So I've got a haunting problem

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  • Platform: Steam windows

  • Mods: never used

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System Windows 11, 5800X3D, 9070XT, 32G RAM

  • Steps to Reproduce: die, I guess :wink:

So I started a new game a couple of days ago, and created a family consisting of one elderly single mom and 3 children (young adult, teenager, child.) Eventually the nice old lady died, and I got a ghost worrying the offspring. I don’t think she was an evil woman, so I’m not sure why she got to haunt the house.

She can’t be exorcised, but I guess she can get exercised. She seems to love the punching bag and the treadmill. So I guess we got not as much the walking dead, as the jogging dead :stuck_out_tongue:

I called the 3000 mew exorcist, and he can make her visible so we can have a chat, but there is no option to send her on her merry way. Which seems kind of an epic fail for an exorcist. I tried using removezoi with her id, more than once, but it seems to do nothing. I guess once you’ve died once, it’s hard to recidivate :stuck_out_tongue:

And I mean, I wouldn’t even mind old mum living with her children in her old… err… post-mortem years, but she’s worrying the crap out of them, which pretty much freezes them in their tracks for a while. Even if they’re in a different room at the other end of the house, and physically have no line of sight to whatever mum is doing. That is really the annoyance. And it IS getting pretty annoying.

Is there a way to send her forth? Or will it happen by itself after a while? Does she remain back if I move to another residential lot? Is there some fix planned?

New game, never used any mods, nor even Canvas content, no cheats other than adding money before her death, showzoiid and removezoi after. Never used the smart zoi option in this game either.

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Ghosts really need to abide with the 3 days limit of being active.
After that they should just dissolve and go away.
This would be a great fix to this issue which has been going on for quite some time now.

Also, having an option for this to happen right away after death would be nice.
It means no ghost play and no touching funerals with ghostly close family members, but then it would be like it was before the October patch. It would be a nice menu option.

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Or I’d even take giving the 3000 mew exorcist his ability to exorcise back, really. I mean, really, that’s why people hire those IRL.

Hell, I’d even take the kids getting used to it after a while and not getting frozen in place every time. Like, especially after meeting her ghost via the exorcist, and reading her posthumous letters, you’d think that eventually they’d be like, “Oh, that’s either someone molesting a cat or mom trying to sing at the mike again. Hi, mom. Afterlife treating you ok?” :stuck_out_tongue:

That said, I just discovered a sorta workaround, albeit only for your family: banish the old person to the shadow realm BEFORE they die. Like, when someone dies, load the last autosave or save, edit town, show all families, transfer that sim to another family, delete that family. No more ghost.

It shaved a couple of (in game) weeks off my game going to a previous hard save, lemme tell you, but… ahh… life is good :stuck_out_tongue:

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Come to think about it, if a ghost can use the keyboard or sing at the mike, doesn’t it mean she could just talk to her kids? Like, just sing “hey kids, I made you breakfast!” into the mike?`Or use morse code on the keyboard, I guess? And if she can write a letter, can’t she write something like, “Andy, you’ve been coughing your lungs out for 12 hours straight. Take a bloody cough syrup, or we’ll be hanging out soon”? It doesn’t even make sense for it to be a scary mysterious event, if they have access to those.

I guess the moral of the story is that ghosts are buttholes :stuck_out_tongue:

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