Cleanbot goes AWOL at Secret Society lot

[tunaisafish]

Playing La Tour Uni. I bought some crafting stations with the SS money.
The first cleanbot was put to use clearing up after the messy members.  Doesn't get all the crap but saves you some time when your sim has no influence left to make another member useful.

Saved from the SS lot and exited.  Next time back and there is no sign of the cleanbot.
Built another, tried again, but this time went home to the dorm.
No difference, the second bot has gone AWOL too.

Looked on google for this problem, but only found tips about using them at the SS lot.
Anybody else here seen this?

Have some hacks related to lessbreakage of robots.  I'm going to look into those to see if they are the culprit.

[Emma]

I had a sentrybot disappear from a residential lot the other day. I forgot about it until I saw this post.

[tunaisafish]

Didn't take me long to rule out the hack.  It's just a constants tweak from Crammyboy (CBOY_RobotsBreakLess).

Emma, you got me thinking it could be something added in the ALpatch concerning all robots,
but no changes to the robotglobals there.
Trivial changes in there from EP7->EP8.  I guess that I would have seen more hits on google if AL broke robots this way though.

I'm playing all EP's including the AL patch.
These are the first 2 robots I've ever used!  I'll try a third on a normal residential lot.

[J. M. Pescado]

If a robot is "active", it becomes ain invisible sim wearing a robot on its head. As the sim does not belong to any family, he will deinstantiate on a patch or other reset, taking your robot with it. To make the robot reappear, shift-click on the stand and respawn the robot. Remember to shutdown your robot before leaving the lot!

[Zazazu]

If a robot is "active", it becomes ain invisible sim wearing a robot on its head.

Thanks, now I'm picturing that dinosaur from Meet the Robinsons.

[tunaisafish]

ah ok, thanks for explaining that

At the SS lot, 'the stand' that the bot goes back to when not in use was gone too.
I'll try shift-clicking the crafting station to see if I can cheat one back.

[Emma]

My robot disappeared was created and activated post-patch and the stand disappeared too.

[J. M. Pescado]

It is possible that they made it so the stand autodestructs when it cannot find its corresponding robot. Also, death to Emma.

[cwykes]

at least your bots aren't sneezing!  A friend of mine has a sentrybot afflicted with allergies - it sneezes! 

[Emma]

TJ has a fix for that, Cwykes, over at Simbology.

[cwykes]

sorry - should have said that.  She went there for help having had a bad experience as a noob here.  Just thought I'd throw it in since we were talking about robots and maxian stupidity.