So right now ghost sims are a bit lacking. I've killed off a few sims to have their ghosts on lots as NPCs and they don't function much different from normal NPCs except that they have a few ghost specific interactions and they like to destroy my toilets and sinks.Here's my suggestions;-Sims need to have a reaction when they see a ghost, they could either be scared (which would be good if sims had a fear emotion), sad, inspired, or happy. Elder sims should also have a chance to die of fright if they see a ghost.-We should be able to make ghost sims as an occult type in CAS -Ghosts that haunt a house should have an effect on that house without the house having a haunted trait. -When sims become ghosts they should gain an extra trait, they're either a good spirit or a vengeful spirit. Vengeful spirits should be able to do more than wrecking your bathroom furniture. Like possessing your whole house and making the walls ooze, appearing in mirrors and jumpscaring your sims, and acting up when you make changes to the house that they dislike. Good spirits watch over your sims and make sure they are safe.-With regards to urns or graves, good spirits you can release to the netherworld as per normal, vengeful ones require exorcism. Which would probably work well with a supernatural skill similar to that vampire knowledge skill.I can see a few of these changes made in a free update but if they made a whole pack based off hauntings I'd buy it.

I really like that you suggested not only fear as an emotion to seeing a ghost. It's why I usually don't support changes when people talk about them. I'd really like to have a reaction that was happy or inspired or anything like that. I tried to tell a story around the time they added tension in. It was about a little boy whose parent's had died and he still lived at home with them. I had to make him in CAS. Either way I was disappointed that he often got tense there. I wanted the story to be basically about this loving family that still cared for him but it didn't get off the ground because of the reactions he was having. I'd love this maybe to be a trait even or at least having some way to pick what emotion a sim should have. The default could be fear or tension.. I just want a possibility for other emotions (maybe even neutral.. like they are regular folks to your sim). I wouldn't mind the either good or vengeful .. but I'd also like something more in the middle maybe? I'd have to think on that. I'd love to have a vengeful ghost though :).With what you suggested though if I had made them "good" ghosts it would have worked.

Not being able to create ghosts in CAS has been bugging me a lot, i want that. And i miss Sims 2 where a ghost would scary our sim and they would die of fright if they see a ghost. Actually, all of your ideas are really cool and i hope they add that to the game.Maybe they could add some gameplay for us if we wanted to keep playing our sims even after they are dead, like a Netherworld or something!

The in the middle ghost trait can be an ambivalent ghost. When they show up they don't care about doing anything for you or scaring you, but they might eat your food and watch tv.

In fact, ghosts already have quite different habits which are determined by the way they died.

They do have a lot of different habits. I played them for a year straight lol. Just when they started adding too it, I guess tweaking it... some of what they added messed with my gameplay. It might have changed some again by now. I haven't played a ghost sim as a household member in some time.

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12 Replies

Hermitgirl
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I really like that you suggested not only fear as an emotion to seeing a ghost. It's why I usually don't support changes when people talk about them. I'd really like to have a reaction that was happy or inspired or anything like that. I tried to tell a story around the time they added tension in. It was about a little boy whose parent's had died and he still lived at home with them. I had to make him in CAS. Either way I was disappointed that he often got tense there. I wanted the story to be basically about this loving family that still cared for him but it didn't get off the ground because of the reactions he was having.
I'd love this maybe to be a trait even or at least having some way to pick what emotion a sim should have. The default could be fear or tension.. I just want a possibility for other emotions (maybe even neutral.. like they are regular folks to your sim).

I wouldn't mind the either good or vengeful .. but I'd also like something more in the middle maybe? I'd have to think on that. I'd love to have a vengeful ghost though :).

With what you suggested though if I had made them "good" ghosts it would have worked.
TakThomas
New Ace
7 years ago
The in the middle ghost trait can be an ambivalent ghost. When they show up they don't care about doing anything for you or scaring you, but they might eat your food and watch tv.
83bienchen
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
In fact, ghosts already have quite different habits which are determined by the way they died.
Hermitgirl
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
They do have a lot of different habits. I played them for a year straight lol. Just when they started adding too it, I guess tweaking it... some of what they added messed with my gameplay. It might have changed some again by now. I haven't played a ghost sim as a household member in some time.
TakThomas
New Ace
7 years ago
"83bienchen;c-16797440" wrote:
In fact, ghosts already have quite different habits which are determined by the way they died.

I'm not really seeing that but that might be because 3/4 of my ghosts I killed with mods, but still all of them haunt my toilets too much and don't freak my sims out enough.
karon_shiruba
7 years ago
Not being able to create ghosts in CAS has been bugging me a lot, i want that. And i miss Sims 2 where a ghost would scary our sim and they would die of fright if they see a ghost. Actually, all of your ideas are really cool and i hope they add that to the game.
Maybe they could add some gameplay for us if we wanted to keep playing our sims even after they are dead, like a Netherworld or something!
ValiantRedKnight
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I don’t know about reacting every time they see a ghost. That sounds like it could get old fast, especially with playable ghosts. After a while you think sims would eventually get used to seeing them, especially if they’re household members.
TakThomas
New Ace
7 years ago
"QueenMercy;c-16805954" wrote:
I don’t know about reacting every time they see a ghost. That sounds like it could get old fast, especially with playable ghosts. After a while you think sims would eventually get used to seeing them, especially if they’re household members.

I think that's a good idea. I really didn't mean every time, just maybe an initial reaction with a small chance that a sim could die of fright if they were old or already stressed/scared to begin with.

To be honest I just made this suggestion because I was inspired by haunting of hill house to make a haunted house and was disappointed when the ghosts terrorised my furniture more than my sims.
ValiantRedKnight
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"Tentacrocacles;c-16806506" wrote:
"QueenMercy;c-16805954" wrote:
I don’t know about reacting every time they see a ghost. That sounds like it could get old fast, especially with playable ghosts. After a while you think sims would eventually get used to seeing them, especially if they’re household members.

I think that's a good idea. I really didn't mean every time, just maybe an initial reaction with a small chance that a sim could die of fright if they were old or already stressed/scared to begin with.

To be honest I just made this suggestion because I was inspired by haunting of hill house to make a haunted house and was disappointed when the ghosts terrorised my furniture more than my sims.

Maybe they could also get scared to death if they have the dangerously tired moodlet?
TakThomas
New Ace
7 years ago
"QueenMercy;c-16807053" wrote:
"Tentacrocacles;c-16806506" wrote:
"QueenMercy;c-16805954" wrote:
I don’t know about reacting every time they see a ghost. That sounds like it could get old fast, especially with playable ghosts. After a while you think sims would eventually get used to seeing them, especially if they’re household members.

I think that's a good idea. I really didn't mean every time, just maybe an initial reaction with a small chance that a sim could die of fright if they were old or already stressed/scared to begin with.

To be honest I just made this suggestion because I was inspired by haunting of hill house to make a haunted house and was disappointed when the ghosts terrorised my furniture more than my sims.

Maybe they could also get scared to death if they have the dangerously tired moodlet?

Maybe not just the dangerously tired moodlet because that happens a lot to my sims. I think if I were both extremely tired and extremely stressed, then a ghost could probably make me have a heart attack.