Ranch Hands Need Improvement
What do you all think of ranch hands? Here is a list of things I think are either broken with them or by design but it's bad design, in my opinion:
1. Every day you have to reset the tasks. It seems to me that if you choose, say, don't garden, that should stick until you decide to change it. But it resets to having them do everything every single day.
2. They do house cleaning and you can't even turn it off. In my opinion, this is not a ranch hand's job! Instead of taking care of the animals they're in the house doing the laundry or mopping the floors.
3. Their schedule gets screwed up if you go off the lot with a Sim. It seems that they have to be on your lot a total of 12 hours while you are playing the lot, so if you leave it at some point, the ranch hand stays way past 7 pm, which messes up the amount you're charged when they leave.
4. And number 3 often leads to number 4: Every so often they don't show up and you have to rehire them. This always happens to me the day after I've been off the lot with a household member.
As for the work they actually do, they are very good at socializing with the animals. They're a little lazy about cleaning, it seems they'll never clean a horse bed when it's "slightly dirty" and that often leads to my Sims having to be told to clean it at "very dirty" in the middle of the night.
1. Every day you have to reset the tasks. It seems to me that if you choose, say, don't garden, that should stick until you decide to change it. But it resets to having them do everything every single day.
2. They do house cleaning and you can't even turn it off. In my opinion, this is not a ranch hand's job! Instead of taking care of the animals they're in the house doing the laundry or mopping the floors.
3. Their schedule gets screwed up if you go off the lot with a Sim. It seems that they have to be on your lot a total of 12 hours while you are playing the lot, so if you leave it at some point, the ranch hand stays way past 7 pm, which messes up the amount you're charged when they leave.
4. And number 3 often leads to number 4: Every so often they don't show up and you have to rehire them. This always happens to me the day after I've been off the lot with a household member.
As for the work they actually do, they are very good at socializing with the animals. They're a little lazy about cleaning, it seems they'll never clean a horse bed when it's "slightly dirty" and that often leads to my Sims having to be told to clean it at "very dirty" in the middle of the night.
