That's right, deleting a sim with moveobjects just removes them from the lot, not from the game. Another way to get rid of the sitter is to save the lot and return to the neighborhood. When you re-enter the lot, only residents and visitors will be there, the sitter (if they were selectable when you saved) will be gone (from the lot, not the game).

Thank you!!!!

When I called the sitter, only three people were available for me to contact, Calista the Nanny, one of the grocers and a pizza guy. My sim knows a lot of other people, but none of them were available. I do have a lot of hacks, but I don't know which conflicts.

It all depends on when you called. It only shows you sims that are "available". If they are at work, if teens should be in school, if you know any vampires and it is daytime, etc.

Also, it is based on the sims known by the caller; so if the husband knows 5 sims, and the wife doesn't know them, but knows 5 different sims, then you'll see different sitters availble based on which of them places the call.

I just wanted to let you know I tried this yesterday for the first time (for Brandi Broke's family), and everything you said worked. She left an hour after hubby Benjamin Long came home, but during that time she became a friend in the household.
SO much better than the nanny.

ooh I so love this! Last time I called the nanny, she refused to leave, and kept interfering with the mom trying to pottytrain her toddler. I finally had to delete both the nanny and the van ('cuz it just kept sitting there).

This will be sooo much better :D

Thank you so much! Before I even knew about any kind of Sims hacks, I was wanting this one. Thanks so much. It's great. No problems what so ever. I had my favorite sim babysit her twin granddaughters. It was great cause now they can develope relationships with eachother. Before this hack, one of my teenaged boys saw his grandfather while out and the grandfather kept rejecting him. They had no relationship built up. This solves that problem. Thank you sooooo much.

Ok, I have a problem... My sitter did not have the option to put my toddler in his high chair or to get him a bottle from the fridge. I have checked for hack conflicts and didn't find any. Anyone else have this problem?

There appears to be a check in all the different sections of code to feed babies/toddlers to see if the feeder is either a family member or the nanny. This problem has existed with this mod since NL. The sitter CAN autonomously feed the child. From the original thread:



I'll have to think about this and about how to fix it, if at all.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that - never used the original or read its thread.

Thanks:D:D:D
Exactly what I need :D
Thanks:D:D:D

yea! no more nanny!

I just wanted to tell you how GREAT this hack was. I wasn't even looking for something like this, but glad I found it... and gladder you made it.

Basically I have a sim who's had kids with two women. He's living with one of the gals(and her brother) but hasn't really visited the house with his other kid.... UNTIL I downloaded this... Then when the mother had to go to work, she called the father and he gets to bond with the kid, while the mom's at work. I really think that's cool for the story. Because the dad may be an SOB, but he's still cares about his kid.
;-)

Craps... Ok...
Craps.
I used it... then I came back to thank you and I noticed the above.
Craps.
I saved the game with the FATHER as the babysitter.

So when I went back... the kid is on the lot by himself.
Even though I was able to call the dad back via another hack that SUMMONS characters... the social worker still came.

So is there a way for the kid to call for a sitter?

This was one of my favorites before OFB. I am SO glad to have it back.

Personally, I *like* that the sitter ages while on the lot. It helps keep things on an even keel sometimes.

Take care, though...I was using Brandi Broke as a sitter for one family and eventually, she had her baby at their house! The little brat became a member of the wrong family.

I was able to use hacks to put him back where he belonged, but everyone still had the memory of him joining the family.

All in all, though, a superb hack! Thanks for updating it.

WOW This is just awesome! I've always wanted to have babysitters in TS2 instead of nannys!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!! :lovestruc I luv it!!

This was interesting.. until I read that it replaces the nanny.. would of liked it more if you could keep the nanny option but also have a babysitter option.

We've run into an issue with this. The first game day it worked fine; the sitter came, and then left some time after the parents came home. The second day, the sitter was called but never showed up. We removed the hack, but the option to call the sitter remains and there is no option to call a nanny. Calling for a sitter brings up a list of sitters to call, but calling one has no effect, even though the sim we call says she is coming over.

Note that it wasn't until after installing this hack that we noticed the warning that it conflicts with other social-worker hacks. We have Pescado's Realistic Social Worker Hack installed.

Basically, what we would like to know is whether there some way to recover the nanny option (for example, by copying one or more game files from an unaffected install) without reinstalling the game.

Really? How on earth did I miss that?

That is very unusual that you are seeing this after removing the hack. The hack doesn't modify any other files, and it can only take effect if it is located in the Downloads directory. Once you remove it from the Downloads directory and restart your game, there is no possible way for it to still be affecting your game. Is it possible that you have the original (non-OFB) sitter1f hack from dizzy2 installed also?

I'm sorry this has happened to you. I've been searching for a way to allow a child to call the sitter, but cannot find one. The way that phones work (as far as who is allowed to call, and what kind of calls they can make) is very complicated. I'll keep looking, though.

Sorry, I was wrong. If you choose the nanny as the sitter, the dialog will pop up asking you if you want her to come on your schedule, or just for now, but she will never show up.

Yes; this is what is happening in our game after the hack had been removed.

I might note that on a different PC on which the hack was installed but never used, removing the hack did re-enable the Nanny option when calling a service. It does appear that, at least in this one instance, using the hack has caused some alteration in some other game file.

Um, we have discovered a stray copy of the hack in a subfolder, so there were actually two copies installed. This explains why we still had the Sitter option after we (thought we) had uninstalled the hack.

*fcc2 slaps forehead

I accidentally stumbled on another way to get rid of a 'stuck' sitter, but it's kind of weird... Select the sitter, have them use the phone and call a taxi. Have them visit a community lot by themself. Once they get to the community lot, have them call the taxi again and go home. It will show the loading screen for the sitter's home, but when the load screen goes away, you will be in the community lot, with live, build, and buy modes all disabled. Go to options and exit to the neighborhood, then return to the family you want to play.

Definitely not easier than any of the other options, but at least it works. I meant to try and see if it would save if you had the sitter buy something (new clothes, cell phone, whatever), but I forgot. If it did, that would at least allow the extra step to be useful...