[Spoiler involving stardrops] Marrying Other Players

[Renn]

Please make it so the marriage stardrop is still obtainable in player + player marriages. Or if it is, I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me how to get it. I'm still holding out hope that it'll be changed because right now, it feels like I'm getting punished for deciding to marry my partner over an NPC. :(

[Mondai]

To be fair, your spouse is most likely gonna be a LOT more useful than any of my spouses ever are, and yours doesn't require gifts every few days to keep happy. :P I think you probably have the better spouse.

[Renn]

Originally posted by Mondai:

To be fair, your spouse is most likely gonna be a LOT more useful than any of my spouses ever are, and yours doesn't require gifts every few days to keep happy. :P I think you probably have the better spouse.

Mine also cost us thousands in gold by getting knocked out in the mine. ;P Haha, I see your point though. It doesn't bug me too much, but we wanted to get all the achievements together, so it kind of sucks if the stardrop one will be forever impossible in our game.

[Mondai]

Originally posted by Ellie:

Originally posted by Mondai:

To be fair, your spouse is most likely gonna be a LOT more useful than any of my spouses ever are, and yours doesn't require gifts every few days to keep happy. :P I think you probably have the better spouse.

Mine also cost us thousands in gold by getting knocked out in the mine. ;P Haha, I see your point though. It doesn't bug me too much, but we wanted to get all the achievements together, so it kind of sucks if the stardrop one will be forever impossible in our game.

Aw, man, that's true. Active spouse does tend to cost more. Hmm. Maybe I should stop picking on my NPC husbands and just be grateful for the free fence repairs. Heh, now if only I could get them to stop watering crops that are about to get hit by the sprinkler.

Anyway, joking aside, I absolutely see your point. I'm just not sure how to make it "earned" beyond the marriage. I feel like the 13/12 stardrop that's meant to be given by your spouse is set for that to be sure that you don't stop putting effort into your relationship, like something to keep working for even after you married someone. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would be an equivalent to that... But if you've got any thoughts, I'd love to hear ideas. :D Because it would be really cool if you could still earn it, but... how?

(And even worse: as far as I know, if you're playing with other players, only the first one to get their spouse up to the 13/12 hearts gets the stardrop. So it's almost like a race, at that point... Blegh.)

[Ɲøƈ]

Can you not just marry someone else then divorce them, then marry your partner? I thought divorce was added at one point, no?

[I Kinda Fail]

"Honey, I love you, but I need this achievement. I want a divorce."

[Ɲøƈ]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

"Honey, I love you, but I need this achievement. I want a divorce."

Real life divorces go a lot like that but with 1000% more excuses and justification.

[CarThief]

Heh, well that comment made my day, guess Mario Party isn't the only game out there that ruins friendships and relationships now!

But yeah they should probably fix that. Didn't know the whole marrying thing had a stardrop as a reward, being the weird, quiet, antisocial loner type i kinda just didn't do much in that direction with NPC's. Never was a very social type, too much pressure!

Wish there was another way to get some of those rewards, besides what i believe Vinny more or less called "forced waifuing"... :P
(Makes me wonder what other stardrops i missed out on, already got like 3 of them, i believe. From a forest, mines, and bought one.)

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by CarThief:

Heh, well that comment made my day, guess Mario Party isn't the only game out there that ruins friendships and relationships now!

But yeah they should probably fix that. Didn't know the whole marrying thing had a stardrop as a reward, being the weird, quiet, antisocial loner type i kinda just didn't do much in that direction with NPC's. Never was a very social type, too much pressure!

Wish there was another way to get some of those rewards, besides what i believe Vinny more or less called "forced waifuing"... :P
(Makes me wonder what other stardrops i missed out on, already got like 3 of them, i believe. From a forest, mines, and bought one.)

trying to be as vague as possible, off the top of my head:
- you can buy another one from somewhere
- you get two for completing two different collections of something
- you get one from having a very happy marriage

so you're missing 4

[CarThief]

Huh, interesting, that's a whole lot more then i expected that can still be gained, God knows where that other merchant is hidden then, been to pretty much every place by now, unless its Beta-only? (So far still playing on the normal version.)
Ah well, guess i'll find it one day, atleast they aren't overly crucial to have after you already got 2 or more of em and upgraded your tools.

