Service Sims are Sims that exist in Sunset Valley, but do not necessarily live in the neighborhood. You will not see these Sims in the park, for example.
These Service Sims exist to provide essential services for you and your Sims. Service Sims can be reached via your telephone or will appear automatically when something on your lot needs to be tended to, such as a fire or robbery.
Your Sims can socialize and interact with most of the Service Sims. Some of the Service Sims can even be turned into more than just acquaintances, such as the Firefighter. If you play the social game just right, you can actually fall in love with some of these Service Sims and even marry them.
Baby-sitter
Age: Teen
Cost of Service: §75
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: No
If you need to leave your lot and you have children, you should always call the Baby-sitter. The Baby-sitter will take care of your kids while you are away, making sure they are fed and picked up after.
(Baby-sitters are not Maids, though, so don’t expect them to clean up too much.) If you leave your lot for too long without hiring a Baby-sitter and your children are neglected, you risk a visit from the Social Worker Service Sim.
If you want to develop an LTR with an Service Sim, firing them is a negative STC. That’s no way to start a friendship.
Burglar
Age: Young Adult, Adult, Elder
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
There is a chance, while you are asleep at night, that a Burglar will creep into your house and steal at least one of your objects.
If you have an alarm, it will shriek, stopping the Burglar in his tracks as the police arrive to take care of business.
If you catch the Burglar and your Sim is Brave, you can fight the intruder. If you win the fight (depends on Athletic skill), you get the Winner! moodlet and all of your stolen belongings are put back where they were.
If the police show up, the officer and the Burglar will scuffle around the room. If the officer wins the brawl, the objects are returned. Here is where you can start a relationship with a Burglar.
Left-click on the captured Burglar and set him free. Now the Burglar is an acquaintance and can be socialized with like other Sims.
Cleaning Service
If one of your Sims and the Burglar move in together and boost an LTR to the point of having kids, there is a chance that your child will inherit a Sneaking trait from the burglar.
Age: Young Adult, Adult, Elder
Cost of Service: §125/day
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
If your lot is a mess and you just don’t have the time to clean it, you can phone up a cleaning service and they will send a Maid right over.
The Maid will begin picking up and scrubbing surfaces. You can socialize with the Maid while she is on your lot. After the Maid finishes cleaning, you can Ask to Hang Out and explore where this could go...
Firefighter
Age: Young Adult, Adult
Cost of Service: §500 fine if there is no fire on lot
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
If a fire breaks out on your lot and you have an alarm, the fire department is immediately called into service. A Firefighter arrives within minutes.
Otherwise, you need to call the fire department so a Firefighter is dispatched to deal with the inferno. Once the Firefighter puts out the fire on your lot, you have a few moments to socialize before he or she leaves.
Use this time to Ask to Hang Out or Chat with the Firefighter. Maybe later on the two of you can start a fire of a different kind...?
If you have a child with a Maid, there is a good chance the baby will have the Clean trait and not make messes.
Mail Carrier
Age: Young Adult, Adult, Elder
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
The Mail Carrier arrives on your lot to deliver bills, mail, and packages (cut gems, ingots, etc.). For a few moments after placing items in your mailbox, the Mail Carrier will linger. Use this opportunity to step out and start talking to the Mail Carrier.
Newspaper Delivery
Age: Child, Teen
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: No
Every morning, the Newspaper Delivery Kid will show up and drop a paper right in front of your door. Like the Mail Carrier, the Delivery Kid will linger for a few moments, giving you a chance to socialize with Ask to Hang Out and Chat. This is a good way for kids in a new house to make a friend.
Pizza Delivery
Age: Young Adult, Adult, Elder
Cost of Service: §30
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
Sometimes, Sims want to eat at home but not cook. What to do? Call for pizza! Within a few minutes, the Pizza Delivery Sim appears on the front stoop with a piping hot pie. You take the pizza off the delivery Sim’s hands and pay for it.
The pizza can then be placed on any flat surface and treated like a food object with interactions like Have a Slice or Put Away Leftovers.
Eating a delivered pizza gives Sims the Amazing Meal moodlet.
Like other Service Sims, the Delivery Sim hangs out for a couple moments after the transaction is complete. Here, you can Ask to Hang Out or Chat with the Service Sim.
Police
Age: Young Adult, Adult
Cost of Service: §500 fine if no burglar is on the lot
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
The police will show up whenever the alarm goes off in your house due to the arrival of a Burglar or if you call the police because you spotted the Burglar on your own. The Police Officer will fight the Burglar if he or she makes it in time before the Burglar leaves the lot.
If the Police Officer apprehends the Burglar, your stolen objects are returned.
Following the apprehension (or attempt at apprehension), the Police Officer stays on the lot for a few moments. Socialize with the officer to make a new acquaintance. Perhaps it will lead to something positively arresting?
Repair Technician
Age: Young Adult, Adult, Elder
Cost of Service: §50
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
When an object on your lots breaks, such as the computer or toilet, you can either try to fix it yourself or call a Repair Technician. Within a few minutes, the technician shows up and repairs the object with a 99 percent success rate. (That other one percent? Death by electrocution.) After finishing the job, the Repair Technician will linger and is available for socializing.
Repo Man
Age: Young Adult, Adult
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
If you fail to pay your bills on time, the Repo Man is dispatched to your lot to take back enough objects to meet the owed amount. While the Repo Man is on your lot, he goes from room to room, sucking up objects with a special repo gun. When the Repo Man has repossessed enough objects to meet his required quota, he will leave. Before the Repo Man takes off, you can socialize with him—although you aren’t exactly off to a great start.
Social Worker
Age: Young Adult, Adult
Can Be Social: Yes
Can Be Married: Yes
There are two occasions where you will see the Social Worker. One is quite a joyful experience—she is dropping off the new baby you just adopted. The other? You neglected a baby, toddler, or child for too long. The Social Worker arrives and takes the child away—but not until she has sufficiently berated you for your poor parenting.
If the Social Worker is taking a child, then there is no positive interaction of any kind. After dropping off an adopted baby, though, you can chat up the Social Worker and make a new acquaintance.