How to see a ghost?
KnightSkyKyte:
I'm very jealous of everyone whose sims easily see ghosts, or get scared by them.
I have sims who really want to see the ghost of the family cat, but never have. And the ghost comes out every night!
I have the sims chase it around, and the stupid sims don't see it! It's right there, dang nammit!!! If a visitor can see the darn thing and get happy about it with a little green cloud around a ghost picture above their head indicating they've got a great,"Hey, I saw a ghost!" memory, then why can't the residents who are home every night?
I try and park the sim and wait for the ghost cat to stop. But the sim has ADD. Even if I get the sim in the same area or room as the ghost, the stupid sims absolutely and steadfastly refuses to see it. Even when the ghost cat decides to shriek, they can't hear it either. Maybe I just have stupid blind and deaf sims.
I don't have tight pants, and I don't have any hacks that prevent ghosts from being seen.
Are there any hacks that will *enable* my sims to see a ghost? Or, do you know of a surefire way that will guarantee that the stupid sims will finally see the ghost of their beloved dead cat? I'm now out of ideas after waiting for 4+ sim weeks for the stupid sims to see a ghost cat (or, am I being too impatient?).
miramis:
The ghost has to scare your sim to trigger the 'See Ghost' want. If your cat is a happy ghost it probably won't scare them, you could try making it angry by kicking the tombstone or deleting it's favourite object, I'm not sure if pet ghosts work the same as sim ghosts in that way.
With sim ghosts they will make their way to their favourite object when they first come out at night and cheer at it, usually it's a bed they used a lot, though I once had a ghost do it with a toilet because I deleted his bed just before he died :D
While we're on the subject of ghosts, on community lots I've been experiencing a bug with ghosts only coming out for about and hour or two at which point they all go *poof* at the same time, it's been happening since BV if I remember correctly and is unrelated to any mods or cc.
*Edited to add:
Be aware that if you make a ghost angry it will probably torment your sims for the rest of their lives until it is deleted. You may be able to pacify it by having family members do a lot mourning at the grave, I've had some success with this with unruly ghosts (usually they've been dead a long time and get aggro with their descendants they never met) but I am uncertain if it will work for kicking of tombstones and the like.
Orange Indigo:
Starve a townie to death. It'll be unhappy enough to scare your sims.
The cat probably lived a relatively content life, and it obviously died of old age.
Therefore, it's probably too happy, as miramis said, to scare your sims.
Kicking the tombstone might destroy it, I think, or it might be in the fears of one of your sims.
Your best bet is either continuing to wait, because ghost scares seem to happen most when you're not looking for them.
Or, of course, as I suggested: kill someone else.
Callista:
I've had a happy pet die of old age who did occasionally scare his owners; but never more than once every few nights... Do we know whether happy ghosts don't scare as often, or do they just tend to do more helpful things?
Have you tried selling whatever item the pet used most in life? I've heard that annoys ghosts. Or, anyway, I've seen ghosts throwing hissy fits with a stolen espresso machine in their thought bubbles.
If you REALLY want to see ghost action, run a black widow challenge. The challenge starts to be keeping your sim alive, rather than just rounding up the next victim. (Also, it's fun when you want to be sadistic.)
Orange Indigo:
I've noticed, although I wouldn't neccessarily live by this, that pet ghosts rarely scare. Of course, all pets die of old age, because there is no other way for a pet to die. I've also noticed that, when these ghosts do decide to scare, they rarely scare the sims that they liked. Of course, that's just what I've observed, so it may only be true in the few instances that I've had this sort of situation in my game.
For example, my sim's cat just died of old age. The cat scares my sim's new wife, who the cat had a low relationship with before it died. The cat has been dead about three sim days, scared the wife twice, and never scared it's original owner who it had the "Mine" relationship with.
Sims scare more than pets, even if they did die of old age. I've noticed that old age ghosts don't come out as often, as there are some nights where they're not out at all. However, sims who died early come out every night, although they don't always manage to scare for whatever reason. They also tend to reenact their own deaths, especially (or possibly only) if they died from electrocution or disease.
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