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Beickhil
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1 year ago
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[RGSP] Wishing Well Ghost child turned back to human/No more ghost children

First Error: Had a ghost child (made in CAS, death by drowning) and had her wish on the Wishing Well for life. She was resurrected, but the notification said she "felt alive for a moment" before being made back into a ghost. But she was alive. She wasn't a ghost anymore. She also had a negative moodlet stating close to the same that the notification said. She no longer had any ghost interactions or ability to haunt.

Second Error: Had a ghost sim wish for a child on the Wishing Well, with the Wishing Well set to death outcomes through embedded cheats in the game, and received a notification about "having to raise a ghost child." The ghost adult sim also received a negative moodlet stating close to the same as the notification. The child that was created by the Wishing Well was not a ghost, nor had any ghost interactions.

Also: When I had a child wish for youthful vigor without any cheats enabled, she was randomly changed into a ghost with a notification stating "Sonya can stay her current age for ever and ever. This is what she wished for, yes?" This interaction seemed to work.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit bug report at AHQ

7 Comments

  • Possibly the same issue but my sim just wished for a child and got a notification that new child is a ghost. But the new kid is just a kid, with no ghost abilities.

  • Sims4Free25's avatar
    Sims4Free25
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 months ago

    It might be the same issue for me, my sim wished for a child and got the notification and moodlet that it was a ghost, but the child was a living child.

  • Oui, le problème est toujours d'actualité. Je rajoute le bug suivant : quand il a l'état pour l'adoption gratuite il ne peut pas appeler pour adopter ! 

    J'espère que les gens vont voter pour ce bug car là 4 votes c'est vraiment triste pour un objet acheté au gameplay cassé.

  • Hi, these are actually two separate bugs, with two separate causes.

    First Error is caused by loot_WishingWell_Random_GhostType listing all (I think) base game death types without limiting the ones allowed to children, so when they come back to life and get a random ghost trait, they're likely to get one that doesn't work and it gets skipped, resulting in them coming back to life.

    Second Error is caused by template_WishingWell_Ghost trying to assign the trait trait_ghost_Laugher to child ghosts, and that's no longer available to children.

    I've made a bug fix for both bugs (available here). For the child ghosts coming back to life, I've edited the random weighted loot to give children a weight of zero for the ghosts types that aren't valid for children. For the child ghosts spawning as living children, I switched trait_ghost_Laugher to trait_ghost_Drown (as the ghost type available to children that's probably least likely to kill off the rest of the household).

  • This has been a problem since ghosts got updated, alongside Captain Whittaker not being a ghost anymore. A bunch of ghost traits aren't valid for children anymore, and the wishing well was never updated to remove the invalid ones.

    I really like and want to use the wishing well, but it is still broken. I'm going to try the modfix below

  • thalassashells's avatar
    thalassashells
    Seasoned Spectator
    1 month ago

    yes, i've seen this issue before and seen others discuss it elsewhere! thank you for the mod fix, but i do hope ea will put out an official fix someday; it must be frustrating to not have the option on console.

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