I have always played with the Imaginary Friend, and had my sims marry their IF, but this time around I did do not want that.So I learned how to delete the IF.For those of you who do not know this is how.Put the IF on the floordo tiestingcheatsenabled turego to build modethen hold down the shift key and click on the IF I am not sire if it was the Shift key and the Ctrl both but try bothit will come up to delete. It works as I have deleted them twice.

"Evalen;d-950420" wrote:I have always played with the Imaginary Friend, and had my sims marry their IF, but this time around I did do not want that.So I learned how to delete the IF.For those of you who do not know this is how.Put the IF on the floordo tiestingcheatsenabled turego to build modethen hold down the shift key and click on the IF I am not sire if it was the Shift key and the Ctrl both but try bothit will come up to delete. It works as I have deleted them twice.That can cause things to go wrong with your game. I think it causes glitches to happen.

That does work but like the above poster said, it can cause glitches. Evil beings, those IF’s are :angry: What I do as a workaround is I place any IF’s on the ground in the house that my sims live in so that way they aren’t in any inventories. Then, I move the family out of the house and move them into a new one. No more IF’s.Although the game does sometimes give them back to the kids again, as has recently happened in my save :s https://66.media.tumblr.com/25d587db8d21b64bcb23bc62b20f3379/tumblr_ph86udy3Kd1xq9hdmo3_r1_540.jpghttps://66.media.tumblr.com/781061799bb99635c176a43c302fa84b/tumblr_ph86udy3Kd1xq9hdmo4_r1_540.jpghttps://66.media.tumblr.com/44ce21fb660a0433175a4a40d21da88f/tumblr_inline_ph86tpCL8c1vhkp6x_540.gifEdited to add: Trying to kill the imaginary friend with meteors doesn’t work. Tried it three times but nothing. Dangit. All it did was burn up half the lot and a bunch of ‘You should be more careful next time’ from the firefighters :D

"Evalen;c-16811961" wrote:I haven't seen any glitches as yet, If so I will have to start my family over. hope notIdk exactly what types of glitches will happen, as I’m not as smart with that stuff as the others on here are. Lol. I imagine someone much more knowledgeable on the subject will be able to. *cough* @igazor *cough cough* :p

I think that until the IF becomes alive, it's just a toy like the teddy bear. Any time I see them, I always delete them with the NRaas Master Controllers object stats option. I've never had any problems from doing that, even in very long term saves.

If you have some nraas mods, there are settings to disable the chance of getting them. What I do with them if I forget to change the settings is, just make a small room and put the IF in there. Under the stairs works perfect :D

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LiniSim
6 years ago
"Evalen;c-16813570" wrote:
"nickibitsward;c-16813551" wrote:
I love them, they are creepy lovable. All my families with kids have them but I never make them real. With the help of Mr. Nasty from the Science Centre they are planning to take over the town.

@nickibitsward That is so funny, I too love them, but I always made my sims marry their IF, so this time I am trying not too. Love your little saying about Mr. Nasty, had a good laugh. by the way, when they turned real, they were very pretty, I did have to change their clothes, but that is true even when the sims aged up. Not sure who dresses them, but wow, they are always crazy, like slippers with a bathing suit.

My elder Sim, Mr. Nasty, is the mad scientist at the Science Centre in town, lol.
suzses
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
"nickibitsward;c-16813632" wrote:

Aw, how could you! The poor thing.

I know! I feel bad about it even now, years later. LOL
ZombiePary
Seasoned Novice
6 years ago
"suzses;c-16813639" wrote:
"nickibitsward;c-16813632" wrote:

Aw, how could you! The poor thing.

I know! I feel bad about it even now, years later. LOL

I don't feel sorry for it at all ! :D

You were able to bury IF's in the dirt once to get rid of them, I believe, but sadly that was fixed in a patch.
NikkeiSimmer
Rising Adventurer
6 years ago
"Pary;c-16813729" wrote:
"suzses;c-16813639" wrote:
"nickibitsward;c-16813632" wrote:

Aw, how could you! The poor thing.

