The experimental and main branch are now the same again. In addition to the new Social features discussed in the last announcement, now your characters can gain the Grieving status effect if someone close to them dies. There are different ways they might choose to deal with this grief. If they decide to withdraw from the world, they will feel negatively towards social activities and positively towards sleeping for the duration of the grieving period.
Babies and children now get a bonus to compatibility with others. This effect will decay over time. It should solve the problem where "extreme" parents start hating their babies, but still allow teenagers to become less compatible with their parents.
Finally, I've added in a preliminary German translation to the game and set it up on Localizor for community suggestions on improvements. I'll be taking some time over the next few weeks to add Chinese and Japanese as well.
v0.62.29
Relationship Changes
- Overhaul Socials window and how characters interact with each other
- Add biological, legal, romantic and friendship relationships between characters
- Add new game character creation UI for setting up relationships
- Add gene marker to every character that gets passed on to biological children
- Add romantic attraction and functionality for pursuing someone romantically
- Add little icons to actions indicating how they affect opinion and romance between characters
- Implement functionality for characters on friends list to gain status effects
- Characters have a chance to gain different Grieving status effects when someone dies, depending on their relationships to dead character
- Split opinions into two - "my opinion of them" and "their opinion of me"
- Add Marriage passion and related goals/activities
- Add same-sex marriage legality to each city
- Allow enabling pregnancy when male selected instead of only when female selected
- Open To Meet defaults to turned on for new household members
- Add option to disable Open To Meet on popup when someone new is met
- Adopted child gets small opinion boost towards adopters
- Update help button information for Socials window
- Disabled kicking children out of household
Other Changes
- Add Thievery passion to TutorialVille map
- Add tutorial item for Passions
- Add button to change languages on main menu
- Add first version of German translation
- Change TutorialVille stock market generation to be same as other cities
- Change the word "person" to "character" in lots of places for consistency
- Limit max characters at new game character creation to 12
- Fix some inconsistencies in character creation screen display when deleting people
- Fix imported household missing character age display
- Fix passion goal action using passion's tooltip hint insted of action's tooltip hint
- Fix passion participants completing a goal doesn't reset participants to allow completing another goal in the same month
- Fix opinion and attraction values not transferred when importing household from a previous save
- Fix on Character Panel status effect tooltip always showing only one plus/minus symbol for needs/points changes regardless of severity of effect