Apartment Life: Question about butlers

[strangetomato]

Based on the information in my Prima guide (yeah, I know... not exactly the gospel according to Sim), sim butlers are supposed to act as nannies, but mine doesn't seem to have received that memo. Circe hired a butler and he did nothing at all with little Vali. Now, it's not a good idea to mess around with Circe, so there's a chance that Loki's (very angry) ghost might "accidentally" scare that poor butler to death, but that's not the point of my story. I want the butler to work as he's supposed to.

The butler does not act as a nanny and he also cancels the nanny's services, and then quits for the night at 8:00 pm, leaving the poor kid for the social worker (Circe does late nights at the hospital). Not cool. Has anyone else played around with butlers or read anything about this? Is it a bug or am I just missing something? I did some searching, but found no answers. I suppose I could just tell him not to cancel the other service sims, but that's missing the point of the all-purpose butler, isn't it?

Comments

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that they could act as nannies. My copy hasn't arrived yet, but from what I've read I thought he just cleaned.

Sorry I'm not a bigger help. :(

[floppydisco.livejournal.com]

I am of no help but I know my butler worked as a nanny (for the toddler on that lot).

[dragancaor.livejournal.com]

I read something about it on MATY in the AL bork thread (I'm 98% sure it was that thread, but it was definitely MATY). I dont remember if there was a fix or not yet though, but this is the direct link to the thread if it helps.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

You already got the "look at MATY" advice (it's really all the advice I ever have).

Is the butler like one of the untouchable NPCs (crumplebottom) or could you marry him? It'd be a shame if he was untouchable. Then you'd miss out on all the canoodling with the help fun (or the help canoodling with each other--can you have a maid AND butler--I mean, it doesn't make sense financially but. . .). Come on, if the guy will give you a rub down. . .he could be full service and offer a happy ending, right?

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a butler for any of my sims yet so I'm afraid I'm not much help, but I just had to say I didn't know he did massages, lol! Full service I guess! :D

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

From the reports I've read the butler can act as a nanny and do child care, but the game doesn't recognize him as a responsible adult member of the household for avoiding social services. You can get around the social services with Pescado's SSHack but the butler will still leave at 8pm.

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

My butler looks after my sim kids, and social services have never turned up for them when they're parents have been working. One of my sims had a two sets of twins right after each other and she never lifted a finger except between 8-8. Btw, what's the ACR hack you keep mentioning?

[hannahspring.livejournal.com]

You can also ask your neighbors to babysit. You just have to have a good relationship with them? Or does it have to be the butler?