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ThirteenCatz
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4 months ago
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[VGSP] Butler changes after going to another lot

This had been an ongoing bug and seems to have gotten lost with the change of losing sims4 forums! No mods installed. I hire a butler, all is good until I leave the lot and return! the butler I hired becomes a normal sim, loses its butler trait, and a completely new and random sim is on my lot working as a new butler (meanwhile the old butler is still on my lot, but does not have the butler tag). This has been a bug in the game for YEARS since release of Vintage Glamour and is still not getting addressed. I think most don't play with butlers for this reason alone, and think maybe this is a feature, it is NOT! it is a BUG!

Edit by Crinrict: Adjusted title to fit migrated bug report: [ARCHIVED] [VGSP] Butler changes after going to another lot | EA Forums - 11310531 

Archived thread had around 280 me toos

Added missing thread tags according to archived report

6 Comments

  • N379's avatar
    N379
    Seasoned Rookie
    4 days ago

    I have this problem as well, since 2018.

    When I only had one butler (Butler A) active in the save file, the butler stayed put on the household (Household A) he was assigned on. When I made a new household (Household B) and assigned a new butler (Butler B). Butler B stayed on Household B while I was using the same household. But when I used a different household, or when I travel to a different lot, Butler A replaced Butler B in Household B. When I open Household A, Butler A still works there. Both butlers were modified in CAS after they were assigned.

    I have experienced this problem since 2018. I distinctly remember because that was the release year of Get Famous EP so I felt that it was fitting to buy the Vintage Glamour pack for the celebrity sims.

    I cannot believe that now that I have returned to the game after almost seven (7) years, this problem still has not been fixed. The developers were able to release so many new packs from 2018 up to now, yet they did not bother to fix the existing packs.

  • Might be more reasons they get replaced but my sims traveling/ going somewhere and coming back home is the most obvious one.

    Recently I had my household go on vacation to Granite Falls. When selecting sims to go with me I could chose the butler, now I figured he might just as well join since he is basically part of the family anyway. 

    Well, I got another butler joining me for the vacation. This is just one example of traveling and the butler getting replaced, most of the time it is just about going to the park, or visiting another sim etc and when my sim gets back home the butler is missing and another one is there instead.

    Butlers getting replaced has been an issue since Vintage Glamour came out, but I have noticed it not happening every time I travel now (then again, I don't use butlers much because of them getting replaced, so I might just not have had enough of them).

    I will create a separate report for butlers not feeding babies and infants.

    I play on pc with no mods or cc

  • Please please please fix this, I bought Vintage Glamour for this perk and it's unusable. My butler changes constantly, the same thing happens to my maids. The maids will just suddenly stop coming after a few days of play. 

  • this had quite a lot of "me toos" in the archived thread, I hope it actually gets fixed in the hiatus!