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Okay.  The nanny has gone psycho.  I mean, other people have probably been having the issue with the nannies where they'll stay past the times they're supposed to, or even appear at 3am when both parents are home.  I know *I've* been having those issues.  I can't wait for a fix for them (or maybe there is one and I don't know about it?) but I could kinda deal with it, even though she was becoming a little stalkery with her random arrivals.

But NOW I gotta wonder WTF is her problem?!  My sim with the tracked schedule came home from work, and the nanny didn't leave, so he dismissed her.  She waved goodbye, PICKED UP HIS KID, and WALKED OFF WITH HIM.  I mean straight off abducted.  Got in the car and drove away with twin #2 in her arms.  The kid's portrait then disappeared from the family pictures on the left of the screen.

Uh.

That's really not supposed to happen, right?!  I have NEVER had a nanny walk off with a kid in her arms.  I can't wait to get some sort of patch or hack to make them do what they're supposed to.  Ugh.

Wow, you're in quite a nanny-pickle there, aren't you? That's the final nail in the nanny's coffin for me, then. I am never hiring another nanny. Never.
Were you able to get the kid back?

The kid should be there next time you load the lot, actually.. Look near the mailbox. If not, download the teleporter shrub from simlogical.com, install it, go into your neighborhood and enter boolprop testingcheatsenabled true , enter the house, use the teleporter to bring him back, then Shift+Click on him and choose make selectable.

No its not. best thing  I can tell you is to use Inge's teleporter shrub to retrieve the twin and move him back in with his family. to find out which household the twin is in use simPE sim browser locate the child's photo and next to it will be the household the twin is in. you will need the house hold name in order to retrieve the twin. then go back into the game to your sims house click the shrub and options will appear click the corect household then click through the names until you find your sims twin and click the twin  he will appear next to  the shrub . vital to get the twin  in the first place you have to click summon at the very beginning before choosing a household or sim. when the summoned sim is next to the shrub click Move in and a  name or two will appear click the summoned twins name and the  picture of the twin will reappear in the family panel. thus having been moved back in with his family

If he wasn't actually moved out, though, the shift click will automatically set him back into household status. He won't need to be moved back in. If he has been "moved out", he's probably stuck in default-land somewhere in Simpe and you'll have to do a bit more work there with the family numbers.

This was a problem in the unpatched Sims 2 base game. Visitors would just walk off with a kid. Do you have at least University installed? If not, is your game patched with the second patch for the base game?

Doesn't sound as if you have Nightlife, or if you do you probably don't have the patch, because the nannies were fixed in that - well, they're behaving impeccably in my game (so far, touch wood), but I know some people are still having problems.  Must admit I've never heard of nannies running off with kids, but like someone else said there was a problem with kids being abducted in the original pre-patched game. 

Well, thankfully I'd saved not long before, so I exited without saving and came back to two twins yet again needing to pee.  Pleasant, but at least I had them both!

Damn nanny.

And yeah, I have Uni, NL, AND the patches.  I had another bug that was supposed to be solved with a patch a while back, too, where my Uni sim was told "It's time for you to get back to the real world!" during her first semester freshman final.   :-X  Being as I have the patch installed I'm not sure why it did that to me-- maybe I should try reinstalling.

your'e lucky with your Nannies Ancient mine have been horrid

Mine are still crazy as hell. I'd bet your well behaved nannies are more do to luck than any fixes because if there were any, I sure haven't seen it. On the other hand, I rather like the nannies crazy. Makes things interesting.  ;D

Until they arrive by the hundred!!!!!

I NEVER use them now, I just make sure an adult or a teen is always in.  (And stick a Gnohmon's flamingo on your lot, and babies never ever need changing!  But, if you only use the flamingo of contentment, toddlers still learn potty training with no trouble (esp. with smart milk!)

I just had this happen the other night myself.  Have NL and patch.  I had just dl'ed a couple of mods from here a day or two before, so I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not (may not have been the most recent hack/fix, I found a couple were updated the next day.)

