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Offline SimPenguin

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Maids are not cleaning up old newspapers
« on: December 05, 2011, 01:56:00 PM »
Why don’t any of my maids, in any of my households, ever clean up the newspapers?  They used to (most of the time) but now they *never* do.  I have all the expansions and am updated to the latest patch – Is it a bug?  My suspicion is that since pets play with them, the programmers removed it from the Maid's duties so they lay around a while, but that would be seriously annoying so I refuse to believe it. 

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Re: Maids are not cleaning up old newspapers
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2011, 03:01:14 PM »
Maids are totally unreliable. Even in real life.



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Re: Maids are not cleaning up old newspapers
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2011, 09:57:30 AM »
It is probably a bug, you know that with patch 1.26 you if you choose to recycle one old news paper, your sim will autonomously clean all the others, it is a little bit less annoying then before, when you had to find them all, it can be tricky especially with all the fog around if you have it
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Re: Maids are not cleaning up old newspapers
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2011, 01:56:45 PM »
Kiko94:  I hadn't realized that - that helps a little, but I find it tedious to have to clean them up at all and my gametime clock is so fast, it can take a whole afternoon to get the mail, pay the bills, and throw out a stack of papers!  I keep forgetting that I can simply stop delivery of the darn things.  But then there's a day when I actually *want* one...  It would be nice if you could just buy one from a kiosk on the corner when you wanted one.

I think this may actually be tied to the pets -- After two Sim-weeks of the maid never touching the brown pile, my cat went and shredded one.  Sometime in the next two days, while I wasn't looking, the maid cleaned up the papers!  So, maybe they stay there until one of them is turned into trash and they call attention to themselves?  I don't know!

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Re: Maids are not cleaning up old newspapers
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2011, 08:17:37 PM »
It's displayed in a game tip that the maids/butlers/whatever can be unreliable (and to check their progress)

Maybe firing them and hiring a new one would be advised (not that money is really that much of an issue)

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Re: Maids are not cleaning up old newspapers
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2011, 05:25:57 AM »
If an animal has been chewing your paper or just playing around with it the maid will not clear it up. Also make sure their is nothing in the way of the paper.

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