There’s a ghost in my game that haunts my business. At least it has been—and I don’t know how long it might last. While the fridge was opened by the ghost, I paused and moved my mouse around in the area until I got a name to pop up.
First, I checked on the karma and that ghost has Best karma, which should mean they move on to the other side right? But then, why is 20% of my city’s population ghosts with Best karma???
Regardless, I have this issue and don’t know how to resolve it. Do you know what I can do? Will it stop on its own?
I’m not sure if this works, but I also have a problem with too many ghosts in a game (who actually love helping themselves from the refrigerator). I haven’t played in a while, but I was planning to try deleting the urns of deceased sims to see if the ghosts would disappear.
I don’t have the ability to play right now, but it’s an idea you could possibly try? Especially if you remember the name of the ghost sim that’s bothering you, you go to the cemetery, and from the mailbox where all the urns are located, you retrieve the one you want and delete it?
Okay, I will try that tomorrow when I’m able to play again. I really hope it’ll work. I’ll get rid of every urn if there are urns waiting. I don’t want ghosts in my game.
I’ll hop back in and give this a try. I was just coming to post that after deleting all 24 of the urns in holding, there were TWO ghosts in my cafe! I used the bell and was able to talk to the ghosts even though it was terrifying, and there was no option to ask them to leave. There really ought to be!
There needs to be a gameplay method of getting rid of ghosts if ghosts are supposed to be part of the gameplay that doesn’t just clog up your city and make your game unplayable after awhile.
The first thing I tried was using the cheat while the fridge was open, which was how I found the ghost’s name. There was no ID.
So I got the special bell item that can reveal the ghost and then you can talk to it (but not tell/ask it to go away). When you reveal the ghost with the item, you can then see a zoi ID with the showzoiinfo true cheat. However, the removezoi cheat did not work with that ID.
Without a game patch or update, there’s no way to get rid of a ghost!
@Nyami should resurrect “All Zois go to heaven” mod
She had made such a mod very early in the game’s life to fix this issue specifically.
Following some dev patches it was no longer required and I believe, abandoned.
I’ll be honest Starwing, I did not know this was an issue anymore, then again I haven’t played a 200 days+ game in a very very long time.
My game at the moment has only been running for 36 days! I don’t use mods, so I really, really hope they’ll fix it! I posted about it in this week’s Brainstorm with Kjun thread on Discord, so hopefully it’ll get some attention and something can be done.
I hope they can add a gameplay method for getting rid of the ghost haunting a location. But in the meantime, a cheat would help! I don’t think I’ll be able to play the firstborn after he reaches Young Adulthood (he’s a teen right now) because there will only be more ghosts all the time.
I wanted to follow up with you that I tried this, and it didn’t work. However, there were 24 urns stored there! I don’t think it makes any sense to leave unclaimed urns for a long time either. Most of these are NPCs I never heard of, and I definitely don’t care about them.
I could see holding onto the urn of a zoi known to one of my zois, but only for a week. If the player doesn’t want the urn by then, it means they don’t care to have a funeral or anything like that, so the urn should be deleted.
Thank you for your feedback, even though it’s unfortunate that it’s not positive so we can remove all these ghosts. The last time I was on the game, one of my Zoi died of old age, and the urn kiosk was full with 28 urns. That’s really too much
Sorry my idea didn’t work, really hoping that something positive will be done soon so we don’t have this problem anymore
I used the bell and was able to talk to the ghosts even though it was terrifying, and there was no option to ask them to leave. There really ought to be!