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OK its true I am obsessed with robots...

Anyway I remember seeing or reading that you would be able to customize your robots (and other stuff I think). Servo has a blurb when you make it that says "no customizations options available". None of the others have it. What does that (aside from the obvious) mean? If you make enough of them does it unlock some option?

There is nothing in the Prima guide that even remotely hints at robots being modifiable.

The customisation referred to is the fact that you can choose the colour and name of your bot .... Like you were thinking of making R2D2's and C3P0's and Rosie Jetson? Boy! That was optimistic  ::)

How do you choose the colour? It says no customization options available - how do you make it available then?

Actually I was thinking customization along the lines of its personality or something since currently it is simply a clone of its initializer, and yea maybe colour that would be cool.

That's odd, it works here. Maybe you need a CEP update?

what works? What options do you have?

When you start building any robot EXCEPT servo, you can choose the color.  This is the extent of customization, and that's what they mean by "it works."  Servo can't be customized in any way.  Well, beyond the fact you can (and must) choose a name when you initialize a Servo.

 - Gus

Oh ok, I can choose colour for all the other bots. I just thought it odd that it would even bother to say "no customization options available" unless at some point there would be.

Dang I was so hoping for a different colour too.

Yesterday I tried an experiment.  I had already made my sim look human using JM's clothing mod.   Using SimPE, I modified the Skin and Eyes  on my activated bot to something else.  It seemed to work for the head, after I did a change appearance (using JM's mod), but the body stayed the same.  I guess it's a little different from a regular sim.  Someone way more awesome than me will have to figure this one out.  I can't wait though, because I hate the way the robots look.  Typical Maxis style.

I actually really like the look of Servo.  What I don't like is that if you have more than one, they're impossible to tell apart.  The head portraits are particularly bad - you can't tell which Servo a Want applies to unless you read the tooltip.

Obviously customizing them to be like normal Sims is the only real answer, but I don't want my Servos to look like humans.  I suppose a decent custom metallic skin would be an answer.

 - Gus

I did do the age up and down trick with the sim modder from debug. When the robot aged up she had hair, but when I aged her back down she went bald. Whats funny is her formal is the santa dress now. Eventually I want to get to where I can make my robots use the android skin (and be naked I guess so it actually shows) so the baldness isnt an issue at all to me. Then again I am trying to find a way to tell them apart so that may not be the greatest option.


It would be nice to hack servo so that it can look different from each other or something.

Oh, I'm pretty sure someone will invent some creative way to change the look of servos. Skin color or even hats would be useful to be able to tell them apart. Personally, I don't care for servo since it's so darn buggy.

I hate the name customisation thing.. I tend to change game speed a lot so I play with my fingers on the 1-3 keys, and so all my robots and whatever the sims make get named "1" or "3" or "13" or something like that :/ It's annoying cause then I can't tell which robot is which.

Ok it's good that we can change the names if we want to, but we should at least have to click on the name before being able to change it.

I dont quite understand the point of giving the servo a name when you craft it since you have the option of changing its name when you initilize it. Makes no sense at all.

name when u make it is like the model of the robot, such as servio-3820 v.1.4 or something like that then you can give it a name for that particular robot when you activate it.
its more of a roleplaying thing, not very practical of course.

The name you gave it when you make it is simply to make it easier to follow track of it if a Sim buy it instead of using it yourself.  For some it is important to know who buy which robot or other stuff.  So let's say you made a few defective robots and want to spot them easily, giving them a specific name will help finding them on the shelf so you could make a specific Sim buy it by showing that perticular item or it can simply be because you want to know who purchase it.  I wonder if Sims can give things they purchase as a gift if they have a dream date, if so, this is a very useful feature.

The name thing applies to any item you make on the benches for the same purpose as mention above.

Yikes! I like 'em too but I don't plan on having many of them about. One per household max and when I get bored with them  I'll make them get in the nearest hot tub and make out until they explode ... please don't disavow me of the possibility. I have avoided guides like the plague because the game is more lifelike when everything is a surprise  ::)

I'm not sure it's even possible to kill Servo.  I've had one be all red for all needs - Fun, Social, and Power - and all it needed to do was recharge.  The Cow Plant may be the only way.

 - Gus

Maybe you can put it in a room without doors and make it take a shower? lol

The Prima Guide says Servo can die, but what does the Prima Guide actually know?

