"Chi5678;c-17683184" wrote:
@Karritz oh that’s smart to just make them as a ghost. Do I have to place them in a house? I’d rather them not really exist in game other than just to connect the family tree
When I did it I made 6 ghosts to add another generation above.
I was clueless about what to do with them. I put them in a house and after a couple of days they all vanished and I found their tombstones in the mausoleum. I got them out of that and put them on the ground in the cemetery. It was a few years ago now so I don't remember all that happened clearly now.
I have copies of just about every sim I ever made backed up so I have a huge resource to draw upon if I want to add extra sims to a game. I've been making and backing up my sims since I started playing the game in June 2009 so I have a huge lot of backed up sims.
The thing that happened to get me to want to make ghosts to add to a family tree was I found I had placed two different households from my library into a game and one of my sims was in both households. I didn't want to get rid of her in either household so I decided to turn her two versions into cousins. So I made two pairs of ghosts as the parents of each version and then another pair of ghosts to be the cousins shared grandparents.
With Sims 3 you always have to have a sim in the game, either living or dead, who can join family trees together. Everyone in a family tree has to trace their ancestry back to at least one common sim.