https://image.ibb.co/mQCChb/Screen_Shot_2017_11_08_at_11_46_05_PM_2.pngI've been getting dozens of notifications all of the sudden, saying that random Sims' spirits are fading away. Some of them are old family members, but some are random people I've never seen or heard of. I keep googling this and I can't find any mention of this anywhere.It seems related to the recent patch that changed how culling works, but I can't be sure, as I haven't played the game in 6+ months. It's also worth noting that I have my culling limit set to 150, and it says I only have 62 Sims so far, so I have no idea what's going on.If this is the game's way of clearing all the ghosts, I'm fine with it, because my world is currently overrun.Thanks!

Interesting. I haven't seen anything like this in my game. My guess would be they're giving you a chance to save the ghostly version of a Sim, prior to culling. If that's the case, I think it's a great thing to implement. Gives the player a bit more power over what's happening in their game. I will bookmark this thread, as I am quite curious, too, to learn the answer.

You can now click on graves with ghosts and select "strenghten connection to physical world" and it will make that ghost not be culled. I don't know for how much longer, but it seems this patch made ghost culling more intense.

"Chazzzy;c-16144517" wrote:I've gotten this 3 times now. I don't like ghosts so I would never interact with them, I like them being deleted. But if you wanted to interact with them, how would one even find their grave if they're townies? For example, I evict all of my elder sims and make them unplayed townies then I set aging for unplayed only. So only my elder sims and regular townies die.I don't mind the ghosts— I just don't like how they behave now. I much prefer the ghosts from Sims 2. They could actually scare a Sim to death. These ghosts from Sims3 & now 4, are way too cartoony and silly.

Yeah I got those notifications too. So many at once, I had to click the x button about 3904303 times ugh. I have played the same family for a very long while and have only ever had 1 one of my own Sims die. So all these ghosts in my game must be deceased townies, then. I really, really don't like them. Like @GalacticGal states, I also prefer Sims 2 ghosts. They were at least confined to the lot that stored their tombstones. Hope they'll all get culled soon.https://i.imgur.com/uFacoQE.pngThey do make for colorful gameplay. :lol:

Do you guys also get spammed with these messages? It's always at least 5 of them, and now I got 16. 16 messages of some unknown ghost sim doing whatever it pleases :weary:

"_____'s Spirit is Fading Away" Message. What is this?

GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Interesting. I haven't seen anything like this in my game. My guess would be they're giving you a chance to save the ghostly version of a Sim, prior to culling. If that's the case, I think it's a great thing to implement. Gives the player a bit more power over what's happening in their game. I will bookmark this thread, as I am quite curious, too, to learn the answer.
NeonHighways
8 years ago
You can now click on graves with ghosts and select "strenghten connection to physical world" and it will make that ghost not be culled. I don't know for how much longer, but it seems this patch made ghost culling more intense.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-16144517" wrote:
I've gotten this 3 times now. I don't like ghosts so I would never interact with them, I like them being deleted.

But if you wanted to interact with them, how would one even find their grave if they're townies? For example, I evict all of my elder sims and make them unplayed townies then I set aging for unplayed only. So only my elder sims and regular townies die.

I don't mind the ghosts— I just don't like how they behave now. I much prefer the ghosts from Sims 2. They could actually scare a Sim to death. These ghosts from Sims3 & now 4, are way too cartoony and silly.
Fierande
8 years ago
Yeah I got those notifications too. So many at once, I had to click the x button about 3904303 times ugh. I have played the same family for a very long while and have only ever had 1 one of my own Sims die. So all these ghosts in my game must be deceased townies, then. I really, really don't like them. Like @GalacticGal states, I also prefer Sims 2 ghosts. They were at least confined to the lot that stored their tombstones. Hope they'll all get culled soon.
https://i.imgur.com/uFacoQE.png
They do make for colorful gameplay. :lol:
xoxoat11
8 years ago
Do you guys also get spammed with these messages? It's always at least 5 of them, and now I got 16. 16 messages of some unknown ghost sim doing whatever it pleases :weary:
G4NGR33N
8 years ago
OMG I'm consatntly clicking x on the "_________ spirit is fading away" notification
VraieEsprit
8 years ago
Interesting. I haven't had this message yet. But it does make me worry for Cameron's ghost on my vampire lot. I was worried about him before, but now more so. With all the other ghosts, culling is fine by me...it actually answers something I was asking for in another discussion. So long as I get to keep Cameron, I don't mind if the others go. I may need to find a way to resurrect him :/

But I haven't had the message yet so O.o. I guess we'll see what transpires. I have had five generations of humans so it might well be a flood of messages when it finally comes...
Skyechimes
8 years ago
On Pages 5 & 6 of this thread, simguru Nick explains the new culling and ghost things. Actually I think Luth updated the original post as well. https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16147889#Comment_16147889

Are you experiencing this with an old save? There must have been a lot of tombstones in your world - I imagine this overwhelming tns notice wouldn't happen with a fresh save.

It's actually something a lot of us have wanted for awhile (check out the "death improvements needed" thread in feedback section) relating to inactive family members, like if I'm playing with the grandkids when gramps dies, a tombstone now generates, and if I want to save the ghost for awhile I can strengthen connection, and if I don't, I can either release to netherworld or wait for the spirit to fade on its own. Much better then before where if you were not on the lot when they died, no tombstone and no ghost! I felt like a vulture on death watch, just so I could have a tombstone!
Shadencile
8 years ago
I got this message for the first time today also, I am looking for one sim who is part of my legacy family, but I have no idea how to locate his tombstone, since it is not in my family graveyard lot, so I need to figure out where he died, I have found some tombstones in some of my family sim lots but not his yet, I wonder if his tombstone is at his workplace, hmm. I wish they told you where to go to find the tombstones to help them XD
rucolasheep
8 years ago
i would prefer the ghosts limited mainly to a graveyard lot
spread out throughout all the worlds it's just useless sims clutter

but i think it's still better to be notified that a ghost is about to be culled
than ghosts of sims i played just getting culled unnoticed as it happened before in my game