Multiplayer suggestion and request, Please add this option

[Sad Blueberry]

Before anyone comes to say that I shouldn't play multiplayer because I can't work with others, just keep in mind I am only requesting for an option to the game that you do not have to go by because it is an option that I ask for.

Please please please make stardew income separate. It is a real pain that I need upgrades but people keep spending a lot of money that I earned all on seeds. It would just be a lot easier and less of a hassle if you could just put the option to separate everyone's wallet and then make it that you can give another character money so if some people want to put their money together to buy a coop or house upgrade then that will be their choice and it isn't forced upon.

It is just an option I ask for. This option will make it easier for players to understand how much money they make and how much they can spend.

Typical problem
-On year 1, spring, I understand people want strawberry seeds so we all save up to buy as many as possible since you can only get it one day of the season. Okay sure, that's fair. But as soon as we buy, I want upgrades to progress through the mines or get an axe to chop stumps or fishing pole upgrade etc but then someone forgets a few days later and when we have a bit of money, they just spend it all again on seeds. It's a common mistake that happens because money is shared.

-simple solution
BUT, if money isn't shared, then they could spend spend spend and then realize they have no money but won't be able to accidentally take out of other people's wallet unless that person gives them the money.

Not trying to be negative, I just really really wish we had the option.

[LegendaireNic]

Because talking to your friends and telling them ''Please don't spend all money, tell me before you do so'' is too hard? You need to communicate and make the decisions together.

Gee, it's almost like you have to c o o p e r a t e in this C o - o p mode

[Inny【🐭】Nazrin]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/413150/discussions/search/?q=seperate&gidforum=487876568238453267&include_deleted=1

I'm tired of repeating myself. Here's every topic that's discussed this already.

Play single player if you dont want to share. Cooperation includes communication. The game design doesn't need to be altered due to social inadequacy.

[rad rat ray]

agreed, the fact that individual wallets isn't even an option is ridiculous

[LoveGiant]

I feel like it shouldn't be seperate, though I do agree that I get frustrated when we have to share, it forces us to play together. As opposed to having 2 seperate incomes, where you could literally play the game solo with 2 people on the map, because you don't necessarily need to manage anything else.

Seeing as it's pretty much the only thing that's shared and talked about, it's a good way to force cooperation in a co op.

Wish they added in a story, like we're cousins or something and the other moves in and that's why you have shared income. Just anything that justifies it.

[Shakuras]

this "typical problem" is not a common mistake that happens because money is shared but because players doesn't communicate between them.
If whoever you're playing with can't coordinate or doesn't want to coordinate , play solo.

[Mondai]

It mostly sounds like you need a new group... not saying that you're bad at multiplayer, but maybe the group you're playing with is?

Still, I think that separate wallets would be helpful for a pretty big portion of the playerbase. I think it might be hard to balance or get all the details and functionality ironed out, but I'm in your corner to add it as an option. :D And I have like, pretty much NO interest in playing with separate wallets, myself.

Out of curiosity, would you prefer a method where everybody keeps what they personally earn, or one where the funds are split evenly? (Maybe with a bit more profit going to the host?)

[Clovis Sangrail]

How about this --

Implement shared wallets, but all income goes directly to the person who owns the farm and lives in the big house.

The other three have individual wallets, but the only way they can get gold is for the owner to give it to them.

In other words, like any farm hand, they get room and board, plus a small honorarium for their time and trouble..

And no one says they all have to get the same salary. You want to get paid, you work for it.

You want to upgrade your hoe, save up for it or ask the boss for the gold.

If instead of using your money for a hoe upgrade as you promised, you buy a hat, then the boss takes it out of future income.

Owner should share profits so farm hands can have some discretionary income.

You can see where I'm going with this. Retains the need to cooperate, but allows separate purses.

Sound OK, Sad Blueberry?

This, or course, brings up other possibilities, such as --

Indentured Servitude variation -- Main player owns the big house, and farm hand players agree to work for main player for seven years. Owner pays indentured servants a subsistence wage and provides a cabin. At the end of seven game years, players are released from their contract and can buy some land and their cabin from the owner.

Antebellum South Variatiojn -- Owner owns the three farm hands. Owner lives in the big house; farm hands share one hut. All income generated by the farms hands goes to the owner. Owner is responsible for tool and weapon upgrades. If the farm hands do not perform to the owner's satisfaction, he can take them to the auction block (new building in town) and sell them. Random events -- Slave Uprising, in which farm hands raise up against the owner, slits his throat, rapes his wife and sell the children into bondage, and Emancipation Proclamation, in which the Union Army marches into Stardew Valley and frees the "farm hands."

The possibilities for new and interesting game play are endless.

[rad rat ray]

or you could just give the option for totally separate wallets which is much easier to code

[Sad Blueberry]

lol and here comes the comments about me and i shouldnt play multiplayer. I literally say in my post that I tell them i want an upgrade since we all saved up for strawberries, BUT someone forgets a few days later in game and spends it all up and it is very frustrating. I tell them I am getting upgrade so that means im not communicating?

[rad rat ray]

Originally posted by Sad Blueberry:

lol and here comes the comments about me and i shouldnt play multiplayer. I literally say in my post that I tell them i want an upgrade since we all saved up for strawberries, BUT someone forgets a few days later in game and spends it all up and it is very frustrating. I tell them I am getting upgrade so that means im not communicating?

I recommend tweeting to concernedape or using some other forums to post your suggestion, everything you say here will go in one ear and out the other

[Sad Blueberry]

@rad rat ray Sorry I don't have twitter or know any other forum but thanks for suggestion so I will do a good search soon

[LegendaireNic]

Originally posted by Sad Blueberry:

lol and here comes the comments about me and i shouldnt play multiplayer. I literally say in my post that I tell them i want an upgrade since we all saved up for strawberries, BUT someone forgets a few days later in game and spends it all up and it is very frustrating. I tell them I am getting upgrade so that means im not communicating?

Then, the problem is not you. It's the people you play with.

[Sad Blueberry]

On another note, I'd like to ask to anyone who is opposed to my suggestion. Why are you so opposed to having an option? It is merely an option meaning YOU don't have to play with separate wallets. Are you afraid a huge majority of people will start playing with a separate wallets over shared ones? If that is the case, doesn't that just show that a huge amount of people would prefer a separate wallet over a shared one? And if it's only a few people who prefer separate over shared, at the end of the day, it's just an option, meaning you can still do your "shared" wallet meanwhile others can have separate if they so wish.

[LegendaireNic]

Originally posted by rad rat ray:

Originally posted by Sad Blueberry:

lol and here comes the comments about me and i shouldnt play multiplayer. I literally say in my post that I tell them i want an upgrade since we all saved up for strawberries, BUT someone forgets a few days later in game and spends it all up and it is very frustrating. I tell them I am getting upgrade so that means im not communicating?

I recommend tweeting to concernedape or using some other forums to post your suggestion, everything you say here will go in one ear and out the other

Because disagreeing means not listening gotcha.

[rad rat ray]

Originally posted by Sad Blueberry:

On another note, I'd like to ask to anyone who is opposed to my suggestion. Why are you so opposed to having an option?

this is a question they will never answer