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Improvements To Ghosts
simlover5521
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I like the ghosts in the Sims 4, however, they're only really useful if you want to play as them and wouldn't be considered very scary at all.
As far as I know, ghosts don't generally give your sims many negative effects besides the occasional tense emotion which I'm not entirely sure exists with ghosts, it may just be for the haunted lot trait.
My suggestion is to change ghosts up by making them scarier. In the Sims 2 ghosts would scare your sims, with the possibility of even killing them. This could be implemented by adding a new emotion, scared. Ghosts being nearby could cause sims to get this emotion until they leave and if they interact with ghosts too much or if the ghost uses interactions like the 'scare' interaction too much on the sim they might die from fright.
To prevent sims from dying due to ghosts all of the time, certain traits such as Evil and Self Assured would prevent them from getting scared by ghosts. Ghosts with the Good trait or Cheerful trait (or any similar traits) possibly could be unable to cause sims to get scared. They could also appear less often or ghosts that were a part of your family can't make the sims scared unless they have certain traits like Evil, Mean or Erratic.
Ghosts could be made more spooky by giving them interactions such as re-enacting their deaths which ghosts did in the Sims 2. If a sim is in the room while a ghost does this they would get scared by it. Other interactions could include making objects such as sinks dirty, crying about their death unless they died from emotions.
Sims that died from anger could autonomously argue or be mean to sims and cause them to be scared, Sims that died from embarrassment could hide from living sims and sims that died from being too playful could laugh about their death and joke with other sims.
Sims who are electrocuted could cause lights, televisions and stereos to turn off when they enter the room which might scare sims.
I remember seeing a post similar to this by someone but it's a few years old and I didn't want to bump such an old post.
Anyway, what do you guys think? If any of you have ideas that could improve this you should post them below.
As far as I know, ghosts don't generally give your sims many negative effects besides the occasional tense emotion which I'm not entirely sure exists with ghosts, it may just be for the haunted lot trait.
My suggestion is to change ghosts up by making them scarier. In the Sims 2 ghosts would scare your sims, with the possibility of even killing them. This could be implemented by adding a new emotion, scared. Ghosts being nearby could cause sims to get this emotion until they leave and if they interact with ghosts too much or if the ghost uses interactions like the 'scare' interaction too much on the sim they might die from fright.
To prevent sims from dying due to ghosts all of the time, certain traits such as Evil and Self Assured would prevent them from getting scared by ghosts. Ghosts with the Good trait or Cheerful trait (or any similar traits) possibly could be unable to cause sims to get scared. They could also appear less often or ghosts that were a part of your family can't make the sims scared unless they have certain traits like Evil, Mean or Erratic.
Ghosts could be made more spooky by giving them interactions such as re-enacting their deaths which ghosts did in the Sims 2. If a sim is in the room while a ghost does this they would get scared by it. Other interactions could include making objects such as sinks dirty, crying about their death unless they died from emotions.
Sims that died from anger could autonomously argue or be mean to sims and cause them to be scared, Sims that died from embarrassment could hide from living sims and sims that died from being too playful could laugh about their death and joke with other sims.
Sims who are electrocuted could cause lights, televisions and stereos to turn off when they enter the room which might scare sims.
I remember seeing a post similar to this by someone but it's a few years old and I didn't want to bump such an old post.
Anyway, what do you guys think? If any of you have ideas that could improve this you should post them below.
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ALL the Supernatural creatures should get an equal amount of attention otherwise whats the point of having them playable in game?
I completely agree
It would also be cool if ghosts got angry when their spouse remarries, or their personal objects are sold, etc like on TS2.
Me to!
Ghost needs a massive improvement. Ghost acts as human not as a ghost. It makes me feel that ghost are just colored sim with one special ability. other than that, they are just normal sims. They don't act as ghost and they don't feel as ghost. Ghost is a lifestate not a copy of existing ones. They should have improved on what they did on The Sims 2.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
The haunted lot trait is a lie.
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