We hired a lovely butler and she was a great worker but she suddenly died at a young age and I have no idea what happened to her. She was replaced by an elderly butler who was USELESS. After 4-5 Sim days of her not cooking, cleaning, or helping with the kids we fired her. Seriously the only thing this lady did was read books, watch tv and have baths in the family bathroom when the kids needed to get ready for school. Her replacement was another wonderful young hard working woman like the first one and two days after hiring her she was dead too! Why are they dying? I have a butler quarters made for them with their own bed assigned to them, their own shower and toilet and I've double checked they could access it. Are they starving in our home, like do they need their own fridge too? The notiication only said give themm a bed. Seriously? What am I doing wrong? Also, after the death of the second butler her replacement that just showed up was the one we fired again... *sigh* let's see if she does better this time.

I tried using butlers in my celebrity mansion and didn’t do much better (none of them died at least). I had 3, the first one just disappeared, the second one did nothing, and the third one seemed to steal. I fired the third one after she kept eating all the leftovers, and I noticed a painting was suddenly missing off the wall. I guess for now I’ll just stick with daily maid service, at least the place stays clean.

My 3rd Butler just died... but she was the useless one anyways... I'm in a house I designed with fairly normal skill traits on it. She literally sat in a chair and watched my household Sim cook dinner...

Dhruv Acharya, my current butler is doing F all in the main kitchen, just sitting there...he does do the gardening from time to time, but I've usually got it covered.

Constantly firing butlers and nanny for being completely useless to the point, where toddlers are starving and being taken away due to neglect when being taken care off when parents are at work.the sim 2 had better npcs, the sims 3 and 4 ones are useless :#

^If both parents are gone to work I think I'd fire them and let the kids go to daycare, I think they are better taken care of there. In my case though the parents are work from home parents and in the house (while the mum is a writer and the dad stays home to help out with stuff cuz there are 6 little kids) so since they are home the kids never get sent to daycare. I have a teen now though and she does some nannying on the weekends for income so might just let mum take a break from writing and have more time with the kids, teen can help a bit too and the 3 infants just aged into toddlers. If I can potty train them enough that they don't need help every time they have to use the potty then I think I'm gonna fire nannies and butlers and just have the daily maid and gardner. Can always hire a one-time nanny on the more chaotic days and a caterer to cook when we run out of time. Probably cheaper than keeping a useless butler around. Besides now that our toddler aged up to child we could use the extra bedroom, he doesn't want to share with 3 other toddlers anymore and he definitely doesn't want to share with his older sisters haha.

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SimAlexandria
6 years ago
^My parents were very involved with the kids, but the three babies cried ALL night and the parents needed sleep too haha so I was hoping the butler and nanny could care for them a bit too. And two of three DID, one didn't, but then, you know, they died.

As for the dying in sleep I only assumed because she was in bed and then the grim reaper appeared and she got up and died, but it could have been from lack of food or whatever if she wasn't eating for whatever reason. Or old age, that one was super old. I just don't know, but she's the third to die so I'm done with butlers for now haha.

The 3 infants aged up now anyways so parents and teen and nanny will tag team potty training them as quick as possible and then things get so much easier haha! (We have two child aged sims in the household two and thanks to a mod we sometimes have foster kids there as well )
Iyasenu
6 years ago
Speaking of Butlers, I'm surprised the game doesn't ban certain traits from appearing on Butlers.

My very first Butler I ever hired was:
Lazy
Slob
Kleptomaniac

Needless to say, we canned her soon after we learned her traits.
Next was a nice fellow:
Clumsy
Goofball
Foodie

Lost him one day after the family had traveled away.
Upon their return, who was back but the Lazy, Klepto, Slob they fired before.

Well... no deaths involved like yours, but I sure do hate the Butler I fired coming back in place of the one I actually liked having around.
AriaMad2
6 years ago
I think that may be part of a bug I've noticed at the moment. It seems like sims don't autonomously work on their needs when you're off the lot or when you don't play them, so by mistake they may be dying of hunger? I hope I explained it well enough...
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
Mine don't seem to get sad when they die fortunately.

No. No outdoor electronics... Learned my lesson about that one before I hired a butler haha ?
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
I have it but I have never placed any laundry items in my home so they don't do it lol
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
One died in the bathroom, one the kitchen and one in her sleep in bed
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Hero
6 years ago
My butlers do need to eat. I see them grab something to eat when they have a break. Did you ban your butlers from the kitchen and they starved to death? They seem to have all the normal needs like getting tired and needing sleep. Can't remember if I've ever seen them go to the toilet or bathe.

I don't rely on the game to give me what I want, so I made some sims I liked into butlers using career cheats.
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
Nope they were always in the kitchen cooking and I never stopped them from eating but I never told them to eat specifically either. I gave them everything for all their needs. Mine def. bathed.
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
I didn't think to ask my butlers their traits! I'm gonna try without them for a bit but if I find I need them again I'm gonna do that next time.
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
"Cupid;c-16912947" wrote:
Interesting. I've seen a lot of complaints about the butlers but this is a new one :D

As for me, I've had the same one since VG came out and I love him, he's been great.

Sounds like you were very lucky hahaha!