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Lightening striking tombstone
ArilyBoo
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in The Sims 2
So in all my years playing I've never seen this happen in my game before, however with this one family I'm playing it's happening frequently. I finally was able to pause the game and snap some photos. Right after the lightening strikes the ghost comes out instantly to haunt day or night, and they seem pretty upset too!
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I have the weather machine set on eternal Summer and it seems to always happen when it's raining. I'm wondering if that has something to do with it, because like you I have never seen this before happen in my game.
EDIT: Another thing I forgot, I don't have any trees or anything else for the lightening to strike. Maybe that has something to do with it.
I would love to trouble my ghosts because angry ghost are the worst to keep Sims up all night.
It definitely does - lightning picks targets from, iirc, trees and sims only. (A tombstone is technically a game object that contains the files that were once attached to a sim, and therefore manifests the sim ghost, much like a baby is a game object that contains all the files that will be a sim... hence why neither is safe to delete.) With that many tombstones and no trees, you're gonna get a lot of ticked off ghosts!
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Or the lightning rod. Basically it attracts lightning strikes. One vanilla rod shouldn't totally eliminate gravestone striking, but it will reduce it greatly. (There's also a mod out there by Cyjon that makes each one attract about 50% of strikes. I use it a lot because my sims were basically living outside for a while...)
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@JULES1111 I do it because I don't want every playable household in that neighborhood to have the same exact weather. =D
Ahh I see. That makes sense then!
It's under deco-misc and it looks like it should be a windmill. It's called something like a lightning finial, lol.
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They die in Platinum Aspiration.
Have Sims die of old age while in platinum aspiration.
Thanks. I always forget to add that- Old Age thing. My Sims usually only die that way.
I have so much stuff in my files it's easier for me to find particular things if I open the collection folder for Seasons then it should be in there. Later, starting with Seasons, they didn't put everything in the different categories. Like the new mirror in AL is not in the mirror section, the only way I could ever find it was to open up the collection folder. They did this horrible thing to the last three or four EPs.