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SeaFoamSim9
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5 months ago
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[AA] Imaginary Friends Can't Be Summoned/No Pie Menu Options

Hello, 

Two of my children in the same household both got ImagineMe Dolls (Wild Child & Krafty Kid). When one child turned Wild Child into an Imaginary Friend, it seemed to be working fine, but he disappeared randomly and I had zero way of summoning him. Even the pop-up from the doll claiming he wanted to be summoned did not work to let him be summoned. I tested Krafty Kid with the other child and Krafty Kid only barely popped into existence before disappearing without any sort of interaction and there's no way for me to summon her back. 

I checked the pie menu on the dolls and the children. There's no option to summon them and the notification with the button to summon doesn't work. The children also barely play with the ImagineMe Dolls when the dolls are in doll mode. The animation is maybe a couple seconds real time. 

No CC or mods installed.

Photos included for reference: 

Krafty Kid appearing for a second (she disappeared immediately after this, but I wasn't expecting that so I did not get a screenshot).Children's pie menu when they are the active sim, with no option to 'summon Imaginary Friend' in any sectionImagineMe Doll with no option to summon after being made an Imaginary Friend--this pie menu is the same within and outside the inventoryThe Summon Imaginary Friend notification with an option to click "Summon Imaginary Friend" that doesn't work

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  • I'm having the same problem. When I played yesterday my sim child was best friends with her Imaginary friend. Then she went to school and the Imaginary disappeared. And today the doll only gives me these options and her friendship is also gone with my sim child. I had her interact with it for hours but nothing changes. I'm on PC and have no mods or CC and I own all the packs.

    EDIT: I deleted my cache files and repaired my game and now my sim can summon the imaginary friend again, but the relationship had to start all over again.

  • chuyfa's avatar
    chuyfa
    Seasoned Observer
    5 months ago

    I'm having the same exact issue, I play on PS5

  • vmgk's avatar
    vmgk
    New Spectator
    5 months ago

    Having the same issue here. They'll just disappear from the actual game mode if you dont interact with them for like 20 real life minutes. I have my child's one on the fireplace and i can only interact with it in build/buy mode and it just disappears straight after. 

  • Similar problem here but it may have been because I got too comfortable. I placed bunch of imaginary dolls on a playground lot and made my sim turn one into an imaginary friend but the problem was the friend looked like a normal sim - tried to figure it out - found it may be because of tray import setting being to 100 and the game picked a random sim from tray - I reduced it to 70 another issue is that the doll disappeared from the lot and now I get these notifications like the doll was bound to a child somehow even though it's not in the inventory. Oh and also trying to reset my child sim, removing buffs, doesn't do anything. Whenever I get the new krafty doll it just says not owned even though it's bought on the home lot - weird and I seemingly can't figure out the workaround. So sad :/

  • SeaFoamSim9's avatar
    SeaFoamSim9
    Seasoned Rookie
    5 months ago

    Oh! Sorry I didn't mention. I'm on the EA app, using a Windows PC. Let me know if you need anymore info.

  • Corazon1249's avatar
    Corazon1249
    New Spectator
    5 months ago

    I have the same issue. My Sims barely interacted with their imaginary friends. 

  • I'm having a similar issue. Traveling somewhere without the imaginary friend in your inventory seem to mess them up somehow. My child sim went to the park and I got a message saying the imaginary friend got sent to the inventory. But after that I cannot summon the imaginary friend anymore. I already lost two IM's because I forgot to bring them with me. 

    Edit: 

    Oh, and the imaginary friends also disappear from the childs relationship panel. 

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