Do you play Servants?
I spent a few days on revamping my royal palace staff, which quickly lead to dealing with Servants all over my game. There is a rather wide aristocracy, and while live-in servants are limited, they e...
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Wow, that's extensive and detailed. Very cool!
I play a little more loosely with "house staff". My First Family had a live-in (playable) servant for a long time who basically helped raise the children and keep the house in order so the parents could still live their wild lives. When Horse Ranch came out though, the family moved to Chestnut Ridge in a large ranch house, leaving the servant alone in the vast mansion with the cat. (I needed more space to accommodate adding horses to the household.) I always meant for the family to return to that life one day, but it's been a long time and they're still at the ranch but now their eldest daughter lives next door with her roommates and husband and a couple of horses and goats. But the daughter just had a son of her own and the house is getting crowded so I'm thinking maybe if the parents don't return, one of their five children will go back and reclaim the Windenburg estate for the next generation.
I have some households with unplayed butlers too. My Dracula and his Brides and Drac's daughters have a butler who they use as a plasma bag sometimes, lol. But he keeps on doing his job. 😄
I actually really like the idea of playing a Downton Abbey style household with aristocracy and servants. I may set that up one day although only 8 Sims in a household makes it a little less fun. But I could do maybe a family of five with three servants, or four and four. I think it's fun to play the servant side, especially when coming up with some risks for drama. 😁
PS: Do you own the Vintage Glamor pack feat butlers? For your household needing the 8 sims capacity for horses, you can hire a butler without taking up any household member spot. I prefer playing butlers as househld members though, but they become easier to control, but the butler service is cool, too.
Yes, I do have Vintage Glamour, I love using the Butler! (That's what my vampires use to get some emergency plasma.) But having a mix of servants of played and unplayed is doable as well. The Butler would be the lead servant and I'd have a played Sim be the second - maybe a Governess. I'd watch how the Butler behaves and play my sims to sort of follow his/her lead. So if the Butler is lazy, the staff would be looking for ways to sneak in downtime and maybe neglect a few duties, lol.
>>So if the Butler is lazy, the staff would be looking for ways to sneak in downtime and maybe neglect a few duties, lol.
Haha, loved this approach! Opens up for some interesting gameplay, maybe even attempting to fool the masters of the house.
When I play live-in butlers, there is one thing I miss in my game, the bell that the house master would use to get the butler's attention. I wish that object could be placed on a surface to bew used regardless of having a service-butler or not. I'd use it to call for other servants, too, like the maid. Most of my bigger estates have those old servant bells in the kitchen.
I guess most estates of today would use modernized electronical systems, though. I don't play historically, but well, some of these houses are a bit old fashioned :)
Yeah, I love to play in more historic eras, so I'd really love to see more items that cater to that. I've always wanted Sims 4 to be more flexible in gameplay to different timelines and styles rather than primarily focused on the modern and trendy. Of course, I am grateful for the cool things we've gotten that I can use, but I'd still really prefer a way to turn off all the tech and still feasible be able to play. Like have more snail mail order instead of online, and ability to just turn off the phones completely. How cool would it be to have Sims get letters from other Sims instead of texts and have newspapers and doorbells again!
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