Heart Events - Suggestion

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I‘ve seen many people wanting more player-involved heart events at least for romance-able NPCs. I enjoy the scenes we already have, but I have been thinking about it and have a suggestion - please share your opinions!

I think it would be cool if some heart events craved multiple peoples hearts to be up. Here are examples (and I do not exactly know what heart events people want changes, so they are just randomly chosen and marked with spoilers):

The example of having a player-focused-heart event could be Zarah.
I‘m only where I ||found the treassure map pieces and then|| went to her boat; I have not gotten further along. It is very us-centered, working together on something and thus fostering a relationship.

Mark is also on a good way. I‘ve had him looking for ||his stray after|| it ||ran away|| and I do believe that we connect a bit. We could be more involved, but it‘s - again - centered on the two of us. Only the 4-heart scene ||where he accidentally gives the dog something it‘s allergic to|| bothered me a bit, ||because I don‘t recall being there myself? It was mostly focused on him, not US, if that makes sense||.

Then we have Scott. Scott‘s first two events would - in my opinion - be better as group events. ||First he crashes Millies computer, then he asks Lily for help||. It would make sense here to also need a certain amount of hearts for at least Lily; it already feels like a group-slice-of-life-event, not like a romance-heart-event. The event was fun in and of itself, but it is also one of the examples where it could be fun to switch it up a bit.

The same can also work for non-romancable NPCs btw! I believe that it is Archies heart-events ||where he finds a bird and Dinda helps him with trying to rescue it|| that often involve more than just him. It would be nice if it was a heart event that was MAINLY for him, but we would also need to be close to e.g. his mom.

This might be too complicated or time consuming for some players, so feedback would be great. I personally think it would give great motivation to befriending the characters, who absolutely are one of the main draws of the game.

Please share your thoughts and stay friendly in the discussion ✨ I hope my explanation made sense!

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