What's so attractive about the Graveyard?

@Sindocat - Someone has to say it eventually, may as well be one of us. Of course the graveyard is highly attractive. Just like in real life, everyone is dying to get in there! :p

(crickets)

Hmm, tough crowd tonight.

I often get that message when changing comm lot types. I ignore it and it seems to make no difference to the lot in my game, it still functions as it should.

"igazor;c-16662687" wrote:
@Sindocat - Someone has to say it eventually, may as well be one of us. Of course the graveyard is highly attractive. Just like in real life, everyone is dying to get in there! :p

(crickets)

Hmm, tough crowd tonight.

Very funny lol Isn't graveyards where sims go when they get those wishes to see a ghost opportunity? could be wrong I usually ignore those messages but just a thought :)

I've always noticed the graveyard was a hopping place in the day but didn't know whole sims families visited at night! That is very creepy. Thanks for the heads up.

@mw1525 - It's always been my experience that when a lot has a rabbit hole on it, its behavior and attractiveness to everyone or only certain sims by trait, etc. is dictated by the type of rabbit hole. Not so much the lot type, with the exception of No Visitors Allowed. I don't really see why Graveyards would be much different, it's the placement of the Mausoleum that would do it.

That seems to agree with what most others replying here are saying.

The only "game ruining" things I can think of offhand might be from destroying (deleting) a Mausoleum while it still has sims' remains in it waiting to be buried or replacing a graveyard while not taking into account real sims buried in an older one (not the placeholder graves, the ones with real dead sims attached to them). This isn't really my area of expertise though as I tend to concentrate more on the living unless I really have to do otherwise, perhaps someone else here knows what the dire sounding warnings might have been about.

I don't think I'm communicating my question very well. Please, let me try again. The Graveyard (during the day), behaves like any other community lot. Sims go there, sit on benches, cry over tombstones, fish in the pond and socialize with other living Sims who happen to also be on the lot. In short they use the lot for what it offers (like any other community lot). When it becomes late night, they are drawn there only to turn around and go home. What other community lot causes Sims to behaves like this?? What other lot has the entire Sims population coming to it during a specific time frame for an undefined purpose?? The traits and ages of the population differ yet, all Sims will show up, they arrive in cars, taxi's, jog and on bikes (children) as if it is something they must do. Remember, they do this every Sim night. They are not coming to use anything on the lot.


@Pary - Well, that's good to know. I've never had a reason to change the lot types for the rabbit hole lots, that is, with the rabbit hole still being there. I'll change a residential lot to community and vice-verse; but never a lot with a usable rabbit hole placed on it (even ones I've built). My Sims aren't bothering me by going to the Graveyard and, I certainly don't want to stop them from going there, just wondering why this strange nightly ritual? Since it happens in all EA worlds and now in this Simmer made world, I guess its something which is supposed to happen. But, why?

@jaletu2005 - They don't visit in the classic sense, its more like the game calls them to go there and once they arrive, they can leave again.

@igazor - Yes! That's the one I was thinking of. I guess if I were to ever build my own cemetery in a major town I would need a klepto Sim to hold the headstones for me until I finished.

"igazor;c-16662687" wrote:
@Sindocat - Someone has to say it eventually, may as well be one of us. Of course the graveyard is highly attractive. Just like in real life, everyone is dying to get in there! :p

(crickets)

Hmm, tough crowd tonight.

You should apply for a job at Club LOL :D

I could be wrong, but it's always been my impression that sims are pushed to go to an open community lot (not rabbithole), but don't decide to do anything specific until after they arrive. So it's not like the sims who show up at the graveyard are abandoning any plans for fishing or mourning; they're just standing around, waiting for something to pique their interest.

Maybe a group of sims shows up at the graveyard, only to leave right away, because there's a conflict between the wishes of two members of the group. Perhaps one sim wants to visit, but the game generates a "go here with..." mechanic for the whole household, and then a different sim gets the nighttime-only "creepy graveyard" moodlet and insists on going home. So the group stays intact and leaves.

One other thing I've noticed is that kids and teens can get a push to go somewhere right before their curfew. So by the time they arrive, it's after 10 or 11 and they have to head home right away.

The only time I've seen what you describe affecting an entire town, other than my actives, was years ago and not with a Graveyard but rather a Consignment Store. It happened two or three times, always in the late evening to the middle of the night, and there was no reason for so many dozens of sims to keep trying to converge there -- most of them couldn't even make it in the doors and those who could probably did want to turn around and leave but got stuck inside because of the crowds. It probably would have kept happening if I didn't replace the lot.

The solution was to replace the Consignment Store with a different one. I don't remember the exact combination I had used now, but I think I originally grabbed one from a different world, plopped it down in Riverview, and it just did not behave as intended there. Others at the time reported having seen something similar, which is what made me realize that whatever choice I had made for that lot, it wasn't a very good one.

With the exception of sims with Hate the Outdoors trait. The graveyard has a high attraction level set in the Venues XML it has tuning to have sims there all the time.