[rad rat ray]

Originally posted by Mondai:

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would be an equivalent to that... But if you've got any thoughts, I'd love to hear ideas. :D Because it would be really cool if you could still earn it, but... how?

currently crafting a wedding ring is much, much harder than buying a mermaid's pendant

(And even worse: as far as I know, if you're playing with other players, only the first one to get their spouse up to the 13/12 hearts gets the stardrop. So it's almost like a race, at that point... Blegh.)

me and my friend married two different NPCs and we both got stardrops from them

[Mondai]

Originally posted by rad rat ray:

Originally posted by Mondai:

(And even worse: as far as I know, if you're playing with other players, only the first one to get their spouse up to the 13/12 hearts gets the stardrop. So it's almost like a race, at that point... Blegh.)

me and my friend married two different NPCs and we both got stardrops from them

Oh! Perfect! Thanks for the info, Ray! :D

[rad rat ray]

Originally posted by Mondai:

Oh! Perfect! Thanks for the info, Ray! :D

no problem

[Renn]

This got a lot more replies than I was expecting o_o

Originally posted by Mondai:

Originally posted by Ellie:

Mine also cost us thousands in gold by getting knocked out in the mine. ;P Haha, I see your point though. It doesn't bug me too much, but we wanted to get all the achievements together, so it kind of sucks if the stardrop one will be forever impossible in our game.

Aw, man, that's true. Active spouse does tend to cost more. Hmm. Maybe I should stop picking on my NPC husbands and just be grateful for the free fence repairs. Heh, now if only I could get them to stop watering crops that are about to get hit by the sprinkler.

Anyway, joking aside, I absolutely see your point. I'm just not sure how to make it "earned" beyond the marriage. I feel like the 13/12 stardrop that's meant to be given by your spouse is set for that to be sure that you don't stop putting effort into your relationship, like something to keep working for even after you married someone. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would be an equivalent to that... But if you've got any thoughts, I'd love to hear ideas. :D Because it would be really cool if you could still earn it, but... how?

(And even worse: as far as I know, if you're playing with other players, only the first one to get their spouse up to the 13/12 hearts gets the stardrop. So it's almost like a race, at that point... Blegh.)

They aren't the best ideas, but things that come to mind are
1. Receiving stardrops (from Lewis?) on your marriage anniversary. Even if it's not that difficult, this would add a time requirement.

2. Add additional requirements like
married + full house upgrade for both players
married + kids
married + full house upgrade + kids

3. Some new marriage quest (no clue what it'd be though and that's also a lot more work)

4. Change Grandpa's evaluation to have an extra reward of a stardrop for the players that are married to other players.


Personally, the first one is my favorite idea. It'd give a little extra significance to the marriage date, and I'd consider it about as easy as bombarding Shane with peppers every day would be.

Originally posted by Inoc:

Can you not just marry someone else then divorce them, then marry your partner? I thought divorce was added at one point, no?

But... the children! How would I explain our divorce to them? On a serious note though, that would be kind of ridiculous. Iirc divorce costs 50,000 gold, so for us to both get the stardrop, it would cost a total of 150,000 gold (50 for our divorce and 50 for divorcing each of our new spouses). Not that we don't have the money because we do, but I'd rather spend it buying 50 jumino huts.

Originally posted by rad rat ray:

Originally posted by Mondai:

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would be an equivalent to that... But if you've got any thoughts, I'd love to hear ideas. :D Because it would be really cool if you could still earn it, but... how?

currently crafting a wedding ring is much, much harder than buying a mermaid's pendant

(And even worse: as far as I know, if you're playing with other players, only the first one to get their spouse up to the 13/12 hearts gets the stardrop. So it's almost like a race, at that point... Blegh.)

me and my friend married two different NPCs and we both got stardrops from them

The wedding ring is kind of annoying, although I've never done the mermaid pendant thing so I can't compare it. When I got my first prismatic shard though, my partner didn't have a say in the matter. I was making a wedding ring before anything else. :P (Don't worry, we've gotten 2-3 more since then.)

Originally posted by CarThief:

Heh, well that comment made my day, guess Mario Party isn't the only game out there that ruins friendships and relationships now!

But yeah they should probably fix that. Didn't know the whole marrying thing had a stardrop as a reward, being the weird, quiet, antisocial loner type i kinda just didn't do much in that direction with NPC's. Never was a very social type, too much pressure!

Wish there was another way to get some of those rewards, besides what i believe Vinny more or less called "forced waifuing"... :P
(Makes me wonder what other stardrops i missed out on, already got like 3 of them, i believe. From a forest, mines, and bought one.)

Good luck finding the stardrops! If you go for a completionist style and/or the achievements, you're bound to find almost -if not all- of them with time. I may be wrong on this, but I don't believe the other merchant is beta-only either.

[Iranna]

No stardrop is bound to the beta yet, you haven't met the requirements to see the other merchant, so work hard you guys <3
Maybe you need to collect more artifacts to talk to two other merchants that you never knew about, so go and discover those misteries together.

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by Iranna:

No stardrop is bound to the beta yet, you haven't met the requirements to see the other merchant, so work hard you guys <3
Maybe you need to collect more artifacts to talk to two other merchants that you never knew about, so go and discover those misteries together.

there's a stardrop you get from marrying an NPC and you can't get it from marrying a person, as of right now