Butler Issues

Actually, butlers are supposed to deduct money after every day, or everytime you leave your house and come back to it (at least that's the case for me anyway). If your game isn't even paying the butler even at every day, then there must be a problem. As for the other thing, do you have other households in your game that have butlers too? It's well known that butlers often switch around between multiple households due to the game never having coded a way to mark said butler as your household's sole butler. You may also experience this when you've fired/dismissed previous butlers but let them stay in your game as townies, but of course they would then still keep being butlers and would switch as your butler often because of this.

"paradiseplanet;c-16688637" wrote:
Actually, butlers are supposed to deduct money after every day, or everytime you leave your house and come back to it (at least that's the case for me anyway). If your game isn't even paying the butler even at every day, then there must be a problem. As for the other thing, do you have other households in your game that have butlers too? It's well known that butlers often switch around between multiple households due to the game never having coded a way to mark said butler as your household's sole butler. You may also experience this when you've fired/dismissed previous butlers but let them stay in your game as townies, but of course they would then still keep being butlers and would switch as your butler often because of this.

I did have another household in the same save that had a butler. They had the same problem, so I fired the butler and they just make do without one. But, currently, only one of my families has a butler. I didn't realize that I had to completely remove the butler from the game. I thought once they were fired/dismissed they went away on their own.

I didn't realize it was every day. If that's the case, then my poor butler has never been paid .

Do any of your sims have the "free services" reward trait?

"Evie0602;c-16690218" wrote:
Do any of your sims have the "free services" reward trait?

I'm pretty sure on the fine print on that trait states that only one-time services are free? If you have scheduled services then they have to get paid regularly.

"paradiseplanet;c-16690246" wrote:

"Evie0602;c-16690218" wrote:
Do any of your sims have the "free services" reward trait?

I'm pretty sure on the fine print on that trait states that only one-time services are free? If you have scheduled services then they have to get paid regularly.

It still applies for Butlers. I was surprised to learn this when VG came out but it is true.

"Evie0602;c-16690218" wrote:
Do any of your sims have the "free services" reward trait?

They do not.

"Cupid;c-16690263" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16690246" wrote:

"Evie0602;c-16690218" wrote:
Do any of your sims have the "free services" reward trait?

I'm pretty sure on the fine print on that trait states that only one-time services are free? If you have scheduled services then they have to get paid regularly.

It still applies for Butlers. I was surprised to learn this when VG came out but it is true.

Guess I should really take advantage of this...

"floridameerkat;c-16689640" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16688637" wrote:
Actually, butlers are supposed to deduct money after every day, or everytime you leave your house and come back to it (at least that's the case for me anyway). If your game isn't even paying the butler even at every day, then there must be a problem. As for the other thing, do you have other households in your game that have butlers too? It's well known that butlers often switch around between multiple households due to the game never having coded a way to mark said butler as your household's sole butler. You may also experience this when you've fired/dismissed previous butlers but let them stay in your game as townies, but of course they would then still keep being butlers and would switch as your butler often because of this.

I did have another household in the same save that had a butler. They had the same problem, so I fired the butler and they just make do without one. But, currently, only one of my families has a butler. I didn't realize that I had to completely remove the butler from the game. I thought once they were fired/dismissed they went away on their own.

I didn't realize it was every day. If that's the case, then my poor butler has never been paid .

You should raise these issues as bugs over on the AHQ forum.

The free services trait is not a one time deal all my played sims have the trait and they never pay for any services ever, no fee for a nanny or butler of course I do tip the nanny each time before I dismiss them but the butler just works for free

> @kalaksed said:
> ...every one of my households that use butlers in my usual save have the free services reward purchased already, so i was exceptionally shocked to see money deducted in this test save daily when the household hired a butler. took a bit to figure out why they were losing money daily because i'd never seen it before (and these households all had the trait before butlers were even a thing. they'd taken advantage of the free gardeners then)
>
> as for the trading butlers, that is sadly still a very annoying thing. any time you change lots, you're bound to have a different butler when you return home than when you left. it mostly just cycles through the existing butlers in your game. but it's still annoying. especially if, like me, you've got very...specialized butlers for certain households. an alien butler for my space academy, a ghost butler for my vampire castle, and a vampire butler i created but doesn't belong anywhere. it's frustrating seeing one of these show up at, say, the landgraabs house...

Greetings all...I am new here and I hope I am posting in the right place. I tried finding a solution on the EA sites but to no avail. I used the cas.fulleditmode cheat to change my butler, maid and nanny. I changed pretty much everything...their sex, age, appearance and even their traits and ambitions. I even renamed them. I only have 2 households that uses these employees. My second household hired these services as well and the butler, nanny and maid that showed up are the exact same ones. The game isn't randomly generating different ones.

kalaksed, I saw your comment about specialized butlers for certain households. How to you do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)