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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kaeyresky
6 years ago
"SimAlexandria;c-16913141" wrote:
"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!

Yeah, based on the stories I've been hearing I'll probably do everything in my power to hang onto this one :D
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
^haha I would too!!!!
GreatBritney99
New Spectator
6 years ago
Since Butlers don't work quite as well as I like them too in my game, my super rich families I've taken to giving them a live in butler-type sim that I control. I sure would prefer the game's coding with Butlers to work better, but it's made for some interesting stories in my game just designating sims to act in the way the Butler normally would. Also gives me someone to play when everyone else is off at work/school.
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
^That would be fine if I wasn't trying to control 8 at once already, only 3 of which leave the house haha. I can barely keep up with their needs.
Kellynn
6 years ago
Every time I get a new one, cause they do cycle, I immediately get them into cas to make them young adult. The old farts seem to work less. Didn't save one of the recent ones though, for some reason right after using the indoor pool, she went out in her bathing suit... during a blizzard 2 hours after I hired her. Mine seem active for a day or two, then all they do is read, everywhere.
GreatBritney99
New Spectator
6 years ago
@SimAlexandria You certainly have your hands full. One thing I've started doing is just hiring a maid only when I need one. I get tired of being charged for the maid service every time I enter CAS.
Kellynn
6 years ago
Thx fir sharing the curse lol, just had a vamp Butler die, in the middle of my house and no idea why. She wasn't even outside.
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
^Haha oh no! The curse is spreading!
MichaelUKingdon
6 years ago
"Galactrix;c-16913079" wrote:
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.

its strange, never seen any of my butlers eat once.

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