Friendships With *ALL* The Characters ?

[RLS0812]

I have been trying to build friendships with the normal characters, however it seems like I am only allowed to make friends with the "single" charaters !
I do not want to "romance" them, just have some kind of level of friendship besides 0 .

[Alpacalypse]

It's very easy. Give them loved gifts on their birthday for a ~3 heart boost.

[MakoNeko]

I have a pretty high friendship level with everyone on the top half of the town (Demetrius LOVES me) because I talk to them every day and occasionally throw gifts at them (just mediocre ones, not usually a loved gift). I have eight hearts of friendship with Demetrius and that's without much effort. Also, doing the requests on the notice board helps you passively gain friendship with people because you do the requests for money, the friendship is a bonus.

[Lurlex]

What do you mean you can't make friends with the non-eligible members of town? They're a whole lot easier to befriend than some of the bachelors and bachelorettes, in my opinion. See what happens with Shane once you start growing hot peppers in Summer, and Pam once you start brewing some hops. You can get non-weddable candidates to 10 hearts very easily.

What actually sucks is not with the non-single NPCs, but the weddable NPCs. You can hit ten hearts with every single person. The single characters, though ... unless you give them the bouqet, they never go past 8 stars.

Keep in mine, I think ConcernedApe's idea with that is that you can easily be friends with a single, available person without being a romantic interest, and 8 hearts is a pretty "high" friendship level compared to some of the people that completely IGNORE the social aspects of the game (there are a ton of people that seem to not give a ♥♥♥♥ about the villagers, and leave people at 0-2 hearts at like year 2 of gameplay, which I don't understand) ... I still wish I could hit that 10 heart level with someone without giving them the impression that we're an item.

Yes, they're digitial little fictional characters, but hell, I'm playing a hybrid roleplaying game. I'm playing the role. I wouldn't do that in real life. I'd want to get to know someone closely, but not break hearts.

Bottom line -- you can hit ten hearts with everyone, and still take the spouse of your choice. You're just not going to be able to be a good friend to everyone in town without tricking 7 people into believing you were ever "interested" in them in the process.