Questions: Multiplayer Marriages, Children, and Divorce

Since we have confirmation that you will be able to marry other live players in game I had a few questions come to mind...

1) How will you marry another player? Will this just be a setting you turn on, or will you actually court and date the other player before you can marry them?
2) Will you be able to have children with another player that you've married?
3) If you can have children and you are playing as a female character, will you get pregnant? Will gameplay be effected while you're pregnant?
4) Will you be able to get divorced similar to Harvest Moon? Will you be able to divorce another player?
5) If you get divorced and have children, what happens to the kids? And if you are married to another player and get divorced then which player gets the kids?
6) Since same-sexed marriages are supported, will same-sexed couples be able to have children? Will there be a way to adopt children?

I know these are a bit in depth, but if you have any information you can give on them I'd really appreciate it Thanks!

 

... Did Question 6 really need to be answered?

 

I wish to throw in another question. How will raising children work?

 

Firstly thank you so much for responding I really appreciate it but it has also sparked some additional question, if you don't mind...

1) In Harvest Moon for SNES (Which is my favorite) your wife would leave you if you were a jerk, aka flirted with other people, always said the wrong thing, and so on, so yes you could actually get "Divorced". So what I was wondering was will NPCs be similar in that if you flirt with other NPCs you are not married to and say all the wrong things will they actually leave?
2) Here's another interesting question... If you end up divorcing another player and you end up keeping the children, if you remarry can you have more children with your new spouse? Is there a limit on the number of children a player can have?
3) Will children top out at a certain age similar to Harvest Moon, and not grow older beyond a certain point?
4) Since it was mentioned that you might be able to send children to an orphanage after divorce and the same-sexed couples can adopt, will there
actually be a physical orphanage in game that you can go too? Can you decide to put your kids up for adoption and will they actually go there?

Yes this did need to be answered, it adds an entirely new dimension to gameplay and a new play style I see that as important information.

 

I was asking if it needed to be answered because that felt alot like you asked "Can lesbians get pregnant? or can gay couples get pregnant?"

That messes with your head you know.

 

What are the bonuses associated with marrying a player character?

From what I understand, if you marry an NPC, you get a free item every day. Marrying a PC seems to be a ripoff

 

For those who are playing with their actual spouses, or significant others. It would be an interesting idea to get free things daily from marrying a PC. However I think for those who are already willing to go through and toil for a PC marriage, that in itself is a goal enough. Which, all in all, adds to the whole fun of the game.

 

Okay, I'll bite.

Will there be transgender and/or transsexual npcs to woo? If it will, I think it would be the first non dating sim game to have any (I may be wrong since I'm not a big videogamer). And also it could lead to some funny dialogue.
I want a Yuuki Kei for my SV character

 

Are you going to be able to dress your kids up? I absolutely need to give them all matching cowboy hats

 

I want to dress them in pirate suits.

Yarr, me be stealing yer hearts.

 

Will heterosexual couples be able to adopt as well?

 

I'd say probably. But I don't see a reason as to why, considering how there WILL be the ability to mate.

 

You necro'd this thread quite a bit, but I asked in IRC (shortly after that first post) if asexuals (or otherwise unmarried characters) would be able to adopt, if they wish. ConcernedApe confirmed it. It is probably safe to say adoption is an option for any character.

postscriptum: Basically, the OP's sixth question is completely answered now.

 

Well, they're only asexual if you decide them to be, right? I mean, my version of a character could be straight but yours would be asexual. Anyways, nice to know about adoption being official then.

 

won't affect gameplay.
won't affect gameplay.
won't affect gameplay.

HOW!?

 

It won't though. That's how.

 

Dumb question from big-thumbed forum-challenged console gamer: What does necro'd mean?

 

Ah that's okay. Brought back from the dead. It means to bring back a post that was originally dead and not commented on in a while.

 

Sure why not. There's been weirder things happening in fiction.

Such as "two women (or men) love each other very much, now one of them is pregnant; no, we're not explaining, and yes, the baby really is the child of both women (or men)".