Do you use imaginary friends?

"Chrissatodd1;c-16479232" wrote:
I just turned my IF real when my daughter was a kid so she didn't grow up with her as the doll and then i changed his traits so he wasn't insane or a moocher then changed his name to steve rogers and married him off to my daughter, he has green hair, and he is cute now as a young adult. But when i got the doll it's name was plum lol creepy. when he was the doll he'd keep booby trapping all the things. lol

This is an old thread but I've never managed to make one of my IF's real. My Sim had the skill and the potion but I just never got the option, don't know if it's because I play with Aging off or not.

I'd like to do it, may try again.

I actually despise them with a passion. The toddlers constantly singing to them is like nightmare fuel. I've aged them into children a couple of times and will usually marry them to the kid they matched with. Once the IF fell in love with his brother, that was entertaining. I use Nraas Returner to get rid of them and I'm a much happier person now.

I used Retuner to get rid of them in my newer games, too.

In my older games there are a lot of IFs made real, and I have entire families made up of IFs in one of my older games. I should get back to that save just to see whether born-in-game IF babies get creepy dolls from Aunt Sally, too!!!

You know, I actually don't mind them. They're kinda cute in a creepy sort of way, and they fit for some of my kids' personalities. I just like being able to choose which kids have them and which don't, so I installed a mod for that.

I finally got one to turn from the doll to the Imaginary Friend. I had turned Aging back on so that might have been the problem.

Yes, I use them regularly. It saves having to find a partner for your sim.... Lazy yes. Imaginary friends can be hard work. The later you change them to a real boy or girl the worse their personality traits. They are like toddlers who were never potty trained or kids who never went to school, and as a result they tend to have adverse traits. You will need to reprogram them, either with a cheat or a mod, or if you are going to play by the rules - you have to get them a lot of lifetime award points so they can choose a new personality. You can't change them to a witch or a vampire or a were or a fairy. They are forever "imaginary friends" with no great talents except for turning into an adult sized strutting doll. Unless, again, you use a mod or a cheat, but what then, is the point of the exercise? I do have one very old imaginary friend who actually has crayon scribbles all over her back and arms. She's an antique. The modern imaginary friends do not come with cartoon scribbles.

Another disadvantage of an imaginary friend is that its child has to spend hours as a toddler and young child befriending it and building the friendship to the point where the child gets the option to turn the toy real. And for that you need an adult in the household with enough skill at the potions bench to make the conversion potion. The sooner the toy is converted the nicer the personality, but in the meantime your real kid has wasted time when he or she could have been reading skill books, playing with blocks or learning to cook. It can set back your real child's learning progress and if you are letting your sims age and die it will possibly hinder their career progression. A properly skilled child starts with cookery and handiness advantages, can paint, do exercise - if they spend hours with their imaginary friend none of those skills are acquired.

Yuck! They are too creepy.

"Earcat;c-16518454" wrote:
Yuck! They are too creepy.

I've turned all my toddlers and child's dolls into Imaginary Friends (but not real) and made them part of an insidious plot by the Dr. Terrible Science Centre to take over the town, lol.

Nick your kitten is adorable but he looks likes he's asking you to take that hat off his head!

"Earcat;c-16536195" wrote:
Nick your kitten is adorable but he looks likes he's asking you to take that hat off his head!

He's outgrown the hat now.