Now that the new Life & Death EP is coming and the ghosts get an update, I was wondering how many playable ghosts do you have in your game at the moment? Would you like to introduce them in this thread?
0️⃣👻 none!
1️⃣-3️⃣ a couple of ghosts
4️⃣-8️⃣ some, the more the merrier
9️⃣ or more, I have this ghost town...
*️⃣👻 some, but I don't play them
According to my MCCC report I have 25 ghosts at the moment in my game. I didn't expect so many. My favourites are the members of a household with 4 human ghosts and 4 ghost horses, who live happily together on the "Cordelia's Secret Cottage" lot in Henford-on-Bagley.
What a great picture! Love the area, love the colour of the ghosts in juxtaposition. It tells a story already - this could be a painting on a wall, or an illustration in a book.
And also, I've never seen a ghost horse as of yet.
Wow 25 is a lot! Four human ghosts and four ghost horses sounds like a special household! Lovely idea and I really love the picture too💛
Yeah, it's really fun to play with them, even with those limitations ghost have at the moment. But according to today's L&D trailer, ghosts will be upgraded, so hopefully there will be even more fun to play with them.
I haven't thought about some background of the ghost sims, but at least the ghost horses have already names and a kind of story for each of them.
*️⃣👻 some, but I don't play them
I let most of my sims pass and be forgotten, but there are some I've kept around as playable ghosts. I don't really play them though because they're extremely boring. My favourite thing to do is place their urn or another lot and have them as regular night time visitors there (they can't be culled when they're favourited, which unfortunately can happen if you don't make your ghosts playable).
Hento Jytky and Sini Luotto are some of my first sims from about 10 IRL years back. They were not a couple when they were alive, but found each other in the afterlife.
I absolutely love the stories behind your ghosts!💛 I have to agree that ghosts are quite boring at the moment 😅 I don't play them much either even though I have tried!
0️⃣👻 none!
Currently, I have no playable ghosts. I normally play with aging off & I almost never let any of my sims die. However, that will definitely change with Life & Death EP and the addition of funeral lots, the Grim Reaper career, new ghost skill tree, and rebirth mechanic. 💀😈
Aww I'm happy that the new EP will let you experience the ghostly and deathly parts of the game! 😀😇 It will definitely be more interesting with the new EP!
A couple of ghosts in my game!
I've never played them, but when a sim dies I leave their ghosts for a year (for relatives to mourn), then free their spirit as they get moved to the graveyard or crypt. In a few cases I "forget" to free the spirit, mostly if I want there to be a dead founder haunting, or I want ghosts seekers to find at least one ghost if they visit the graveyard in late hours. I see the ghosts more as a deco element than a gaming feature, though. I have so many living sims that deserve more attention, besides I need to limit the number of my population.
Oh I love the idea of having ghosts linger on for a year with their families before moving on. I have kind of had some ghosts like that in my families, but I only do it randomly and for a short amount of time.
I have a total of 9 ghosts. Only one was made by me, she's known as the Weeping Willow. She's supposed to be a living myth, a story of a woman pushed down the well on her wedding day. (It's kinda grim, I'm sorry...) She's heartbroken and wears her wedding gown still - she's dripping wet and leaves puddles everywhere.
The others are always present within the game because they are generated like Psyded, the Von Haunts - Whitaker the doggo.
Or they are downloads from the Maxis account like Aghostus Ceasar or Uniflora.
If I count Guidry and also the mysterious ghost horse that I've never seen, it would be 11 Ghosts total. There's also a pet cemetary in Brindleton Bay, I don't know if there are any ghost pets hanging out there. I still have to create a family to live there.
The Weeping Willow sounds so sad, but kind of very beautiful too. Heartbreaking.
I didn't know Maxis has ghost sims in the gallery! That's nice! I only have Psyded and Whitaker saved in my played households, though I could put Temperance there too. I never actively play any of them, though.
I just completed the Friend of the Animals aspiration which required my sim playing with two different ghost pets and it seems the game generates random ghost cats and ghost dogs to the Deadgrass Isle in BB (maybe other places too... I think I might have seen a random ghost cat in Glimmerbrook too).
Oh right, forgot about Temperance! And I forgot about Lyla Grunt.
Aghostus Ceasar is part of the household created back when the Halloween pack came out. And there's Uniflora, she was created when Romantic Garden came out. (In case you would want to find them)
So the game does generate ghost pets in the vicinity of the graveyard. That's a great touch! I don't see Whitaker anywhere in the world sadly. I'm not sure what would trigger him to visit - but my guess would be that he's connected to the pet cemetary somehow. Also congrats on achieving that aspiration! That must have taken quite some time.
I don't have any playable ghosts but there are three lots that are haunted by ghosts. A cemetery, a mansion and a rental castle.
That sounds nice! It's fun to have some haunted lots 💛
None now. I did experience a couple of ghosts while trying to complete the spend 7 days in a haunted house milestone for infants.
I changed the lot type to haunted house residential and for extra measure added the spooky lot challenge.
Then decided it was the perfect time to try out the Paranormal pack.
House is now back to normal. No more ghostly presences.
Oh I had no idea there's a milestone like that! It sounds wild! 😀 I hope you had fun playing it😊💛
In my current game, started new for Lovestruck, I don't have any playable ghosts, but a few of my Sims are elderly now so it won't be long 😉 and I do plan to make them playable ghosts (can't wait for the new pack!!!). 😍
In the past I've usually had at least one or two ghosts in the family, especially with legacies. I sometimes get really attached to a Sim (usually the first one that started the legacy) and can't let them go so I add them back to the family as a ghost and they become the housekeeper/child carer/pet walker/repair person/upgrader for the household.
I also almost always keep pets around as ghosts, either as family members or just free roaming the family home because I can't bear to see them go but I don't want to turn aging off. The comforting thing about them being ghosts is they can't die a second time. 😊
You have me wondering how the new pack will deal with animals that die….
Aww that is sweet💛 It's true that ghosts are a nice way to keep dear sims and pets playable even after their time has come.
A ghost housekeeper/child carer/pet walker/repair person/upgrader sounds very useful for a legacy gameplay! 😀 I had Summer Holiday be that kind of a ghost until I let her spirit free, but that was some years ago.
I see ghosts once in awhile, ghost night at the bars, telling ghost stories around the campfire, etc. but I play with aging off and my criminal sim did fight with an elder Sim till he died, he still has his urn, but I’m not sure if the sim got culled or not, it’s been awhile….. I will have to check that out.
The ghost stories around the campfire are fun! I wonder will ghost nights at the bar get wilder with the new EP if the ghosts use their new powers there.
Your criminal sim sounds like a real criminal 😄 Where does he keep the urn?
I have some Ghost Siblings in my game in all my timeline Game Saves. I made sure that the Ghosts like to clean & have the Handiness Skill 10. Also, they have the Forever Full, Forever Fresh, Never Weary, Steel Bladder & many other traits. Because they are Ghosts, their worries are over. I usually have them as my unplayed not in world household. However, I will give them the necessary Handy Ghost Powers that are coming up in Halloween.
Aww your ghosts are having a good time and sound helpful! Giving them the reward traits does make sense 😊
