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thornwill
Seasoned Ace
26 days ago

More ghostly gameplay

We need base ghosts to act like ghosts. Life and Death was great for exploring their abilities, but it didn't change the core experience of ghosts on the game. We need a better way for ghost to act and fulfill their needs. They still act like living sims, which takes off all the logic of playing with them.

• Ghosts still run like they use legs so floating runstyle would be great for them. 

• Better needs fulfilment for BG ghosts:

a) Bladder: Decays as the ghost gets more moodlets. Emotions are strong in the spectral form so they creat ectoplasma that you need to goo somewhere.
Solution:
- Leave goo on the ground without embarassment
- Goo on the toilet, leaving glowing goo inside it
- Vomit ectoplasm on sims/objects/ground


b) Hunger: Decays along the day since your ghost is using their abilities to float, cross matter, etc.
Solution:
- Absorb food energy


c) Hygiene: Decays as the ghost get more negative moodlets. Those bad energies infects their auras, that starts to stink.
Solution:
- Give yourself a Pep Talk
- Try to Calm Down
- Meditation

d) Energy: Decays as the ghost's connection with the living world decays. If you're on extreme need of energy the ghost will fade and go back to the Netherworld, until its energy is retored and they can come back to living world.
- Do ghost interactions
- Be mourned
- Receive offerings
- Seancé

• More scare interactions like face distortion;

 

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  • sailorleontine's avatar
    sailorleontine
    Seasoned Ace
    26 days ago

    agreed, the name of the needs may be different but ghost sims still do things non ghost sims can

    i love "Life and Death" pack for the gameplay alone but i also had a feeling something is missing

    IDEA for Sims 4 expansion pack: A Dreaming Expansion. | EA Forums - 11250528 my ideas is one of them which is dreaming pack related (it used to be in my own post untill i decided to share it in this link instead)

    i know we have mourningvale (Ravenwood) so the ghosts can live their own life but i'm so sad it didn't came with a secret world like spellcasters did so we can see where ghost sims lives once the ghost completely dissapears (especially if the gravestone is no longer in the world) i want that pack

    a dreaming or ghost skill so your sim can visit this secret world, the more skills you have, the more options you have and with this idea if the skill is complete or nearly complete your sim can visit the ghost world if you click on your own sim

    the question will pop-up if you want to visit this world so you can answer "yes" or "no"

    and once getting there you can make peace with the deceased sim (for whatever reasons)

    it's all in the comment what i have shared which is "dreaming" pack related

     

    i saw an another one but more heaven and hell related which is also kind of death related

    HEVEN & HELL expansion pack | EA Forums - 4982739 maybe ghost will be more usefull? reborn is already a thing with the "Life and Death" pack though

    but with this idea i do hope we can toggle some options on/off, some people wants to go to heaven and some others wants to go to hell, i do like the idea of it but we shouldn't stick with being forced to go to heaven if you did good stuff or to hell if you did bad stuff, i love a in-between world but it should be optional

    and speaking of ghost but more like a dark version of it: i made this one since recently A new pack idea that's a mix of a hotel and spooky combined themes | EA Forums - 12241872 ghost can break items like mirrors to name something

    the pack name idea i have in mind is called "Haunted Getaway"

    world name: Phantom Hollow (or Sleepy Hollow)

    a world more similar to mainly "Forgotten Hollow" just slightly more lots and more gameplay in my opinion (like spiders collection, dies by a skeleton if you lose to name 2 things)

    haunted hotel as the new venue type

    2 or 3 personality traits (fearfull is the complete opposite of fearless but i'd love to have both traits in this pack)

    if this was a vacation hotel or so related i'd place my idea elsewhere but since spooky and haunted are mentioned, i decided to create my own post instead

    this pack idea complement with paranormal very well, both are scary spooky things related👻👻

    i have thought of "Abandoned Hollow" as a world name but i quickly realized it will be way too similair to the vampire world called "Forgotten Hollow" (maybe as a neighbourhood name option yes but Abandoned Hollow definitely shouldn't be in the world name) then i came with a Sleepy Hollow but Phantom Hollow is also an option as a world name👍

    i don't have any other ideas based on ghost/spooky pack

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