Ghost Photo during Ghost Event

[VulgarMonkey]

Are you able to satisfy "take a photo of the ghost" if you capture it during a Ghost Event? For clarity; the ghost event, which actually happened twice, was the ghost standing in the corner singing. I took multiple photos, each time, but was met with a variety of 'interaction' starred photos and no "take a photo of the ghost" tick.

Could the photo have prioritised an interaction also in-shot? A shut door, or turned off light perhaps which I'm getting recognition for instead of the ghost? Otherwise do I have it wrong and ghost events are 'interactions' too and don't count towards the ghost photo?

Ghost was both translucent and a silhouette on separate occasions, and was also a Demon, if that mattered.

[Watcher Rat]

Ghost event is, in fact, the best time to try for a ghost photo (excluding nabbing a DOTS ghost photo), but the photo system CAN be a little hit and miss. For instance, if there is disturbed salt in the same photo, the game might register the wrong thing as being the target of the photograph and give you a worse star rating. If you took a photo and got an interaction instead of the ghost, then you just got one of those unlucky moments where something else had happened in the same spot.

It's an unfortunate reality of the game's coding for now, but can be mitigated by a certain amount by trying to snap photos of certain things early on (like the aforementioned salt pics) so that the photo only has one possible thing to choose from.

Edit: Also, the appearance of the ghost during a photo doesn't matter - it can be the translucent shadow, or the full on farmer blocking the TV like a jerk. Some events are harder to get photos of than others, but you start to learn the long ones. If an event ends just before the photo, that will give you an interaction as well (not to be confused with the Phantom vanishing when a photo is taken, which should still give a 3-star photo for the ghost)

[VulgarMonkey]

Originally posted by Watcher Rat:

Ghost event is, in fact, the best time to try for a ghost photo (excluding nabbing a DOTS ghost photo), but the photo system CAN be a little hit and miss. For instance, if there is disturbed salt in the same photo, the game might register the wrong thing as being the target of the photograph and give you a worse star rating. If you took a photo and got an interaction instead of the ghost, then you just got one of those unlucky moments where something else had happened in the same spot.

It's an unfortunate reality of the game's coding for now, but can be mitigated by a certain amount by trying to snap photos of certain things early on (like the aforementioned salt pics) so that the photo only has one possible thing to choose from.

Edit: Also, the appearance of the ghost during a photo doesn't matter - it can be the translucent shadow, or the full on farmer blocking the TV like a jerk. Some events are harder to get photos of than others, but you start to learn the long ones. If an event ends just before the photo, that will give you an interaction as well (not to be confused with the Phantom vanishing when a photo is taken, which should still give a 3-star photo for the ghost)

Thanks for clarifying. I think I just got unlucky then.

Funnily enough, and kind of what started me believing ghost events might not count towards ghost photos (for whatever reason), is I've captured a photo of a Phantom where it didn't disappear. It's shadowy figure still clearly visible in the photo, which was tagged as 'interaction', after a ghost event. Interesting that the Phantom's 'ability' to disappear is tied to a photo registering as a 'ghost photo', and not simply the Phantom's model not showing up in all photos. But alas another case of getting a moved door in-frame or something.

Still some things to iron out before 1.0 I guess.