Do Playable Ghosts Matter?

You could cheat then the Reward Store Traits that remove the ghost's needs for hunger, bladder and hygiene. It's not an overhaul, but it would be a way you could better manage ghosts in the current game.

I'd love to see ghosts reimagined in the manner of other Occults. However, there are many more critical bugs and issues which I'd like to see addressed first.

I mean its not really on my list of priorities but I would love to see more spooky packs and I do feel like ghosts could do with some updates

I play Guidry and a few other ghosts. It doesn’t make sense that they have the same physical needs as living people, but I’ve explained it in my own game as the ghosts trying to hold on to some semblance of life by mimicking their past behavior. Kind of makes them more tragic, to me.

I wish there were a mod, pack or update that eliminates ghosts’ physical needs and also makes them behave more according to the traits and skills they had in life rather than just possessing fridges and junk. I also wish there were more ghost-specific interactions for them besides just asking them about being dead. And other sims should be afraid of or at least startled by ghosts, especially ones they don’t know. Ghosts are super pointless right now. The only reason I keep them in my current save is so my 100 baby challenge sim can maintain her relationships with her dead children and they don’t get culled from the family tree (although I’ve lost a couple here and there when I wasn’t paying close enough attention).

I'm not interested in playing ghosts but definitely would support an update as I know a lot of simmers enjoy ghosts.

It does not make sense for ghosts to have basic needs like hunger. But it is not a priority for me. I like to play supernatural sims like spellcasters, mermaids and werewolves but ghosts don't interest me that much. I prefer to play the living.

"Caerfinon;c-18316743" wrote:
You could cheat then the Reward Store Traits that remove the ghost's needs for hunger, bladder and hygiene. It's not an overhaul, but it would be a way you could better manage ghosts in the current game.

That works for hunger, but not so much for hygiene and bladder. The Forever Fresh trait is a partial fix. It gets rid of normal hygiene decay, but it doesn't prevent sims from getting dirty in other ways. If you studiously avoid those messy situations, you could still prevent low hygiene, but that's a bit of a pain. The Steel Bladder trait really isn't a fix at all. It doesn't prevent bladder decay, it just slows it down. The problem with ghosts needing the toilet isn't that it happens too often, it's that it just shouldn't happen.

I'd like them to have a single color instead of changing colors by moodlets (Don't know if we should have Death colors or select it ourselves), to have their original colors fading like in TS2 or Guidry from promos and when we aren't playing with them they need to stop breaking things automatically. Some new interactions and the ability to walk through solids would be awesome (Normal sims usually do this so I don't think it would be difficult lol). Maybe they could have a small perk tree to set them as sad, mischievous or vengeful ghost types.

to be honest as a player of the sims i do not care about ghost even if they where improve i would simply not play them as a player