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Different/more precise relationship types

Feature Upgrade · Family trees · Created by raining.moths
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relationships relationship relationship-type family-tree

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

With the current types of relationships it's hard to just make a friend relationship or mentor, etc. The current use of relationships only allow for blood or love relationships which isn't ideal for keeping track of different relationships, especially showing in family trees. I have characters who were taken in by the same character and the two characters end up in a love relationship but I have no way to represent the character as more of a caretaker than adoptive parent without the love characters showing as siblings.  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

It helps relationships be more precise and it would help to have a "general" type that is friendship, crush, etc and then the mentor or care taker relationship type that shows on the family tree but not connected to the original parents and doesn't show characters as sibling.  

What are other uses for this feature request?

Used to keep track of less official relationships.    

The Team's Response

Hello there guys!   I am really sorry but I think this is a big misunderstanding. and please try to read carefully and come to me on development-discussion on Discord if this is not what you meant.  

There are no speciific relationships types

When you use the expanded relationship type creator under the relationships tab of a character there is indeed a drop down to define the type of FAMILIAL relationship IF any which is ONLY used on FAMILY TREES.

Right UNDER that there are 2 fields called "counterpart relationship"

These are the fields that display what the relationship is between the two people involved in that connection, which you can further elaborate on the fields below.

  I am puting this as in progress for the next 72 hours and expect someone to come by the DIscord on the #development-discussion channel or I will have to decline it for lack of actual actionable information.   UPDATE 3 AUG Nobody came to give any clarification on this. It is now closed.
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