Fix the Butler!!!

"simstr0ng;d-953362" wrote:
I quit using the butler a while ago

#metoo. And the maid. And the gardener. And I've given up on ordering pizza. NPC's definitely need improvement.

And while we are at it, why only a single butler? Since Get Famous my sims are filthy rich, they want to show it by number of employees.

And for me the most important thing would be some hidden trait cheat to make one or more household members functioning butlers. I've spent so much time creating my Alfred Pennyworth, why is cleaning my Batmobile?

I agree - they are so worthless. I have not had one in a long time but tried again recently and fired the butler in one day - all she did was stand around outside in the freezing cold weather (how she did not die is beyond me - I was actually hoping she would!) and even if my sim gave her a command, I would get some kind of notice that she could not do that right now - what???? Tell her to cook a meal and it acted like my sims did not have the items needed to do so - um, yes they did.

Thanks. Glad to hear I'm not the only one losing patience with the butler and other NPCs. I would even be more glad if improving the NPCs was on somebody's to-do list.

I wish they would fix them! They are even a main SP feature. I have this bug as well.

I hadn't messed with the butlers before I found there was a mod to make butlers have proper needs (since they, y'know, live in the house). Apparently butlers don't need a LOT of things a regular sim does, which is a little scary and unnerving. So I tested things out, and set a butler to live in a tiny portion of the lot and locked them in, and there was nothing that killed that poor man besides fire or drowning. Scary.

I installed the mod ages ago, but never got anther butler because I found that when I let that robot man out, he just stood around, or got a LOT of water from the sinks and let it sit in weird places like behind the tv or ontop the fireplace or in a bookshelf...and he wouldn't actually bother to... do any of his tasks, ever.

It's been years(?) one would have thought this would have been fixed by now. I keep trying and hoping that maybe, just maybe, it would right itself but no such luck.

Players with this issue should add feedback of their experience here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-VGSP-Butler-changes-after-going-to-another-lot/m-p/6734312#M77373

I've had the same Butler ever since VG came out and he hasn't ever changed so I don't really have anything to say about that.

I reported this to answers.ea - also did so 1+ year ago - thanks for keeping this topic alive - maybe we will get a fix.

@stilljustme2 - the issues are you hire a butler - you work on relationships with your family and the butler - you can include the butler in clubs - everything is going great until a Sim in your family travels somewhere and comes home to find a different butler. Not good. I think the butler switch may also occur without travel...I stopped using the butler a while back because of this problem...now with Fame a butler seems like a great idea but I was disappointed to find the butler had not been fixed.

"stilljustme2;c-16891576" wrote:
I've had no issues with the maid in my current save (with three kids, my stylist and painter couple needed a maid!); I was thinking of hiring a butler (even added a bedroom in the basement) but sorry to hear they're still broken. What are the main issues? If it's traits, wonder if I can use UI Cheats to change them.

I have to admit that I cannot judge the maid in it's current incarnation, as I said, I stopped using her. As for the gardeners, they ignore my plants if I have them at two or more different places (e.g. behind and in front of the house, indoors and outdoors). Or sometimes I cannot even hire a gardener because I allegedly do not own a garden (I do). And with pizza it's a lottery. Sometimes It get's delivered, but don't count on it.