BUT - I exited without saving, went back in and did something a little different.  I usually send each new freshman to the store to buy clothes, but the one this happened to hadn't gone.  Had enough clothes in the dorm and just didn't feel like sending her.  Second time in, I sent her to a community lot, then right back to the dorm and she got through the freshman year just fine.

Now I just make sure I save at least once during the first freshman semester, and haven't had it happen again.  Though I don't know if the one time I got the "Go home" message was a fluke and I'm not really doing anything that helps by saving or not.  (But it can't hurt!)

I never use the nannies now except to have then eaten by the cow plant. I use the nanny + firefighting nanny painting by christianluv from MTS2. I dont have any trouble with them. I suppose now I could remove Toddlers sleep nights and the no social worker patch from my game.

Well, I've never used either, and I've never had a baby taken by the Social Worker since my first week playing Sims1!

I had a dumb Nanny leave one of my toddlers alone and of course the social worker took my toddler. which I retreived with Inge's shrub.

Well, the only time I've nearly lost a kid except when John went to work and left Lucy alone (and I didn't save and had Jennifer move her in with her) was when a nanny didn't turn up at 3.00pm!  that was Brandi and Don's kid, and they were both in the catering profession on a late shift - again I had to exit without saving and then not let Brandi go to work!

you really need to ask???  

They are all screwed up.    I hate them,  I use to do all kinds of things to mine.   I was so glad the first time I got a hack that let me select her.  I made her put the noodle thingy on and she stood their yelling and then she passed out in the bathroom.   Oh, Lord is was soooo funny,  then she got up and she peeded all over herself.   I finally took the noodle soother off of her and she couldn't wait to get out the door when the parents came home.

   I also use to make my sims chase her around with the vacuum sucking thing too.   ;D  ;D

I used to do that too

It's funny, but the first install I had, without the patch or anything, the nanny was fine, just a nuisance the way she'd put boy twin in girl twin's crib and vice versa.  In the same install, Brandi had walked out on Dustin and Beau (I meant her to take Beau but I did it wrong) and Dustin had to hire the nanny (Kendall) and Beau became really good friends with her - I think it helped that after two days he grew into a child and was able to ask for stuff and get her to play SSSX3 with him etc.  I actually think the patch, although it put a lot of other things like the jump bug right, screwed the nanny up a lot more than she originally was.  Pity really they couldn't get it right, but now in my game at least the maid is getting screwed too!  If you get your sim to click on the serving dish and call guests to the meal, she's first there when she should be cleaning!  And one of them walked past Don's house at midnight and kicked over his trashcan!   And this wasn't Kaylynn or Lucy and she wasn't mad with him at all!

Since Uni, and being able to "combine households," I've found the best substitute for a Nanny is a CAS Elder with maxed Personality points (with Merola's Multi-painting). She lives in the bin until she's needed, then moved in. I give her a bed in the kid's room, and she's happy ~ and controllable. As soon as the kid morphs to Teen, she's outta there.

She could be an Adult instead of an Elder, but having an Elder au pair just feels more natural to me.

This is a very good idea Hairfish and it would work quite well with most of my stories. tsk, tsk, Nannies are abducting kids now! :o Just when I thought I've heard it all! ::) I too try to avoid using those stupid nannies but I dohave to agree with motoki that with them being crazy makes a more interesting game... ;D

I know! It's like 'OMG, the nannies are acting crazy, wow what a surprise!'  ::)  ::)  ::)

I do a similar thing with YAs when they graduate.  I move them into a house with babies, they look after the babies, make some new friends (so it's great for popularity sims) then when the kids start school, as long as between them and the parents there's always one adult at home before and after school, they can start on their career and then move out when it's convenient (or when their fiance/partner etc. has also graduated) and start out for themselves.  I give them a shot of elixir to bring their age back down to 29 days to go, and then they're off to start their new life - and I know whether they will be good parents too!  And the family can send them some extra cash if they're doing well themselves.

