A mod idea about marriage candidates

[Quirinea]

I don't know how easy this would be to make (and whether it would require C#-coding), I've been doing just CP-mods. There are mods that add romance to more characters, so I suppose it's not impossible.
I think it feels silly that all the bachelors and bachelorettes dream of marrying the new farmer...
How about a mod that gives you only a few possibilities (and maybe of a bit larger pool -- especially I'm thinking of Clint and Sandy who make sense as characters)
My idea would be following:
1) give a number of possible candidates (maybe from one or two to six, or whatever
2) choose gender (bachelors, bachelorettes or both)
3) either ask for a random choice or pick manually a selection (in the latter possibility 2) is of course unnecessary)
The characters left out ould develop "normal" friendship.

BTW I've never liked it that the full friendship is 8 hearts for marriage candidates and 10 on the other townspeople. Base 10 (or whatever) for everyone and then extras for sweethearts would be more logical. Besides the difference messes up the NPC list, especially when you are nearing the full friendship for most and look whom to give gifts

 

[SomeoneEls]

I can see this being done in

*a class that implements this new data that reads from a stored json file/ text file
*Harmony patching to augment any hardcoded methods that are tricky to write around, like how freindship works [if applicable, might be]
*Transpliers as a last ditch resort if some part of a method is unruly and being a.. bad thing. [If applicable, probally isnt]
*Changing the data and diolouge using C#

So yeah. I think is totally possible. I did a little glimpse of the game methods and it looks like (don't quote me on this) that its mostly non hardcoded game data that needs to be changed. Of course, I might be wrong but it does seem like smooth sailing.

for anyone who might want to take this up, here are some resources.

StardewMods/ContentPatcher/docs/author-guide.md at develop · Pathoschild/StardewMods

Mods for Stardew Valley using SMAPI. Contribute to Pathoschild/StardewMods development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Modding:Modder Guide/APIs/Content - Stardew Valley Wiki

Creating SMAPI mods

stardewvalleywiki.com

And if you DO have to use harmony

Modding:Modder Guide/APIs/Harmony - Stardew Valley Wiki

Creating SMAPI mods

stardewvalleywiki.com

Namespace HarmonyLib

harmony.pardeike.net

Tutorial: Harmony Patching

The world of Harmony is a bit of a lawless land, but it's incredibly powerful. You can pretty much implement anything you want, but you can also break anything you want. With that in mind, you should begin by reading the main wiki's intro to Harmony to get you set up. This tutorial will focus on...

stardewmodding.wiki.gg

 

[Quirinea]

Yeah. I was thinking that as it is possible to add new characters as either romanceable or not, and there are a lot of mods that make this or that character romanceable it should be technically very hard (I haven't done any mods adding characters simply because I suck at graphics and don't want to make characters by making someone a twin with different hair colour)
Actually I wanted to throw this idea for anybody wishing to do a mod. I have a bunch of mods I should check and rerelease and haven't got the time and energy (I finally posted the update of Stardew Finnish, half-tested, I hope there aren't skeletons outside the mines....)