How are your butlers??

In my game the Fengs had two as well, depending on the day, but one was wonderful and one was terrible. I didn't figure out a good solution.

Then I rotated away to play other households for a few weeks and came back to a huge butler bill. So Victor simply invited the good butler to join the household. Everyone is happy so far.

I almost always end up with 2 different ones sharing the job if I rotate between households.

"dogzdinner;d-995528" wrote:
Do you find that butlers work ok?
Does anybody else have 2?

My family hired a butler, went out and came home to a different one. I tried to fire and rehire them and the old one came back. But since then the 2 of them have been operating on a timeshare basis and they seem to swap every so often!
I mean its not a problem, they are both really good at their jobs and seem to be happy to share the same double bed with each assigned a side! I suppose it makes sense if its a 24/7 job that they get some time off in the week! LOL

It took me just a bit of time to figure out just what was going on with the butler(s). I would sometimes find my Sim's employee hanging out around town, while some other butler buttled in his place. Then it dawned on me when the original butler returned, that he was having a day off. And, of course, the Agency wouldn't leave their client in the lurch. I liked the first butler way better than the second one. He was better with the children. Little Cadence the youngest in the family and still a Toddler, was able to discern the second butler, a female, was evil. Not the type to be around innocent children. :open_mouth: I never had two living in the house at a time. They would trade off with the first one having several days in a week on, and the second one coming in to fill in until the original one returned. But it was quite strange until it dawned on me what was going on. LOL Sometimes, I do wonder about myself …

I'm playing with a fancy family right now and they have a butler. I do not like the butler though, they don't vacuum and it's hard to ask them to make a specific meal. My butler also has the Erratic trait. Also, my butler moonlights as a performer at the flea market :lol: so that was funny! Also, the mom Sim in my save has the Neat trait so she autonomously cleans all the time... maybe we don't need a butler after all!

"GalacticGal;c-18012424" wrote:

"dogzdinner;d-995528" wrote:
Do you find that butlers work ok?
Does anybody else have 2?

My family hired a butler, went out and came home to a different one. I tried to fire and rehire them and the old one came back. But since then the 2 of them have been operating on a timeshare basis and they seem to swap every so often!
I mean its not a problem, they are both really good at their jobs and seem to be happy to share the same double bed with each assigned a side! I suppose it makes sense if its a 24/7 job that they get some time off in the week! LOL

It took me just a bit of time to figure out just what was going on with the butler(s). I would sometimes find my Sim's employee hanging out around town, while some other butler buttled in his place. Then it dawned on me when the original butler returned, that he was having a day off. And, of course, the Agency wouldn't leave their client in the lurch. I liked the first butler way better than the second one. He was better with the children. Little Cadence the youngest in the family and still a Toddler, was able to discern the second butler, a female, was evil. Not the type to be around innocent children. :open_mouth: I never had two living in the house at a time. They would trade off with the first one having several days in a week on, and the second one coming in to fill in until the original one returned. But it was quite strange until it dawned on me what was going on. LOL Sometimes, I do wonder about myself …

I had no idea that ‘buttle” was the verb for what a butler does. That’s fantastic! Thank you for teaching me a new word today.

Yes, I’ve had butlers change after traveling off the lot and returning. Once, I realized the current butler was sleeping on a loveseat because both sides of her bed were assigned to different butlers. It can be exhausting to keep up with. Surely it’s a bug.

Tried it once with a noble family living in Willow Creek, but it didn't work out.

First of all, the game kept giving me female butlers even though I wanted an English gentleman for the lady of the house to get over her deceased husband with. I don't know how I finally got my male butler in the end, perhaps by cas.fulleditmoding the latest female one, but when I returned after leaving the family alone for a while, he had been replaced by a new butler, just like all the other service NPCs tend to get replaced after a while. No point in starting relationships of any kind with them, is there?

There was also always an overabundance of food in the house when the butler was there, I couldn't figure out how to stop him from cooking even more, and at some point, he vanished entirely. The End.

@babajayne First time I heard that word used, I was equablly gobsmacked. But it makes sense. "What does a Butler do? They buttle, sir."

but·​tle | \ ˈbətᵊl, -ətᵊl \
buttled; buttled; buttling\ -​ətᵊliŋ , -​ət(ᵊ)liŋ \; buttles
Definition of buttle
substandard
: to serve or act as butler

I had to change their life span from immortal so they could die. It was the suggested way to get them vacuuming automatically. They now vacuum dust but they don't kill the dust bunnies if they have already formed. I think this will be corrected in an upcoming patch.

Butlers drive me nuts because they're always either evil, kleptomaniacs, erratic, or some combination of unsavory traits. I need to learn more about how to dismiss or fire one and then rehire the service in hopes of getting a better one, without getting that same one all over again. From others' descriptions, I'm glad I never got Bust the Dust!

I must have gotten lucky with my butlers. The Goths' butler does what he's supposed to. However, he is a little slow on serving food.

My Landgraabs' butler is just as good. She's currently having an affair with Geoffrey though. No worries, Nancy's having an affair with J Huntington.