Getting Rid of Imaginary Friends

I didn't mind them usually until i went all pinnochio on them, made them real and found out they had evil and insane traits (my kids seemed to have an unusally high % of sociopathic imaginary friends).

If I was bored of them I'd usually just stick them in the family members inventory, I had one though that i renamed to a girls name (i think by default they seemed to be the same gender as the child?) and made her real when they were teenagers, went to prom together got married as young adults and went on to have half imaginary babies eventually. Go figure.

If u do stick them in his inventory if he has kids you can give it to the new kid to play with too.

Well, I have my game set up to only a 1% chance of them appearing. So, I can live with the very few I get. I like the hair color and eye color additions, that are typically, different from the kind I make from my sims, and if I feel I need some new funky genetics in my legacy, I'll use an imaginary friend. Overall, when I have 6 kids and 6 of them get them it's annoying, and unless I plan on making them real, they definitely NEVER leave the inventory. Sometimes, I get the option to give them away to people as gifts. If I really don't want a kid to play with them, I'll stick them on the roof, and just forget about them. lol

AS for your adult. Yeah... It needs to be sent away and then just toss it in the inventory and just go on with your life as if it never existed. (For me this some times can get annoying, because I like to keep my inventory nice and neat and clean with items that I know I will use.)

Overall, if I'm in a slow play type of mode, then yeah IF are cool. Otherwise.. If I have other plans they just get in the way.

Guaranteed to turn your sim into a lifelong schizophrenic.

I delete them immediately. I hate them. They are so creepy. And mean. I turned one IF into a sim, and he was really.....mean. so, I always get rid of them. I cheat to delete them.

Or, in a couple of saves I built a basement that no one can access (because I have issues with stairs) where I put all sorts of rewards & equipment that aren't currently in use, nectar racks, recolors that I didn't save & may want later, diplomas, degrees, etc. These holes in the ground also contain a number of unwanted IFs.

@Auroraskies - Mods (properly crafted ones, and suitable for current patch levels) do not corrupt games, nor do cheat codes. Not generally, anyway. The dolls can be safely object deleted using testingcheatsenabled and a shift-click if they have never animated. If they have animated at least once ever, then there is an underlying sim to go with that doll and force-deleting them will then cause problems.

NRaas MasterController offers a way to safely delete both the underlying sim and then the doll, and Retuner offers a way to reduce or eliminate the default chance (70%) of them ever appearing in the mailbox. But that of course won't do those averse to using mods any good.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Imaginary%20Friend

If you leave the doll in a mailbox and ever switch active households, it may try to animate in there and get stuck because it can't. That can cause severe game issues as well, although players won't see the errors actually reported on if they don't have NRaas ErrorTrap. I don't think that ignoring the mailbox completely is very good for the game's performance either as other things besides bills and dolls throughout the game are also sent to our sims by way of the mail system and they will get clogged up in there after long amounts of time.

I'm afraid the only "legitimate" way meaning no cheat codes, no force object deletion, and no mods, is to embrace the Imaginary Friends or get rid of the Generations EP and start a new game. There are many game features like this that players do not care for or do not care for the over the top ways in which they were implemented. But the ability fix or do away with many of these features using only in-game click interactions is very limited.

Cheats can be used to do improper things like force delete actual sims or have MoveObjects used on them (just a couple of examples). When one is still learning the game and their way about it, it can be difficult to know right away which things are perfectly safe to do vs. those that might be risky or downright should never be done.

Hiding the doll an in adult's inventory is fine, if you can get that to work. The worst thing that can happen is that it jumps out of there and into the toddler's arms anyway just to annoy you. :)

I didn't like them. They were a cute idea, but they often blocked your child from leaving their bed (if the bed didn't have access on both sides) and the fact that they didn't leave completely once your child was a teen. If by the second day of their 'teen life' if you didn't change them into a real sim, they should have disappeared entirely. I personally using testing cheats to delete them if I have a child who gets one because I can't stand them.

Basically, they were not well programmed. Your toddler/child/teen sim will often ignore everyone completely to build a relationship with the imaginary friend, while their relationship with their actual family suffers (if you allow freewill on High to dominate and don't interfere with their interactions with the doll at all). It could have been a nice addition if well done but...wasn't.

I generally wait until the IF turns back into a doll & then stick it into the Sim's inventory.

"KiwiSyd1202;817366" wrote:
Now my sim is a young adult. The imaginary friend is bothersome, always wanting to pillow fight or talk. Is there a way to get rid of these imaginary friends?

In the past I've turned them real with the potion from the chemistry set and kicked them out like any other sim. That's at the YA stage. Otherwise I'll have the child/teen sim ask them to go away and they'll turn into a doll which I'll stick into their inventory.

I didn't like the IMs overall. They are nice when the sim is a child - he or she always has someone to play with. But as teens or older there should have been a "goodbye" option that would send the doll away. I eventually got a mod that stopped babies from getting them in the first place. I tend to play large overstuffed families and having so many IMs would create too much chaos, particularly in regards to routing.