Festivals & Affection

[Ream Kween]

Ok first up: I just got this game and sweet baby jesus is it amazing. I was a big Harvest Moon fan back in the day and this feels like the game they were supposed to make but never did so mad props to the devs. Anyway, my questions are as follows:

Does talking to people during festivals have an impact on affection? Does winning festival events (e.g. egg hunt) also have an effect?

Also also, I remember on one of the old Harvest Moons you'd get affection from store vendors for buying things off them (e.g. buying house upgrades would make the blacksmith like you) - is that the same here?

Cheers in advance! :)

[Sunwave]

- You do not get affection from talking to people (at festivals or anywhere else). Apparently, you do get a little bit of friendship from talking.
- Talking to people is important to keep your relationship up, because not talking to them lowers your relation (very slightly) every day. Festivals still don't count, though. You have to talk to them during the normal day.
- You don't get affection from buying things from the store, I think. You'll have to do actual quests for the vendor and give gifts/do events. You can talk to them when they are not in the store, or you can just walk around the counter to not buy stuff and still talk (a lot of people on youtube don't seem to realize this).
- Winning festivals does not give affection, only prizes. However, there are some festivals that don't have "winning" something, but still give affection, such as the dance (affection plus with dance partner) or with the luau (affection with everyone plus or minus, depending on your input).

[dino_inc]

Originally posted by Sunwave:

- You do not get affection from talking to people (at festivals or anywhere else).
- BUT, talking to people is important, because not talking to them lowers your relation (very slightly) every day.

To clarify, you lose 2 friendship points every day you don't talk to them if their hearts are not maxed out. You gain 20 friendship points by talking to them. Every heart is 250 friendship points.
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Friendship

[Sunwave]

Originally posted by dino_inc:

Originally posted by Sunwave:

- You do not get affection from talking to people (at festivals or anywhere else).
- BUT, talking to people is important, because not talking to them lowers your relation (very slightly) every day.

To clarify, you lose 2 friendship points every day you don't talk to them if their hearts are not maxed out. You gain 20 friendship points by talking to them. Every heart is 250 friendship points.
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Friendship

Welp, I don't know why I thought you didn't get friendship from talking. Almost completed the game and I still don't know basic stuff =D XD

[alicat1235]

Some festivals have the chance of increasing hearts, but most do not. (The dance has a chance to increase with one character, the luau does if you make the soup good, the feast of winter star if they like your gift) You can see descriptions of the different events here: http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Festivals (this page also links you to a more detailed page about each of the festivals).

The wiki doesn't say anything about if festivals count as normal talking or not in terms of providing affection, but my guess would be that they do NOT (since, at the beginning of the game when tasked with introducing yourself to everyone, talking to people at the festival does not count as introducing yourself).

As far as I am aware, there is NO bonus to buying things from certain shops (although they sometimes do, somewhat desperately, ask you to spend money at their shop xD)