Poor/no ghost activity...

[F_I_X_E_R]

 Hey guys!

I'm disappointed from ghosts. Each time I send my sim to the graveyard at midnight I barely see any ghosts. Every time midnight comes, one and very rarely 2 ghosts spawn and they immediately set off and leave the graveyard! My sim lives in Twindrook. There is almost nothing for a sim to do in the graveyard. No benches etc. Maybe that's why ghosts leave and let the place go empty.

Or most annoyingly - I start talking to a ghost, and after 1 minute or so the ghost vanishes!

I don't get it - is this supposed to happen? Empty graveyard in the middle of the night, every night!

Otherwise, the ghosts in my home lot behave and spawn normally.

 I expect to visit a "ghost playground" as I've seen on numerous youtube videos. Cemeteries "littered" with colorful ghosts walking around doing stuff. But this doesn't happen in my graveyard. I patently searched about ghosts on the web, but I only found the most common information on the subject (death types, ghost colors) that I already know too well...

Why the ghosts in the graveyard refuse to spawn? And why does the lone ghost that eventually spawns leaves the lot right away?

Thanks in advance.

[Metropolis Man]

Hi F_I_X_E_R, welcome to the forum. I'm assuming you have Ambitions installed?  From what I've heard, many spirits that would spawn in the graveyard now spawn in homes as part of a ghosthunter's career. Not 100% on that one.

[F_I_X_E_R]

Hi F_I_X_E_R, welcome to the forum. I'm assuming you have Ambitions installed?  From what I've heard, many spirits that would spawn in the graveyard now spawn in homes as part of a ghosthunter's career. Not 100% on that one.

Yes I do have Ambitions installed, as well as World Adventures. What you said does make sense. But honestly, an empty graveyard in the middle of the night sucks big time...

[Metropolis Man]

Well, it's never been completely empty for me. In fact when my Dynasty Challenge Founder fishes for deathfish if a ghost floats near him, he cancels his action because he's spooked. Happens almost every night. So, how about I ship you off all the ghosts in my graveyard?  

[F_I_X_E_R]

Haha. I wouldn't mind!

But your ghosts stick around? Mine leave the fastest way possible...

[samoht04]

My Ghosts like watching the TV's in kids rooms...  At Midnight... 

[F_I_X_E_R]

My Ghosts like watching the TV's in kids rooms...  At Midnight... 

Well, ghosts in houses behave normally. But were talking about graveyards.

I wonder, if I take out the tombstones from the mausoleum and place them on the ground, will that increase the chances of having more ghosts at night? Does it work that way?

[Saltypaws]

There is nothing saying you cannot try that.  I have the same problem, around midnight, they all head for the gate, usually around 7 or 8 of them.  A couple hang around sometimes, and like Metro said, if my sim is fishing for deathfish, they stop fishing and either do the happy dance at seeing a ghost or a disgusted, waving hand type thing.  You might try that, it could work or you will just have more ghosts heading for cabs.  Not sure why they do that, maybe unfinished business.

[F_I_X_E_R]

There is nothing saying you cannot try that.  I have the same problem, around midnight, they all head for the gate, usually around 7 or 8 of them.  A couple hang around sometimes, and like Metro said, if my sim is fishing for deathfish, they stop fishing and either do the happy dance at seeing a ghost or a disgusted, waving hand type thing.  You might try that, it could work or you will just have more ghosts heading for cabs.  Not sure why they do that, maybe unfinished business.

This behavior is annoying! Graveyards should be littered with spirits during the nightime! That's the purpose of the graveyard! Seeing and having fun with ghosts whenever you feel like it and free of haunted homes. Otherwise graveyards suck as just parks without ghosts.

Am I not right?

[Schipperke]

This behavior is annoying! Graveyards should be littered with spirits during the nightime! That's the purpose of the graveyard! Seeing and having fun with ghosts whenever you feel like it and free of haunted homes. Otherwise graveyards suck as just parks without ghosts.

Am I not right?

Well, I can see your point.  But personally, I find it annoying that my founder fisherman always drops what he's doing whenever a ghost drifts past.  And I have noticed that the ghosts do always be in a hurry to go somewhere else.  Apparently a lot of them must have cars in their inventories because they just drive off.  I wonder where they're in such a hurry to get to.

[samoht04]

In Graveyards I only get 2-4 Ghosts per Night.

[TollingBells]

I get very few ghosts wandering around, honestly, but that's fine with me. I get angry when my long stream of things to do gets canceled.  In fact, I made my hobo sim scream at a ghost that woke her up when she slept in the Graveyard...

[Pam]

Before Ambitions was released, the ghosts in the graveyard acted as I think "normal" ghosts should act.  They wandered around, talked to each other, haunted things, read books, etc.  But as soon as Ambitions hit, it all changed.  Now they surface and head straight to the gate, get in a car or taxi, and leave.  I don't like it, either.  What's the purpose of them leaving first thing?  It makes it harder to get photographs of ghosts, too.  It just seems stupid to me.  Leave the ghosts in the graveyard where they belong! 

[Saltypaws]

I followed one one time.  Took a cab, went to the outskirts of town, got out and then vanished.  I thought, well, that was rude, lol.  I don't like it either.  They hardly ever wander around the graveyard anymore.  Every once in a while, I will actually catch one just hanging around, but as soon as you try to talk to them, they leave.

If you see any missing "L"s, my L key is messed up.  I try to catch it most of the time, but it is annoying.  Would hate to get another key board because of one key, lol.

[samoht04]

My Mum had a messed up C on her laptop, she just got a new laptop!