Are Butlers ok to play with and where to eat?

The only problem with butlers is that you'll have another one if you leave the lot.

If you use mods I recommend LittleMsSam's Better Butlers mod to tweak them to your liking.

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.

I haven't had any problems with butlers after I've figured out, that they need a double door to the room, where their beds stand, to function right.. Together with a nanny, my big sims family never run out of any food. The only minor issue was that he loved to stay in front of the television and check for dust where my sim wanted to watch the TV show, it didn't interfere the fun creating.

If the Butler is buggy, there's always takeout. The delivery menu has significantly improved with later packs. I think I may have ordered lobster or sushi one time.

In addition to all the other food options mentioned above, I also always have a retail location somewhere in one of the worlds that I set up as a grocery store with one section which sells pre-prepared foods in party sized group meal portions. It seems like a perfectly fair way to get meals considering it costs more than if you had just had your sim make the meal themselves.

The only bug I've encountered with butlers is that if you are playing other households in the same save, the butler's bill continues to accumulate while you are off playing other households.
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.)

"Gagea;c-18049676" wrote:
The only problem with butlers is that you'll have another one if you leave the lot.

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.

"mightysprite;c-18050148" wrote:
The only bug I've encountered with butlers is that if you are playing other households in the same save, the butler's bill continues to accumulate while you are off playing other households.
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.)

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.

Every once in awhile you'll have money leave your total funds as if you'd just made a purchase. I think it's around 200 per week. If you don't have the cash right then, it should just get added to your weekly bills. If you have the free services trait, I think it is free (that could just be for single use services though.)

I've just gotten back on the sims and haven't played with a butler for awhile so don't remember the specifics.

I had a butler once in Judith Wards mansion, he was utterly useless and also to top matters off I gave him a makeover and then shortly after that the game decided to just replace him for a new random sim. I haven't bothered using butlers since that time.