Self actualization events for NPCs

[Maher]

So, your PC is married and you are at 8 hearts with the dateable villagers. Friendship decay has stopped and they count towards perfection. But . . . you can progress them to 10 hearts and instead of getting a romance event you get to see them achieve a personal goal. Like Sebastian rides off to Zuzu city and sometimes calls with fun Zuzu city facts, or Maru gets a grant to develop an AI controlled deep space probe and sets up a lab in the quarry, or Emily marries Clint and you get to dance at their wedding. And so on. And of course since 8 hearts stops decay and counts toward perfection, you can maintain any characters you wish to in an available state.

I think this would enrich the stories of those characters without them just lingering in stasis for you rather than getting on with what could be interesting lives.

 

[Freizeitfarmer]

Nice Idea.
But it's a lot to program and to text when all none dated/Bouquet given marriage candidates behave different than today but still should have a story.