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honeyybucket
New Spectator
2 years ago

Do TS4 Ghosts annoy anyone else?

I recently had 3 household members die, I decided to put their graves on my lot and strengthen their connection to the physical world so my other Sims could still interact with them, and because I would miss them! I've interacted with ghosts plenty of times in The Sims 3 and 4, and I always thought it was really fun. I've explored all the interactions and cheats with ghosts because it's so much fun.

What I was not prepared for was 3 Gloomy ghosts wreaking havoc on my freaking household appliances and plumbing. All the while, my living Sims are mourning them while receiving texts and phone calls from the ghosts! I found it so annoying and overwhelming after a while. I'm only just now coming back to The Sims 3 after about a year, but I don't remember being so annoyed with Ghosts in TS3.

After a while, I put them in "time out" by putting their graves in my inventory. I've considered bringing them back to life, because they weren't this annoying while they were alive lmao.
  • I keep urns/tombstones in my inventory because of this. If one is on the lot, all living sims do is mourn, and the ghosts act entirely on their moodlets instead of having any remainder of personality. They possess objects, which is funny a couple times, but not as often as it happens.

    I worked hard to build up a relationship with my legacy founder's deceased husband so she could re-marry him. It was bad enough that death parted them, and when he re-married her, he wasn't anything like... himself. So we returned him to the netherworld, disappointed. :'(
  • "elanorbreton;c-18295815" wrote:
    I always take dead sims tombstones to a graveyard lot so my sims can visit the graveyard if they want to but don't live with ghosts.


    I've never done that before, that sounds like a fun project.
  • I don't want to lose their spirit so I don't send them to the netherworld but omg do they tempt me by breaking things around the house ?
  • I like that Sims can turn themselves into ghosts with enough medium skill and love the cute little spectres! (just wish there were more varieties like flirty spectres and scared spectres) Was surprised the other day when I resumed a save and found Guidry had formed a romantic relationship with my Sim outside of gameplay (How? I have ageing turned off and they were just friends before!)

    What I did find annoying when I brought one ghost back into the household was that I had to keep remarrying my ghost sim to her spouse every time she was brought back to life (she died twice accidentally).

    I also found it a bit confusing that ghost Sims who are part of the household still have decaying needs which seem to need fulfilling (otherwise they complain all the time). What happens if these needs are left to empty? Surely they can't starve to death if they are already a ghost?
  • Yes. This is a new save played on Long, but with all of the changes to the number of days in each level, the only deaths that have occurred, thus far, have been a few NPCs; mostly Paparazzi, and the one Butler my family had early on. I do recall the havoc that ghosts wrought back when I was playing the Pinstar Legacy Challenge and points were rewarded for having ghosts from the differing deaths.
  • rlc77's avatar
    rlc77
    Seasoned Rookie
    I've been adding ghosts to my latest rotational save but only because I use mods and with MCCC retuner I can prevent ghosts from haunting and /or breaking things. They are so much nicer to have around this way.