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Immortality???
Ethyrdude
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Maybe I am reading this wrong or getting the wrong idea with ghosts but...
As I understand it, if you use ambrosia or the book of life on a ghost sim to resurrect them, they become immortal? I've used ambrosia, (an epic fail because apparently the ghost eating it needs to be sitting?) and the Book of Life to bring back a ghost sim to life. I did have success in bringing back a ghost with the book of life but what prevents this sim from dying again? I thought that this might give him or her a new trait but there is nothing new in the "former ghost turned back to sim" simology screen to indicate that anything new was added. If by immortality, the idea is to keep bringing your sim back with either a new book every time or ambrosia, why go through the bother in the first place? Just keep using the potion of youth while your sim is still alive makes more sense to me.
As I understand it, if you use ambrosia or the book of life on a ghost sim to resurrect them, they become immortal? I've used ambrosia, (an epic fail because apparently the ghost eating it needs to be sitting?) and the Book of Life to bring back a ghost sim to life. I did have success in bringing back a ghost with the book of life but what prevents this sim from dying again? I thought that this might give him or her a new trait but there is nothing new in the "former ghost turned back to sim" simology screen to indicate that anything new was added. If by immortality, the idea is to keep bringing your sim back with either a new book every time or ambrosia, why go through the bother in the first place? Just keep using the potion of youth while your sim is still alive makes more sense to me.
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Sims do not have immortality if you want that just turn aging off. You can however use the cowplant or a potion of youth to make sims live longer or use a death flower to escape the grimm reaper, but you will need another sim to give the flower to the reaper.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
Ghosts lose relationships like marriage but usually retain the level of the relationship bars (friendship and romance) but they will decay at the normal rate. So if a ghost takes a while to make an appearance then those bars can have declined.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
Edit: In other words, I was wondering if I was supposed to have something happen that obviously didn't.
It doesn't, like I posted above, both these items don't make a sim immortal they just resurrect dead sims in game, without mods and without cheats.
*edited: Not everyone wants to use cheats or mods so the game needs to have a 'ligit' way to resurrect dead sims without them.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
Actually, I made a mistake, I was sitting down when the ambrosia failed, this is a long time recognized bug and has been recorded by many others. Here is one link but there are many others and I believe that this has not been fixed yet. http://forums.thesims.com/EN_US/discussion/813698/ambrosia-problems
I found this page and others when I was trying to find out why the ambrosia didn't work. Google lists a ton more links. I guess being able to resurrect a sim that one has accidentally allowed to die is enough reward for some, to go through the process but to me it seems like a lot of work that could have been avoided by using a potion or turning off aging. I just felt like there should be more, that's all.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
All methods when resurrect a ghost bring her/his at day 1 of YA?
> Maybe I am reading this wrong or getting the wrong idea with ghosts but...
> As I understand it, if you use ambrosia or the book of life on a ghost sim to resurrect them, they become immortal? I've used ambrosia, (an epic fail because apparently the ghost eating it needs to be sitting?) and the Book of Life to bring back a ghost sim to life. I did have success in bringing back a ghost with the book of life but what prevents this sim from dying again? I thought that this might give him or her a new trait but there is nothing new in the "former ghost turned back to sim" simology screen to indicate that anything new was added. If by immortality, the idea is to keep bringing your sim back with either a new book every time or ambrosia, why go through the bother in the first place? Just keep using the potion of youth while your sim is still alive makes more sense to me.
there's an immortality mod!!
No, your ghost will be whatever stage they were at when they died. So if your sim dies as an elder, the ghost will be an elder and so on.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
then for an sim than died of old age you need ambrosia AND youth potion?
So if an elder drinks a potion of youth the sim will be back at the beginning of the elder stage.
If an adult drinks a potion of youth the sim will be back at the beginning of the adult stage ... and so on
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
A sim that has completed the Best Selling Author is able to write a Book of Life about a sim they know. The author can not write one about themselves though.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
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> > Maybe I am reading this wrong or getting the wrong idea with ghosts but...
> > As I understand it, if you use ambrosia or the book of life on a ghost sim to resurrect them, they become immortal? I've used ambrosia, (an epic fail because apparently the ghost eating it needs to be sitting?) and the Book of Life to bring back a ghost sim to life. I did have success in bringing back a ghost with the book of life but what prevents this sim from dying again? I thought that this might give him or her a new trait but there is nothing new in the "former ghost turned back to sim" simology screen to indicate that anything new was added. If by immortality, the idea is to keep bringing your sim back with either a new book every time or ambrosia, why go through the bother in the first place? Just keep using the potion of youth while your sim is still alive makes more sense to me.
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> There sure is! I was hoping from what I read about resurrecting ghosts that doing so would also give them this trait without using the mod, to give a sim this trait, with or without a mod, there has to be coding in place to allow it, and so today was the first day I went through and actually had a sim try the Book of Life. I was hoping to find a way without using the mod. In any case, I have the mod and use it frequently, that way I can limit as to who gets the trait and who doesn't, after all, it should only be rewarded to a worthy sim. I wouldn't want to give it to the whole family and have an evil brother or sister get immortality too. :smiley:
oh, i see!!!