I never noticed macro-clean ever missing anything even with less neat sims, I didn't know that could happen Kyna!  I'll have to keep an eye out.

But as to your statement that you wouldn't make use of this macro function because there are others which you could use instead, I can certainly understand that!  However, when your friendships have reached a point that they are easily maintained by other sims, and no sims in the household need training assistance from that particular sim, I think this would be quite convenient!  Though of course I very much enjoy those macros you would prefer to use constantly.

However, this potential macro could be another one that I would use in addition to those for own my peace of mind and convenience.  It would allow me to designate one person that has a priority for household tasks, without that person having to be a servo and without needing the service sims about.

However though some people seemed to enjoy the idea, this is another post I've responded to where I'm not sure the poster really likes what I'm asking for.  I'm not here to march against the band, does the idea bother anyone?

Well regardless, everyone was very kind in sharing their opinions and experiences with me!  I'm sure the idea is out there in case a programmer here likes the concept, and if not, I'm simply glad that the game enhancements here are available to me.

(Sacrifices the sheep)

Of course I've tried (and use) macrotastics ness!   That is how I know what I know about it, it's one of the many awesome things that has brought me here no less!

I see my problem with the food though, the hungry sim must be power idling to make use of inventory, otherwise free will usurps it and they never get to use that stored up food.  Not that the loss of free will is horrid, in fact free will is often a pain in my patoot!   Realizing how it works though, a family egg timer which gets everyone to the table at a specified time for their meal might be nice.  In soviet russia, egg times me?

Anyway, but that's good to know!   And we've both said, I could just continue to macro-clean, macro-garden, macro-repair, at regular intervals depending on the task and it would be much easier than hunt-and-peck through flowers and puddles for things that need attention, but if I were to do that, I'd likely be better off keeping the service NPC's so I don't have to worry about forgetting something, or having to pause my sims when I'm getting up to grab a sandwich so I don't fail to keep up on basic maintenance.

Personally I think a maintenance routine macro could easily be a feature that people would enjoy, in case servo's or maids and gardeners weren't their bag.  But in truth macrotastics and all other such things already make it so much less troublesome than the Maxis seemed to want it to be, thus this is certainly NOT a 'this needs to be done!' demand.

I'd like it, but I'm not gonna up and die without it, that's for darn sure!

And so in case it needs to be said, this thread is by no means intended as a complaint.  I would give warm fuzzies to the automation features, but for the fact that it might be better to place an alien zombie lycanthropic vampire sheep up for sacrifice in the name of J.M.Pescado. (places the sheep on an altar)  Would anyone care to do the honors?

P.S.-I am planning a fifth generation alien zombie vampire werewolf freak-boy in one of my neighborhoods.  It feels so good, to be so bad.

P.P.S.-Hehe Lil Brudder and rohina!  NOW I know why maxis made those things so quick to break down!  It was all part of their dangerously obtuse plan...

Yes indeed.   Sadly, that mod, All-In-One and Nanny NPC, does in require a specific NPC in the house.

Thanks though, for searching so vigorously for me!  I know it's not life or death, but freedom from service NPC's (does anyone else get random inexplicable slowdown ocassionally when they are about?) or servo's endless need to cook snacks that are not desired by the house, is something I was excited to think might be out there.

While I'm asking, I know there is a mod here that checks inventory first for food before cooking when a sim is hungry.  Is there a mod that, when a sim is hungry, it checks the inventory of all sims in the family and gets a plate, then ALSO returns the remaining food to inventory?

In my larger families I always seemed to have trouble synching up mealtime when they all had different jobs.

I'm checking around for that, I can say that if it's the mod I'm thihnking of, you need to use a specialized NPC.  Interesting of course, but my two sims could just as easily power up the servo they have, if I needed it (or call the maid back up).  I actually want to avoid another person wandering around, though.  Partly because it's another sim wandering about my house that can cause path finding errors and make my sims want  to stop what they're doing to socialize, but mostly because, I've noticed, this system gets a bit slower with the third person mucking about.

The sim I want to clean all the time does have maximum neatness.  However my experience has shown that even with maximum neatness (and cleaning by the by) free will still does not consistently compel the sim to clean.

thank you for all the replies everyone!

And though that is good, in fact I use autoyakyak, I am looking for a macro like clean, which sticks with the player even after they have cleaned the area.  Though it is nice to be able to simply choose clean rather than find each mess on my lot, to rely on that for cleaning I would need to constantly re-issue the clean command.  Though I can do that, a short time using it brought me to the conclusion that it was more convenient to keep a maid on duty.

But my question, I just realize, is ignoring a possibility I didn't think of!  Is it possible to 'lock' the clean, garden, and/or repair macro on a character, so that they take the time every now and again to see if anything needs tending in any of those areas?

Hello everyone, I've of course come here before (because this place is, in fact, awesome) and today I realized there is one thing for the sims I'd like that I don't have.  Moreover in the few sims 2 mod sites I know, I can't quite find what I'm looking for.

What I am looking for is a house maintenance macro for my sim.  I've searched all over, but cannot seem to find one.  I know that the servo 'do chores' option allows for autonomous care-taking, but I'd like a similar option for a non-servo playable sim on my lot.  Even if it was just to force the 'do chores' to appear for them as if they were, in fact, a servo.  I have a household in which one person stays home and keeps friendships (though I do enjoy the 'no friends needed for careers' found here, did anyone else need to use the 'nightlife' version to have it work in open for business?), and another works.  However with the one person staying home, I realized that the maid coming in wouldn't be necessary, my sim has more than enough time to keep the house, but the 'free wil'l does not seem to reliably do...well much at all.

Does anyone know if such a 'tend the house' game modification exists?  Barring that, might I request it from the talented modders here?

P.S.- I am waiting on my delivery of sims 2 pets, but what breeds do they have?  I want to interbreed a british bulldog with a shih tzu will a bull mastif terrier.  The "British BullShihtz TerriBull Dog" would be a fantastic addition to my sims!  Barring that, a poodle, labrador retreiver, pug would be okay.  Labradoodle Repugnant.