This mod is meant to make Ghosts more enjoyable to play.
The first effect of the mod is giving Ghosts their very own energy bar:
Ghostly Energy
Ghosts use Ghostly Energy to exist in the livings world. They'll not have physical needs like hunger and bladder anymore (Pets don't have a custom bar, but they have some needs like hunger LOCKED, the energy, affection, bowel and fun still go down), instead they have this need that naturally goes down by day, and goes up at night. Different kind of ghosts have a different decay rate, and consume/recharge energy with their normal activities (all but humans):
Vampires: energy goes down a lot faster for ghosts vampires, but goes up a lot faster at night. They can still drink from sims to recharge energy, and use the dark meditation the same way as when they were alive, in addition to the standard ways a ghost can recharge (we'll see later)
Mermaids: energy goes down slower for them, they can recharge by swimming and taking baths, they use ghostly energy for mermaid powers instead of hygiene.
Witches: energy goes down slightly faster by day and up slightly faster by night. They use energy to cast spells and work magic. Build charge replaced with focus energy for ghosts, they can recharge a bit that way.
Aliens: energy goes down a lot slower.
Witches and Vampires have a night bonus. While normally they use ghostly energy to use powers and cast spells, none of this will have a cost at night.
Haunted houses: living in a haunted house will make energy go down slower and up faster for everyone. A ghost living in a haunted house will also get a +1 happy buff at night: happily haunting the place.
Ghostly energy is recharged for everyone in two ways:
Sleeping in a urn:
Ghost can only properly sleep in their own urn, they can rest in all the object they can normally possess to recharge a bit of energy (very little)
Draining Sims:
Possessing sims to drain energy from them is the faster way to recharge, it will drain their energy and reduce their lifespan, though.
Since this interaction was restricted to the murphy bed ghost and I used it for the drain sims system, this mod requires Tiny Living to work.
Ghosts can also declare their alignment:
Good ghosts will have a bonus interacting with the livings, while Evil ghost will unlock the option to kill a Sim the same way they died:
Evil and Mean sims cannot be Good Ghosts, Good and Proper sims cannot be Evil Ghosts.
There is also a new interaction if you click on your ghost to haunt the place:
They'll go around looking scary and scaring the shit out of sims while the lights go on and off for about a hour. This increases fun for them... and makes other sims panic.
Declaring the alignment is not required.
This mod requires the XML injector and Utility - Death Interactions to work.
In addition to the new features:
Added VFX and power cost to possess things, possessing things will have a will o wisp visual effect on top of the object (see the urn above) and will consume Ghostly energy, also added a cooldown for the autonomy.
Reworked outcome of maxis standard interactions: scaring sims will now... scare sims for real, the ghost will be playful, not embarrassed, the scared sim will be scared.
Reworked reaction to ghosts: seeing a ghost possessing stuff will not cause sims around to just be surprised, it will scare the shit out of them, causing them to panic and run away. Added a cooldown to the reaction and they should depend on relationship. If they have a good relationship with the ghost they should not react, in case you want a sim to live with ghosts.
Ghosts now have their own proper PieMenu: all the ghost interaction are moved under the ghost PieMenu.
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- Note: The Vampire Enabler package conflicts with Sunlight Weakness SIMS 3 Style that already includes it, so if you use that mod this package isn't required.
- Note that this mod doesn't support and never will support (none of my mods will ever support) hybrids. If your sim has two occult traits this mod will not know what to do and the UI will be broken.
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ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD: DRIVE
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UPDATE:
24/01/2023
