Some Feedback on Servos

Servos need a lot of fixes, they're an awesome life state that's very fun to play with, but they're underrated and have many problems.

I wanted to give some feedback on servos, and I also have a concept for how CAS could work for servos.

So, first things first, the problems. Here are some links to some of the problems we have with servos, some things are bugs and others are oversights:

- Male servos can get pregnant by abduction

- Female servos can get pregnant for the "pregnant patient" task in the doctors career (original poster hasn't confirmed or denied having mods, so it could be mod related)

- Servos can have babies with neighbourhood stories

- Unplayed sims sometimes turn into servos

- Servos can get sick
- Servos don't have a facial expression in CAS

- Servos don't have a facial expression when scared

- Servos can give DNA samples to scientists

- We can't add likes, dislikes, and sexual orientation to servos

- Servos breathe and don't turn off their face screen when meditating

- Servos have interactions for facial and body hair
- Servos have piercings that can't be removed

- Servos autonomously walk into the water in Sulani (couldn't find a bug report on it, please inform me if you find one or create one)

- Servo walkbys break down and die when it's raining

- Repair person can't repair servo on community lots
- Can't create a servo-exclusive club
- Servos with the cleaning module don't vacuum
- Servos don't ignore the Water Fun holiday tradition
- Servos autonomously order food at GeekCon
- Servos can shower in the rain and play in the rain

- Servos can't pack lunch from Party Size (8) meals

- Robonanny servos cook non-stop when toddler/child is not on lot

- Servos spawn as normal sims after activation

- Servos have "Utensil Preference" option
- Servos drink at juice pong
- Servo gravestone is missing when selecting gravestone
- Servos get notifications for Soul's Journey

If you have any of the problems mentioned above, please follow the link and click "me too" on the post. Most of these posts have very few me toos, and some don't have any me toos at all.

Those are just some of the bugs and oversights, but there are also things that I personally think need fixing for servos, things that aren't really bugs or oversights, and that's what I'm going to talk about below.

I think we should be able to create servos in CAS. Right now there are two ways to obtain a servo, either you build one or you find an auto-generated one and add them to the household. Vampires, mermaids, spellcasters and werewolves are obtained by getting turned into one, by finding an auto-generated/pre-made one, by giving birth to one, or by creating one in CAS. Sims can't get turned into aliens, but we can obtain them by giving birth to one, by finding an auto-generated one, or by creating them in CAS. Servos can of course not be born, but when comparing to the other life states I feel like they at least should be possible to create in CAS. Building one takes a LOT of resources and time, which I think is the main reason to why they're underrated.

So, here's a CAS concept (right-click on the picture and open in a new tab to see better):

Here it is in words:

Gender settings:

- Pronoun

- Gendered language

- Body language

(see this link for more info)

Sexuality:

- Possibility to set gender preferences when it comes to romance and woohoo

Walkstyle options:

- Walking

- Hovering

Aspirations, traits, and preferences:

- Possibility to pick aspiration and traits when creating a servo in CAS (and when using cas.fulleditmode on an already existing servo)

- Possibility to change a servo's aspiration when editing them in CAS

- Possibility to pick likes and dislikes for servos

Customisation:

- Chassis colour

- Rings

As you can see I also added rings to the concept, this is because I think servos should be able to wear rings. I think other items would probably be hard to have servos wearing, such as clothes, hats etc, and I also think that servos don't have any need to being able to wear those things. But with rings I see a need, and it also can't be too hard to fix compared to how hard it would be to fix clothes etc. Honestly, rings would be a very meaningful addition, because then they would be able to wear engagement and wedding rings!

As a last thing I want you to take a look at my concept and compare it to what we have today. Below is what we have today. Most of the things that can be customised for servos can only be customised in live mode, and there are some things that are missing completely, for example sexuality.

Things we can currently change in live mode:

- Name (iirc)

- Aspiration

- Traits (except for bonus trait)

- Walking style

- Chassis colour

- Likes and dislikes, to some 🤏🏻 degree (only with pop-ups)

Things we currently CAN'T change in live mode:

- Gender (including customised gender and pronoun)

- Bonus trait

- Sexuality

Things we can currently change in CAS:

- Name

- Pronoun (at least I think so, but I play in a language where the pronoun settings don't exist yet so I can't check)

Things we currently CAN'T change in CAS:

- Aspiration

- Traits (including bonus trait)

- Walking style

- Chassis colour

- Likes and dislikes

- Gender (including customised gender but not pronoun)

- Sexuality

I don't think we need to be able to change everything in live mode, but I do think we should be able to both create and edit servos in CAS.

What do y'all think?

Fixed Servo bugs since this post was created:

- Servos with the party module are missing several radio stations
- Servos don't get appropriate graduation pictures when graduating from university (fixed 2024-09-18)
- Servos' sexual orientation can be set in CAS when going through the Simology Panel (but not from Neighborhood Manager)