Here's a quick preview of the upcoming friend screen:
The next release will have the basic functionality of the friendship system, but won't yet have any of the new scenes that'll be required. For now passive bonuses are all you get, but over the next few months I'll be adding lots more social activities.
Would you be able to break up with your boyfriend from this screen?
ReplyDeleteNo, proper breakups won't be added until the relationships major update. When they're in the game, they'll be available from the serious talk action when you're at home with him.
DeleteLooks awesome!
ReplyDeleteWould your boss from work be included in the friends screen, and have specific effects?
He wasn't going to be, but that's actually a really good idea, so I'm just adding it now.
DeleteI don't like that having the trait 'shy' only seems to have negative impacts.
ReplyDeleteWhat positive effects would you like to see?
DeleteMaybe it could give extra points to cuteness, if it doesn't?
DeleteIt does already. Not as many as the cute trait, but some;
DeleteHow about something like making males more conservative or macho in some situations?
DeleteThe main benefit I could see to shyness would be saving more money weekly due to the reduced expenses on social stuff. +15$ to weekly salary?
DeleteI also cannot see that shy persons have a smaller amount of friends. Actually, my best friends are kind of shy persons. Probably, it is harder for them to aquire new friends, but they migth have more solid friendships that remain active longer?
DeleteShy gives a larger bonus to relationship on making a new friend, and this also means it's easier to get to "close" relationship status and mitigate any negative friendship effects.
DeleteAside from that, I think I'll leave it as is for now. Thanks for the suggestions :)
Are friends going to be purely platonic? And will friends or romantic partners have opinions about other friends? It would be neat if the friendship update added a Jealous trait for guys who don't like how much time the player spends with their friends.
ReplyDeleteAnd can guys switch between friend and romantic partner?
Right now the friendship system is basically a way of formalising a high relationship with npcs, and doesn't have many in-scene effects - they're the same guys you meet in clubs and so on.
DeleteFor now the friends will continue trying to sleep with you just as much as they did before, but I'll let you tell them you want to be "just friends" in a release or two.
If a guy becomes your boyfriend he stops being a normal friend.
Also a suggestion for the Friends screen: put the NPC name first, and list their relationship to the player below, with no number. The number makes it seem like the player is making some sort of weird friend inventory.
ReplyDeleteAnd maybe add some different titles depending on how close to the player an NPC is, so that a romantic partner could be listed as "new boyfriend" or "soul mate" or a friend as "close friend" or "new friend". Stuff to make it seem like it's the PC's own reckoning of her relationships.
Sure, that sounds like something to try. I didn't end up using most of the specific suggestions for technical reasons, but I've put a few alternatives there.
DeleteAre homosexual relationships on their way? I can tell you for sure that if I were to suddenly find myself as a woman I'd at the very least be bisexual, if not a total lesbo.
ReplyDeleteLesbian content will be a major release, and I let voter patrons decide when those get done, so it'll depend on them.
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