Character relationships?

[FallenArisen0990]

Awesome input.

This would be nice but the only problem is, these quests would then have to be label's missible or said NPC can't "die" because it would just be another Culinary Lv 50 all over again lol. The other option would be to make these quest mandatory. I always did love the little side quests in JRPGs where you did get to learn about the characters more (Mana Khemia <3).

[Reaperking386]

Maybe unethical to settle down until the world is safe again... But why is it unethical for the Hero to fall in love?

You are a high profile target and the last line defense as the hero of light. Anything that happens to your "lover" could have ramifications that could lead to siding over to darkness. Pretty much ending the game. It also becomes probelemic for developing characters the way the creators need them in order to propel the story. In order to kill character X you will have to not be romantically involve with them. This gives away set ups for betrayal and deaths to improve your character.

If they do kill them or make them evil you will have a back lash from those players trying to build a relationship with that character. If they do they now to have to make 2 - 3 different avenues to fit this into the stroy. How do you cope with the lost to not go over to darkness vs not losing them and not coping with the lost. There is a lot of issues with adding this element to the game this late. It is best in my opionion to make this a holiday event, but not cannon. I have no issue with this daiting sim, but it should not be anything that would cause to the story to adjust for this. I would love to be the ruby princess' Senpai, but we all must make sacrifices in order to save the other 6 parallel worlds.

[FallenArisen0990]

I would love to be the ruby princess' Senpai, but we all must make sacrifices in order to save the other 6 parallel worlds.

I'm still mad that Dev... and Po.... I mean the Ruby princesses didn't sing me a Song about the Ancients.

[Anarnee]

We do have relationships with the scions, its called friendship.

[Averax]

You can have romance options with other players. there's a whole ceremony surrounding it.

Alphinaud if your character was a girl then Alisae if you were a guy.

They are 16 years old, man.

We do have relationships with the scions, its called friendship.

I ship the WoL with friendship

[Dameron]

[Meraii]

They are 16 years old, man.

They were 16 at the start of ARR, they are 18 now (they are pretty ovbiously not fully grown yet though).

I personally think that relationships with NPCs dhould be left to the player's imagination. It is very easy to imagine that Aymeric has a thing for me, SE doesn't need to make it explicit.

I do like the idea of having more side quests revolving around building up friendships with the characters, and even non-canon storylines for seasonal events though.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

I do like the idea of having more side quests revolving around building up friendships with the characters, and even non-canon storylines for seasonal events though.

^ I actually would be more satisfied with this; it would be a lot of fun seeing your favorite character(s) appear in seasonal events - last year's Starlight Celebration was a perfect start

[EdwinLi]

I would greatly enjoy this if it was a Side storyline that acts as a Post-X.0 Side storyline.

They can have the character that appears being based on the intro choices players pick like back when WoL had to pick their 1.0 companion in 1.0. Events follow mostly the same but some scenes and dialogue can be adjusted based on the NPC depending on their Gender, Race, Personality chosen, and Class/Job (DoW/DoM or DoL/DoH).

With this being a Side Storyline that updates every expansion they don't need voice actors for it and can be a Extra Storyline players can choose to go through or not.

This would also allow the develoeprs to create a separate life for the "Romanced" NPC while the WoL is living their separate life as the Warrior of Light thus preventing the issue that the WoL and the chosen Romance are being forced to be together most of the time as if they can't have a life without each other always being together.

Having a relationship in the MSQ would greatly limit the developers ability to develop the chosen Romanced NPC and also limited who can and cannot die in the storyline.

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

I can see it for maybe side characters that don't have strong story relevance, but not from the scions. Maybe that one npc that you like the design of at the market place. You can start up a social link like quest chain where you help them do different things and build up affinity with them eventually leading to a higher level of relationship. Or create npcs specifically for this.

It won't work on scions or important npcs due to them possibly dying n stuff. It would make for interesting dialogue changes though. It would just be to limited.

other things that could be incorporated through this
companion system - allow you to take the npc with you to fight alongside one another outside of dungeons, raids, etc.
a quest (daily?) - where you do things with your partner whether it is fighting monsters, crafting, or gathering, etc.