So I'm playing this firefighter and it's annoying me, because - among other things - the fire truck and alarm have Zero Chill. (Insert your own fire pun.) Maintenance doesn't work worth a darn; I've had her maintain both up to top condition before going home, only to come in and find them at 0% the next morning. I've had her working on the alarm and filling the green bar right up, only for it to reset to 0% WHILE SHE WAS STILL MAINTAINING IT. She keeps rolling wishes to upgrade the stuff, but she can't do that when it's at 0%, which is basically all the time.

So my intuition is that this is a thing Retuner could fix, but I'm not savvy enough to figure out how. Any suggestions?

Silly question I suppose, but I haven't played that career in a long time. How is her Handiness skill?

It's at 7 or 8.

Sounds like SP's Allow Inactive to Maintain Firefighter Equipment feature. Disable that option.

...huh. Okay, so now I'm curious; why does allowing *more* sims to maintain the thing result in its being *less* maintained?

Because if it didn't reset to 0 there'd be nothing for them to maintain.

That... is both logical and totally counterintuitive. XD

Okay, thanks!