Dating/Marriage Problems

[Richarad]

Fiddling with the dating and marriage mechanics and have run into a few issues.

For context, the person I'm trying to get my character to marry is Jed Scrumpy (one of the only characters around your character's age at this point in the game :T He's a year older than you) and he's already at "Love" friendship level (has been for a while considering the guy really likes stuff as simple as carrots, which is also part of why he's a good test candidate for mechanics lol). He's 19 and my character is 18 (post-prologue starting age; didn't want rabbit perks from this year).

Note this is gonna be super long as I try to relay all the details I can in hopes of it being fixed or if someone can give some advice if it's something that I'm messing up rather than a bug.

1. In Autumn I tried several times to date Jed via roses of romance and every time the time limit for the task would "expire" because I could not get it to start. I'd go to his house at the specified time (for me this was between 4 PM and 6 PM every time) and there's no option or hint as to what to do after I'm there. Talking to him and picking literally every interaction option available to me did nothing. I did note that the status screen or whatever (the option that lets you view all their likes/dislikes, name, age, etc) just wouldn't come up no matter how many times I selected it (I'm also aware that this option is typically supposed to be replaced by a "follow" option, though it obviously did not). He would not follow me at all or say anything related to the date. Even if I tried to ask him about the task he would just talk about my daily tasks (ie feeding the animals) even if I had already done them. I even tried making a Brounie offering at his house to no avail. Honestly I'm glad there's no penalty for these date tasks expiring and that we can currently get a few free roses of romance regularly from Loverwood, because boy did I end up standing Jed up at least 5 times just because I couldn't figure out how to start the date, lol. Sorry, Jed.

2. In Winter I went to Loverwood and got a white rose on Druida's Day, as you do to start the marriage task week thing (yes I read the books and have all of the marriage related ones in my inventory, at least as far as I'm aware). The next day, I go to Jed's house and give it to him. He accepts and I get that little pop-up message saying to keep track of the tasks in relation throughout the week. Next day I'm supposed to bring him on a date. There is no specified time, just that I'm supposed to bring him on a date that day. Note that the previous day task did not say anything about giving a rose of romance so I assume the date is set up automatically without one for the sake of the marriage task week. The task for this day literally says, verbatim:
"Road to Marriage with Jed Scrumpy
Take your partner to visit a place
Use the interaction menu to get them to Follow you"
I'm trying at various points of the day to do this. The "Follow" interaction is always available, but it never does anything when I click it. He will not follow me and nothing happens in general. Even if I assume that maybe the game does think he's following me (I've seen invisible characters, floating dialogue going a different direction than the characters themselves who are saying it, etc), bringing him to any date spot does nothing. Again, tried all interaction options, tried giving a Brounie offering outside his house, etc etc. Nothing. It is currently 5 PM in the game and I have the game paused wondering what else I could try as I type this because I ASSUME 6 and later is probably going to be the point of no return (based on previous date times) and I'll have to start the week over another time.

3. This is something I realized basically right after the prologue that isn't so much an issue as it is something I'm just curious about as I find it a bit odd, but since the game states you can only NOT marry people like the Masters who are blessed by the goddess, does that mean you CAN possibly date and/or marry people who
- are already married
- are literally a hundred years older than your character (I gave a bunch of gifts to the crazy old guy who guards northgate during the prologue and he loves me despite me killing every pig he ever owns)
- have kids already that probably won't move in with you if you do marry that person (as far as I can guess based on the current state of the game)?
I mean there's another book in the game about infidelity and the like so I guess it wouldn't be weird in the culture of Quill (or at least the first bullet point anyways) but nonetheless I wanted to ask about it. Haven't actually tried romancing anyone who has these things applied to them, as I figure it's just easier to ask than go through the effort (especially if they give me as many issues as Jed is lol).

[Skysplash8]

Relationship problems, huh? Best I can do is recommend a counselor

[Richarad]

Originally posted by Skysplash8:

Relationship problems, huh? Best I can do is recommend a counselor

Counselor said to make a bug report...
I don't have any household pests though so I did this instead -shrug-

[Asenath]

I have started a new game and got to the point that I am on the road to marriage second day and the quest is saying "Lets go to cuddlers corner" I went there with star sapphire but she just stands at the wrong spot while I am waiting in the dotted circle npc's ai during road to marriage needs fixed.