Butler Improvements - Ideas

"AndreManoel;d-974790" wrote:
Imagine the stories we could tell by being able to change our butler's life state and outfit to our needs, or even how many we can have. Maybe an old witch having a ghost butler, a normal family having a witch butler dressed more like Mary Poppins, a Villain having its butler to wear a disguise. PlantSim butlers for a crazy botanist... I think there's a huge gameplay opportunity lost here. What do you guys think? What other things you'd like to change about butlers?

I love those ideas for the butlers. I would love to have a butler being able to supply my vampire sims with plasma fruit and plasma packs when needed. Have a butler with needed components for potions for a spellcaster that can be shared.

One cool feature could be an option to hire a butler by talking to someone and offering a job. That way you could choose who you want. And I also think they should be more expensive.

I would like to customise my butlers' attire, and to tell him/her what kind of meal to cook. When I have them they never seem to cook breakfast meals. I would also like to have a set butler in saves where more than one household has a butler, instead of them constantly rotating.

"The Butler did it"

One-in-twenty butlers will murder a randomly selected sim in your household. This event will only take place when all household sims are present on the lot. Shortly after the sim dies, the lot will be visited by the famous Sureloche Herms and his partner, Whatson, who will eventually deduce the butler was, in fact, the illegitimate child of the victim's cousin's former college roommate (obvious when you think about it). They will take the butler away to prison and you'll get a call from the Butler Company apologizing for the inconvenient murder and offering a replacement butler with the assurance this one is murder-free (still another one-in-twenty chance).

@beadierturtle I like the way you think.

@beadierturtle how awesome would that be!
@Simmerville awww, I was just thinking of adding a butler for the very first time, but I guess I can't if it does that on rotations :(

Does a butler take up a sim space? ie. one of the 8 sim allowance in a household.

"elanorbreton;c-17469828" wrote:
@beadierturtle how awesome would that be!
@Simmerville awww, I was just thinking of adding a butler for the very first time, but I guess I can't if it does that on rotations :(

Does a butler take up a sim space? ie. one of the 8 sim allowance in a household.

It would in fact be fine if you test it. You can always cheat the household money back if this also happens in your game.

Butler does not show with a face icon and can not be the active sim, so I assume s/he is outside the 8 sim limit.

a butler who can move in time (such as a temporary gate). Any item or person that you want can be delivered to you.

"AndreManoel;c-17468431" wrote:
One cool feature could be an option to hire a butler by talking to someone and offering a job. That way you could choose who you want. And I also think they should be more expensive.

More expensive??? I actually fired all butlers in my game because they were too expensive. I play rotationally, and they charged for those 53 simdays between each time I played that house. It's of course a glitch, but as long it's not addressed, I can no longer hire butlers. Whe entering the house they immediately added §20.000 to my next bills, and the cash balance was some times zero as they probably charged for as long as there were cash in that house.

So, I had to move in active live-in butlers instead, meaning they are active household members, and I play them in any way I like. Taking up one of the 8 slots is not really a problem as I normally avoid 8 anyway. I can still use their uniform, but Madam can't use the bell calling for them, which is a pity.

I like OP's ideas anyway. Just wish EA could fix the butler for rotational play.

"FurSimsOfficial;c-17469212" wrote:
I never played with butlers I think. Just did not have that type of sims for it yet :D
But I can not believe you cant edit them. No cheats or mods for this?

I never got to do it, I’m not a fan of mods since they keep crashing when there’s a new update. I only use MCcc I’ve tried setting the work outfit with the butler’s ID but it didn’t change anything.