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Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« on: November 05, 2014, 04:03:27 PM »
Sense the last patch when I try to summon someone's ghost using the Book of Life they never show up. Is anyone else having this issue?
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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2014, 06:18:55 PM »
Yes, and all but one of my tombstones now read "RIP _____"  :'(
So now none of my legacy heirs can ever make a come-back.
I tried using The Book of Life regardless of the tombstone name, but nope. Nothing. <pouts>
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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2014, 07:42:56 PM »
I've got it partly working. From Origin I repaired the game and I can now summon ghost with the Book of Life again as long as it has the sims name still on it, like Summon Bella. But if it says Summon ______ it still won't summon the ghost of the sim the book was attached to I guess because there is no name there now, just a blank line.

Edit: I just noticed to that any of the books or tomstones that just have a blank line where the sims name should be, those sims are no longer listed in my sims friends list either. I guess those are just gone to the Netherworld. :(
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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2014, 09:15:50 PM »
I wonder what is causing all the tombstones to show "RIP___". It's such a shame. I've also 'repaired' my game but I guess those sims are gone forever.
At least The Book Of Life is actually still functioning. Just I don't have any sims left to use it on anymore!  :-\
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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2014, 04:30:06 PM »
As I understand it, when a sim dies, their ghost version is seen as a townie sim, and eventually (very quickly in my opinion) culls 'excess' townie sims, even if you have a relationship with them. All but one of my 5 generations worth of tombstones are now useless. Very annoying

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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2014, 09:22:49 PM »
@ZoeLou, I must have been very unlucky as my sim had only died that evening, by the next morning his tombstone was blank!  >:(
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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2014, 02:17:33 PM »
Are you guys keeping your tombstones in your inventory or on your lot?  It might make a difference.
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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2014, 12:58:49 AM »
I have tombstones outside on my lot, I have urns in my inventory and I have urns in the houses inventory too. Two out of three in my house inventory still have names on... but the other one also in the houses inventory is now nameless.
So, I guess it doesn't matter where they are kept, if they're going to be culled from the game, then nothing seems to stop that from happening.  :(
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Re: Unable to summon ghost sense patch.
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2014, 05:08:42 PM »
I just discovered this awful bug about the dead sims being culled today. I've been playing a sim as an eternal adult, resetting the age with potions, and his first wife, who he interacted with every time she spawned and had quite a high relationship with, is gone from the panel. Her tombstone gives the option to destroy or put in inventory, and has no information but the epitaph I put in on it. All of her paintings in the house are still there, but their artist reads "_____" instead of her name.  Yet, dead elderly sims from town that he met little more than in passing weeks ago are still on his panel.  I wonder why it would choose a sim that has high relationships with a played household, with the tombstone in the world, to delete, rather than sims without such ties.