I know! I feel bad about it even now, years later. LOL

I don't feel sorry for it at all ! :D

You were able to bury IF's in the dirt once to get rid of them, I believe, but sadly that was fixed in a patch.

Darn I wish that was still possible. >:)
Evalen306
6 years ago
"suzses;c-16813574" wrote:
My understanding is if you get the IF and delete BEFORE it's activated at all (starts to develop a life), it's OK to do then. So when it comes out of the mailbox and goes wherever it goes then - LOL - to the crib in the baby's inventory? - you can delete it. But, if the child has started to play with it already, it is then a "sim," and you will corrupt your game if you delete it like you would if you delete any sim.

I find IF's kind of creepy and annoying, so over time, I've tried all sorts of things to rid my games of them. Most of them don't really work all that well or all the time. At one point, any household I had where they were going to have kids, I'd get the no bills lifetime reward first and just never pick up the mail again until the kids turned to teens. If they moved, though, the IF's always managed to get out of that mailbox and go along.

In my case, moving them to an adult's inventory only works part of the time. They find a way back out of there periodically. I suspect Overwatch and/or Error Trap might be complicit in causing that to happen, but I'm not sure.

Here's a picture that will melt the heart of even a die-hard IF-ist like me. I can't exactly remember what this IF's situation was (he wasn't still in the mailbox so must have been locked up somewhere else), but when the family moved, this is what I found one day outside the gate to their old property:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4908/30779499137_6bd66355dd_b.jpg AbandonedIF

(Actually, I found him out there at night. I just brightened up the picture so you can actually see things.)

I am so glad that I deleted the house when I left him behind. if I had seen this, I would have given in and taken him back. The poor little guy. Makes me feel bad that I want to get rid of them. Might just change my mind after seeing this. But not until Billy marries and if they have a baby and along comes a IF I might just keep it. LOL
suzses
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
"Pary;c-16813729" wrote:

I don't feel sorry for it at all ! :D

You were able to bury IF's in the dirt once to get rid of them, I believe, but sadly that was fixed in a patch.

Haha. Oh, how I wish I hadn't missed out on that activity. I think I would have enjoyed it . . . just as long as I didn't see a picture of some buried sad looking IF somewhere.
suzses
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
@Evalen That is the only abandoned IF I have ever encountered. As I said, I really don't like them, but he did get to me.
jillbg
6 years ago
As long as you can keep the toddler from playing with it too much, it won't age up and will stay a toy. I place it somewhere and the kid doesn't seem particularly eager to pick it up to play with it. I think it's kind of cute as long as it stays a ragdoll! :)
karritz
New Spectator
6 years ago
And I just spent a few hours last night making a video of someone turning their IF real. The IF looked on throughout the process of discovering all 10 potions. Was really looking for the Young Again potion - that was needed urgently but the IF potion was discovered along the way so why not give it to the IF to drink? It was all good in the end.

https://i.postimg.cc/NMpLy3pm/Percy-And-Bobo005.jpg
NikkeiSimmer
Rising Adventurer
6 years ago
"Karritz;c-16824281" wrote:
"Nikkei_Simmer;c-16824226" wrote:

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@Karritz, now I'm curious. What happens if a regular sim drinks the IF potion? Probably nothing, but I guess EA missed making another great opportunity to give a regular sim the nausea moodlet.

It isn't easy to get the imaginary friend to drink it. I suspect it'd be impossible for any other type of sim to drink it. I think they can get nauseous from sufficiently numerous items. I like to give mine the strong stomach reward to prevent nausea.

@Karritz, I guess I cheat: the second that the IF goes from "doll" to "IF" I hit MC>Advanced>Add Sim>Homeworld to add him/her to the family. Then, of course, he's controllable. :D I like my IFs well-behaved, sort of curbs the desire to "lightning strike" them.