How to see a ghost?
professorbutters:
I have sixteen ghosts on the Legacy lot I play. All but three died permaplat of old age. Niceness or relative happiness doesn't seem to matter much. I always have three ghosts a night out.
It's pure Murphy's law. Ghosts always head right for the kids or Pop Sims who really don't want to see them and ignore your Knowledge Sims. Knowledge Sims roll the want to see ghosts they haven't seen already. That ghost won't show up forever, and when it does, it will refuse to scare your Sim.
Having the Sim chase the ghost around doesn't always work. Ghosts usually float around until they re-enact their own deaths (or visit their favorite bathtub or bed, whatever). Then they *might* turn around and scare the closest Sim, but mine often blink and teleport to wherever they want to frighten someone. Sometimes it helps to have your Sim skilling away, painting a picture or working at a craft bench, because ghosts seem to love to interrupt them, but even that doesn't always work. The ghost might well blink over to a sleeping Sim, who will dutifully wake up and get out of bed to be scared.
There may be a mod that enables you to control ghost behavior, but if so, I don't know what it is.
kiki:
is there a fix at all for ghosts tombstones disappearing after they've haunted them and made them levitate? that's always so annoying.
professorbutters:
Quote from: kiki on 2008 November 28, 22:58:37
is there a fix at all for ghosts tombstones disappearing after they've haunted them and made them levitate? that's always so annoying.
Are they Romance Sim urnstones? It can't hurt to have nocorruptdeath, nounlinkondelete, and romanceurnstonefix. If you've already got those, I don't know why your tombstones are disappearing. Mine turn around during/after a haunting, but they don't disappear.
It looks as thought TwoJeffs has a Ghost hack on Simbology that changes ghost behavior, and might contain a fix for your disappearing tombstones. I don't have it in, because I don't care how much of a PITA my ghosts are.
Orange Indigo:
Mine never disappear, but I don't have that many tombstones as it is.
Maybe try moving all the tombstones in the neighborhood to a cemetery lot, then send your sim there at night. That should do the trick, although he might not see the exact ghost you wanted him to see. Not a problem, if his want is the generic "See A Ghost", but it is if it's "See the Ghost of xxx". Still, the latter doesn't happen that often, so I'm assuming that's not what you've got. Re-reading through your post... maybe it is.
Jfed:
Old tips are old. :D Like base game only old, so I don't know if they'd work with EPs...much less animals.
- Along the lines of what Prof said, have the ghost-questing sim stand in the spot your ghost last stopped drifting and disappeared. The ghost might return to the same spot and scare your sim for the memory want fulfillment.
- Buy a teddy bear. There's an option to 'Talk through to...' or something to that effect, and if ghosts were out, their names would show up in the pie menu list of those to bug with the bear.
I recall having a success or two with the first suggestion, but not so much the second.
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