RimWorld

RimWorld

Character Editor
Pille Jul 15, 2023 @ 6:59am
Prevent breakups, divorce or make marriage highly likely - change actual compatibility
tl;dr:
Can you add a way to edit the compatibility / romance chance between pawns in the character editor?


I made a married couple with character editor, but unfortunately they divorced a few days after game start. I've been looking around and apparently nonsensical breakups and even divorces are a common problem in Rimworld.

I tried remarrying them via Character Editor, but this caused the entire game to glitch out:
- they are married, but one considers the other a "rival"
- they are married, but the memory of "divorced me" ruins the mood and I can't get rid of the memory, even after clearing memory
- they are married, but they want separate beds, so I keep getting the notification "lacking beds"


So in its current state, Character Editor doesn't really help solve the issue and even if the solution worked, it would only mean that I'd have to keep remarrying them again and again. Not good.

I found the mod "nodivorce", but that will prevent any and all breakups and divorce for all pawns. I'd rather have less nonsensical divorces and I want certain couples to stay together, because I created them to be ...compatible.

So then I found this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/oxjcms/how_to_change_your_pawns_compatibility/

And apparently there is a random (!) hidden value for compatibility and romance. It is random, because it is based on the pawns IDs. The only way to edit this is by trial and error and a lot of save file editing. Is there any way to incorporate this into Character Editor? Basically, a button that makes your pawns compatibility high? So if you create a married couple you can also click that button or increase their compatibility with a slider, therefore making their divorce highly unlikely?

This way, we could make:
- a power couple that never divorces (without removing the divorce mechanic from the game)
- a couple that actually hates each other and is highly likely to divorce
- pawns that are highly compatible and likely to end up together (without forcing them into the relationship from the start)
- ...