Partnerships

Foreword The goal was to implement an initial light version first, which can then be expanded step by step.

New Partnerships

• You can now enter a partnership with Sarah and James in Minestra.

The Partnership System

• Partnerships are not gender-specific. You can date whoever you want.

• You can now see who's dateable and who your active partners are in the reputation window.

• Dateable NPCs now have their own quests, reaction dialogs and gift tastes. These can be used to improve your reputation with them.

• Partnerships can be initiated at 90+ reputation.

• Partner specific quests do not grant XP.

• Starting a partnership unlocks an additional affection bar in the partner's reputation entry. This bar ranges from -100 to 100 and starts at a base value of 20. From this moment on, the reputation value is frozen. Daily interactions and gifts now affect affection instead of reputation.

• Active partners give daily gifts upon interaction if their affection is above a value of 50.

• Active life partners still live in their own houses and keep their usual daily schedules in this version.

• You can end a partnership at any time via dialogue. If you do, the reputation level will be reduced to 30.

• Should an active partner's affection fall too far (currently -100), they will break up with you. In this case as well, the reputation level will be lowered to 30.

• When a partnership ends, the NPC enters a breakup cooldown for approximately one month. Only after this period will they be open to communication and further reputation gains.

New

• Potion of Affection Increases the affection level of an active partner. Recipe available through a quest after reaching a reputation level of 40 with the witch.

Improvements

• Preparations were made for additional clothing items as well as a dyeing feature.

• NPC dialogue choice reactions moved from speech bubbles to the dialog window.

• To trigger an NPC's daily interaction flag, you can now simply press the action key (Default: F) as well.

• The sorting of available dialogues in the dialogue window is now better prioritized.

• Added various sound effects for specific actions.

• Dialogue system updated.

Shoppage

• Shop page updated.