For developers! About women's romance.

[76561199169947844]

Improve women's romance, please. I came across this myself, read on other forums - much more attention is paid to men in the game. Take the same Logan and Fang - none of the female characters even came close to their level of romance. Not a single female character has such a level of involvement in the main story as Logan. As an ordinary straight man, I am somewhat offended that less attention is paid to the quality and development of female characters. Moreover, during Early Access, more attention was also paid to the development of specifically male novels, and this growth is now very noticeable. I really like your game, both gameplay and story, so I would be very grateful if the romance with Sandrok’s female half was also slightly improved for us.

[Sunny]

Originally posted by quaqasii:

Not a single female character has such a level of involvement in the main story as Logan.

Grace?

[Rikku_Tribal]

But he is right on many points. From my gaming experience I can say that of the women only Nia had a confession, a date and a marriage proposal. (Correct me if I am wrong) In the current state of the game I have Heidi, Amirah, Catori and Venti in a relationship with me. Apart from Venti, who proposed marriage (but only with a dialogue option #poorVenti), my other candidates didn't even have date quests. I've never seen Miguel and Paplo have a flirting option, do they even have one? I just think it's a shame because every player has their own favorite. Not everyone needs a deep story but shouldn't there be a confession, date and wedding quest for every character? I don't know. Heidi just stood at the door and said she wanted to be more than just friends I can understand that some players are disappointed.

[Cutlass Jack]

Venti probably had the earliest confession of anyone in game (which you only get if you take the heart options when walking up behind her during her cup of sadness bit.)

But I agree with the overall point that all romance options should have had equal amount of scenes.

[Sunny]

I do agree that we could have done with more for everyone that didn't get the cool quests (all of them should have confessions/proposals if some of them do, otherwise you're missing out on content with your choices, which is bad); I don't agree that it is imbalanced between genders. Grace is comparable to Logan and then some; Nia also exists and has a boatload. Catori has a ton. I understand that Amirah ALSO has a ton, though I haven't personally romanced her yet.

TBH this is completely a personal taste issue; I was really grumpy initially about the lack of decent male candidates (prior to encountering Logan), and had joked with a friend that it was the first cozy game my toon was going to marry another lady because they were SO MUCH better just at their base level.

better than portia regardless where Arlo and Ginger were the ONLY reasonable candidates >.> (fite me)

But seriously. GRACE. She is one of the best characters in the game.

[Cutlass Jack]

Honestly I felt more bonded with Nia over anyone of any gender just from her letters alone. Its the only relationship where you had real conversation choices to shape your relationship in your replies. It makes actually meeting her in person even more special.

Grace is great too, especially if you haven't been spoilered. Even Logan has trouble keeping up with her.

[mielon]

Honestly I was quite suprised when Grace accepted the ring the day she got back. I was expecting a refusal till the confession quest. She had alot of involvement in the story and lack of it was a disaspointment.
But yes, dating time needs improvement. Since kids were added recently, early pregnancy could be used as an confession quest for those that don't have it, for example tired Amirah after doing a big order on a date walk with us almost collapses and we offer her to spend the night at our place and if the player is male she shows up 2 days later telling us she's pregnant (would be quite funny panic time for responsible Amirah). Elsie could also follow similar route (the rants from Cooper would be insane). Similar for few guys getting the player pregnant.

[Shift]

You're not wrong. I've first gone with Mi-An with the impression she would have the most content for a romantic path, being the game's mascot and all, but she's quite basic and generic on that department. Nia is a natural choice, but also very basic and happens so late into the game it's almost bragging rights material.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Shift:

You're not wrong. I've first gone with Mi-An with the impression she would have the most content for a romantic path, being the game's mascot and all, but she's quite basic and generic on that department. Nia is a natural choice, but also very basic and happens so late into the game it's almost bragging rights material.

I think they originally intended Mi-An to be much bigger than she was, but scaled back her involvement due to people complaining about her being the voice of the MC who gets all the credit for stuff. I think they overdid it by making her fade into the background completely.

[kuve]

I am of the same opinion. The favoritism for certain characters is very noticeable. I hope the developers take into account our comments and improve it.

[Errapel]

The content for love interests really does seem to be a tad uneven. I'd personally say Grace has a similar level of involvement in the plot as Logan. But most romancable characters are lacking some things. Not that I actually WANTED to romance Miguel or Pablo, but I don't remember seeing any flirt options with them. A couple have some romance quests which is nice, but it'd be nice if more characters had confession quests, proposal quests etc...

Honestly while I do love the game, I've found most characters pretty shallow in their development. Many rely on stock tropes, cliches and caricatures. Some rise above that and become well rounded characters, but others just stay fairly generic.

From what I've seen of the development road-map, they are planning more NPC quests, possibly more romance related stuff.

[Pooh Daddy]

Originally posted by Rikku_Tribal:

But he is right on many points. From my gaming experience I can say that of the women only Nia had a confession, a date and a marriage proposal. (Correct me if I am wrong) In the current state of the game I have Heidi, Amirah, Catori and Venti in a relationship with me. Apart from Venti, who proposed marriage (but only with a dialogue option #poorVenti), my other candidates didn't even have date quests. I've never seen Miguel and Paplo have a flirting option, do they even have one? I just think it's a shame because every player has their own favorite. Not everyone needs a deep story but shouldn't there be a confession, date and wedding quest for every character? I don't know. Heidi just stood at the door and said she wanted to be more than just friends I can understand that some players are disappointed.

That problem will be fix in dec

[TaylerBootz]

As a woman, I have to say both in Portia AND Sandrock, romance options very much lack. There were only a couple guys in Portia I was interested in. And you just named the most interesting men in Sandrock. The women bore me. I'm really ticked about Elsie running off to get a boob job too. So, yeah, from a straight female perspective we're all screwed.

[chengriha peek]

come to dadi i give you romance all day

[Coltrek]

As a male, I certainly didn't wanted Arvio chase after me, first time I noticed that, I rejecting him and he pressed on me and I was having flashback, which causes me to pause the game and thinking about not playing this game, so I avoid him pretty much for the rest of the game.
If a female did the same thing to me as Arvio did , I would have loved it.

[76561199169947844]

Originally posted by Pooh Daddy:

Originally posted by Rikku_Tribal:

But he is right on many points. From my gaming experience I can say that of the women only Nia had a confession, a date and a marriage proposal. (Correct me if I am wrong) In the current state of the game I have Heidi, Amirah, Catori and Venti in a relationship with me. Apart from Venti, who proposed marriage (but only with a dialogue option #poorVenti), my other candidates didn't even have date quests. I've never seen Miguel and Paplo have a flirting option, do they even have one? I just think it's a shame because every player has their own favorite. Not everyone needs a deep story but shouldn't there be a confession, date and wedding quest for every character? I don't know. Heidi just stood at the door and said she wanted to be more than just friends I can understand that some players are disappointed.

That problem will be fix in dec

Great news, where did you get the information? Are they planning to release some kind of DLC or expansion of character quests in December?