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Are Butlers ok to play with and where to eat?
DizzyDi34
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So my sim is a rags to riches millionairess in the make money scenario but as i gave her lavish trait from a mod she hates cooking i either need to hire a butler which i will do at some point and find kiosks, places etc to eat appropriate meals at. Are butlers bug free and also where is there to eat?
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I only have one butler who is hard to spot, but probably does a decent job.
You can also use the "Hire Caterer" interaction on the fridge, which costs 100 iirc. A Caterer NPC will come and cook a load of group meals for a set period of time. You just have to put them away in the fridge. Once that's done, you can live off of leftovers until they spoil. To save on wastage, throw a party when there's a day or two left on the timers and guests will help themselves from the fridge (or take them with you to a venue). Then repeat the process ad infinitum.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Otherwise butlers are awesome. Make sure to assign a bed to the butler if you want them to be live-in, set door locks to allow or not allow the butler where you want, use the "Butler" menu that you get from clicking on the butler to fine-tune their actions to your liking.
(Butlers can be more or less competent, too, that's part of the gameplay. They can be reprimanded or fired if they aren't good.)
I only had that happen once. I typically play with large families filled with many toddlers and never (until this game) without a butler. Only once did I ever come back to find a different butler.
I won't even consider playing without a butler, again besides this game. This one is different because I want my Sims to actually raise their own kids this time.
Where do you even find the butler's bill? I feel like my butlers are free because it doesn't seem like I'm billed for them.
I've just gotten back on the sims and haven't played with a butler for awhile so don't remember the specifics.
You're lucky, because my butlers are replaced almost every time I leave the lot. You'll see the (new) butler jogging onto the lot when you return, as if they're just arriving. On a positive note, the game seems to rotate through a small group of them, so sometimes I get my original butler back.
Perhaps your sims rarely leave home?
Wow. Yeah, I think I've seen a notification like that maybe once, and I have multiple butlers in multiple homes that I rotate through. I think I'd notice too, if my funds were being reduced every day.
Maybe my game is glitched, but I'll pay more attention next time.
I don't know if the charging has been fixed yet. If you don't play many households this should be nothing to worry about. I never had problems with their work. They sometimes came and left the house but that might not happen (so much) if just that household is played. They cleaned and cooked and repaired etc, depending on what schedule/tasks they were signed up for. Their skills and personality vary, so there will be some bad guys and some treasures, you can easily ask for another butler if you are not satisfied
You can customize the menus that restaurants have in build buy, so you aren't just limited to presets.
There may be an upper limit on just how many total things can be on the menu though, so I'm not sure if you can have one restaurant which has "everything"...I've customized all of the restaurant's menu's in my game, but I never tried making them have that many options.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
definitely suggest creating your own types of restaurants to help vary things up. some of mine, as examples:
selvadoradan (all the food from the jungle adventures, mexican food from city living, and the brazilian (and other south american) dishes we've gotten in different free updates)
pan-asian (chinese, japanese, korean dishes and currently also has the indian dishes until i get around to making an indian restaurant)
seafood (everything from fried fish to walleye surprise to lobster rolls and more)
japanese teahouse (in komerobi, has all the various tea options, both hot and cold, as well as an assortment of lighter japanese fare and various desserts)
vegan (just... vegetarian and lactose-free versions of dishes, for vegetarian sims, lactose intolerant sims or just those who refuse to eat meat, at least for a time... it's also got the 'hottest spot in town' lot trait and is in uptown, so it's very much an upscale restaurant. non-celebs have to pay an entrance fee to eat there because of that trait. which i kinda like the idea of)
as for the butlers... i've got 5 butlers in my main game, technically, though only 4 get used. two normal sims, a vampire and an alien. i do have ghost butler, too, but have yet to see him actually show up for work at any of the lots that use butlers...
(you can't really make an occult butler at first, sadly. if you want one, gotta cheat the occult traits you want onto them (or use mccc or a similar mod))
i've had the swapping butlers thing happen occasionally, but it's never been a huge deal for me. it is annoying, though, when the household that's supposed to have the alien butler (an astronaut academy) has one of the others show up for a while, or the alien shows up at 'normal' household with a butler, but i just let it happen and they eventually seem to wind up back at their proper households whenever i eventually get back to playing said household again