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Re: Unable to trigger Ghost Night?

@liseylooloo I went to the bar in Sulani. First time I did not have any ghost trigger, though I stayed until very late. My understanding is that it technically 'starts' at 7 or 8pm (?), but they don't seem to show up until a varied amount of time after that. I didnt' wait a week, I just went at about 8pm, and if the ghost didn't show, I exited without saving and tried again. I think two times out of 4three I had a ghost appear, and each of those times the ghost was different. I had someone suggest clicking on the reaper quest thing at the left of the screen, and that doing that triggered it for her. (For me, that didn't trigger a ghost or the completion notice.). I think the sectond time I entered I got a popup notice that my quest was complete... either immediately or shortly... and then the ghost appeared shortly after that. One of the ghosts appeared shortly after 8pm or 9pm for me, and the other time the ghost didn't appear until my sim had been in the bar for a while and I was about to give up. The time the ghost appeared later I was about to leave the lot and try a different bar, and there it was, so I didn't need to. I don't know if any of that is useful? I guess all of that to say it's possible there is some variance?

13 Replies

  • liseylooloo's avatar
    liseylooloo
    Rising Vanguard
    9 months ago

    @SheriGR thank you for you reply.

    I've now tried every bar on the map , every Wednesday and different times of the evening and still no ghost night 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ to be honest I'm bored of it now. I don't know why EA does these quests, as in my experience they never work correctly!! 

    But thank you for your suggestions anyway. 

    I guess I'm destined not to finish the quest 

  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    9 months ago

    @liseylooloo I'm so sorry! That really stinks! I have chatted with friends about your issue, and apparently there's a mod by Bienchen that does this, plus MCCC settings. And there may be others. So... if you now or recently had mods, you could try closing your game, moving your mods folder to your desktop, delete the localthumbcache file, and then only enter a brand new save, and trigger the event there. This should get the event task to show as completed on your account after close the game, re-add your mods folder, and re-enter your previous game save.

  • simgirl542's avatar
    simgirl542
    Seasoned Ace
    9 months ago

    I'm having this issue as well.
    I never have my sims go to bars (The throwing an event with tasks was bad enough for me. Only three people were available and my sim didn't get along with 2 of them. Those same two just ate dinner when called and sat around until it was over like they showed up out of politeness.)
    And the ghost night not triggering, (I didn't know about the after 8 pm thing until I googled it. It should be included in the description.), is turning me off to sending my sims to bars and doing events even more.
    Now I have to wait until the following Wednesday for the next ghost night because it's already 2 am in my game and he needs to go home to his son who is home alone.

  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    9 months ago

    @simgirl542 Did you read the two replies I added above to see if any of that information was helpful to what you're seeing in your game? (Responses #2 and #4 on this thread.)

    If I were you I would either try recovering back to your last save that was close to Wednesday to re-try on the Wednesday you just tried on, if that doesn't mean losing any important progress &/or time investment in your game, or play through until the next in-game Wednesday, make a save to your game on Wednesday, late afternoon or early evening, then play through, with the things I mentioned above in mind, and see if you can get the ghost to appear and the event task to complete. If it doesn't work, leave your game save without saving, and re-enter at the save point you made before trying (late afternoon/early evening on Wednesday). In the next try, maybe visit a bar (make sure the lot is designated as a bar) in a different world.

    Also, click on the event requirements to make sure the task is still showing as incomplete. For me, on one of my attempts I must have had a ghost appear that I didn't see or for whatever reason, and the task did complete on the list. So... when I went back in to try again and finally saw a ghost I didn't see a completion of the task happen because it was already completed. 

  • VampiressAshley's avatar
    VampiressAshley
    Seasoned Rookie
    9 months ago

    @liseylooloo  Literally same, I took all mods out and still nothing. At least I got the main rewards but I wanted to complete it completely.

  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    9 months ago

    @VampiressAshley Sorry to hear that. Btw, did you remove the whole Mods folder to your desktop and delete the localthumbcache file? If not, you could try that way (directions in spoiler). You could also try, after removing those, to run a game repair. If you did all of this then restarted in a brand new game save you could try taking a sim in that save to a bar after 8 on Wednesday. No matter what save you're in in  your game, you will get credit on your account for completing the reaper tasks, so if you got it to complete in that new, vanilla save, you should find that it's completed when you go back to your current save.

    Spoiler
    Exit the game. Move the Mods folder from your "The Sims 4" folder [Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4] to your desktop (save it for reference) and delete the localthumbcache.package file in your “The Sims 4” folder. Then check in a new game save to see if this issue is still occurring. 
  • paspinall's avatar
    paspinall
    9 months ago

    Sims 4 Ghost night is just not triggering for the final goal of the reaper event; I have tried multiple bars, always after 8pm on wednesday then even tried other days as well in case it affected it, following many reddit posts with people having the same issue I have tried going with a single sim and groups, buying drinks for them and meals but nothing is triggering the event success. 

  • VampiressAshley's avatar
    VampiressAshley
    Seasoned Rookie
    9 months ago

    @SheriGR I didn't remove the cache but I can try that too. I also repaired game lol This whole event is driving me cray

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    9 months ago
    @paspinall Are you using any mods, that might have turned them off (MCCC has such an option to my knowledge) ?

  • 1g333's avatar
    1g333
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 months ago

    I am having the same issue. I used to have mods, but I deleted them because of that. Yet, even though I’m playing fully “vanilla”, it is still showing this same issue… I don’t want to lose the chance to have the other rewards ☹️

  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    9 months ago

    @1g333 Did you also delete the localthumbcache file? If not you could try deleting that, then run a game repair, then open the game in a brand new save and try with another sim in that new + vanilla save. If you can trigger the event and get the task checked off in that game it should also be completed once you go back and open your other save.

    Also, did you click the event task tab area and see if the task got checked off when one of those ghosts appeared, but you didn't get/see a notice about that? My event task for the ghost/bar checked off during one of my attempts where I did not see a ghost yet. After that I re-tried that night (went back to a save I made before leaving for the bar), and I did see a ghost the next time, but I didn't get any notice that it checked off since it had already done that before. I was more than a little confused. 

  • 1g333's avatar
    1g333
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 months ago

    Yeah I did exactly those things haha

    but it only worked after I went to Oasis Spring bar. All DLCs worlds were not triggering it for some random reason

  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    9 months ago

    @1g333  So glad it finally worked! Someone else also mentioned that the Oasis Spring bar is where they did this task. I used the one in Sulani in my testing it. Game-generated sims come and go on these types of lots, it's also possible for it to take a while for the ghost be one of the game-generated sim to appear. The ghost night event goes until 2am, so that gives a number of hours to cycle through sims coming and going if you arrive at about 8pm. Anyway, congratulations! 🙌