Multiplayer Interactions and relationships

CptPICHU

Greenhorn
Hi farmers! ^-^
So i played a lot of Stardew recently with my girlfriend. The possibility to marry other players is pretty awesome. Needles to say that we did so.
But there are some things... i think could be there to make it much more fun. So i wanna share some ideas i have for improving player-player interactions!

Kissing your player-spouse
It should be possible, since there is no reason for it being not present.
It would work exactly the same as with your NPC-Spouse.
-Could be triggered by simply interacting with your player-spouse.
-Both players would freeze in movement for the duration of the kiss - playing the animation.
-There should be a cooldown for it to not annoy players with that.

Player heart-meter
Would be awesome if there was a heart-meter just like with NPCs with other players.
Filling those up could be done by interactions between players like: Trading items, kissing (when married), working on the farm near each other, participating in events together like: mining, flower dance, … i think u understand. Of course there should be a limit to how muchheart-points you can earn on a single day. Based on the counts of hearts, players could get benefits when doing this together like: slightly increased luck, chance of better quality products by doing farmwork together, +0,25 damage resistance/heart - something like this.
You can look at this idea as a bond of friendship or love which strengthens players in different things, when working as partners.

Girl/Boyfriend players
So you can date NPCs with the bouqet. Why not other players?
The procedure could be one of those two: Possible anytime by just offering a bouqet. Or you could combine this with the player heart-meter idea + bouqet. Dating would allow you to kiss a player but not having children and also not receiving the marriage-stardrop fruit. Also it would allow you to use my next idea. The player to accept your bouqet then is declared as your boy/girlfirend in the social tab.

Going on a date
So, i dont exactly know how and if this happens everytime you get really close to a NPC (not played for very long) but there is a cutscene where you go on a dinner with your partner in the Saloon. I feel like some things like this could also be possible. Meeting up and going out - between players. This would also add up to the player heart-meter idea.

Punishment for cheating
(If something like this already exists and i’m not aware, please inform me about that)
This should be a thing. While officially breaking up is pretty fine, cheating on your partner or even spouse should be punished. I thought about it when you try to get very close to someone while already in a relationship. There should be decreased luck for some time or something like that. Just some way of the game to tell you: Dude, that was not very cool of you. You hurt someones feelings.


These are some things that came to my mind, i wanted to share with ya.
Primarly i really would like to hear what you think about it. Do you think different? Or like it? Maybe any additions? I’m looking forward for what y’all think!

And please - even if not with my ideas - make player marriage more fun! :) <3
Really excited for 1.5 already. Hope some of my ideas may inspire something? Lets see.

Have a wonderful day and stay healthy guys! <3
-Pichu
 

Losermac

Sodbuster
I haven't been able to experience multiplayer, mostly because I have no one to play with... but these sound like awesome ideas! Especially the "Punishment for cheating" section all that I think needs to be in the game in some form another. There is kind of some punishment, but it might be interesting if your spouse can divorce YOU if you continue cheating on them. Idk if that's a thing already though... Anyway, hope people see this!
 
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CptPICHU

Greenhorn
@Odin so you CAN kiss other players in mutiplayer?
And for the cheating thing - is this when married or also when dating?
Because if that is so, its nice and i did not know :)
 

tommybob

Planter
@Odin so you CAN kiss other players in mutiplayer?
And for the cheating thing - is this when married or also when dating?
Because if that is so, its nice and i did not know :)
Yeah there is a jealousy mechanic where your partner will make comments and you can lose 3 hearts I think.
 
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