"Social" upgrade

[Gwido]

Now that we have the "expressive uprgade", it's time to set the "social upgrade".

As you may also have notice, when duplicants meet each other, they can tchitchat, or just greet each other.

But ... their're all friends :-/

 

Living so long in the confined place can surely enhance friendship. But it can also bring conflicts.

So, I suggest that each duplicant have an hidden friendship value against the others.

Then, when a duplicant meet another one, it could randomly have a pleasant tchitchat ... or an unpleasant one. A duplicant could also cross the path of another one without saying hello three times in a row, and so he would be frustrated.

 

These relations woudl have an impact on stress (for now, I think it's to easy to get it to 0% all the time), and maybe, if a duplicant really don't like another one, it could involve a brawl. So maybe we would set they schedule so they don't work at the same time, ... or send both of them to talk to a psychologue, that would be a high tier medical job.

 

But as I said, it will really impact the game after a long period of play, so that we don't have to deal with in early game.

 

Do you think it would be good for the game ?

[Sasza22]

I`d prefer them having negative traits like "antisocial" that makes them not recieve chitchat bonus or "introvertic" that would give them bonus morale when not meeting anyone during the cycle.

I think individual frendships might be too complicated to manage.

[Lazy-Anemic]

If you're going to add an update that makes Dupe mess with each other then you should really add a way to help them cooperate like teaching skills.

[SharraShimada]

What would happen with someone who cant behave themself at all? On the long term, he/she would get spaced.