Ghosts?

I'd like to keep them but I don't like how they work in TS4. I don't like seeing them in nightclubs, calling alive sims vie phone, texting, congratulating birthdays, promotions, asking on a date etc.
TS3 ghosts were awesome. They were creepy, could only be seen where they are buried, I miss TS3 ghosts and cemeteries.
TS4 ghosts are like a joke. They are way too alive and active, they are not creepy at all, they are not ghostly enough, they look like haribo gummy bears and get involved with alive sims lifes way too much.

"veronica55;c-17014110" wrote:
I don't like seeing them in nightclubs, calling alive sims vie phone, texting, congratulating birthdays, promotions, asking on a date etc.

I don't like this either. Being called up and invited out to dinner by a dead relative is just weird. Ghosts were much better when all they did was haunt the lots they inhabited before death. I wonder what mobile network they're on? It must be good to reach from the place of death. :D

Despite being a supernatural fan, I haven't actually played with ghosts much. I prefer my sims to be solid and not always glowing different colours. My main household did live in a house with the haunted lot trait, but I ended up removing it since ghosts moving things all the time was becoming a nuisance. I didn't mind them breaking things as much since it was helpful for building handiness, but I can see how that can be annoying too. My vampire sim is still good friends with Mimsy the ghost at Von Haunt Estate though and I've also thought about adopting a ghost child or pet into the household. I find it bothersome though that ghosts apparently have the same needs as living sims. Energy perhaps I can understand, but hunger (if they didn't die of starvation) and bladder? My vampire doesn't even have those needs.

I went and wrote the challenge up. Took longer than I thought, but I had a good time with it:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/957701/the-10-generations-10-ghosts-challenge

I have the Goth family bloodline and i until now sended them away in a cute graveyard i made especially for my (and for the rest) sims.
I forgot to what generetion im in but im planing to revive one of my old sim....if its possible because its such a long time that have got away....
Also i dont know how but i have became the favorite of the Ghosts tbt. In sims 3 i was the Alien favorite (not that i aint anymore lmao) but everytime something new pops up here i have a call by my loved ones ( the deseased family members). I dont know if its a bug but i like that i have a change to talk with them again.
Btw nice thread you made. I love Ghosts, Aliens and everuthing in this game :blush:

I still don't have much experience of TS4 ghosts, but by now I have dealt with them like this. If the deceased sim wasn't that important to my sims (or me) I just send their spirit away quickly, but if they were dear to someone I like to keep the ghost around till my sim is ready to let them go. So I'm kind of giving my sim time to accept the death and chat with their loved one. If the sim doesn't believe in supernatural I see it as a psychological thing that is going on in their head, but if they believe in ghosts I play it so that they really see the spirit and the spirit is there (other sims around them might find it weird though).

I currently have only one sim, Tessa Pancakes, who really believes in ghosts and she is turning the Pancakes home into a haunted house :D She doesn't want to let her mother or husband (Hugo Villareal) go and keeps giving them offerings and chatting with them. She might even ask Hugo to move in.

I think the ghosts are quite a fun addition, at least they are quite easy to get rid of if I don't need them. I might prefer not to see them in community lots though. I liked it when the ghost of Hugo called Tessa and congratulated her on giving birth to their child, especially because that was the first time Tessa heard of Hugo after his death and it made her wait for his visit. Anyhow, that was the first time a ghost has contacted my sim via phone, so if that happens really often and with a different sim it most likely gets annoying. I might treat those calls as prank calls then.

"treece01;c-17025114" wrote:
I haven't gotten around to playing ghosts yet, so I was wondering if they still randomly break things as member of your household? I agree with the bladder and hunger, it doesn't make sense and it would be nice if they had a perk to make up for the frustration.

I'm not 100% on this, but I'm assuming if you play without free will on that playable ghosts will only possess and breaks objects when you tell them to? And that their behaviour will depend on their cause of death and mood (e.g. ghosts that died from electrocution can break electronics when angry)? I've also heard that ghosts can possess and 'ghostly repair' broken objects anyway though, which is handy.

Can ghosts join clubs if you make them playable? If so I'd consider it so Gunther could hang out with the Munch family club.

I created a cemetery lot with a nightclub on it so my sims can go party with ghosts when they want to, but I don't keep them in my houses because the haunting is irritating. So far Gunther is the only dead sim in this save though.

@Daephene. Yes ghosts can join or run clubs if you make them playable.

This discussion has really made me consider playing with ghosts more and possibly even turning my vampire sim's daughter into an eternal child ghost at some point. It would be tragic at first, but at least they would be together again and also together forever. What are people's favourite and least favourite ghost types to play?