I tried a controllable neighbourhood nanny, but it was just like a real-life au pair: she was young and attractive, and the fathers in the families kept getting crushes on her and all sorts of romantic hijinks ensued, and she never did a very good job with the kids anyway. Eventually she moved into her own place and became a single mother.  :)

Well, I did it with Lilith when she graduated, she went to live with Castor and Allegra (Castor was already a friend, but never anything more) and she was a great help with the twins, didn't cause any problems and I didn't have to change anything about her in SimPE to do it - which meant I didn't have to close my game - and all I did was to get her mood into gold/platinum and then get her to drink loads of elixir.  By the time I moved her out, she'd already met one of my CAS sims and fallen in love, so I actually just had him ask her to move in, and they got married soon after.

I'm actually quite pleased with my nannies right now.  I used the InSIMenator and the mind control mirror and made them adults and changed their personalities a little and maxed their cooking skill so they might not burn food so much.  I'ts funny cause you can't control what clothes are put on them so they kinda look like teens(one has a raver outfit on)  But, they are a lot faster and they don't pee themselves and they seem to interact with the children more--she went to play with the baby several times--might be annoying when they become tots but I don't use a nanny during the tot years.

Well, if you just want more active nannies that look like nannies, use SimPE to make them into adults.  they'll retain their appearance and clothing, but they'll have an adult body shape and voice, and have more energy and hopefully they won't have creeping alzheimers!  I did it with Mortimer once, and he became the life and sould of every party at Uni, since he got to know so may teens who then went to College and invited him to their parties, and then he got to know even more!  And he could be influenced to clean up before he went too!

I solved all my nanny problems by downloading dizz's babysitter hack and now i invite a sitter over who is a playbale sim and of my own choosing.  I love it becasue that's how you would choose someone to watch your own kids. 

Depends - one thing for an evening out, but another on a regular daily basis (after all, teenagers do go to school in RL, you can't get away from that, even if the game is wierd on that score).  There again, in RL we do have things like creches attached to workplaces (occasionally) or options like nurseries for toddlers.  Also, mothers can opt for a longer time off work (at least, they can here) without losing their job.

How do you do that?  Is it part of the standard game, or a hack?  Because I'd always thought it would be awesome to be able to do--older families accrue so much money it's ridiculous!  Maybe I missed it somehow?

It's one of JM's very useful little hacks - you can send money to sims in the family bin too.  It's just called moneyorder and it works fine in NL too.

Thanks for the idea Hairfish.  I now have Ermentrude Nanny with one of my families as live-in nanny/maid, and Gertrude & Hildegard Nanny are waiting in the sim bin for the next families in need of nannies.  Since they're elders, I tried to give them elder sounding names. 

I like the idea of sending them back to the sim bin and reusing them for the next generation - even though they're all elders, it's like creating a beloved nanny who was perhaps aged around 30 for the first generation, 50ish for for the next generation, and the third generation will be able to say "Nanny Ermentrude may be getting on a bit, but she's been with our family for 3 generations now."  Maybe after 3 generations I'll allow her to die of old age, and be buried in the family burial plot with her much-loved former charges.

 

I take exception to that extremely ageist comment!  My generation is now the "elder" generation and we definitely didn't have many Gertrudes or Ermyntrudes!
On the other hand, names like Emma, Emily,Charlotte etc. were considered by us to be very old-fashioned as they were the kind of names OUR grannies had, but just think how many little girls have them today!

ZZ I wasn't being agist.  While I haven't reached retirement age, I'm hardly a spring chicken.  I'm one of the board members who remembers the 60s - which I guess means I wasn't really there.

When I play my multi-generational 'hoods I try to use names that are currently out of fashion for my earlier generations, names that would have been in vogue a century or so ago.  If these people are hiring nannies then the nannies need even older-sounding names, something that my great-grandmother's maiden aunt might have been called, if she'd had one.  For my nannies I wanted names that sound like they could belong to a maiden aunt, and that no game-generated character is likely to have.

No offense was intended to anyone who is named Trudy or Hilda, either - I have a close friend name Trudy.  In an interesting coincidence, she's in her 40s and has never married or had kids, although she always wanted them.  She does have nieces and nephews ... so I guess she is a 21st century maiden aunt.

My Gramma's where Edith (who was a grumpy old lady) and Tressa (who we called Nanny and liked to play cards with us and go to play bingo)!
So maybe in the Business expansion they will do a daycare thing!