Dammit I said I didn't wanna know ::)

One way to tell them apart is to have one female and one male and them dress in their formal outfit.  The female will wear a "gown" with a little pink bow, and the male will wear a sort of butler's jacket.  The female outfit looks ridiculous and was comical for the first 5 minutes.  Now it's just dumb.  I like the male outfit though

Servo can be killed by anything that can kill normal sims that does not pertain to motive failure. You may be able to smash Servo with a satellite, but I doubt he'll die from anything that requires low motives to kill.

Can servo get sick? He doesn't have any comfort stats, so I don't know what would determine his recovery if he can.

He can't get sick no. For that matter, unless Maxis ever fixed it, neither can service npcs, even if you move them in.

Just make it shut down and place it on the lawn like a statue.

Servo can't get sick because, as I just discovered, he has disease immunity.  I can't see the point of this if he's part of the family, because he's not an NPC.  I will probably be removing the token from mine once I've sorted out a problem with him.

I don't think it makes any logical sense for a robot to be sick.

What about a computer virus? ;)

I think that would cause Servo to run amok and destroy all humans, not cough and sneeze.

Perhaps, but they're not about to make that happen in a Teen-rated game.  Maybe a hack of some sort?  ;)

And Motoki  LOL, I literally laughed out loud when I read that.  ;D

Sort of like a Servo revolt? I like it. ;) I should try and all servo town someday. Have them kill all the sims in the neighborhood and take over haha.

Servo already CAN run amok and start destroying people.

My servo ran amok and tried to destroy all humans the other day. It was the #1 funniest thing I've ever seen in this game.

And her social was bottomed out, so the social bunny was there pointing and laughing. Unless the social bunny points and laughs at things at random. I don't know. If not, I think it's safe to assume the social bunny deep down wants to destroy all humans too.

servo in my game has just swanned out of the florists without paying

I haven't had a servo in my game yet, but a (virtual) cookie to the first person who can guess what its name will be...  ;D

Alpha? lol Hal?

Mine are named like the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta...

I don't intend on having many though. So far, one is annoying enough.

My Servo wanted to fall in Love. I was like, no way. And then his social was low and I decided he would hug my Sim. I was going for "Friendly" and accidentally clicked "Leap into Arms".  They both fell in love instantly. Ewwww, yuck.

So now I might make another Servo just for a companion for my first. And slave labor, of course.

Wait.  Servos and sims can fall in love with each other?   :o

Oy.  I find something very creepy about that.

Klaatu barada nikto?

Yes and sims or other servos can give servos a "tune up". Try that interaction out some time. ;)

Ancient Sim said something about her servo building himself a wife which I just found amusingly disturbing. lol

That was the deactivation code.  His name was "Gort."

 - Gus

I know.  :D  I just always liked "nikto" better as a name. "Gort" sounds like the stereotypical pig farmer.

whats worse is that male servos can get female sims pregnant...my daughter discovered that, my reaction was "thats not gonna be allowed to happen in MY game!"

Oy.  That's over the line.  Where do you suppose he gets the sperm?

 - Gus

It gives a whole new dimension to artificial insemination.....

*shudders* I am so grossed out right now!

Yettch and barf.  Now that's a major Prima Guide error since it states that Servo can't "try for baby."

What did that erotic-robotic child look like?

well the male servos can't "try for baby" but female sims can even with a male servo  ::)  *gags*


the babys are just regular sim babys, robot babys would have been cool (if both parents were robots)

Oh, come on now people. Every woman out there is in love with some kind of...machine aren't they?  :D

and if only...they were solar powered.

think of all the money we would save....

Servo appears to have neither pants nor equipment nor any apparent place to keep the equipment. It makes one wonder how he manages to woohoo at all.

nobody ever said sim anatomyt in general made sense.

well it looks like someone (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=140688) has found a way to hack servo and enable change appearance among many other things

You could already do that with Pescado's clothing too.

Now I wish there was a way to give the damned things a paint job easily. I can do the recolors but the damned face keeps showing up, the human one, like some creepy mask.

It's still useful to have the Servo clothing hack, because you can't change to anything but "formal" or "everyday" without it, even though Pescado's clothing tool lets you purchase other clothing.  A revised Servo with a robot-type skin looks more robotic wearing just a pair of white briefs.

 - Gus