Musical Chairs...Butler Edition

Yeah. I'm rotating between 12 or so households and at least 3 of those have butlers so it's frustrating. A lot of the time I have to keep looking for the butler to give them orders, particularly when it's time to sleep. When I don't need them they are standing right in front of me, but when I need them, they've either disappeared due to me going off lot and coming back, or they are wandering around the house somewhere.

The only way to retain the same butler is to never leave the house.

And I spent so much time getting a male butler ( had to fire about 4 others first ) just to have them randomized??

I hope EA can fix this somehow.

"Mariefoxprice83;c-17195118" wrote:
I hope EA can fix this somehow.

if they don't heard enough voices, they wont fix it. people basically went crazy about dine out bug, toddler and vampire grandmaster xp bug so they fix it next patch, but the vampire weakness bug is being left as it is because not many people noticed this.

I don't play vampires enough to know about their bugs and I don't own dine out but I definitely remember it being talked about a lot.

Maybe if I can keep this thread active, EA will take notice. It's extremely frustrating, especially when butlers were essentially the reason I bought the stuff pack.

EA/Maxis does not tweak the game as they should and I see this as an problem until Sims 4 cease production. I do not play with them in my game and it was an problem in SIms 3 too, so I avoid them which I feel I shouldn't. Sims 2 had some difficulty in this area as well but it was with the caretaker.

"izecson;c-17195141" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-17195118" wrote:
I hope EA can fix this somehow.

if they don't heard enough voices, they wont fix it. people basically went crazy about dine out bug, toddler and vampire grandmaster xp bug so they fix it next patch, but the vampire weakness bug is being left as it is because not many people noticed this.

What's the bug with vampire weaknesses?

I'm glad you posted this because I was going to get "Vintage Glamour" specifically for the butlers, but now it seems pointless. I've been just making my staff part of the household and giving them traits that will encourage them to keep to themselves and clean, plus using clubs to allow or disallow access to certain areas of the house, but this has the obvious disadvantage of taking up space in the house for the 8-sim max.

My other idea, which I haven't tried yet, is to have just one head servant or butler (again, part of the family) that lives in the house. Then I would have a nearby lot that houses the rest of the staff (maybe multiple small cottages on 1 lot with door locks so everybody goes to their own cottage). Then I would put them in a cleaning club and just have the live-in servant call a club meeting when I wanted them to come to work.

I have a couple of households which include single played sims as servants but I didn't want to do that for every household that needs a live in servant. The butlers have their uses but the constant switching between the "butler pool" bothers me. There are other things I'd like to do with them and can't, such as design their uniform and choose which meals they serve. I probably could with mods but I can't be bothered. For me the butlers are handy but flawed.

The club idea is interesting but I'm not sure there is enough work for a whole bunch of servants visiting one house. Even if you added cooking and making drinks to their activities/duties, they'd be done pretty quickly. Thrre's laundry, I suppose, if you own that pack, but as I don't own it, I don't know how much time it takes.