OK, accept you were not being ageist!  Now, the 60's had names like Cilla, Sandy, Dusty, so how about names like that for your nannies?  And your middleaged sims could be Tracey (Trace), Karen, (Kaz) or Sharon (Shaz)!

Or maybe I could have Petula ... but she'd always want to be Downtown.  On the karaoke machine, no doubt.

But I went to school with people named Karen, Tracey and Sharon.  So those names seem a little young to be nannies from my perspective.

I meant they could be parents not grandparents, though a lot of Kazes and Shazes are no doubt Nannas by now!!!!

My best Nanny is N. Abler. Kind of a tribute...

More American humour?  Or a tribute to Numenor?

Um...no. That Nanny-loving guy who made the "Elder Enabler" for clothing.

Oh, Motoki!  Of course, I thought too deeply and came up with CEP!

I had a nanny abduction just last week also.  I have Uni and NL and the patch installed.  The mom was on maternity leave with a toddler.  The nanny showed up even though the mom wasn't going to work, and when she was dismissed, she picked up the toddler and left with her.  I exited, saving the lot and when I came back in the toddler was lying by the mailbox, but neither the mom or the dad could interact with her and she was behaving like a baby.  I went into SimPE and she was marked as being a baby.  So I fixed it in SimPE.

sheesh I wish Maxis would patch those moronic nannies

sheesh I wish Maxis would patch those moronic nannies

I had that happen with one of Kiernan's alien twins (not the abduction, but the lack of interaction and boolprop etc. just said that the object was faulty or something.) After I'd tried everything, including moving them out and back again, the poor kid was still just lying around or floating in space, so I checked in SimPE and found that the exact same thing had happened to her.  Put her back to toddler and everything was fine.   (And having prsonally turned sims into babies in SimPE, I should have realised what had happened as I've frequently had adult and teen sims doing exactly the same thing!

One day my Kaylynn Langerak was on the way out to her Celebrity Chef carpool when I noticed that the nanny hadn't arrived yet for the twins (they were just out of toddlerhood at the time).  I had her quick call up and ask for a special one-time Nanny visit, and then run out and stand next to the carpool tapping her foot until the nanny showed up.  She did, just in time, and Kaylynn jumped into the carpool and went to work.  Then the OTHER nanny showed up!  Needless to say they had a fun time ignoring the kids, playing the musical instruments, and harassing visitors (Kaylynn had had Andrea Hogan over that day, and the nannies actually made her cry at one point).  I think that was the day the repair lady started a fire, too...

DC

Sounds like it was a pretty hellish sort of day!  Guess you didn't have the NoBuskers hack in your game?

But if the kids had enough influence, they could have influenced the nannies to fight each other!

Not at the time.  I do now!

Rats, I should have thought of that.  *8)

At Gina Raptor's house the nannies have gone entirely mad.  They never show up when it's time for Gina to go to work, but one gets dropped off regularly at half an hour past midnight, and other ones seem to show up pretty much at random.  If I have her call the nanny service the prompt that I get implies that she doesn't have an existing arrangement, even though she does.  It's not unusual to have two or more nannies wandering around, and once there were none around when Gabriel got home from school and I got the ominous "It's not a good idea to leave your child home alone" message. 

Fortunately I don't think Gina has to go to work again before Gabriel's next birthday when he'll turn teenager.  If the nannies continue to appear she can just seduce them all or something.  *8)

(Hm, does the FFS Lot Debugger fix busted Nanny controllers?  I'll have to go look.)

DC

Not that I know of, and use Clear Offworld Loiterers while you have a nanny problem and literally hundreds of nannymobiles start to appear, and sometime nannies sans mobile fly through the air (without an umbrella, though) to all descend on your house at once!  It's like a scene from Mary Poppins directed by the Monty Python team!

now as annoying as all those nannies would be I must say it would be hysterical to watch ;D

It was!  Especially when they all made a bee-line for brandi and started water-bombing and ventrilofarting her!  She was in tears!  (And Brandi isn't a complete pushover!)