empathy? how does it work exactly?

[Girlhawk]

So I have the empathy skill, but I don't see the personalities of people... only of my wife in my older games. I have restarted (again hihi) and have gotten the empathy skill really early, year 2 now, so that it would be easier to find a nice wife and assign jobs to my villagers. What do you need to do to see the personalities? except having the skill of course...

[Steel]

when you talk and romance in the bottom, where their text is displayed it should say by their age.. for example "Age: 25 Personality: Free spirit Mood: 10%"

[rhwilson1953]

Personalities show when you talk to the NPC, it will be below their name.

[Holdie Zwangsjacke]

The Empathy skill is used to show you the personality of your future wife, but you have to flirt with her first, once she has 20% affection, her personality will be shown to you.
Sorry my English is not good.

[Girlhawk]

Originally posted by Holdie Zwangsjacke:

The Empathy skill is used to show you the personality of your future wife, but you have to flirt with her first, once she has 20% affection, her personality will be shown to you.
Sorry my English is not good.

oh that's too bad that it only works like that :(

you're english here was very good btw :)

[Girlhawk]

Originally posted by rhwilson1953:

Personalities show when you talk to the NPC, it will be below their name.

yeah so it doesn't show when I just talk to them... I will see if I see it pop up after flirting and getting to 20% affection like Holdie explains and perhaps it will work like that... I had hoped and expected it would work on all (potential) villagers

[subwaybananas]

The Empathy skill shows you the personality of your (future) wife. Their reaction to your attempts to flirt and your gifts depends on this. The personality itself is related to the highest skill, so it can also be estimated without the skill.
So it can also change if, for example, you put a free spirit (hunter/survival) in the forge and their crafting skill increases above hunter/survival. Then she becomes a romantic.
Here's the wiki entry, I don't know how accurate it is. I've never really been busy with it before. Flirting is done quickly and as long as you keep talking to her at the beginning of the season, you only need very few gifts, the few you find do it (so far at least for me).
https://medieval-dynasty.fandom.com/wiki/Affection

[Morri]

I find the empathy skill pretty useless, since it only counts for the future wife.
You don't need it for your future villagers. If you wanna know their skills, just use the inspection mode on them to see all their skills so you can decide whether or not you wanna hire them.

[Girlhawk]

Originally posted by Morri:

I find the empathy skill pretty useless, since it only counts for the future wife.
You don't need it for your future villagers. If you wanna know their skills, just use the inspection mode on them to see all their skills so you can decide whether or not you wanna hire them.

it would have been a lot more useful if it just showed the personalities of potential villagers (and so potential wifes) that would also make much more sense.

the description says: makes you see NPC's personalities...
so that is really what you expect... I know I don't per se need it for villagers, but while 'picking' a wife it would've been useful... if it worked as expected.

[Girlhawk]

Originally posted by Holdie Zwangsjacke:

The Empathy skill is used to show you the personality of your future wife, but you have to flirt with her first, once she has 20% affection, her personality will be shown to you.
Sorry my English is not good.

I got one woman above 20% afection and it still doesn't show the personality... :(

[Girlhawk]

Originally posted by subwaybananas:

The Empathy skill shows you the personality of your (future) wife. Their reaction to your attempts to flirt and your gifts depends on this. The personality itself is related to the highest skill, so it can also be estimated without the skill.
So it can also change if, for example, you put a free spirit (hunter/survival) in the forge and their crafting skill increases above hunter/survival. Then she becomes a romantic.
Here's the wiki entry, I don't know how accurate it is. I've never really been busy with it before. Flirting is done quickly and as long as you keep talking to her at the beginning of the season, you only need very few gifts, the few you find do it (so far at least for me).
https://medieval-dynasty.fandom.com/wiki/Affection

Oh this is in general very useful info thanks!!

[Holdie Zwangsjacke]

sorry my mistake, 25% affection is needed.

[Girlhawk]

Originally posted by Holdie Zwangsjacke:

sorry my mistake, 25% affection is needed.

alright will get to that next then

[brown29knight]

Originally posted by Morri:

I find the empathy skill pretty useless, since it only counts for the future wife.
You don't need it for your future villagers. If you wanna know their skills, just use the inspection mode on them to see all their skills so you can decide whether or not you wanna hire them.

The Empathy skill is very useful if you are trying to use flirting to max diplomacy quickly. I was able to get max diplomacy in under 3 years by flirting with everyone I could, every day. But to keep having flirting successes in that case, you need to keep track of the personalities of 30+ women, (Flirting keeps them at the campfire, so in time, all 10 towns have 3 appropriate age women at the campfire, and in addition you can still flirt with any woman you hire to your town)

Empathy takes away the guessing game, letting you pick the right answers every time. It IS useless once you marry, but there is always (potions of) possibilities to respec.

[Girlhawk]

Originally posted by Holdie Zwangsjacke:

sorry my mistake, 25% affection is needed.

alright yes it now has appeared! thank you! still kinda wished it would just work on any villager, but this works for my purpose too

[Holdie Zwangsjacke]

With pleasure. I only use this skill at the beginning to find the right woman, after that it resets for more important skills