Player birthday?

[TheAiBoy]

Do we have a birthday?

[Shepherd of Fire]

unless you use the birthday mod you don't have one

[TheAiBoy]

Originally posted by Shepherd of Fire:

unless you use the birthday mod you don't have one

Why though? Is it hard to implement? Will CA add it? Or CA thought birthday are useless and a waste of time?

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by Diaurora:

Originally posted by Shepherd of Fire:

unless you use the birthday mod you don't have one

Why though? Is it hard to implement? Will CA add it? Or CA thought birthday are useless and a waste of time?

Unnecessary and technically abusable. No. No. Probably.

[Mondai]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

Originally posted by Diaurora:

Why though? Is it hard to implement? Will CA add it? Or CA thought birthday are useless and a waste of time?

Unnecessary and technically abusable. No. No. Probably.

Abusable how, though? If all that happened was that the NPC's respond to you differently and say Happy Birthday! if they're close enough friends with you...

[Jigain]

Originally posted by Diaurora:

Originally posted by Shepherd of Fire:

unless you use the birthday mod you don't have one

Why though? Is it hard to implement? Will CA add it? Or CA thought birthday are useless and a waste of time?

Most likely because CA never thought that you'd try to give gifts to yourself to get your heart level up. Which is the only reason birthdays are even a thing in the game.

But you know what they say, if you want to love somebody you need to first love yourself... or something like that.

[TheAiBoy]

Well CA could make it like harvest moon, you can get a birthday event if the heart is high enough.

[『 Malv 』]

Originally posted by Mondai:

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

Unnecessary and technically abusable. No. No. Probably.

Abusable how, though? If all that happened was that the NPC's respond to you differently and say Happy Birthday! if they're close enough friends with you...

I guess if the NPCs sent you nice presents, there'd be a "birthday meta" or something ridiculous.

[kittens are awesome]

make a day pertend

[Mondai]

Originally posted by Malv:

Originally posted by Mondai:

Abusable how, though? If all that happened was that the NPC's respond to you differently and say Happy Birthday! if they're close enough friends with you...

I guess if the NPCs sent you nice presents, there'd be a "birthday meta" or something ridiculous.

But that's the thing, the concept of the birthdays being abusable depends entirely on what player birthdays mean. If it just means that NPC's you're friends with acknowledge it's your birthday and say happy birthday to you, there's nothing to abuse. If it just guarantees your spouse does something nice if you're already married (say, for example, at least one of your daily chores - watering crops, fixing fence posts, uh... whatever else they do... or even doing ALL of those things, and maybe even giving you one of their random gifts to you at some point during the day), that's barely worth even thinking about. But for immersion purposes, it might make the game feel more satisfying.

On the other hand, if you got a gift from every NPC that you were friends with, then yes. Birthdays would be a BIG deal, and there would be even more pressure to maximize friendship with the villagers ASAP and possibly to even set your birthday to later in the year so you have time to build up those friendships.

But the level of abuse and the level of meta shift would depend entirely on what a player birthday meant, and there's no reason it needs to be more than the NPC's saying "Oh, it's your birthday today, isn't it?" and maybe a gift that your spouse had a 20% chance of giving you, anyway. (This number has been estimated on the spot and is probably not an accurate reflection of the chance of getting a gift from your spouse. Probably.)

[TheAiBoy]

But really, a birthday would make the game more enjoyable. Like cmon, everybody else gets a birthday, why not us?