Babysitter stealing tablets (finally caught them in the act !)

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Running latest game version (the October update had not hit yet).

Basically what happens is :

  • Babysitter has nothing to do.
  • Babysitter starts reading from a tablet
  • One of the baby/child throws a fit and asks for something.
  • Instead of dropping the tablet on the table where they took it, the just head to the child and deal with them.
  • Then, the Babysitter upon finding themselves idle again, with a tablet and no “read from a tablet” action, simply drops it in their inventory.

Since the babysitters are not NPCs you can take control of, they keep the tablet (and any other items they may get this way, maybe a laptop too, who knows) forever and there’s no way to get it back.

This also happens with controlled zois, which is super annoying because finding “who has the tablet(s)” can take quite some time.

Best way to fix that would be that :

  • Always put the tablet back to where they take it when done with it. Don’t try to move it around (as the player I can move it myself in other rooms if need be).
  • When the interaction is interrupted, before going to do it, always drop the tablet where you picked it from.

Took me a while to see it with my own eyes, this has been a long standing issue and I was wondering where the tablets were going. At 800 mew a pop, some babysitter must’ve loved coming to my house, LOL !

Thank you.

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I am so sorry but this is too funny. The underground tablet contraband by nannies is real :psycat_standing:

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I’ve had this issue as well. I also had a Zoi throw a watering can into a rubbish bin and I couldn’t get it back :slightly_frowning_face:

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This is very funny. I’ve noticed that tablets are glitchy and will disappear fast.

If you ever throw a party, expect to replace them all. They’re basically party favors at that point.

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I have the same issue. Same babysitter and already 2 tablets gone with only one child. Now where the second child is coming will not place the tablets anywhere in the house otherwise they will be stolen as well.

Also I feel that the babysitters are a little broken in general. In my game they take all my cooked food but never eat it. The dish turns invisible by the time they reach the dining table and they go back to get another dish until all prepared meals are gone. And they arrive and leave at not understandable times for me. Everybody is at home and the babysitter arrives in the middle of the night. Sometimes no babysitter arrives even tough the Zois are out in town. Sometimes they just stay for days. And the weirdest thing is that I never ordered one.

Is it only in my game or is it the same for you as well?

Was just about to post a bug report but found this one.

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