Adventure Awaits Positive Thoughts Thread

Imaginary Friend Discord Q&A
SimGuruNova

Each of the four have a unique "Made Real" look that's consistent, based on their original Child (Imaginary) form. i.e. if you make Pretty Pegacorn real, she will always look like this at first. But once made real as a Teen, you can take them into CAS and customize if you wish, just like any other Sim!

Once your Child Sim that made an Imaginary Friend ages up to a Teen, if they were good enough friends with their IF, they can Offer to Make Real on the doll, which allows them to turn their IF into a real Teen Sim. So it's good incentive not to neglect or be mean to them as a kid.

Yes! Children will get a variety of different buffs/interactions unique to their Imaginary Friend. Other Sims will just see them talking to no one (like a Sim with the erratic trait,

By default, the IFs have the following personalities:
- Lil Monster: Goofball
- Pretty Pegacorn: Evil
- Krafty Kid: Creative
- Wild Child: Competitive

These, however, can be customized BEFORE turning the doll into the Imaginary Friend. So, any doll can have any personality! It's up to you 🙂

When you turn them into a real Teen Sim, they join the household, but as a roommate. You CAN adopt them into the family if you wish! It's up to you. They will have a randomized name (for a fresh start as a real Sim) but that's something you can always change in CAS to your heart's desire.

Can you have children with them?

When they become real? Sure! They're a real Sim. Just, you know, they have to become an Adult first lol

The personality will shape their entire set of interactions with the child! 

IFs will recommend different activities to do together based on personality - Creative IF will recommend arts and crafts, Competitive might recommend active activities or competitive ones like video games, Evil ones will recommend mischief and other bad behavior!

Also, if you have an Evil IF, the Child can practice Mean interactions on them, strengthening their relationship! The Evil IF will love it, and encourage it. Then, eventually, if the Child heeds the advice of the Evil IF enough, they will gain the Budding Evil Persona trait, which might allow them to discover the Evil trait when they age up to Teen 🙂 If they so choose...

Their human form outfits are unlockable in CAS if made real (or by cheating! but you didn't hear me say that)

One IF per child, and one IF per doll at a time. So, if you are unhappy with your IF - the Child always has the option to Say Goodbye Forever, and you can purchase a new doll to switch it up! (But, how could you!!)

For those of you asking about requirements to actually Imagine Up the imaginary friend as a Child (i.e. turn the doll into the IF)

Here's the full process of Build Mode to IF:
Buy the doll from Build Mode. The Child then can play with the doll as normal! Tell it secrets, pour their heart out, carry it around, etc. 

There is a requirement to make them into an IF:
- Reach Creativity Level 3
- Befriend the doll (as you play with it or talk to it, you will gain relationship! visible in the rel panel)
- Or, be suffering from loneliness, so much so that the Child needs a friend now 🙁 

Then, they can turn the doll into their IF.

Four designs, no recolors this time. We wanted to give a variety of options compared to the single model offered for TS3 imaginary friends - they're reflective of their default personalities and the diverse stories you'd wish to tell with them!

Can you order one as a gift from the phone or computer for your child?

 You could tell that story with a retail store!

Just Children can imagine up IFs, or see their own IFs. They are invisible to anyone else.

Do IFs attend high school?

Yep! they can, like any other Sim.

These are their teen forms. The Krafty Kid and Wild Child forms haven't been shared yet. Stay tuned 🙂

Fully player driven. There will not be random IFs running around rampant.

When made real, it can only be done with the Child who imagined them ages up. And then they become real as a Teen.

Alrighty folks, we've hit the time limit unfortunately!! This went by super super fast. Thank you all for your amazing questions - keep an eye out for the wrap-up summary + I will try to provide questions to the answers we didn't quite get to yet for that, if possible