Kids playing with deleted imaginary friend!

Missa_Sissa

I hate the imaginary friend doll from Generations because it seems all my kids wanna do is play with it. So, I end up object deleting it as the game won't let you sell it. For some reason, this hasn't worked. My sim still plays with his doll, as does his little sister and it comes up truly imaginary.



I don't know how to delete or fix this issue, as the doll is somehow still stuck in their inventories though it doesn't show it. Any ideas?

igazor

Uh-boy.

Rule # 1 - Never object-delete sims of any kind. That deletes their body, but their sim data remains in the game and can lead to things from funny looking situations to total game save corruption.

Corollary # 1.1 - An Imaginary Friend once they have ever been animated is two things -- a doll (object) and a sim with an occult state, and should therefore never be deleted as if they were a toy.

The safe way to delete IFs is to use MasterController to Totally Annihilate the sim (Edit: I mean the IF sim, not your child!), from City Hall/computer filtering to Service Sims if necessary, and object delete the doll.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Imaginary Friend

If you use NRaas MC, maybe you can still do the TA step now? Otherwise you would have to revert to a save from before you object deleted the doll and handle this another way.

Missa_Sissa

igazor wrote: »

Uh-boy.

Rule # 1 - Never object-delete sims of any kind. That deletes their body, but their sim data remains in the game and can lead to things from funny looking situations to total game save corruption.

Corollary # 1.1 - An Imaginary Friend once they have ever been animated is two things -- a doll (object) and a sim with an occult state, and should therefore never be deleted as if they were a toy.

The safe way to delete IFs is to use MasterController to Totally Annihilate the sim, from City Hall/computer filtering to Service Sims if necessary, and object delete the doll.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Imaginary Friend

If you use NRaas MC, maybe you can still do the TA step now? Otherwise you would have to revert to a save from before you object deleted the doll and handle this another way.

Will totally annihilating my sim reset it, or kill it? The phrase doesn't exactly sound comforting, but I will do it if I have to.

Cororon

Missa_Sissa wrote: »

Will totally annihilating my sim reset it, or kill it? The phrase doesn't exactly sound comforting, but I will do it if I have to.

It will remove it completely from the game. All its data.

Missa_Sissa

Cororon wrote: »

Missa_Sissa wrote: »

Will totally annihilating my sim reset it, or kill it? The phrase doesn't exactly sound comforting, but I will do it if I have to.

It will remove it completely from the game. All its data.

Will it kill my sim though?

Cororon

Missa_Sissa wrote: »

Cororon wrote: »

Missa_Sissa wrote: »

Will totally annihilating my sim reset it, or kill it? The phrase doesn't exactly sound comforting, but I will do it if I have to.

It will remove it completely from the game. All its data.

Will it kill my sim though?

No, only the one you choose to use TA on. In your case the Imaginary Friend, if you can find it in the list. When you have used TA it can take a little while until it's done, so play for maybe 5 minutes and then save the game as "Save As" and give it a new name, just to be safe.

igazor

Yeah, wait a minute here. I'm not talking about TAing your child sim! I'm talking about TAing the Imaginary Friend sim.

The point that is difficult for some players to see is that IFs ARE sims in their own right, once they have been animated the first time. And TA doesn't kill anyone (that would leave a dead sim behind), it arranges it so it is as if they never existed in the first place.

Missa_Sissa

igazor wrote: »

Yeah, wait a minute here. I'm not talking about TAing your child sim! I'm talking about TAing the Imaginary Friend sim.

The point that is difficult for some players to see is that IFs ARE sims in their own right, once they have been animated the first time. And TA doesn't kill anyone (that would leave a dead sim behind), it arranges it so it is as if they never existed in the first place.

That's pretty handy. So I can find the imaginary friend in this list and get rid of it. Awesome.

Missa_Sissa

So, as it turns out, I am unable to use TA on Nraas to delete the imaginary friend, as he doesn't show up. Annoying. Oh well, my kid sim doesn't really play with it much anymore and my toddler sim I just stop from doing so. Maybe there's a mod out there to stop imaginary friends and all the interactions out there?

igazor

http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Imaginary Friend

KhemKat19

I usually just put the doll in the parent's inventory and never have a problem

Missa_Sissa

igazor wrote: »

http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Imaginary Friend

I got a mod for it.

fleshjenn

lol I hate the imaginary sims too, I tried taking the doll to france and leaving it, but it wouldn't let me set it down anyplace. so I usually do the same as @KhemKat19 and stick it in my adult sims inventory and ignore it forever.

xxnearlyperfectx

igazor wrote: »

Uh-boy.

Rule # 1 - Never object-delete sims of any kind. That deletes their body, but their sim data remains in the game and can lead to things from funny looking situations to total game save corruption.

Corollary # 1.1 - An Imaginary Friend once they have ever been animated is two things -- a doll (object) and a sim with an occult state, and should therefore never be deleted as if they were a toy.

The safe way to delete IFs is to use MasterController to Totally Annihilate the sim (Edit: I mean the IF sim, not your child!), from City Hall/computer filtering to Service Sims if necessary, and object delete the doll.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Imaginary Friend

If you use NRaas MC, maybe you can still do the TA step now? Otherwise you would have to revert to a save from before you object deleted the doll and handle this another way.

I have learnt something today! Never delete imaginary toys!