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Ghosts have worn out their welcome, I want them GONE!
Karazara
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For a while it was an interesting novelty, and nice talking to the ghosts on my property... but now they've started to become a massive annoyance. They're eating my food, breaking my stuff, waking people up at inconveneient times, and just being a general nuisance. I want them gone now... I have great memories of them when they were alive, but now it's time for them to move on.
Problem is they won't leave... ghosts are usually gone by morning, but for some reason these ghosts are sticking around 24/7. Thought getting rid of them was as simple as relocating their remains back to the mausoleum... but the game won't let me move their urns, because they're "in use" (presumably because the ghosts whose remains those are, are still active). So how do I get the ghosts to move off? Any way I can move their remains back to the mausoleum anyway? I'm wary of using the moveobjects cheat since last time it stuck me with rotten food I couldn't get rid of (seems to cause unpredicatble bugs). So what do I do to relocate the remains and/or get the ghosts to leave? Anyone know, or have some idea?
Problem is they won't leave... ghosts are usually gone by morning, but for some reason these ghosts are sticking around 24/7. Thought getting rid of them was as simple as relocating their remains back to the mausoleum... but the game won't let me move their urns, because they're "in use" (presumably because the ghosts whose remains those are, are still active). So how do I get the ghosts to move off? Any way I can move their remains back to the mausoleum anyway? I'm wary of using the moveobjects cheat since last time it stuck me with rotten food I couldn't get rid of (seems to cause unpredicatble bugs). So what do I do to relocate the remains and/or get the ghosts to leave? Anyone know, or have some idea?
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Ive only come across 3 ghosts in the sims 3 so cant really say how I feel about them but there shouldn't be any ghosts... certainly not playable ones!
I kind of like them, but I guess I havent had any annoying ones. My sim befriended the little girl who drowned, got the opportunity to bring her back to 'life' and live with me. about 2 nights after my sim had tripplets so she went back to the netherworld
These ghosts aren't playable, that's the problem... I have no control over them whatsoever. If they were actually part of the household getting rid of them would be easy.
And before someone asks, yes, I've alreadsy been offered, and declined, the opportunity to attempt to make them playable (not that it would help now anyway since I can't move their remains).
As per my original post, I CAN'T move their graves, because they're in use... they're considered to be in use as long as the ghosts are active.
Move your other sims out of the house and leave that as the spooky haunted house of the neighborhood?
Too much stuff I'd lose if I did that; I'd love my deed to the bookstore and probably the transporter and body sculptor.
There has to be some way to get rid of them; I can't be the only person who's had this problem.
Why would you lose that stuff?? I've never lost inventory items when moving...I thought that was only an issue when you switch active households (and if you aren't using the mod that prevents it).
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Repo man comes when you don't pay your bills.
1. Press Control-Shift-C; type in "moveobjects on".
2. Go into either build mode or buy mode.
3. Use the hand tool to grab the GHOSTS (NOT the urns/graves) and delete them.
4. Press Control-Shift-C again; type in "moveobjects off" (this disables the cheat in step 1 to ensure they aren't bugs or weird results).
5. Go back into live mode; the urns/graves should be draggable into personal inventory. You can now take them back to the mausoleum at the cemetary and put them back in storage using "manage dead."
If you want the ghosts back you can always re-bury them on your property (or place them in the cemetary if you want the ghosts there). The gravrs and urns can still generate the ghosts again if placed again.
If anyone else has ghosts on their property they want to get rid of, this is how to do it apparently.
I rethought the idea of having a family crypt in the backyard... ghosts are too much of a pain... now it's just a memorial to them, but they're not physically buried there anymore.
I suppose if you want a private cemetary but don't want your own personal house haunted, you could create a community lot and have your family buried there. Could put a mausoleum there too for your conveneince and just place your family's graves where you like. Seriously considering that myself... I like the idea of a private cemetary but don't want ghosts running around my personal residence!
I had the same thing happen though, but that was a few days after I moved into a house which was on a burial ground.
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Wish it was that easy! Well to answer your question, sort of; you can relocate graves or urns by dragging them into your personal inventory, then taking them to the cemetary to place them on a plot there or just put them back into the mausoleum by using the "manage dead" option. However they normall can't be moved if their ghost is active (because then the urn/grave is "in use."). But see my earlier post for a workaround for that using the "moveobjects" cheat. Let me repeat that if you do that, delete the GHOSTS not the GRAVES or you'll have annoying game issues.
I'll bury the whole family in the house backyards, like all rich people, having their own family graveyards.
But, hey! They come out every night!
The house is so haunted.
One even tried to cook a waffle and time was up and disappeared.
Then it gave me a good burning over the kitchen!
the repoman will come if your Sim's bills go unpaid