Maids doing nothing at all
RogueSkinner:
I have a twist on that issue. Not only do they do nothing, but I have one balding one that comes in, helps himself to quick meals out of my fridge and then leaves and charges me for feeding his lazy butt. >.<
Anonym:
Quote from: RogueSkinner on 2009 October 27, 14:26:44
I have a twist on that issue. Not only do they do nothing, but I have one balding one that comes in, helps himself to quick meals out of my fridge and then leaves and charges me for feeding his lazy butt. >.<
That's an "inappropriate" maid. There's an XML that controls the chances of an inappropriate maid (with the inappropriate trait) showing up. Such a maid will periodically do something inappropriate.
It's interesting, though, that the inappropriate part activates in yours but, from what you say, the cleaning while not being inappropriate doesn't activate.
One thing that seems to help with the do-nothing maid problem, I found through trying it, is to make an XML mod that has maids arrive no earlier than 10 am (after the big rush to work and school is over). It seems that regular sims are just prioritized over maids (which is reasonable) such that if the resources are being eaten up by their going to school and work the maid doesn't get properly initialized.
embertouchtehfire:
i exprence this a few times and firering the maid and rehiring always fixes it for a while
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Anonym on 2009 October 27, 20:19:16
That's an "inappropriate" maid. There's an XML that controls the chances of an inappropriate maid (with the inappropriate trait) showing up. Such a maid will periodically do something inappropriate.
As far as I can tell, ALL maids are inappropriate, even those without the inappropriate trait, as their main loop is "Do something inappropriate", regardless of the trait.
brownlustgirl:
I think the "trait actions loop" (my description) are killing their ability to do their jobs. Maybe my computer is too slow, but I find that the babysitters and maids have to go through many animations before entering the house. That can take several sim hours for those sims in my game, all the while the babies are starving, lonely, dirty. The house is not cared for, so a maid is useless for me. I gathered this from my observations and learnings.
I wonder if some of those animations can be killed, maybe making the game run smoother for lower end computers?
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