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Okay, I could be missing something but what exactly is the purpose of the cleanbot?
If it doesn't clean the toilets, showers, dishes, take out the trash, empty the potty, etc. then what good is it?
How often is there a puddle on the floor or trash? and picking up old newspapers, that's only 1x a day.
Am I missing some of the features or uses? Otherwise this is totally a useless bot.  >:(

And letting it pick up puddles is a bad idea. Really.  :o The purpose of them is to sell them to dumb townies.

Lol, I said that to myself when I realized it really wasn't going to do anything usefull; This is the kind of crap to push off on those townies.

It just picks up plates, cups and garbage. Not overly useful, but great at parties.

Exactly my thoughts!  And to build up the skills needed to reach the gold badge.


Hmmm, never thought of that.  Mayhaps the dad in the family I'm playing should build one as a going away present for when his daughter (popularity) goes to college!

Actually I'm sure they'd be a lot more useful if I had sims kicking over my trash cans and the like.  I'm happy letting Townies buy them, though. ;)

Of all of them I think the cleanbot is the most (real) lifelike. Anyone got one of those robot vacuum cleaners? Anyone knows that 99% of the hassle in vacuuming floors is the effort required in emptying the thing.  ::)

Uggh. I've got a home-based robot shop but I'm not letting my Sims use them. I had a hydrobot and a cleanbot, and they were breaking down every frickin' day! Finally sold them to some townies.  Do the robots break down more the older they get even if they are repaired by someone with maxed Mechanical?

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I'm confused - it picks up plates, but it doesn't wash them?  Does it load the dishwasher?
If cleanbot won't wash dishes, sell the sinks so the plates become trash.  Does that work?
Surely it would be useful oin any lot were Sims eat especially if you don't provide sinks.

Hoping to install OFB today :)

I haven't played with any of the robots yet even though one of my sims is running a sucessful robot shop.  I wiped the neighborhood clean before starting it and haven't taken my sims to very many spots to regenerate new townies, so the same 7-8 townies have been in there buying $200k worth of robots.  Heh Heh.

Anyways...that was off topic, but yeah, I have no idea what any of the robots do.  I guess they don't really interest me much, but to sell them.

Considering that it's a low-level bot, you can't really expect it to be of any real use.

what about the sentry bot, does it just nab the robber?  i put one by my trash can and paper and those darn sims keep taking them and knocking the can over.  the bot does nada.

Cleanbot can only pick up things, if they are deposited on the floor. Empty plates on the dinner table, or on the counters are out of reach for the bot. Which is why its only good for two things, cleaning up yesterdays newspaper, and empty milkbottles, and I am not even sure it can handle the latter.

sentry bot worked fine for me, it attacks thieves, sims who wanna steal your newspaper or gnomes, and furious walk-bys
fairly effective.

cleanbot came in handy when one of my sims set fire to the kitchen in which i forgot to put an alarm, and had turned my back on while i drank my coffee...it successfully and efficiently hoovered up the resulting mess of ashes. i sold it back after ( i have a buyable collection of bots)

Ever try hiring a nanny? Puddles are quite common occurances on my lots.  ;D

I was hoping cleanbot would get bottles, so I put one in the kitchen of one of my houses with a new baby, and... nope, the bottle's still sitting there and cleanbot's ignoring it.

Which makes cleanbot good for exactly two things: picking up yesterday's paper (and only if your house isn't on a foundation, because he can't go down/up stairs) and cleaning up a puddle in the bathroom and going berserk, dumping piles of garbage everywhere (where are they coming from?? he doesn't clean up anything!)

Cleanbots will take out the trash if the trash is in a regular trash container, not a compactor.  That and puddles are the only thing I've used a Cleanbot for.  Oh, and cleaning up the trash it spews when it malfunctions.

None of the robots other than Servo is really worth owning at any price.  Servo has his own set of drawbacks, since he's a Sim and must be ordered around, but he does require far less upkeep than an ordinary Sim.

 - Gus

Let's not forget that it zaps cow mascots as well. Of course, it can be broken if its path is blocked or if the cow decides to break it (yes, the cow will break it).

Not to go too far off topic, but does that munchie bot work for anyone?

Munchiebots are too unreliable to use, since they randomly bring back pizza, which is good, and Chinese, which is not so good, unless your lot consists of sims that are already fat. This random element essentially renders it worthless.

Cripes, I hate that chinese food. It takes too long to eat.

I see. I've never seen mine leave the lot, even when sims were starving. Maybe it was smartserve though, I'll have to try that bot now that I've removed that hack.

okay, for parties/wedding, etc. it may get some use. I guess for real sloppy sims that leave plates on the floor and puddles from showers (although not recommend), this bot may come in handy.
I haven't worked my way up to servo yet. I'm thinking of having my Mad Scientist making a whole warehouse full of them. Between them and the sentry bots, I'm envisioning an I-Robot type of takeover. (yeah I know, big dreams... ::) )

The general consensus is that servo is overrated but don't let that stop you from trying it out. :)

I kinda disliked the Hydro Bot too until it hosed off my Sim that caught himself on fire with the evil kite.

There used to be a no getting fat from Chinese food hack at MTS2.

oh that'll come in handy as well the next time i set somesim/thing on fire by omitting to install fire alarms  :D

The Hydrobot seems to be one that is at least marginally useful, since it does water the flower beds pretty well. At least when using a hack to prevent (or reduce) all the #?&% breakdowns.

These bots all have their place. I prefer them in dorms and Greek Houses where things tend to get really messy.
They break too often though, in my opinion.

I see the breakdowns as an inherent part of having so many moving parts. Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. There's a REASON why we don't use things like this in real life, after all.

Less Robot Breakage
http://greensims.net/viewtopic.php?t=1988

That doesn't work too well yet. Wait until he makes it final.

have you tried it radio? Is this from personal experience?

Yes, I'm testing it right now. They still seem to break at normal intervals for no apparent reason.

Iin my opinion, the breakage should be equal to say, a dishwasher breaking instead of them breaking every two days.

Yes, at least every other day is the rate of breakage I'm seeing.

I know that if a robot is made in low aspiration, it is more likely to be broken when first made. However, does this make it more likely to break even after being fixed? Is the breakdown rate of robots a set percentage or does it vary by who made the robot, their mood when the robot was made, or anything else?