Getting Rid of Imaginary Friends
I found the imaginary friends in the Generations really cool when my sim was a child. Now my sim is a young adult. The imaginary friend is bothersome, always wanting to pillow fight or talk. Is there ...
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@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.
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.
