Remove ghostly acquaintances

[_Annika_]

Is there any way to remove all the dead acquaintances from my sims' relationship panels? My game seems to be deleting living sims over dead ones I tried manage worlds, but even after I removed all the ghosts from all of the households, both played and unplayed, in and out of world, there are still a few dozen ghosts in my relationship panel.

[Cheezey]

I'd love to know if this is possible, too. I'd rather pick and choose what sims stick around in the panel than let the game decide.

[Playalot]

The only thing I've found is time, as in, game time. Eventually the ghostly relationships decline and then, after even more time, the ghostly relationships just 'go' from your panel.
It's such a pain. My game randomly culls 'living' friends etc too. I think that if we could have a separate 'tab' for the ghostly relationships that would be helpful. I always seem to end up with more ghosts in my relationship tab then living.

[_Annika_]

I had clocked up my 8 disliked sims, then went to visit my neighbours to get 2 despised to add to that 8 for my total of 10, and POOF! All 8 got culled, leaving me only ghosts. Then I worked on a relationship for the RI aspiration, and after leaving our date and heading to work, POOF he was gone too

[Playalot]

@ Annika, woah! That's really too bad.  I wonder if there is an EA bug thread about this... <off to look>

[_Annika_]

Is there a mod or hack that will let you cull all the existing townies as the game randomly does - so that you can start fresh with no more ghosts in the panel? It might help save some of my living townies who walk off my lot never to be seen again

[Stormi71]

I find this weird, as my sims seem to get ghost friends in their relationship panels. I mostly play one household, but I do swap households for a short time each time I play, and I always check the relationships of each family. It's weird because a. I've never even seen a ghost in my game and b. I have aging off so nobody has died. I guess the game just randomly generates who sims have "met" while you aren't playing them, rather than what happens when unplayed sims are on community lots meeting and chatting with other sims.