Community Suggestion: Relationship overhaul for families
Relationship overhaul for families
Feature Upgrade · Family trees · Created by Bleichmeister
accepted
Relationship Family-Trees
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
I can only add to a character his parents or adopted parents. I cannot address this quickly with siblings, grandparents, uncles or cousins...
How does this feature request address the current situation?
Normally I need to go to the regular relationship and define a familial tie which is either by marriage or siblings. Anything else must be done manually. The worst part is that it adds the header into the article which I don't want.
Furthermore, I have a mother of 10, 5 of which are characters. In the mother's article I can only see the first I defined as a child.
What are other uses for this feature request?
A more fluid and quick way to establish family ties, without the discomfort of full relationship headers.
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll upgrade the relationship system in a future update, but the solution will most likely not be what you're suggesting so we're accepting this under investigation. To explain why trees work like this currently: Family trees are based on parental relationships (and only parental relationships) because when you're creating a tree, you start at a point and proceed to branch out. Setting up a sibling without parental ties would create a free-floating branch, which the system wouldn't be able to display. It's simply not technically possible with the family tree system we're using, which automatically generates the visual representation based on the data you input. That said, we will upgrade family trees in the future to make them easier to use and make its UI clearer. If you'd like to create a family tree freely without these constraints, you can also use Whiteboards.
Current score
35/300 Votes · +7208 points
Votes Cast
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+300
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by Jupiter Melichios
on 2025-01-07 20:11I know reviewing the family and relationships system is on the upcoming features list, but i can't stress how much more user-friendly this would make the whole site for me!
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+300
by Nessus
on 2025-01-07 06:03 -
+300
by IBB
on 2025-01-04 20:04 -
+300
by Alexandria the Great
on 2025-01-03 05:52 -
+300
by Fearandramen
on 2025-01-02 02:06 -
+100
by vergildicawthe
on 2025-01-01 22:52 -
+300
by LordBloodySoul
on 2025-01-01 21:04Would love an extension of this, since some of my characters relations and relationships are very complex and spread out. Like one character had multiple different foster parents, another has different oath brothers and sister, and yet another was in multiple different relationships that gave rise to multiple different family connections. Would love it this could be expanded on, so that creators could add it all neatly, without having to create several family tags for one character.
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+1
by SebGreg732
on 2025-01-01 02:47 -
+300
by Kitsuyumia
on 2025-01-01 00:58 -
+1
by Amancham
on 2024-12-31 22:24 -
+1
by Risktheworld
on 2024-12-31 21:02 -
+100
by DoStuffZ
on 2024-12-30 10:00 -
+300
by CorwinAsko
on 2024-12-30 06:30 -
+300
by GodfreyOfBouillon158
on 2024-12-29 12:31 -
+1
by Bridgewatch
on 2024-12-29 01:07Having accurate family trees is extremely important in my campaign.
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+300
by CrownGame
on 2024-12-28 02:41 -
+100
by Max Kilms
on 2024-12-25 17:52 -
+1
by LunarWriter777
on 2024-12-25 00:41 -
+300
by Thevipper
on 2024-12-24 03:11 -
+100
by devinsxdesigns
on 2024-12-23 03:20 -
+300
by hannahwisteria
on 2024-12-22 02:55 -
+100
by leus
on 2024-12-21 07:02 -
+1
by morganarcher
on 2024-12-20 16:43 -
+300
by ss2020
on 2024-12-19 04:50 -
+300
by Scalenex
on 2024-12-18 22:22 -
+100
by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-12-18 14:18 -
+300
by Exarx
on 2024-12-17 10:06 -
+300
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+300
by RibenLARP
on 2024-12-16 14:28 -
+1
by purelycryptic
on 2024-12-16 07:25 -
+300
by Beldro Mercier
on 2024-12-16 06:31 -
+300
by BenScerri
on 2024-12-16 02:27The current implementation is very clunky, I agree. It would be wonderful to just have a section on each character page with a section for "Parents," "Children," "Siblings," and "Partners." The same kind of field as associated cultures on many templates, which allow multiple pages to be linked.
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+300
by 2b2t
on 2024-12-15 03:30 -
+1
by Ratha
on 2024-12-14 19:16A major overhaul of the relationship system is already planned, as has been said in other similar suggestions.
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+300
by Bleichmeister
on 2024-12-14 17:09
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