Maids doing nothing at all
Anonym:
I found several threads where this was mentioned (but no solution was given), but when I went to reply I was advised by the system that thread necromancy is bad and I should start a new thread instead, so I'm doing just that.
For quite a while hired maids in my game have just stood outside the house and done nothing. I've tried setting "moveobjects on" and moving them inside the house where the dirty stuff is, and they still do nothing.
I don't know how I caused it, but I had a short period of time where the problem went away and maids were being maids again; but now I'm back to having them just standing there. It isn't the pause, where people do things after waiting too long or very slowly; it's maids doing nothing at all.
I found a somewhat-difficult workaround, but I'd have to do it every Sim-day: Adding the maid to the household, thereby making her selectable, and giving her orders to clean house; and then when she's done removing her from the household. I'd like a better solution very much, though.
chaos:
Have your active sim set the front door as such. I think that all houses are supposed to have a specifically set front door, but they sometimes get unset for reasons known only to EA.
Tangie:
In one household I was playing, the maids worked just fine - until suddenly they didn't. It got to the point where all they did was stand on the porch and not even go inside, so I finally had the sim cancel maid service. I'm pretty sure I checked the front door setting, but it's been a few weeks since I played that neighborhood/lot. I don't know what would happen if the maid service was rehired; I'll have to try that and see what happens.
I've also had the same thing occur with the babysitters. They'll work fine for awhile, then after a period of tiime they will just stand around the whole time they're at the house and do nothing. It's highly annoying, to say the least.
I don't know if this is plain old EA wonkiness or if this is partly a PC processing problem, but at least in my case I suspect it might be the latter. The reason I think this plays into the problem is because poor game performance begins affecting all the sims' autonomy, including the NPC's atonomous behavior. For example after playing an older 'hood and then starting a new one, I have been just amazed at how good the sims can be in caring for their babies/toddlers autonomously. In my older 'hoods they would rarely do autonomous child care activities and I always had to give them specific orders.
Of course this may not be the problem in your game at all, and absolutely no help to you; there seem to be a lot of variables involved in TS3 that affect gameplay. :P
PhantomNeko:
Ze maids? Zey do nuffing?
Fire/rehire and if that fails dip your PC in water.
That's what I did.
shadow:
That's a problem I've had off and on (mostly on) since the beginning and I've never been given a reason or solution. It's not a pause because everyone else does what they are supposed to be doing, just maids and babysitters stand around doing nothing. Hiring/firing doesn't work for me. I've stopped hiring them and just make someone in the house 'neat' and have them clean the house. I also give them the 'speedy cleaner' reward. Babysitters are a different problem, I just make someone stay home all the time. >:(
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