      I also once got a butler with the hate children trait....

      :O Oh, my word! I have never had such a Butler. Always had good luck with them. I do have my Sims praise them often and chat to build up a relationship with them, however. Maybe that's the key?
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      NRoweNRowe Posts: 7,899 Member
      NekoboyGames wrote: »
      One of my sim couples left the baby and toddler with the butler to go out clubbing. When they get to the second club of the night, who sits at the bar, if not the butler who is supposed to be at the house looking after the small ones. As my couple arrives home, the baby and toddler are alone and running to the house and in through the door is the butler.

      Same butler passed out alot in the childrens room and refused using the bad assigned to her.

      I also once got a butler with the hate children trait....


      This whole thread makes me look forward to playing long enough for my Sims to afford a big house with a butler. They are too new and poor just yet.

      I got lucky in an earlier game with a competent Nanny. Socialised to the point where she was a family friend.
      Only thing was, when I left the toddlers with her once and sent my Sim to the Flea Market, active Sim is at the Flea Market when she got a call inviting her TO the Flea Market, from the Nanny. :D
      Like -aren’t you at my home with the kids?
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