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Butlers

Those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of butlers will be glad to know that our training program has reached the point where we think the butlers can be trusted to reliably perform simple tasks.

Butlers can hold packages and messages for you, and give information to your visitors. You can give your butler a name, and customize its appearance.

If you see any problems, please let us know and we will send the offending butler to remedial training.

Updates:
Forgot to say: Your butler can also open your mailbox.

And, for people who find their butler is stuck on their porch or door, switch your  house style to the Hobbit house or Groddle Cottage, then switch it back.

Further update:
Messages are now echoed in local chat, so you can read them later! (Note: in general, butler conversations that get echoed to local chat are only visible to the person the butler is talking to.)

Tuesday!
When you leave info, the butler now shows you what your info currently is and asks if you want to change it.

Wednesday:
For those people who don't like their butler standing next to the door, we now have a way for you to tell the butler where to stand. Simply click on your butler and choose "Set post" to change the butler's assigned post to your current position.

Also, we increased the maximum length of butler names by a few characters, and butlers will now leave their IM windows open after you leave the location so you can continue reading your list of visitors.

Posted 6 months ago by Etna Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • @Etna - (Hint: if you want to move your butler to the other side of the street, open a chat window, go to where you want it, and tell the butler "come here".)

    I just have two words Thank you

    ((hugs))
    Posted 6 months ago by Faereluth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the ability to move my butler!
    Posted 6 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, look forward to the new kuke customizations!

    And thanks for the 'post' changing...would love mine to hang out closer to the signpost...to scare away all the bad glitches...though it might attract them...oh...the challenges...lol...
    Posted 6 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kuke what?
    Posted 6 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Favorite part about my Milly is that she waves.... oh so cute!
    Posted 6 months ago by Scarlet Begonia ♫ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay! I'm thrilled we can move our butler's post. My little critter currently holds a position behind a street landscape feature and it's very frustrating. Thanks for this change :)
    Posted 6 months ago by xombiekitty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What this means is that those who do not like the butlers' appearance on their own streets can set the butler's post behind a tree at the end of the street.  For those of use that do have trees at the ends of our streets.

    I'm sort of tempted to do that because having him hide and pop out when called just seems so cool!  But, I want people to be able to find him easily, so, closer to the sign post it is!
    Posted 6 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Can I make mine have a British accent? I would love for it to be able to speak...
    LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!! <3 Tiny Speck!!
    Posted 6 months ago by jjbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • thank you so much for making the names longer :)

    and thanks, always, for actually reading the forums and listening to us!

    xox
    Posted 6 months ago by Beans, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think this might have gotten missed so I'll repost it:

    I have a question, if the answer is no, then I have a suggestion!

    Question: does leaving birch candy with a butler for someone count towards the achievements?

    Suggestion if the answer is no: it totally should! it's like the opposite of Halloween! Instead of going around asking for candy you go around giving candy! It's like the Glitch-way! *ahem*

    Of course if the answer is yes then awwwwesome!
    Posted 6 months ago by Viresse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Viresse, the answer is no. Sorry :\

    Of course, that doesn't prevent you from doing it anyway :P
    Posted 6 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Viresse - the answer is no, and I'm not really sure if we should change that. I think the candy badges are about directly interacting with players, and leaving a package with a butler is more like sending mail (which also doesn't count for those badges).
    Posted 6 months ago by Etna Subscriber! | Permalink
  • fair enough :) thanks for the answer! 
    Posted 6 months ago by Viresse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, today when I was exploring other home streets.. I -swear- a butler gave me their owners "info" before I even clicked on him. Did I imagine this? Or is this something that is slowly rolling out, where butlers with auto-announce their street owners info when you arrive?

    If so.. AWESOME!

    If not, man.. my iMG gathering was getting way out of hand, hallucinogenic even!
    Posted 6 months ago by absolute Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I thought that was happening, but then my own butler said the same thing I've heard some other butlers saying!  I don't think what you heard was their owner's info, but actually the butler passing on special game knowledge!
    Posted 6 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Carl, that makes sense!
    Posted 6 months ago by absolute Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think this was mentioned before but I couldn't find a response. 

    Is there a way/or will there be a way for our butler to let us know we have new messages or mail when we arrive on our home street? Not real worried about the listing of who visited, but would like to know if I have mail or messages without having to click on the butler.

    Just wondering.  

    Thanks!!  :D
    Posted 6 months ago by KinOfWolf~♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
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