Ghosts?

It could be a fun way to fill a save. Two sims in one new household.. then set one of them up for their death type (with no skills some deaths happen faster). Then move the ghost to the community lot .. or move them back into their first household and play in rotation. I think we need a ghost of every type challenge :).

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 wanted to keep my sim's girlfriend's ghost around but she was constantly breaking all the appliances in the house and it got to be too much......

Depends on the ghost. My game never cull Micheals Bachelors Ghost so Dina can be with her true love, I've kept Skip Broke around but on restarting I decided Brandi will marry a bum to try help with the bills. Generally though I'm happy to let them go when it's their time

There's also an achievement for filling a house with ghosts if that means anything

Ghosts are too annoying and too much like regular sims for me in sims 4. I liked them in 3 a lot more but still didnt really play them. I loved the way they looked with their different causes of death. the sims 4 ghosts arent distinct or elaborate enough imo

"Hermitgirl;c-17014052" wrote:
It could be a fun way to fill a save. Two sims in one new household.. then set one of them up for their death type (with no skills some deaths happen faster). Then move the ghost to the community lot .. or move them back into their first household and play in rotation. I think we need a ghost of every type challenge :).

He-he... I might have already completed that challenge. ^_^;; But I can write one up anyways. There actually are 10 base game deaths, so it could be a generational challenge... the older generation must die in a specific way, and you must bring their ghost back. (Maybe have a separate "ghost house" to move them into afterwards.)

Looked up how many deaths there are if you include all the expansion packs, there's 21.

I'm gonna write this challenge now. It sounds like fun.

I like seeing them in appropriate settings. At Ghost Night or a haunted lot is great. If we had cemeteries I'd expect to see them there. I dont want them at every random place though. I don't want them asking my Sim out to dinner lmao

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