Maid
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To employ a maid,
simply call them on your telephone. They will arrive at your
house at 10am every morning and clean the bathroom, clean up
messes, make beds, wash dishes and spray cockroaches. They
will leave at 5pm, or when there's nothing left to clean. A
maid will change you §10 per hour for a maximum of §70 per
day. If you don't have enough money to pay the maid at the
end of the day, she will take one of your possessions, and
you will not be allowed to hire another maid for 5 Sim-days.
If you don't think that your maid is doing a good enough
job, you can click on her for the opportunity to fire her. |
Police
| If a
burglar is heading toward your house you can call the
SimCity police from your telephone and someone will be over
straight away. Similarly, if a burglar tries to enter your
home and a burglar alarm is set up, the police will
automatically appear to catch him. The
policewoman may also make an appearance if you are brewing
potions on the Chemistry Set during the day, warning you
that the children can smell the fumes from school. She will
also show up if your Sims insist on partying into the early
hours of the morning. Monetary fines are associated with
each. |
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Gardener The
Gardener will visit your house every 3 Sim-days and water
your indoor and outdoor plants charging §10 per hour.
Ensure that all plants can be reached or they will not be
able to be watered and will die. Like the maid she will only
work for a certain number of hours before she leaves, job
finished or not. |
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Delivery Boy Call
for pizza on the telephone and the Pizza Delivery Boy will
show up at your front door after between 20 and 60 minutes
of game time. The pizza will cost you §40. As with other
guests, if you leave him waiting too long after he rings the
doorbell, he will just leave and there'll be no pizza for
your Sims. |
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Mail
Carrier Every 3
days the Mail Carrier will bring you some household bills.
The more extravagant your house, the most expensive they
will be. Bills will stack up in the letter box if you don't
retrieve and pay them which could bring on the Repo-man to
take away your possessions. You will be warned when you are
behind on bill payments. |
| Papergirl Every
day a newspaper will be delivered to your front lawn
provided you don't already have several rotten papers still
sitting there. There is a job opportunity in every paper,
plus Sims can get some enjoyment reading it. |
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Repo-Man If
you have a couple of red bills lying around (or stacked up
in your letterbox), you'll receive a warning that if you
don't pay them very soon, the repo-man will come to take
away your stuff. Refuse to heed this warning and after a few
days, he will appear with some kind of space-age gun to zap
away your possessions. |
Repairman
| Call the
repairman on the telephone and he will come over to fix all
broken items and replace any broken light bulbs. At §50 per
hour this is quite an expensive service. I once had my Sim
turn into a monster with the Chemistry Set and he broke 2
kitchen sinks, 2 bathroom sinks, 2 computers, 2 TVs and a
hot tub which cost §650 for the repairman to fix. I have
also caught the repairman sitting on the couch watching TV
instead of working. It is probably better to get at least
one of your Sims some Mechanical points and have them fix
any broken items. They will do the same job as the
repairman. |
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Firefighter If
a fire breaks out in your home, you can call the SimCity
Firefighters and they'll get to your house as fast as they
can. If you have a fire alarm in the same room as the fire,
the firefighter will be called immediately without you having
to use the phone. Once the firefighters are on their way, just
keep your Sims out of the way of the fire. If
you call the firefighters when there is no fire, you will
receive a fine. Shame on you. |
Tragic Clown
The Tragic Clown will appear if all
your Sims are miserable, and you have the Clown painting on a wall
someplace. He will try to cheer up your Sims but he does a terrible
job. I find him more annoying than useful as he simply will not let
my Sims sleep, and you can't force him to leave. The clown will only
leave when all of your Sims are happy again.
Social
Worker If you're not
taking good enough care of your baby, i.e. letting it cry
continuously, the social worker will visit your house and take it
away to a better home. You will receive a warning before the baby is
taken away, however.
| Burglar A
burglar will show up at your house without warning at any time
that all the Sims in your house are asleep. Once you are
warned he's on your property, you will not be able to go
into Build or Buy modes so you better hope you have a
burglar alarm. He will steal the most expensive things in
your house, until the police catch him. If you don't have a
burglar alarm, get one of your Sims on the phone to the
police asap and use the other to block any doors so he can't
leave. If the police catch the burglar, you will be
reimbursed for what he stole. |
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Party Entertainers You
can really spice up your party with a couple of entertainers.
Buy a Fancy Feet Treat cake from the miscellaneous section,
and get one of your Sims to choose either "Hire Male
Entertainer" or "Hire Female Entertainer" by
clicking on the cake. The people at your party will crowd
around and clap as the entertainer dances quite provocatively.
Once the dance is over, the entertainer will
"mingle" with your guests in the form of kissing,
flirting with, and giving their cards to guests of the
opposite sex. Be aware though that this will send jealousy
soaring. You can send an entertainer home by clicking on them
and choosing "Dismiss". |
| Caterers You
can hire a caterer for §350 by calling them on the telephone
(services). They will arrive shortly afterwards and fill your buffet
table and punchbowl. They will stick around for the length of your
party, refilling the buffet and punchbowl as your guests deplete
them as well as cleaning up any dishes. The caterer will also
socialise with your guests, but just make sure he doesn't spend too
much time with them. Click on him and choose "back to
work" to get him started again. Once your party has finished,
he will clean up and leave. |
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Mime The
Mime will visit your party if the guests aren't having a good time.
He will attempt to socialise with them and cheer them up. He doesn't
seem to have any bad effect on your party besides looking stupid and
embarrassing your Sims beyond repair. Party Crashers
Drew
Carey
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