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Somnium Latin: a dream, fantasy, day dream or foolishness, nonsense.

This blog contains pictures and stories from my adventures with The Sims 2 as well as my current progress on the many challenges issued by The Sims 2 community.

Ghosts Tips

I am cross posting my Ghost/Mosuleum post here that was originally posted in this thread at Sim Scribes. If you have read it already I simply suggest that you scroll to the bottom as I have some new stuff to add that I hope might be a help.

I have been going through a lot of people's blogs recently and everyone seems to have problems with ghosts. A lot of problems with ghosts. I don't, and it's not a hack either, so I thought I would post here about what I did to help control the "ghost problem" and see if there was anything anyone wanted to add.

I built my family a mosuleum on a flight of fancy after Pao died and left the family with the funds to do so. Gaia had been haunting the lot freely by that point but once I moved her into the mosuleum she stopped. She would only leave that mosuleum to celebrate the fact that her daughter and son-in-law still used her bed (waking them) and then would float out the front door (usually scaring anyone in her path for kicks) and then returning to haunt the mosuleum. Once I moved the bed in to the storage space on the roof of the mosuleum she never left the mosuleum again.

My second ghost, Pao, did haunt the house even though his bed was in the mosuleum. He ended up getting stuck in a chair for several days. I ended up taking pity on him and having Jan (his grand-daughter) sit in the chair which freed him up and now he only haunts the mosuleum. Though all of my doors are hanging open as if a ghost is haunting and have been hanging open for several generations since.

My third ghost, Aphrodite, I moved out to just outside the mosulem (but still on the grounds) after the apropriate mourning period. She haunted the grounds, but not the house, that night and after that I moved her into the mosuleum. She hasn't left the mosuleum in her hauntings since.

My final ghost, Stephan, I left inside too long. To tell the truth I kinda forgot he was there. He started to haunt and went straight out to the mosuleum where his and Aphrodite's bed was and haunted there all night. I moved his urn to the mosuleum and he hasn't left it since.

I am not penning them in, I don't think, because they can still haunt the main house if they want to (Pao did) but they don't want to. I think their patterns lead them to haunt the building their bed is in and barring that the nearest building. I have just rearranged things so that fulfilling those patterns keeps them entertained in a part of the lot that my Sims don't frequent. Unless I tell them too.

Knowledge Sims skip (for my enjoyment) the length of the mosuleum however many times it takes for a ghost to clue in, usually it takes more then once, and then get scared into Platinum before leaving for the relative saneness of the house.

Additional and maybe unrelated note. The mosuleum (unlike the house) is built on a foundation. I am not sure if this has relevance or not but there you go.

If you have deleted their bed there is no garuntee that a ghost will stay in a building you construct. Maybe obvious but I thought I should attach the disclaimer anyway.

I usually keeps my urns inside the house for four to six days. I learned with Stephan that keeping them in for a week is too long and I learned with Prometheus that three days isn't enough, though four is apparently.

When Prometheus passed away it was right near a birthday and I didn't think it was wise having a sim throw a party that would ultimately end up being in the same room as their grandfather's urn. That's just asking for trouble. I keep the urn in the dining room normally as it is a high traffic place. So I moved him out after only three days and he was a bit more vicious in his hauntings then any of my ghosts had been previously.

I also found out that they don't necessarily celebrate their beds still being around. Prometheus probably could care less if I sold his bed. He was haunting the house regularly and I couldn't figure out why. For the first time I was dealing with ghosts who were scaring my Sims without my permission! Screams of terror from random parts of Windling Gables in the middle of the night is just not my cup of tea. I finally figured out why he still haunted the home. He would float into the house. Head straight for the most used bathroom and cheer that his favorite toilet was still in use. Once I moved that toilet out to the mosuleum he hasn't left it since.

Another note I thought I should add is when I move the urns out to the mosuleum they will usually haunt that night, though not always. I think the percentage chance of a ghost haunting in a timely fashion is inversely porportional to the number of Sims with wants to see them. Also for that first night and usually one other, when a ghost does haunt, they have maybe a 25% chance of haunting the grounds. Only the grounds though and then they stop.

New stuff!

Sims celebrate not their bed but the thing they used the most in life. This is usually the bed, but wasn't for Prometheus because I had just sold his bed two or three days before he died and bought him a new one, the next most used item was the toilet, naturally.

Maura cheered that I hadn't sold her easel as I had her spend most of her elderhood at it painting to help earn more money. Her $9,990 a week pay check and the fact that she had 27 days of vacation saved up by the time she age transitioned into elder meant that she didn't work for pretty much the rest of her life. She stayed home, cashed in on paid vacation and painted one or two paintings a day at between $600-$700 a pop.

I also strongly recommend a basement for your mosuleum to hold beds, toilets and easels, I am only half way through my legacy and already I am running out of room for these things in the mosuleum and it's not like you can *sell* anything to make more room... heh.

Also, skipping lost it's amusement so I bought my Knowledge Sims a couch to lounge on in there as well as some "decorative" elements. It gives my ghosts more things to haunt then each other's urns.

One last thing, if a Knowledge Sim hasn't seen a ghost in a while the want to see one will spin away and sometimes never return. Somethimes you have to "remind" them by having them go out to the mosuleum on an "errand" *nudgenudgewinkwink*.

I think that's about it. I was going to add ghost pics but I think it will be better to save them for actual updates so you can see them in context. Till then.

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