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Alright, here's my story. I love ghosts. Like seriously...without fail...ghosts are the best thing ever. So...when I got my version of Sims 3, I decided that I simply must have a house full of ghosts. (Yes, I'm using the motherlode cheat...don't judge me) So I had played Sims and Sims2 but that was a million years ago. Anyway, I started off with a regular character, small house, etc...played all day before realizing I could drown my partner and create a ghost, but...I still wanted the Goth house...because...you know...so goth...lol. (and they had their own cemetery...which would increase the ghost sighting, of course.) However, then I decided to use the testing cheats...which then would not permit me to drown anyone else...or do anything to anyone...so I had to start over. I chose the big glass beach house this time...but simply could not drown anyone...something about how the tiled portion around the pool is low enough for the sim to climb out. (also...tried the "sealing the sim into the wall" thing...but it took forever for them to die. (BTW...best idea ever...and easiest way to kill your sim...have them go swimming, remove ladder, build wall around pool...takes a few hours....lovely)

It also took forever to "seduce" the next person to marry me/move in etc. So, finally (this is two full days into play (we had a national holiday) I realized I could just place a new sim (new game, no testing cheat) in the Goth house, drown the Goth family, edit town, paste in a new family, drown them...)((incidentally, you cannot drown children that are too young to "swim"...if you try to seal them into a wall, all your ghosts will talk about is "the crying baby" AND the social worker will STILL show up and stand on your porch AND you will no longer be able to edit town...nightmare..."

So now I've got the Goth household full of ghosts (again, BTW, you have to be married to a person before you drown them to get the "Oh My Ghost" option...if you just move in and drown everyone...then every night the ghosts reset and you have to reintroduce yourself and it boosts your social, but you never get to marry them...)

So, I've got the ghosts from the drowned families plus the Crumplebottoms, elder Goths etc and I took a few from each group to Oh My Ghost...a lovely family of my character and 6 other permanent, playable ghosts...it's a dead man's party...but I want more.

I am planning to murder the entire town of Sunset Valley....

Essentially, I want to create a true ghost town...however...this poses some problems. If you try to "romance" with a live person, your ghost partner (formally your alive partner) will complain...etc..(by the way, your live spouse will revert to a "fianced" status as a ghost...I'm still working on whether I can build up the social and marry my ghost partner (again)) If you want to ignore that, the amount of energy spent moving from household to household , wooing a character and drowning the rest is a daunting task at best.

If you are not horrified by my pretty tale, I wouldn't mind a little advice from more experienced players. Is there a way to use 'edit town' to speed up this process? Anyway...I haven't quite decided how to go about this and I will tell the second chapter if and when I decide to move forward. Thanks much! M —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheCallOfScaryStuff (talk • contribs) 09:40, June 12, 2016‎ (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~~~~

UPDATE: Important...if you're into SimGhosts: Here's what I've found out.

#1. The fastest and most efficient way to kill your sim is testing cheat + shift-click (on intended victim) + "birthday". (Yes...it will cause some fragmented files..but so far, death toll is 25+ and still rising) (You will also get 2 Grim Reapers in the "friends" list) You have to use your primary Sim sometimes to gather people. (I use my primary to play guitar so people gather, then shift-click to add them to household) If you want a house full of ghosts, great...but it gets really noisy at night. 

Go out! Meet people...kill them where they stand.

Then (and this is the sweetness..._if you leave the grave where it is, they will haunt that plot...especially if you use the "engrave epitaph" function (here lies ***, The One Who Returns." If you try to do multiple functions while aging/killing someone, you may lose the Simghost totally. Something else pretty cool: Every time you kill a Sim (after adding to your household) the primary will receive the inventory of the dead Sim. I killed a police officer and got a police car. If you're in the middle of aging (after adding to household) and the Sim gets jumpy and goes to your house,follow them and finish the process, pick up the grave then "place grave" at the cemetery. Interesting: You can use the testing cheat/mailbox "make me know everyone" to go to Sims houses and walk right in. I killed an entire family (but had to follow the last one back to my house) Once the family is dead, the house does not belong to your primary, but...you can use the teleport cheat to go inside the house. I killed the Landgrab family and teleported in to make pancakes in their kitchen. (Also helpful if you want to engrave epitaphs of people who've left graves/urns inside the home.)

((Oh yes! I forgot! I created my entire ghost family together, alive initially, then killed them with the 'wall around the pool' technique. However, your partner reverts to "ex'husband/wife" status. You then have to "re-woo" them into marrying you again. All the other rules apply with your ghost wife if you try to woo someone else alive or dead...the maid will still speak disapproval, if you've got ghost kids, they'll still make a huge deal about it. Best way to avoid is send them fishing (use the need-bar cheat to keep them away for as long as possible.)) (minors have a curfew)

Interesting note: There is still the "add drama" button regarding rumors of cheating AND your sims will still mourn sudden additions/deaths to the household but it seems like after a certain number of deaths, even your primary will stop mourning (with moodlets and overall mood) (maybe 15+ or so)

2nd to Last note: I killed the Goth family separately, after the split in the story where Lolita has twins. Interesting, adding Lolita and Mortimer to the family DID NOT add the infants to the household. I teleported in to try to burn down the house...maybe I didn't try hard enough, but regardless, I avoided the social worker curse....

Last note" in my quest to murder the town, I eventually came to the co-workers dorm and the young singles dorm next door. Apparently, this is a never ending household...it doesn't matter how many of these Sims I kill, there's always a next one...I'm leaving it for now. The established holds should take me a while. But by then, the town will be so full of ghosts at night...i probably won't even care. (Apologies to the modz, I'm not skilled enough to "sign") M —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheCallOfScaryStuff (talk • contribs) 13:24, June 21, 2016‎ (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~~~~