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escapingthefate
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15 years ago

Missing Ghost Sims!

I have a problem with missing ghost children.

One family had triplets, to of which were ghosts. I exited the family and when I came back the two ghost babies were gone, they weren't in the family selection tray and weren't in the relationship bar. They are however, still in the family tree.

This has also occured for a family in which there was a teen, a child, and a baby, all of whom were ghosts.

Another family with a toddler who was a ghost had the same problem, I left the family, came back and he was gone.

Anyone know anything I can do to get them back or to fix the problem?

6 Replies

  • Baby sims, especially ghost sims can die when you are not playing them as an active household and most of the time their pictures do not gray out as they are technically dead, but living dead. I usually get my ghost sims turned back to living sims as soon as they age to child, because ghosts really die easily when they are born in game and don't play that household.

    Keep in mind we can't kill baby sims and toddler sims, but the game can and does. if your town population gets near it's population limit the game starts killing off all the babies and toddlers - with ghost sims first. You usually discover they had died in an accident or starved by having your sims read the paper every day as their death are in the paper the day after they died. Also there is not urns and things for non- EA sims that die when you are not playing those households. So if you missed the paper notice, then you keep looking - but it does you no good. Once they are gone they are gone for good. The game takes them right to the Netherworld and they cannot come back period.
  • ItsAdam92's avatar
    ItsAdam92
    Seasoned Novice
    7 years ago
    I have a ghost Sim who appears on the family tree (only 3 generations) yet can't find her on household management at all? Is there a way I can locate her to bring her back to being an active sim? She doesn't even appear at ghost events at bars or anything?
  • lisasc360's avatar
    lisasc360
    Hero (Retired)
    7 years ago
    "Adam2692;c-16611646" wrote:
    I have a ghost Sim who appears on the family tree (only 3 generations) yet can't find her on household management at all? Is there a way I can locate her to bring her back to being an active sim? She doesn't even appear at ghost events at bars or anything?


    @Adam2692, you might want to try posting in one of these threads created for New Members to post in with their issues with either TS3 or TS4 as this thread is from 2010.

    And for anyone who may have any issues with either TS3 or TS4, these are links for New Members to post their issues in.
    Sims 3 issues
    http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/893122/thread-for-new-members-to-post-their-sims-3-game-issues#latest
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    Sims 4 issues
    http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/878318/thread-for-new-members-to-post-game-issues#latest
  • "Adam2692;c-16611646" wrote:
    I have a ghost Sim who appears on the family tree (only 3 generations) yet can't find her on household management at all? Is there a way I can locate her to bring her back to being an active sim? She doesn't even appear at ghost events at bars or anything?

    I think you are referring to Sims 4. A ghost sim in Sims 3 you will find on the graveyard (and I’ve never heard of ghost events in Sims 3).
  • EA_Cian's avatar
    EA_Cian
    Icon for EA Staff (Retired) rankEA Staff (Retired)
    7 years ago
    As @lisasc360 noted - we have a great thread for new members to post questions in. As this thread is about 8 years old, that would be a better place to ask your ghost question(s) then here. Thanks!

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