Nannies with no sense of time
phyllis_p:
Okay, I know nannies are considered a Great Evil upon the Face of Simantion ......
But I've always used them anyway, and with good results -- until now. At one particular house, they can't seem to track the parents' work schedule anymore. Didn't need a nanny when the kid was little because there were grandparents, but the grandparents died and the kid needed someone for an hour after school. The father called the night before to make arrangements; then an hour after he called, the nanny showed up. Puzzled, he dismissed her. Next day when kid comes home from school -- no nanny. Dad calls and fires nanny, then Mom calls and hires one for the next day. An hour later, nanny shows up. Mom dismisses her. Next day after school -- no nanny.
I ended up calling the nanny in the morning before dad left, on a "just for now" basis, and paying her for a whole day -- money's not a problem with the family. Kid's a teen now, but before you know it he'll be bringing home a bride. So I was wondering -- is this a common occurance? And is there a solution? If not, I can continue to work around, but after all this time using nannies without any problems, it's an annoyance.
Thanks,
Phyllis
Ancient Sim:
Common bug, been happening since Uni. Nannies appear in droves, never leave, stink the place out, fall asleep standing up in bathroom doorways ... I've had one die already and another only escaped it because I had to reinstall Uni and she got all her stats back. One thing you must never do is make a nanny 'selectable', this somehow cancels out something and they can't leave.
phyllis_p:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 August 15, 17:56:50
Common bug, been happening since Uni. Nannies appear in droves, never leave, stink the place out, fall asleep standing up in bathroom doorways ... I've had one die already and another only escaped it because I had to reinstall Uni and she got all her stats back. One thing you must never do is make a nanny 'selectable', this somehow cancels out something and they can't leave.
No, this is different. She doesn't arrive in droves -- there's just one of her. She leaves when I tell her to, doesn't stink up the place, doesn't fall asleep in the bathroom. She just comes at the wrong time, and then doesn't come whe she is supposed to.
Phyllis
Liss:
I all of a sudden have nannies that show up, charge you, and immediately leave. The only way I've found to fix it is to lobot the nannies with the eye in the sky mod. I had one toddler get taken away because of this, in a 'hood where I wasn't supposed to use mods or cheats except to correct bugs. I consider this a pretty big stinky cockroach lol...
veilchen:
I'm afraid Ancient is right, it is a common occurance. You have been lucky that you have not encountered this before, but it can get much worse than that. That was, coincidentally the last time I ever used any nanny. I called, set up for schedule; a nanny arrived, I dismissed; next day -no nanny- and so on, just as you described, ad infinitum. I do have JM's baby-hacks, but the nanny bug still happened.
That was the last time I ever used the nanny, so I can't tell you if it will occur with the offspring's children. If things progress the normal maxis way, the bug is now in your game to stay, and may or may not re-occur on the same lot. But my bet would be that it will occur at random, on different lots. Others had nanny-bugs much worse, such as described by AncientSim and ZZ had nannies arrive in droves. I think she ended up with more than 6 nannies at the same time, and could not get rid of any of them. Nannies are also associated with the portal bug, and for that they don't even have to be hired. They are indeed evil incarnate, and I stay away as far as possible from them.
As far as I know there is no fix for that; if you want to continue using the nannies, you just have to work around the bugs. Should you ever come across the portal bug, search this site for 'crammyboy' or search on MTS2 for 'portal'
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