I'm playing a... challenge sorta thing, that involves a lot of sims dying and their graves staying on the lot (don't ask lol). The problem is, they are coming out and haunting people A LOT. Is there any way to reduce this? I've read somewhere that it had to do with how often they get mourned, but can you undo it? I'm fine with using SimPE, I just don't want to have to move them off the lot completely. I'd like to reduce the haunting to a more normal amount. Any ideas?

Part of the challenge is usually why you have to leave the graves on the lot. The challenge is surviving even with the hauntings.

Assuming this is allowed in your challenge - do you have room to put a moat around the graveyard? I've heard ghosts don't cross pond water, so a moat made that way might keep them from leaving the cemetery.

Do you know about Cyjon's Ghost Hack? http://www.cyjon.net/node/188
It is not simply reducing the number of scares, but balances quite a few things, so it might still be helpful. I'm playing a challenge, where I keep all the graves on the lot (one of my households has graves of 6 sims aged teen and older), as well and while I get a couple of scares most nights (with the hack in place), I don't feel like it is too often or annoying.

Charity, I really don't know why you'd answer just to say to not do the thing someone asked help with...

Thanks for the ideas. I'm gonna try the moat and the ghost hack. I would still like a way to "reset" it on these graves specifically, just in case anyone else comes in and knows an answer to that. but these 2 solutions will do.

You could also have sims mourn the grave, this keeps them from spawning all the time. I'm not sure of the time limit, but I think it's at least a few days for the 'mourned' grave. (:

Duine its every 3 days to keep the ghost happy.

Isn't it the other way around? I read that mourning the grave makes them come out more, and started having sims mourn the graves... a lot. Now I have this ghost problem

No, mourning at the grave will make the ghost stay home but it must be done ever 3 days, now if you have angry ghost then you will need to do it every other day to keep them at bay.
This must be done for each stone or urn you have on your lot.

From the Wiki.

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Ghost

Pretty sure there's a relationship component to how effective mourning is: it doesn't work as well if the mourner didn't know the deceased sim well.

ETA: In other words, that makes mourning less useful in challenges and the like where there end up being graves of sims that the controllable sim(s) might not have been close to. I've always wondered whether this was supposed to add dimension to things like the premade occupied lots with home family cemeteries---like, so the family members could have a better shot (through mourning) at getting their ancestors to stay calm (and not haunt so often) than someone like Olive Specter would.

I don't know if this is compatible with your challenge, but Pescado made a ghost-busting aspiration reward painting. Hang one of these in any room you want to ban ghosts from entering. It's an aspiration reward that costs 12000 points. I've had this in my game for awhile now, but have never gotten around to actually using it. Here's the description:



http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...topic,63.0.html

It's not actually a challenge, I just called it that for simplicity's sake. It's a thing I started to get rid of some overpopulation while playing, and with rules - rather than spawning Rodney's death creator and cheating them all to death.
It's just no one EVER survives being called in to participate in my hunger games because of that ghost problem

Anyway, I can use whatever the hell I please and that Ghost Buster thing seems like a good idea.

Also never ever sell the bed the ghost use to sleep in or they will haunt those sims with a vengeance.

Don't make the ghosts angry. Things like kicking the tombstone, selling their bed or their spouse getting in another relationship make them angry. I played the Caliente family and let Dina make out with Don right next to Michael's urn. Big mistake, haha. Michael's ghost FREAKED. If you want the spouse to get married or in a relationship again, move the tombstone to a community lot. NEVER DELETE TOMBSTONES OR URNS. It will corrupt your neighbourhood.

If you have Pescado's nounlinkondelete, it should be safe to delete tombstones. You should have that mod anyway since it prevents the ghost's file from getting shredded if the tombstone is moved to a cemetery lot. (I don't know if Maxis ever fixed that bug, but I suspect not.)

Because you said that you were doing a challenge and they often have rules that don't allow you to make it easier. Now you've said that it wasn't actually a challenge then there are plenty of options that people have given you.

I have a graveyard in my lots and houses bin, that is surrounded by a moat, and has a bridge crossing it, so visiting Sims can visit their "dearly departed". Keeps ghosts in the graveyard where they belong. No worrying about ghosts returning to the house.