Anyone know of a way to prevent ghosts from eating leftovers?  I've got 2 ghosts on the lot in my current game and would like them not to eat the family's leftover meals.  I guess I could move the ghosts to the graveyard but I'd like to keep them around.  I've installed SP Extras and set the 2 ghosts' hungar motive to static, but I don't know if ghosts eat because of their hunger motive or whether that's due to some ghost haunting routine programmed into their behavior.  I thought about editiing the "Fridge_EatLeftovers+Definition" ITUN, but I'm not really sure what I could do with that.  I didn't see any mods for this at MTS, but I didn't check simsasylum.  Anyone know of any mods that would stop this behavior?  It's not a big deal to me, but it's annoying enough I thought I'd ask.

Afraid I don't know the answer here, but am kind of curious. Are the ghosties going on never-ending leftover consumption orgy fests on a somewhat nightly basis or are they merely helping themselves to one plate of food each now and then? If the latter, I have to wonder if it would be kinder to plan ahead and provide more servings for them to help themselves to rather than restricting their kitchen/fridge access somehow.

It's mainly an annoyance thing.  I started with an EA sim who had the graves of his parents on the lot.  I kept them as he's moved around and gotten married.  I don't mind the haunting, but screwing up my meal counts and leaving unexpected dirty dishes behind is something I'd rather do without.  With just my sim and his husband in the household it wasn't a big deal, but....they both wanted a baby and...I guess the game was mad at me because I haven't played in ~6 months and it decided I needed triplets in my life (or theirs, rather).  And, of course, both parents got the wish for another baby before the triplets are even toddlers yet.  The parents aren't even Family Oriented! 

Anyways, I'm playing on a houseboat in IP (the old Scott family one).  There's not that much room.  Maybe it's time for the ghosts to reside at the graveyard.  I'll wait to see if the static hunger motive works.  Also, one of the sims (and all the kids) are mermaids so I have the family use fish and kelp they've caught in dive spots for ingredients for all their meals.  To see that effort go to feed the dead is part of my annoyance too.  If the ghosts ate quick meals instead, I'd be fine.  I haven't a clue how to do that. 

Oh, maybe I'll try moving the graves to their resort.  Hobart's Hideaway might be a nicer place to spend eternity than a graveyard.

Hmm. Do ghosts honor my door filters? I have no idea, I just coded them.

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November 21st, 2018, 10:18 am

Hmm. Do ghosts honor my door filters? I have no idea, I just coded them.

I was wondering if I could use your door filters, but the lot's got a very open floor plan.  There's no door to the kitchen to lock.  Building one in might be possible, but it would affect the aesthetic of the houseboat.  I suppose I could try confining the ghosts to a room upstairs, or maybe confine them to outside the house part of the lot?  I'll have to think about that.

Note that there doesn't have to be an actual door. I believe that archways can have the same GoHere restrictions placed on them without the physical doors that open and close being present. But I didn't suggest that directly because if the ghosts can just glide through walls, they might not really care if a door or archway was supposed to be blocking their access.

I tried setting a door filter using "Type of Sim (Or)->Dead" but than didn't block the ghost.  I set the filters on all 6 doors on the exterior of the house with that filter, but the ghost just went right through the walls.  I'm not sure if that filter is correct, couldn't figure out how else to filter out ghost sims.  (edit:  when I apply that filter to the door I get a notification that the filter has no matches, even when the ghost is haunting.)

I thought an archway would work with door filters, but I'd have to enclose the kitchen off with walls first before going that route.  I'm going to hope setting their hunger motive static will work before I do anything that drastic. 

It was worth a try cause I wasn't sure if they fired the same pathing events to get into rooms even if they went through the walls. It looks like probably not.

Did the ghosts die of starvation? That could be the cause of it because I know ghost who died by fire are constantly showering.

Mandelyn post_id=60198 time=1542858992 user_id=176 wrote: Did the ghosts die of starvation? That could be the cause of it because I know ghost who died by fire are constantly showering.

 

Nope, they died of drowning.  These are Garcia and Florinda Torres from Isla Paradiso, parents of Matteo Torres (a premade sim in IP whom I'm playing). 

I tried setting their hunger motive to static via MC, but that didn't seem to stick.  When they eventually haunted (together, and subsequently woohooed ) I checked their SP sim settings to discover their hunger motive wasn't static.  Either I screwed something up or the change didn't stick.  I'll check the next time one of the haunts.